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Due to the widespread use of MRI in neuroimaging of the human brain, the following section focuses on the application of MRI in the investigation of both structural and functional issues of the brain. The primary goal of structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) methods, in general, is to determine the size and shape of anatomical structures of the brain (Jenkinson and Chappell 2018). Various methods have been developed for investigating grey matter and white matter, two major regions of the CNS.