Table 1.

Checklist of fMRI study essentials

	Are the Figures thresholded or unthresholded?
	Have the authors addressed multiple comparisons in some way?
	Have the authors reported areas of peak activation coordinates for task-based fMRI?
	Did the authors have pre-specified hypotheses and/or primary outcome(s)?
	If multiple scanners and/or image acquisition sites, has this been addressed, particularly if the project is longitudinal?
	Have scanner noise and related field inhomogeneities been addressed?
	Was handedness reported and addressed?
	Has physiologic noise been addressed?
	Has subject motion been corrected?