Transient ischemic attacks: added specificity from modern MR imaging.

Our proficiency in integrating imaging techniques that illustrate both the morphologic and physiologic characteristics of the brain is paramount and is a currently evolving strategy for daily clinical practice at some academic institutions. This combination of information gained from diffusion tensor imaging and several MR imaging techniques that depict the physiologic behavior of the brain, including functional MR imaging, spectroscopy, and cerebral vascular imaging, promotes the exciting prospect of understanding functional and morphologic network aberrations in the clinical presentation of many neurologic disorders.