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In this seminar I will present and discuss some recent advances in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Methodological developments in terms of rapid increases in MR-image acquisition speed will be discussed and its implications for our ability to study dynamic changes in human physiology will be presented. From the field of the study of the human central nervous system, two recent application for dynamic MRI will be given - functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) that exploits the magnetic properties of hemoglobin to monitor changes in neuronal activity in the brain and Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DW-MRI) to image the diffusional properties of water in different tissue types. Lastly, parallel MRI - a new method to further increase image acquisition speed by using muliple reciever coils combined with a novel image reconstruction scheme will be discussed.