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7 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion

   Power, Barnes, Snyder, Schlaggar and Petersen · NeuroImage · 2011

   The paper shows that subject motion creates systematic, spurious patterns in resting-state fMRI connectivity, proposes data-quality indices and a motion-reduction method, and says earlier work may need revisiting.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting-state fMRI, subject motion lowers many long-distance brain correlations and raises many short-distance ones, even after standard corrections.“Specifically, many long-distance correlations are decreased by subject motion, whereas many short-distance correlations are increased.”
   2. UncheckedMotion-related changes in resting-state fMRI correlations are not produced by, nor adequately removed by, some common processing steps.“These changes in rs-fcMRI correlations do not arise from, nor are they adequately countered by, some common functional connectivity processing steps.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Toward discovery science of human brain function

   Biswal, Mennes, Zuo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010

   The authors pooled resting-state fMRI data from 1,414 volunteers at 35 international centres, showing such datasets can be aggregated and shared, and released them openly as the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project.

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   1. UncheckedResting-state brain scans from 1,414 volunteers at 35 centres show a shared pattern of positive and negative connections, with variability in consistent places.“We demonstrate a universal architecture of positive and negative functional connections, as well as consistent loci of inter-individual variability.”
   2. UncheckedIn pooled resting-state brain scans from 1,414 volunteers, age and sex emerged as significant determinants of differences in functional connectivity.“Age and sex emerged as significant determinants.”
   3. UncheckedResting-state brain scans collected independently at many centres can be pooled and shared for joint analysis, according to this paper.“These results demonstrate that independent R-fMRI datasets can be aggregated and shared.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional Brain Networks Develop from a “Local to Distributed” Organization

   Fair, Cohen, Power et al. · PLoS Computational Biology · 2009

   Using resting-state fMRI and graph analysis, the paper finds that brain networks shift from a local, proximity-based layout in children to a more distributed, function-based one in young adults.

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   1. Unchecked“Communities in children are predominantly arranged by anatomical proximity, while communities in adults predominantly reflect functional relationships, as defined from adult fMRI studies.”
   2. UncheckedBrain network graphs of children and adults look alike on standard metrics and both are small-world-like, but their stable communities clearly differ.“Further, graph metrics (e.g., clustering coefficients and average path lengths) are similar in child and adult graphs, with both showing "small-world"-like properties, while community detection by modularity optimization reveals stable communities within the graphs that are clearly different betwee…”