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Keyword: brain network dynamics Clear all

3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks

    Fox, Snyder, Vincent, Corbetta, Van Essen and Raichle · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005

    Using resting-state functional MRI, the study finds two opposed, widely spread brain networks whose spontaneous activity is correlated within each network and anticorrelated between them.

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    1. UncheckedIn resting human brains, one network is made of regions that usually activate during tasks and the other of regions that usually deactivate.“One network consists of regions routinely exhibiting task-related activations and the other of regions routinely exhibiting task-related deactivations.”
  2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Progressive Stabilization of Brain Network Dynamics during Childhood and Adolescence

    Lei, Liao, Chen et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2021

    Using longitudinal brain scans of children and adolescents, the study reports that brain network dynamics become more stable with age, and that this links to network segregation and gene expression profiles.

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    1. Unchecked“Using a multilayer network model, we show the temporally varying modular architecture of child brain networks, with higher network switching primarily in the association cortex and lower switching in the primary regions.”
    2. UncheckedAs children age, the brain's network groupings change less over time, especially in default-mode, frontoparietal and sensorimotor regions.“This topographical profile exhibits progressive maturation, which manifests as reduced modular dynamics, particularly in the transmodal (e.g., default-mode and frontoparietal) and sensorimotor regions.”

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