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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Precision Functional Mapping of Individual Human Brains

   Gordon, Laumann, Gilmore et al. · Neuron · 2017

   The authors built a highly sampled MRI dataset from ten adults, made individual-specific functional connectomes, and propose precision individual connectomics as a model for studying healthy and diseased brains.

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   1. UncheckedMapping each person's brain network separately revealed new kinds of variation in network layout and organisation, some matching structural and task-based brain features.“This individual-connectome approach revealed several new types of spatial and organizational variability in brain networks, including unique network features and topologies that corresponded with structural and task-derived brain features.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Time-resolved resting-state brain networks

   Zalesky, Fornito, Cocchi, Gollo and Breakspear · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014

   Brain networks mapped with fMRI have usually been studied as time averages; the paper argues this oversimplifies, since connectivity fluctuates over time and may save metabolic energy while keeping the brain responsive.

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   1. UncheckedResting brain activity between many pairs of distant regions drifts in and out of correlation together, creating brief intervals of efficient information exchange.“We demonstrate that brain activity between multiple pairs of spatially distributed regions spontaneously fluctuates in and out of correlation over time in a globally coordinated manner, giving rise to sporadic intervals during which information can be efficiently exchanged between neuronal populati…”
   2. UncheckedThe authors argue that shifting brain-network organisation over time may cut metabolic costs while keeping the brain ready to respond.“We argue that dynamic fluctuations in the brain’s organizational properties may minimize metabolic requirements while maintaining the brain in a responsive state.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The DIRECT consortium and the REST-meta-MDD project: towards neuroimaging biomarkers of major depressive disorder

   Chen, Bin Lu, Li et al. · Psychoradiology · 2022

   This review describes the DIRECT consortium's pooled REST-meta-MDD repository of 2428 functional brain images, its principal findings so far, and the plans for its next stages.

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   1. UncheckedEarly analyses of the pooled REST-meta-MDD brain scans reported differences in depression across four areas, including default mode network connectivity.“Findings from the first round of analyses of the pooled repository have included alterations in functional connectivity within the default mode network, in whole-brain topological properties, in dynamic features, and in functional lateralization.”