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37 claims from 19 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Brain's Default Network

   Buckner, Andrews‐Hanna and Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2008

   A review of thirty years of brain imaging work, arguing the default network is a distinct brain system for internal thought, made up of interacting subsystems, with relevance to several mental disorders.

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   1. UncheckedThe brain's default network is active during internally focused tasks such as recalling personal memories, imagining the future and thinking about others' perspectives.“Providing insight into function, the default network is active when individuals are engaged in internally focused tasks including autobiographical memory retrieval, envisioning the future, and conceiving the perspectives of others.”
   2. UncheckedA part of the default network in the medial temporal lobe supplies memories and associations that the paper describes as the building blocks of mental simulation.“The medial temporal lobe subsystem provides information from prior experiences in the form of memories and associations that are the building blocks of mental simulation.”
   3. UncheckedTwo subsystems of the brain's default network are described as meeting at key integration points, including the posterior cingulate cortex.“These two subsystems converge on important nodes of integration including the posterior cingulate cortex.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional Network Organization of the Human Brain

   Power, Cohen, Nelson et al. · Neuron · 2011

   The authors built two brain-wide graphs from resting-state MRI in healthy adults, matched subgraphs to known brain systems, and examined network properties including those of the default mode subgraph.

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   1. UncheckedTwo brain-wide graphs built from resting-state MRI in healthy adults contain many subgraphs that match known functional brain systems.“These graphs contain many subgraphs in good agreement with known functional brain systems.”
   2. UncheckedA modified voxelwise brain graph shows spatial motifs in how functional systems are patterned across the cortex, according to the paper.“The modified voxelwise graph also reveals spatial motifs in the patterning of systems across the cortex.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis

   Greicius, Krasnow, Reiss and Menon · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002

   The study examined resting-state connectivity of the default mode network, and reports a cohesive network that looks the same during a visual task and is inversely linked to lateral prefrontal regions during cognition.

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   1. UncheckedDuring rest, activity in the posterior cingulate cortex rose and fell in step with the ventral anterior cingulate and other default mode network regions.“PCC was strongly coupled with vACC and several other brain regions implicated in the default mode network.”
   2. UncheckedDuring a visual processing task, connectivity maps for two default-mode brain regions looked virtually identical to those recorded at rest.“Next, we examined the functional connectivity of PCC and vACC during a visual processing task and show that the resultant connectivity maps are virtually identical to those obtained during rest.”
   3. Unchecked“We report significant inverse correlations among all three lateral prefrontal regions and PCC, suggesting a mechanism for attenuation of default mode network activity during cognitive processing.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Consistent resting-state networks across healthy subjects

   Damoiseaux, Rombouts, Barkhof et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006

   Using a statistical method on resting fMRI scans, the study found brain activity patterns that were consistent across subjects and sessions, with signal changes comparable to those seen in task experiments.

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   1. UncheckedResting-state fMRI analysis found 10 brain patterns, linked to regions for movement, vision, memory and others, with signal changes up to 3%.“The analysis found 10 patterns with potential functional relevance, consisting of regions known to be involved in motor function, visual processing, executive functioning, auditory processing, memory, and the so-called default-mode network, each with BOLD signal changes up to 3%.”
   2. UncheckedIn this resting-state fMRI study, brain areas with a higher mean percentage BOLD signal were generally more consistent and varied least around the mean.“In general, areas with a high mean percentage BOLD signal are consistent and show the least variation around the mean.”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The impact of global signal regression on resting state correlations: Are anti-correlated networks introduced?

   Murphy, Birn, Handwerker, Jones and Bandettini · NeuroImage · 2008

   The paper asks whether removing the global fMRI signal creates apparent anti-correlated resting-state networks, using mathematics, simulations, a breath-holding and visual task experiment, and resting-state data.

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   1. UncheckedAfter global signal regression, a seed voxel's correlations with all other brain voxels must sum to a negative value.“Here we show that, after global signal regression, correlation values to a seed voxel must sum to a negative value.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The influence of head motion on intrinsic functional connectivity MRI

   Van Dijk, Sabuncu and Buckner · NeuroImage · 2011

   In 1000 healthy young adults scanned at rest, head motion had systematic effects on functional connectivity MRI measures, though most variation between people was not linked to motion.

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   1. UncheckedIn 1000 healthy young adults, more head motion during scanning was linked to weaker functional coupling in the default and frontoparietal control networks.“Head motion was associated with decreased functional coupling in the default and frontoparietal control networks--two networks characterized by coupling among distributed regions of association cortex.”
   2. UncheckedIn this study, some brain network measures rose with head motion, including local coupling and coupling between left and right motor regions.“Other network measures increased with motion including estimates of local functional coupling and coupling between left and right motor regions--a region pair sometimes used as a control in studies to establish specificity.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Global Signal and Observed Anticorrelated Resting State Brain Networks

   Fox, Zhang, Snyder and Raichle · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2009

   The paper examines the global signal in resting-state fMRI and finds it is truly global, that removing it sharpens correlation maps, and that anticorrelated networks are not just a by-product of removal.

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   1. UncheckedRemoving the global signal from resting-state fMRI data, the authors say, improves detection of system-specific correlations and fit with brain anatomy.“We detail the influence of global signal removal on resting state correlation maps both mathematically and empirically, showing an enhancement in detection of system-specific correlations and improvement in the correspondence between resting-state correlations and anatomy.”
   2. UncheckedSeveral features of anticorrelated resting-state brain networks are not caused by global signal removal, which the authors say suggests a biological basis.“Finally, we show that several characteristics of anticorrelated networks including their spatial distribution, cross-subject consistency, presence with modified whole brain masks, and existence before global regression are not attributable to global signal removal and therefore suggest a biological…”

8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Intrinsic functional architecture in the anaesthetized monkey brain

   Vincent, Patel, Fox et al. · Nature · 2007

   Using fMRI in anaesthetized monkeys, the study reports coherent spontaneous signal fluctuations within several brain systems, including the 'default' system, suggesting a conserved feature of brain organization.

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   1. UncheckedCoherent spontaneous brain-signal fluctuations, seen in resting humans, are also present in anaesthetized monkeys, even at levels that deeply abolish consciousness.“Here, we show that the same phenomenon is present in anaesthetized monkeys even at anaesthetic levels known to induce profound loss of consciousness.”
   2. UncheckedIn anaesthetised monkeys, spontaneous brain activity fluctuates in step within eye-movement, movement, visual and 'default' brain systems.“We specifically demonstrate coherent spontaneous fluctuations within three well known systems (oculomotor, somatomotor and visual) and the 'default' system, a set of brain regions thought by some to support uniquely human capabilities.”
   3. UncheckedCoherent spontaneous brain-activity fluctuations probably reflect an evolutionarily conserved feature of brain organisation that persists across levels of consciousness.“Our results indicate that coherent system fluctuations probably reflect an evolutionarily conserved aspect of brain functional organization that transcends levels of consciousness.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Anticorrelations in resting state networks without global signal regression

   Chai, Nieto-Castañón, Öngür and Whitfield‐Gabrieli · NeuroImage · 2011

   The study compared two fMRI noise-removal methods, CompCor and global signal regression, and reports that anticorrelations between brain networks appear under both, so may not be artefacts of global regression.

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   1. UncheckedIn this resting-state fMRI study, specificity and sensitivity for positive correlations were higher with CompCor noise removal than with global signal regression.“Specificity and sensitivity for positive correlations were higher under CompCor compared to the global regression method.”

10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Reduced default mode network functional connectivity in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder

    Yan, Chen, Le Li et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019

    A consortium of 25 Chinese research groups pooled resting-state brain scans from patients with major depression and controls, and found reduced default mode network connectivity, mainly in recurrent depression.

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    1. UncheckedComparing 848 patients with major depression to 794 controls from 17 sites, the study found reduced, not increased, connectivity within the default mode network.“Instead, we found decreased DMN FC when we compared 848 patients with MDD to 794 NCs from 17 sites after data exclusion.”
    2. UncheckedIn this study, reduced connectivity within the default mode network appeared in recurrent depression but not in first-episode, drug-naïve depression.“We found FC reduction only in recurrent MDD, not in first-episode drug-naïve MDD.”
    3. UncheckedStronger connectivity within the brain's default mode network was linked to more severe depression symptoms, but only in people with recurrent major depression.“DMN FC was also positively related to symptom severity but only in recurrent MDD.”

11. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The Resting Brain: Unconstrained yet Reliable

    Shehzad, Kelly, Reiss et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2009

    The authors measured test-retest reliability of resting-state functional connectivity using scans from 26 participants at three time points, and report generally good reliability and reproducible clustering.

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    1. UncheckedIn this resting-state fMRI study, hierarchical clustering of brain connectivity gave highly reproducible groupings across participants and across scanning sessions.“Finally, hierarchical clustering solutions were highly reproducible, both across participants and sessions.”

12. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Age differences in the functional interactions among the default, frontoparietal control, and dorsal attention networks

    Grady, Sarraf, Saverino and Campbell · Neurobiology of Aging · 2016

    The study compared young and older adults' brain network connectivity at rest and during a task, testing whether the frontoparietal control network shapes age differences in other networks and in cognition.

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    1. UncheckedAt rest, how strongly the frontoparietal control network linked to other networks predicted the age-related drop in connectivity within the default mode network.“Consistent with our hypothesis, between-network connections of the FPC at rest predicted the age-related reduction in connectivity within the DMN.”

13. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Default Mode Dynamics for Global Functional Integration

    Vatansever, Menon, Manktelow, Sahakian and Stamatakis · Journal of Neuroscience · 2015

    Using graph theory on fMRI data from 22 healthy volunteers doing a working-memory task of rising difficulty, the study links default mode network changes to whole-brain integration.

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    1. UncheckedIn 22 healthy volunteers doing an n-back task, brain modularity fell as demands rose, in step with slower correct responses.“Our predominant finding is that brain modularity decreases with greater task demands, thus adapting a more global workspace configuration, in direct relation to increases in reaction times to correct responses.”
    2. Unchecked“Flexible default mode regions dynamically switch community memberships and display significant changes in their nodal participation coefficient and strength, which may reflect the observed whole-brain changes in functional connectivity architecture.”

14. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Test–retest reliability of functional connectivity networks during naturalistic fMRI paradigms

    Wang, Ren, Hu et al. · Human Brain Mapping · 2017

    The study compared how repeatable functional brain connectivity measures were during natural viewing versus resting-state fMRI in the same session, and reported higher reliability during natural viewing.

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    1. UncheckedBrain connectivity measures were reported as markedly more repeatable during natural movie viewing than at rest, by almost 50% on average across measures.“We found that the reliability of connectivity and graph theoretical measures of brain networks is significantly improved during natural viewing conditions over resting‐state conditions, with an average increase of almost 50% across various connectivity measures.”
    2. UncheckedHigher-order brain networks, such as the default mode and attention networks, appear to give more repeatable connectivity measures during natural viewing than at rest.“Not only sensory networks for audio–visual processing become more reliable, higher order brain networks, such as default mode and attention networks, but also appear to show higher reliability during natural viewing.”

15. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Development of the default-mode network during childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

    Fan, Liao, Lei et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

    A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study of 305 children tracked how the default-mode network's functional organisation changes from childhood to adolescence, using graph theory.

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    1. UncheckedIn this longitudinal study, default-mode network connectivity strengthened from childhood to adolescence and came to resemble that of young adults spatially.“We showed that the overall connectivity increased in strength from childhood to adolescence and became spatially similar to that in the young adult group (N = 61, 18-28 years of age).”
    2. UncheckedIn this longitudinal study, efficiency of information transfer across the default-mode network, globally and locally, rose with age from childhood to adolescence.“Global and local network efficiency in the DMN also increased with age, indicating an enhanced capability in parallel information communication within the brain system.”
    3. Unchecked“Based on the divergent developmental rates of nodal centrality, we identified three subclusters within the DMN, with the fastest rates in the cluster mainly comprising the anterior medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex.”

16. 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.”

17. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Controversies and progress on standardization of large-scale brain network nomenclature

    Uddin, Betzel, Cohen et al. · Network Neuroscience · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“A few well-known network names (e.g., default mode network) dominated responses to the survey, and a number of illuminating points of disagreement emerged.”

18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The subsystem mechanism of default mode network underlying rumination: A reproducible neuroimaging study

    Chen, Chen, Shen et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“During rumination, within-DMN FC was generally decreased as compared to the distraction state.”
    2. Unchecked“At the subsystem level, we found increased FC between the core and medial temporal lobe (MTL) subsystem as well as decreased FC between the core and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) subsystem and within the MTL subsystem.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, subjects' behavioral measures of rumination and brooding were negatively correlated with FC between the core and DMPFC subsystems.”

19. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Toward Leveraging Human Connectomic Data in Large Consortia: Generalizability of fMRI-Based Brain Graphs Across Sites, Sessions, and Paradigms

    Cao, McEwen, Forsyth et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Our results revealed overall fair to excellent reliability for a majority of measures during both rest and tasks, in particular for those quantifying connectivity strength, network segregation and network integration.”