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4 claims from 2 papers

1. 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

   Healthy participants were induced to ruminate or to imagine neutral scenes in MRI scanners, and brain network connectivity differed between the two states, in a pattern that was reproduced across three scanners.

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   1. UncheckedIn healthy volunteers, connectivity within the default mode network was generally lower during induced rumination than during distraction.“During rumination, within-DMN FC was generally decreased as compared to the distraction state.”
   2. UncheckedDuring induced rumination, connectivity between the default mode network's core and medial temporal subsystems rose, while core–DMPFC and within-MTL connectivity fell.“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. UncheckedIn healthy participants, people who scored higher on rumination and brooding showed weaker connectivity between the default mode network's core and DMPFC subsystems.“Finally, subjects' behavioral measures of rumination and brooding were negatively correlated with FC between the core and DMPFC subsystems.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Abnormal dynamic functional connectivity density in patients with generalized anxiety disorder

   Chen, Cui, Xie et al. · Journal of Affective Disorders · 2019

   The study compared time-varying brain connectivity in 81 people with generalised anxiety disorder and 80 healthy controls, and used it to predict symptom severity.

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   1. UncheckedIn this study, how much connectivity of the left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex fluctuated over time was an important feature for predicting anxiety severity.“The abnormal dFCD variability of the left dmPFC is an important feature for anxiety prediction.”