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1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Correlations and anticorrelations in resting-state functional connectivity MRI: A quantitative comparison of preprocessing strategies

   Weißenbacher, Kasess, Gerstl, Lanzenberger, Moser and Windischberger · NeuroImage · 2009

   The study tested preprocessing methods on simulated and 40 people's resting-state MRI data, finding global signal regression raised specificity but may create anticorrelations and miss true correlations.

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   1. UncheckedCleaning resting-state brain scans greatly improved connection specificity, and correcting for global signal fluctuations almost doubled it.“Our results show that preprocessing in general greatly increased connection specificity, in particular correction for global signal fluctuations almost doubled connection specificity.”
   2. UncheckedIn this study, widespread anticorrelated brain networks in resting-state fMRI appeared only when global signal regression was used in preprocessing.“However, widespread anticorrelated networks were only found when regression against the global signal was applied.”
   3. UncheckedRegressing out the global signal in resting-state fMRI may also lower sensitivity to genuine correlations, producing more false negatives.“In addition, global signal regression may also reduce the sensitivity for detecting true correlations, i.e. increase the number of false negatives.”