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29 claims from 14 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar mri

   Biswal, Yetkin, Haughton and Hyde · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 1995

   Resting-brain MRI showed slow signal fluctuations that were strongly correlated across the motor cortex and other motor-related regions, which the authors read as functional connectivity.

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   1. Unchecked“Time courses of low frequency (<0.1 Hz) fluctuations in resting brain were observed to have a high degree of temporal correlation ( P < 10 −3 ) within these regions and also with time courses in several other regions that can be associated with motor functio…
   2. UncheckedFast MRI scans of resting human brains, taken every 250 ms, show signal fluctuations in each pixel that have a physiological origin.“An MRI time course of 512 echo‐planar images (EPI) in resting human brain obtained every 250 ms reveals fluctuations in signal intensity in each pixel that have a physiologic origin.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The organization of the human cerebellum estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

   Buckner, Krienen, Castellanos, Diaz and Yeo · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2011

   Using resting-state MRI from 1,000 people, the authors mapped how the human cerebellum connects to the cerebral cortex and found most of it links to association areas, in orderly, mirrored maps.

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   1. UncheckedAcross 17 cerebral networks, the share of cerebellum linked to each tracks its share of cerebrum, with a few exceptions such as primary visual cortex, which is absent.“Quantitative analysis of 17 distinct cerebral networks revealed that the extent of the cerebellum dedicated to each network is proportional to the network's extent in the cerebrum with a few exceptions, including primary visual cortex, which is not represented in the cerebellum.”
   2. UncheckedCerebellar regions linked to association cortex have separate front and back representations that mirror each other, as the movement-related ones do.“Like somatomotor representations, cerebellar regions linked to association cortex have separate anterior and posterior representations that are oriented as mirror images of one another.”

3. 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.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Toward discovery science of human brain function

   Biswal, Mennes, Zuo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010

   The authors pooled resting-state fMRI data from 1,414 volunteers at 35 international centres, showing such datasets can be aggregated and shared, and released them openly as the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project.

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   1. UncheckedResting-state brain scans from 1,414 volunteers at 35 centres show a shared pattern of positive and negative connections, with variability in consistent places.“We demonstrate a universal architecture of positive and negative functional connections, as well as consistent loci of inter-individual variability.”
   2. UncheckedIn pooled resting-state brain scans from 1,414 volunteers, age and sex emerged as significant determinants of differences in functional connectivity.“Age and sex emerged as significant determinants.”
   3. UncheckedResting-state brain scans collected independently at many centres can be pooled and shared for joint analysis, according to this paper.“These results demonstrate that independent R-fMRI datasets can be aggregated and shared.”

5. 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.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   ICA-based artefact removal and accelerated fMRI acquisition for improved resting state network imaging

   Griffanti, Salimi‐Khorshidi, Beckmann et al. · NeuroImage · 2014

   The study compared three data-driven ways of cleaning resting-state fMRI of artefacts, and compared standard with faster, higher-resolution accelerated acquisitions, to improve brain network imaging.

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   1. UncheckedWith accelerated fMRI data, the authors could run ICA decompositions with more components, which they say helps detailed network analyses.“Moreover, we were able to perform higher dimensionality ICA decompositions with the accelerated data, which is very valuable for detailed network analyses.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Benchmarking of participant-level confound regression strategies for the control of motion artifact in studies of functional connectivity

   Ćirić, Wolf, Power et al. · NeuroImage · 2017

   The paper compared 14 participant-level confound regression methods in 393 youths on four benchmarks and found trade-offs, so different methods may suit different scientific goals.

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   1. UncheckedIn 393 youths, denoising methods using global signal regression minimised the link between motion and connectivity but left distance-dependent artifact.“First, methods that include global signal regression minimize the relationship between connectivity and motion, but result in distance-dependent artifact.”
   2. UncheckedCensoring methods reduced both motion artifact and its distance-dependence in connectivity, but used up additional degrees of freedom in the data.“In contrast, censoring methods mitigate both motion artifact and distance-dependence, but use additional degrees of freedom.”
   3. UncheckedConfound-regression methods that remove motion artefact less well also fail to reveal the brain's modular network structure in functional connectivity data.“Importantly, less effective de-noising methods are also unable to identify modular network structure in the connectome.”

8. Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

   Magnetoencephalography for brain electrophysiology and imaging

   Baillet · Nature Neuroscience · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Overall, MEG contributes uniquely to our deeper comprehension of both regional and large-scale brain dynamics: from the functions of neural oscillations and the nature of event-related brain activation, to the mechanisms of functional connectivity between re…

9. 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.”

10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Mitigating head motion artifact in functional connectivity MRI

    Ćirić, Rosen, Erus et al. · Nature Protocols · 2018

    This protocol describes how to apply and check a validated denoising strategy that reduces head-motion artefact in functional connectivity fMRI, with software that carries out all the steps.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper says its denoising protocol can cut motion-related variance in functional connectivity to near zero, up to 100-fold better than minimal processing.“This protocol can be used to reduce motion-related variance to near zero in studies of functional connectivity, providing up to a 100-fold improvement over minimal-processing approaches in large datasets.”

11. 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.”

12. 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.”

13. 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.”

14. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Temporal fluctuations in the brain’s modular architecture during movie-watching

    Betzel, Byrge, Esfahlani and Kennedy · NeuroImage · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Applied to movie-watching data, we found that periods of high inter-subject similarity coincided with reductions in network modularity and increased connectivity between cognitive systems.”
    2. Unchecked“In contrast, low inter-subject similarity was associated with increased system segregation and more rest-like architectures.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, we show that synchronous fluctuations in network architecture over time can be linked to a subset of features in the movie.”