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10 claims from 4 papers

1. 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.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   A comprehensive assessment of regional variation in the impact of head micromovements on functional connectomics

   Yan, Cheung, Kelly et al. · NeuroImage · 2013

   The study mapped how small head movements affect brain-scan signals and measures across the brain, and tested how well motion-correction methods remove these effects and affect measurement reliability.

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   1. UncheckedAfter every motion-correction method tested, some link between head motion and resting-state fMRI measures remained, so motion should be covaried in group analyses.“Residual relationships between motion and the examined R-fMRI metrics remained for all correction approaches, underscoring the need to covary motion effects at the group-level.”
   2. UncheckedHead motion generally lowered test-retest reliability of resting-state fMRI measures, except those based on frequency, notably ALFF.“Generally, motion compromised reliability of R-fMRI metrics, with the exception of those based on frequency characteristics - particularly, amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF).”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome

   Sun, Zhao, Liang et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2025

   The authors pooled resting-state brain scans from 33,250 people aged 32 weeks postmenstrual age to 80 years to chart how the brain's functional connectome changes across life.

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   1. UncheckedDifferent brain systems reach their peak functional segregation at different ages across the human lifespan, according to atlases built from large-scale scan data.“After constructing a fine-grained, lifespan-wide suite of system-level brain atlases, we show distinct maturation timelines for functional segregation within different systems.”
   2. UncheckedAcross life, growth in regional brain connectivity follows a gradient from basic sensory and motor regions to higher-order association regions.“Lifespan growth of regional connectivity is organized along a spatiotemporal cortical axis, transitioning from primary sensorimotor regions to higher-order association regions.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional network modules overlap and are linked to interindividual connectome differences during human brain development

   Lei, Liao, Liang et al. · PLoS Biology · 2024

   Using longitudinal MRI from 305 children aged 6 to 14, the study mapped overlapping functional brain modules, how they develop, and how they relate to gray and white matter features.

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   1. UncheckedIn children, brain regions differ in how many functional modules they join: more in attention, somatomotor and subcortical areas, fewer in visual and default-mode areas.“We showed a regionally heterogeneous spatial topography of the overlapping extent of brain nodes in module affiliations in children, with higher entropy (i.e., more module involvement) in the ventral attention, somatomotor, and subcortical regions and lower entropy (i.e., less module involvement) i…”
   2. UncheckedIn children aged 6 to 14, brain regions' involvement in overlapping functional modules changed linearly with age, falling in some areas and rising in others.“The overlapping modules developed in a linear, spatially dissociable manner, with decreased entropy (i.e., decreased module involvement) in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, ventral prefrontal cortex, and putamen and increased entropy (i.e., increased module involvement) in the parietal lobules an…”
   3. UncheckedIn children aged 6 to 14, overlapping functional brain modules tracked chronological age and were predicted from combined gray and white matter features.“The overlapping modular patterns captured individual brain maturity as characterized by chronological age and were predicted by integrating gray matter morphology and white matter microstructural properties.”