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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: A primer with examples

   Nichols and Holmes · Human Brain Mapping · 2001

   The paper explains nonparametric permutation testing for functional neuroimaging, with MATLAB software and three worked PET and fMRI examples, compared with standard parametric methods.

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   1. UncheckedWith few degrees of freedom, a permutation test using a smoothed variance estimate can outperform the comparable Statistical Parametric Mapping approach.“For analyses with low degrees of freedom, such as single subject PET/SPECT experiments or multi‐subject PET/SPECT or f MRI designs assessed for population effects, the nonparametric approach employing a locally pooled (smoothed) variance estimate can outperform the comparable Statistical Parametric…”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional neuroimaging in psychiatry and the case for failing better

   Nour, Liu and Dolan · Neuron · 2022

   A critical commentary arguing that functional neuroimaging has not yet delivered neurobiological accounts or clinical tools for psychiatry, and suggesting how the field might do better.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say that after about thirty years of intensive neuroimaging research, no psychiatric condition yet has a neurobiological explanation.“Yet, despite three decades of intense neuroimaging research, we still lack a neurobiological account for any psychiatric condition.”