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6 claims from 3 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

   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.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional System and Areal Organization of a Highly Sampled Individual Human Brain

   Laumann, Gordon, Adeyemo et al. · Neuron · 2015

   Repeated resting-state fMRI of one person over more than a year was used to map their brain's organisation, which differed in some ways from group averages and varied across sessions.

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   1. UncheckedIn one person scanned repeatedly, the authors report a reliable map of distinct cortical areas that matches that person's own task-evoked brain activity.“We report a reproducible and internally valid subject-specific areal-level parcellation that corresponds with subject-specific task activations.”