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2 claims from 1 paper

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Standardizing the intrinsic brain: Towards robust measurement of inter-individual variation in 1000 functional connectomes

   Yan, Craddock, Zuo, Zang and Milham · NeuroImage · 2013

   The paper compares ways of standardising resting-state fMRI measures across individuals and sites, assessing their effects on nuisance relationships, age and sex effects, and test-retest reliability.

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   1. Unchecked“While all standardization approaches were effective at reducing undesirable relationships with nuisance variables, post-hoc approaches were generally more effective than global signal regression (GSR).”
   2. UncheckedCorrecting for a scan's global mean seemed to matter more than correcting for its global spread for most resting-state fMRI measures, except ALFF.“Across approaches, correction for additive effects (global mean) appeared to be more important than for multiplicative effects (global SD) for all R-fMRI measures, with the exception of amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF).”