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Keyword: resting-state brain activity ×Clear all

4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks

   Fox, Snyder, Vincent, Corbetta, Van Essen and Raichle · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005

   Using resting-state functional MRI, the study finds two opposed, widely spread brain networks whose spontaneous activity is correlated within each network and anticorrelated between them.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting human brains, one network is made of regions that usually activate during tasks and the other of regions that usually deactivate.“One network consists of regions routinely exhibiting task-related activations and the other of regions routinely exhibiting task-related deactivations.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Intrinsic functional architecture in the anaesthetized monkey brain

   Vincent, Patel, Fox et al. · Nature · 2007

   Using fMRI in anaesthetized monkeys, the study reports coherent spontaneous signal fluctuations within several brain systems, including the 'default' system, suggesting a conserved feature of brain organization.

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   1. UncheckedCoherent spontaneous brain-signal fluctuations, seen in resting humans, are also present in anaesthetized monkeys, even at levels that deeply abolish consciousness.“Here, we show that the same phenomenon is present in anaesthetized monkeys even at anaesthetic levels known to induce profound loss of consciousness.”
   2. UncheckedIn anaesthetised monkeys, spontaneous brain activity fluctuates in step within eye-movement, movement, visual and 'default' brain systems.“We specifically demonstrate coherent spontaneous fluctuations within three well known systems (oculomotor, somatomotor and visual) and the 'default' system, a set of brain regions thought by some to support uniquely human capabilities.”
   3. UncheckedCoherent spontaneous brain-activity fluctuations probably reflect an evolutionarily conserved feature of brain organisation that persists across levels of consciousness.“Our results indicate that coherent system fluctuations probably reflect an evolutionarily conserved aspect of brain functional organization that transcends levels of consciousness.”