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19 claims from 9 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   DPABI: Data Processing & Analysis for (Resting-State) Brain Imaging

   Yan, Wang, Zuo and Zang · Neuroinformatics · 2016

   The authors introduce DPABI, an open-source toolbox for resting-state fMRI analysis that grew out of REST and DPARSF and aims to make processing easier, quicker and more comparable across studies.

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   1. UncheckedThe DPABI toolbox builds in recent advances in controlling and measuring head motion, so users can test results under stringent motion-control strategies.“DPABI incorporates recent research advances on head motion control and measurement standardization, thus allowing users to evaluate results using stringent control strategies.”
   2. UncheckedDPABI includes a user-friendly pipeline toolkit for analysing resting-state fMRI data from rats and monkeys, reflecting growth in animal imaging.“Furthermore, DPABI provides a user-friendly pipeline analysis toolkit for rat/monkey R-fMRI data analysis to reflect the rapid advances in animal imaging.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. 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 the resting-state fMRI signal, tested motion-correction methods, and examined how motion affects the test-retest reliability of many brain-connectivity measures.

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   1. Unchecked“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).”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   GRETNA: a graph theoretical network analysis toolbox for imaging connectomics

   Wang, Wang, Xia, Liao, Evans and He · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“After applying the GRETNA to a publicly released R-fMRI dataset of 54 healthy young adults, we demonstrated that human brain functional networks exhibit efficient small-world, assortative, hierarchical and modular organizations and possess highly connected h…

6. 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.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Reduced default mode network functional connectivity in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder

   Yan, Chen, Le Li et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019

   A consortium of 25 Chinese research groups pooled resting-state brain scans from patients with major depression and controls, and found reduced default mode network connectivity, mainly in recurrent depression.

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   1. UncheckedComparing 848 patients with major depression to 794 controls from 17 sites, the study found reduced, not increased, connectivity within the default mode network.“Instead, we found decreased DMN FC when we compared 848 patients with MDD to 794 NCs from 17 sites after data exclusion.”
   2. UncheckedIn this study, reduced connectivity within the default mode network appeared in recurrent depression but not in first-episode, drug-naïve depression.“We found FC reduction only in recurrent MDD, not in first-episode drug-naïve MDD.”
   3. UncheckedStronger connectivity within the brain's default mode network was linked to more severe depression symptoms, but only in people with recurrent major depression.“DMN FC was also positively related to symptom severity but only in recurrent MDD.”

8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Does parametric fMRI analysis with SPM yield valid results?—An empirical study of 1484 rest datasets

   Eklund, Andersson, Josephson, Johannesson and Knutsson · NeuroImage · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“For a familywise significance threshold of 5%, significant activity was found in 1%-70% of the 1484 rest datasets, depending on repetition time, paradigm and parameter settings.”
   2. Unchecked“The main reason for the high familywise error rates seems to be that the global AR(1) auto correlation correction in SPM fails to model the spectra of the residuals, especially for short repetition times.”
   3. Unchecked“Significant activity was then found in 1%-19% of the datasets.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Can parametric statistical methods be trusted for fMRI based group studies?

   Anders, Thomas and Hans · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“We conduct a number of follow up analyses and investigations that suggest the cause of the invalid cluster inferences is spatial auto correlation functions that do not follow the assumed Gaussian shape.”
   2. Unchecked“By comparison, the non-parametric permutation test, which is based on a small number of assumptions, is found to produce valid results for voxel as well as cluster wise inference.”