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8 claims from 4 papers

1. Mathematics › Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods

   Inference from Iterative Simulation Using Multiple Sequences

   Gelman and Rubin · Statistical Science · 1992

   Gelman and Rubin propose simple methods for judging output from iterative simulation such as the Gibbs sampler, using several sequences, and illustrate them on reaction-time data from normal and schizophrenic patients.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors recommend running several independent simulation sequences, each started from widely spread-out starting points, when using iterative simulation.“Our recommended strategy is to use several independent sequences, with starting points sampled from an overdispersed distribution.”
   2. Unchecked“At each step of the iterative simulation, we obtain, for each univariate estimand of interest, a distributional estimate and an estimate of how much sharper the distributional estimate might become if the simulations were continued indefinitely.”
   3. Unchecked“Because our focus is on applied inference for Bayesian posterior distributions in real problems, which often tend toward normality after transformations and marginalization, we derive our results as normal-theory approximations to exact Bayesian inference, c…

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Brain's Default Network

   Buckner, Andrews‐Hanna and Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2008

   A review of thirty years of brain imaging work, arguing the default network is a distinct brain system for internal thought, made up of interacting subsystems, with relevance to several mental disorders.

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   1. UncheckedThe brain's default network is active during internally focused tasks such as recalling personal memories, imagining the future and thinking about others' perspectives.“Providing insight into function, the default network is active when individuals are engaged in internally focused tasks including autobiographical memory retrieval, envisioning the future, and conceiving the perspectives of others.”
   2. UncheckedA part of the default network in the medial temporal lobe supplies memories and associations that the paper describes as the building blocks of mental simulation.“The medial temporal lobe subsystem provides information from prior experiences in the form of memories and associations that are the building blocks of mental simulation.”
   3. UncheckedTwo subsystems of the brain's default network are described as meeting at key integration points, including the posterior cingulate cortex.“These two subsystems converge on important nodes of integration including the posterior cingulate cortex.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders

   Segal, Parkes, Aquino et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2023

   In 1,294 people with one of six psychiatric conditions and 1,465 matched controls, grey matter deviations varied by region but converged on shared functional circuits and networks.

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   1. UncheckedPerson-specific differences in regional grey matter volume were highly varied, hitting the same brain area in under 7% of people sharing a diagnosis.“Normative models indicated that person-specific deviations from population expectations for regional GMV were highly heterogeneous, affecting the same area in <7% of people with the same diagnosis.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The DIRECT consortium and the REST-meta-MDD project: towards neuroimaging biomarkers of major depressive disorder

   Chen, Bin Lu, Li et al. · Psychoradiology · 2022

   This review describes the DIRECT consortium's pooled REST-meta-MDD repository of 2428 functional brain images, its principal findings so far, and the plans for its next stages.

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   1. UncheckedEarly analyses of the pooled REST-meta-MDD brain scans reported differences in depression across four areas, including default mode network connectivity.“Findings from the first round of analyses of the pooled repository have included alterations in functional connectivity within the default mode network, in whole-brain topological properties, in dynamic features, and in functional lateralization.”