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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Investigations into resting-state connectivity using independent component analysis

   Beckmann, DeLuca, Devlin and Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“We apply PICA to fMRI data acquired at rest, in order to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of such data, and demonstrate that this is an effective and robust tool for the identification of low-frequency resting-state patterns from data acquired at v…

2. 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.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Reproducibility of functional brain alterations in major depressive disorder: Evidence from a multisite resting-state functional MRI study with 1,434 individuals

   Xia, Si, Sun et al. · NeuroImage · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“We observed significant hypoactivity in the orbitofrontal, sensorimotor, and visual cortices and hyperactivity in the frontoparietal cortices in MDD patients compared to the controls.”
   2. Unchecked“These alterations are not affected by different statistical analysis strategies, global signal regression and medication status and are generally reproducible across centers.”
   3. Unchecked“Bootstrap analyses reveal that at least 400 subjects in each group are required to replicate significant alterations (an extent threshold of P < .05 and a height threshold of P < .001) at 50% reproducibility.”