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106 claims from 56 papers, showing 41–56 of 56

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Individual-Specific Areal-Level Parcellations Improve Functional Connectivity Prediction of Behavior

   Kong, Yang, Gordon et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Resting-state functional connectivity derived from MS-HBM parcellations also achieved the best behavioral prediction performance.”
   2. Unchecked“Among the three MS-HBM variants, the strictly contiguous MS-HBM exhibited the best resting-state homogeneity and most uniform within-parcel task activation.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

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

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

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   1. Unchecked“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.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Cognitive task information is transferred between brain regions via resting-state network topology

   Ito, Kulkarni, Schultz et al. · Nature Communications · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Here, we report that the transfer of diverse, task-rule information in distributed brain regions can be predicted based on estimated activity flow through resting-state network connections.”
   2. Unchecked“Further, we find that these task-rule information transfers are coordinated by global hub regions within cognitive control networks.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Test–retest reliability of functional connectivity networks during naturalistic fMRI paradigms

   Wang, Ren, Hu et al. · Human Brain Mapping · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We found that the reliability of connectivity and graph theoretical measures of brain networks is significantly improved during natural viewing conditions over resting‐state conditions, with an average increase of almost 50% across various connectivity measu…
   2. Unchecked“Not only sensory networks for audio–visual processing become more reliable, higher order brain networks, such as default mode and attention networks, but also appear to show higher reliability during natural viewing.”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Development of the default-mode network during childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

   Fan, Liao, Lei et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“We showed that the overall connectivity increased in strength from childhood to adolescence and became spatially similar to that in the young adult group (N = 61, 18-28 years of age).”
   2. Unchecked“Global and local network efficiency in the DMN also increased with age, indicating an enhanced capability in parallel information communication within the brain system.”
   3. Unchecked“Based on the divergent developmental rates of nodal centrality, we identified three subclusters within the DMN, with the fastest rates in the cluster mainly comprising the anterior medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Intrinsic functional network architecture of human semantic processing: Modules and hubs

   Xu, Lin, Han, He and Bi · NeuroImage · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Focusing on areas consistently activated during semantic processing generated from a meta-analysis of 120 neuroimaging studies (Binder et al., 2009), we found that these regions were organized into three stable modules corresponding to the default mode netwo…
   2. Unchecked“Provincial hubs, which converge local information within each system, were also identified: the bilateral posterior cingulate cortices/precuneus, the bilateral border area of the posterior AG and the superior lateral occipital gyrus for Module DMN; the left…

7. 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

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   1. Unchecked“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.”

8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Controversies and progress on standardization of large-scale brain network nomenclature

   Uddin, Betzel, Cohen et al. · Network Neuroscience · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“A few well-known network names (e.g., default mode network) dominated responses to the survey, and a number of illuminating points of disagreement emerged.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The subsystem mechanism of default mode network underlying rumination: A reproducible neuroimaging study

   Chen, Chen, Shen et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“During rumination, within-DMN FC was generally decreased as compared to the distraction state.”
   2. Unchecked“At the subsystem level, we found increased FC between the core and medial temporal lobe (MTL) subsystem as well as decreased FC between the core and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) subsystem and within the MTL subsystem.”
   3. Unchecked“Finally, subjects' behavioral measures of rumination and brooding were negatively correlated with FC between the core and DMPFC subsystems.”

10. 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.”

11. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome

    Sun, Zhao, Liang et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“After constructing a fine-grained, lifespan-wide suite of system-level brain atlases, we show distinct maturation timelines for functional segregation within different systems.”
    2. Unchecked“Lifespan growth of regional connectivity is organized along a spatiotemporal cortical axis, transitioning from primary sensorimotor regions to higher-order association regions.”

12. 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.”

13. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Temporal fluctuations in the brain’s modular architecture during movie-watching

    Betzel, Byrge, Esfahlani and Kennedy · NeuroImage · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Applied to movie-watching data, we found that periods of high inter-subject similarity coincided with reductions in network modularity and increased connectivity between cognitive systems.”
    2. Unchecked“In contrast, low inter-subject similarity was associated with increased system segregation and more rest-like architectures.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, we show that synchronous fluctuations in network architecture over time can be linked to a subset of features in the movie.”

14. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Large-scale neural dynamics in a shared low-dimensional state space reflect cognitive and attentional dynamics

    Song, Shim and Rosenberg · eLife · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Whole-brain dynamics traversed a common set of latent states that spanned canonical gradients of functional brain organization, with global desynchronization among functional networks modulating state transitions.”
    2. Unchecked“Neural state dynamics reflected attention fluctuations such that different states indicated engaged attention in task and naturalistic contexts, whereas a common state indicated attention lapses in both contexts.”

15. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Toward Leveraging Human Connectomic Data in Large Consortia: Generalizability of fMRI-Based Brain Graphs Across Sites, Sessions, and Paradigms

    Cao, McEwen, Forsyth et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Our results revealed overall fair to excellent reliability for a majority of measures during both rest and tasks, in particular for those quantifying connectivity strength, network segregation and network integration.”

16. 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.”