Exploring the brain network: A review on resting-state fMRI functional connectivity

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作者
van den Heuvel, Martijn P. [1 ]
Pol, Hilleke E. Hulshoff [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Med Ctr Utrecht, Rudolf Magnus Inst Neurosci, Neuroimaging Div, NL-3508 GA Utrecht, Netherlands
关键词
Anatomical connectivity; Complexity; Complex systems; DTI; Diffusion tensor imaging; fMRI; Functional brain networks; Functional connectivity; Graph analysis; Network; Network analysis; Resting-state fMRI; Resting-state connectivity; Review; White matter; GRAPH-THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; LOW-FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; MATTER DENSITY CHANGES; SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS; DEFAULT-MODE; BOLD SIGNAL; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE; COMPONENT ANALYSIS; CEREBRAL-CORTEX;
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10.1016/j.euroneuro.2010.03.008
中图分类号
R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
Our brain is a network. It consists of spatially distributed, but functionally linked regions that continuously share information with each other. Interestingly, recent advances in the acquisition and analysis of functional neuroimaging data have catalyzed the exploration of functional connectivity in the human brain. Functional connectivity is defined as the temporal dependency of neuronal activation patterns of anatomically separated brain regions and in the past years an increasing body of neuroimaging studies has started to explore functional connectivity by measuring the level of co-activation of resting-state fMRI time-series between brain regions. These studies have revealed interesting new findings about the functional connections of specific brain regions and local networks, as well as important new insights in the overall organization of functional communication in the brain network. Here we present an overview of these new methods and discuss how they have led to new insights in core aspects of the human brain, providing an overview of these novel imaging techniques and their implication to neuroscience. We discuss the use of spontaneous resting-state fMRI in determining functional connectivity, discuss suggested origins of these signals, how functional connections tend to be related to structural connections in the brain network and how functional brain communication may form a key role in cognitive performance. Furthermore, we will discuss the upcoming field of examining functional connectivity patterns using graph theory, focusing on the overall organization of the functional brain network. Specifically, we will discuss the value of these new functional connectivity tools in examining believed connectivity diseases, like Alzheimer's disease, dementia, schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. and ECNP. All rights reserved.
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