Identifying abnormal connectivity in patients using dynamic causal modeling of fMRI responses

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Seghier, Mohamed L ^a   Zeidman, Peter ^a   Neufeld, Nicholas H ^a   Leff, Alex P ^b   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abnormal connectivity; Abnormal networks; Dynamic causal modeling; Effective connectivity; Functional MRI; Patients

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; AUTISM; BAYES THEOREM; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSAL MODELING; DYNAMIC CAUSAL MODELING; DYSLEXIA; EATING DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARKINSON DISEASE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79957902751     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2010.00142     Document Type: Review

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