Functional brain hubs and their test-retest reliability: A multiband resting-state functional MRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 83, Issue , 2013, Pages 969-982

  Liao, Xu Hong ^a,b   Xia, Ming Rui ^c   Xu, Ting ^d   Dai, Zheng Jia ^c   Cao, Xiao Yan ^a,b   Niu, Hai Jing ^c   Zuo, Xi Nian ^d   Zang, Yu Feng ^a,b   He, Yong ^c  

^a HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Connectome; Default mode; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Global signals; Graph theory

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LATERAL FRONTAL CORTEX; LATERAL PARIETAL CORTEX; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; LATERAL TEMPORAL CORTEX; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARACENTRAL LOBULE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

CONNECTOME; DEFAULT-MODE; FMRI; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; GLOBAL SIGNALS; GRAPH THEORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST;

EID: 84886386811     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.058     Document Type: Article

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