Efficiency of a small-world brain network depends on consciousness level: A resting-state fMRI study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1529-1539

  Uehara, Taira ^a,b   Yamasaki, Takao ^a   Okamoto, Tsuyoshi ^c,d   Koike, Takahiko ^e,f   Kan, Shigeyuki ^e,f   Miyauchi, Satoru ^e,f   Kira, Jun Ichi ^b   Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Division of Digital Organ Digital Medicine Initiative   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Functional connectivity; Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging; Small world network; State dependent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SLEEP STAGE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84900811894     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht004     Document Type: Article

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