Direction of information flow in large-scale resting-state networks is frequency-dependent

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 3867-3872

  Hillebrand, Arjan ^a   Tewarie, Prejaas ^a   Van Dellen, Edwin ^a,b   Yu, Meichen ^a   Carbo, Ellen W S ^a   Douw, Linda ^a,c   Gouw, Alida A ^a,d   Van Straaten, Elisabeth C W ^a,e   Stam, Cornelis J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e DANONE NUTRICIA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atlas based beamforming; Information flow; Magnetoencephalography; Phase transfer entropy; Resting state networks

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INFORMATION FLOW; CALCARINE SULCUS; CUNEUS; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ENTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PHASE TRANSFER ENTROPY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 84962664258     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515657113     Document Type: Article

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