The brain's default network: anatomy, function, and relevance to disease

RL Buckner, JR Andrews‐Hanna… - Annals of the new York …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Thirty years of brain imaging research has converged to define the brain's default network—
a novel and only recently appreciated brain system that participates in internal modes of …

Grey matter pathology in multiple sclerosis

JJG Geurts, F Barkhof - The Lancet Neurology, 2008 - thelancet.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) has been classically regarded as a white matter disease. However,
recent histopathological studies have convincingly shown that grey matter regions are also …

Evidence for a frontoparietal control system revealed by intrinsic functional connectivity

JL Vincent, I Kahn, AZ Snyder… - Journal of …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Two functionally distinct, and potentially competing, brain networks have been recently
identified that can be broadly distinguished by their contrasting roles in attention to the …

The precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex plays a pivotal role in the default mode network: Evidence from a partial correlation network analysis

P Fransson, G Marrelec - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
Recent research has shown that intrinsic brain activity as observed by functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) manifest itself as coherent signal changes in networks …

Reduced resting-state brain activity in the “default network” in normal aging

JS Damoiseaux, CF Beckmann, EJS Arigita… - Cerebral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Normal aging is associated with cognitive decline. Functions such as attention, information
processing, and working memory are compromised. It has been hypothesized that not only …

Competition between functional brain networks mediates behavioral variability

AMC Kelly, LQ Uddin, BB Biswal, FX Castellanos… - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
Increased intraindividual variability (IIV) is a hallmark of disorders of attention. Recent work
has linked these disorders to abnormalities in a “default mode” network, comprising brain …

Functional connectivity of human striatum: a resting state FMRI study

A Di Martino, A Scheres, DS Margulies… - Cerebral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Classically regarded as motor structures, the basal ganglia subserve a wide range of
functions, including motor, cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes. Consistent with …

Cingulate-precuneus interactions: a new locus of dysfunction in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

FX Castellanos, DS Margulies, C Kelly, LQ Uddin… - Biological …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Pathophysiologic models of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
have focused on frontal-striatal circuitry with alternative hypotheses relatively unexplored …

Small-world and scale-free organization of voxel-based resting-state functional connectivity in the human brain

MP van den Heuvel, CJ Stam, M Boersma, HEH Pol - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
The brain is a complex dynamic system of functionally connected regions. Graph theory has
been successfully used to describe the organization of such dynamic systems. Recent …

Spontaneous fluctuations in posterior α-band EEG activity reflect variability in excitability of human visual areas

V Romei, V Brodbeck, C Michel, A Amedi… - Cerebral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Neural activity fluctuates dynamically with time, and these changes have been reported to
be of behavioral significance, despite occurring spontaneously. Through …