September 25, 2024 by Mallory Locklear, Yale University A reproducible set of CAPs in the whole-brain rs-fMRI involve recurring mixed representations of canonical resting-state networks. Credit: PLOS Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002808A key challenge in the effort to link brain activity with behavior is that brain activity, measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for instance,...
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Common brain network for psychiatric illness discovered
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and depression, affect nearly one in five adults in the United States and nearly half of patients diagnosed with a psychiatric illness also meet the criteria for a second. With so much overlap, researchers have begun to suspect that there may be one...
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Scientists show how parasitic infection causes seizures, psychiatric illness for some
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists show how infection rewires brain VIRGINIA TECH Think about traffic flow in a city – there are stop signs, one-way streets, and traffic lights to organize movement across a widespread network. Now, imagine what would happen if you removed some of the traffic signals. Among your brain’s 86 billion neurons...