Computerized working memory training for hypertensive individuals with executive function impairment: a randomized clinical trial by Regina Silva Paradela, Brenno Cabella, Mariana Penteado Nucci, Naomi Vidal Ferreira, Naomi Vidal Ferreira, Laura Aló Torres, Luiza Menoni Martino, Fernanda Marciano Consolim-Colombo, Luiz Aparecido Bortolotto, Danielle Irigoyen da Costa, Maria Claudia Irigoyen

“…The secondary outcomes were verbal memory, visuospatial ability, executive function, global cognition, and the neuronal activity measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) under two WM task conditions: low (memorization of 4 spatial locations) and high (memorization of 6 spatial locations). …”
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Behaviour-correlated profiles of cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity observed in independent neurodevelopmental disorder cohorts by Felipe Morgado, Marlee M. Vandewouw, Christopher Hammill, Elizabeth Kelley, Jennifer Crosbie, Russell Schachar, Muhammad Ayub, Robert Nicolson, Stelios Georgiades, Paul Arnold, Alana Iaboni, Azadeh Kushki, Margot J. Taylor, Evdokia Anagnostou, Jason P. Lerch

“…Identifying cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity (FC) profiles in children with NDDs can provide insight into common connectivity profiles and their correlation to NDD-related behaviours. 479 participants from the Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Disorders (POND) network (typically developing = 93, Autism Spectrum Disorder = 172, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder = 161, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder = 53, mean age = 12.2) underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and behaviour testing (Social Communication Questionnaire, Toronto Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, and Child Behaviour Checklist – Attentional Problems Subscale). …”
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Cerebrovascular reactivity in multiple sclerosis is restored with reduced inflammation during immunomodulation by Antonio Maria Chiarelli, Alessandro Villani, Daniele Mascali, Nikolaos Petsas, Emma Biondetti, Alessandra Caporale, Anna Digiovanni, Eleonora Agata Grasso, Paola Ajdinaj, Maria D’Apolito, Marianna Gabriella Rispoli, Stefano Sensi, Kevin Murphy, Carlo Pozzilli, Richard G. Wise, Valentina Tomassini

“…Using a breath-hold task during functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), we mapped grey matter and white matter CVRs (CVRGM and CVRWM, respectively) in 23 young MS patients, eligible for disease modifying therapy, before and during Interferon beta treatment. …”
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Articulation-Function-Associated Cortical Developmental Changes in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate by Wenjing Zhang, Cui Zhao, Liwei Sun, Xintao Yang, Linrui Yang, Ying Liang, Xu Zhang, Xiaoxia Du, Renji Chen, Chunlin Li

“…The current study aims to investigate developmental changes in cortical structures in CLP patients with articulation disorders using both structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Our results reveal the distinct distribution of abnormal cortical structures in adolescent and adult CLP patients. …”
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Exploring Neural Correlates of Different Dimensions in Drug Craving Self-Reports among Heroin Dependents by Peyman Hassani-Abharian, Habib Ganjgahi, Hosein Tabatabaei-Jafari, Mohammad Ali Oghabian, Azarakhsh Mokri, Hamed Ekhtiari

“…Methods: A total of 25 crystalline-heroin smokers underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), while viewing heroin-related and neutral cues presented in a block-design task. …”
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Preliminary study on early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in APP/PS1 transgenic mice using multimodal magnetic resonance imaging by Meng Xu, Meng Xu, Jipeng Liu, Qingguo Liu, Yu Gong, Yinyin Li, Yinyin Li, Jing Zhang, Shufeng Shi, Yuanyuan Shi, Yuanyuan Shi, Yuanyuan Shi

“…In this study, we aimed to explore the imaging markers for early diagnosis of AD through the combined application of structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI), resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), and 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques at the animal experimental level, with the aim to provide a certain reference for early clinical diagnosis of AD. …”
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Amide Proton Transfer-weighted MRI combined with serum prostate-specific antigen levels for differentiating malignant prostate lesions from benign prostate lesions: a retrospective... by Lu Yang, Lei Wang, Yuchuan Tan, Hanli Dan, Peng Xian, Yipeng Zhang, Yong Tan, Meng Lin, Jiuquan Zhang

“…This study aimed to explore the value of a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, namely amide proton transfer (APT)-weighted MRI, combined with serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels to differentiate malignant prostate lesions from benign prostate lesions. …”
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Effects of Different Scan Duration on Brain Effective Connectivity among Default Mode Network Nodes by Nor Shafiza Abdul Wahab, Noorazrul Yahya, Ahmad Nazlim Yusoff, Rozman Zakaria, Jegan Thanabalan, Elza Othman, Soon Bee Hong, Ramesh Kumar Athi Kumar, Hanani Abdul Manan

“…Background: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) can evaluate brain functional connectivity without requiring subjects to perform a specific task. …”
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From study abroad to study at home: Spontaneous neuronal activity predicts depressive symptoms in overseas students during the COVID-19 pandemic by Tong Li, Xiaoyu Du, Xiang Zhang, Aiping Dong, Xianshun Yuan, Tianyi Yu, Ruiyuan Diao, Shuai Duan, Zijian Shen, Letian Yuan, Ximing Wang

“…We examined functional brain changes using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF), and regional homogeneity (ReHo) in overseas students with enforced isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Alterations of sleep initiation in NREM parasomnia after sleep deprivation – A multimodal pilot study by E. Miletínová, M. Piorecký, V. Koudelka, S. Jiříček, D. Tomeček, M. Brunovský, J. Horáček, J. Bušková

“…We therefore investigated potential dissociation outside of parasomnic events by using simultaneous 256-channel EEG (hdEEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Methods: Eight DOA patients (3 women, mean age = 27.8; SD = 4.2) and 8 gender and age matched healthy volunteers (3 women, mean age = 26,5; SD = 4.0) were included into the study. …”
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Disruption of thalamic functional connectivity is a neural correlate of dexmedetomidine-induced unconsciousness by Oluwaseun Akeju, Marco L Loggia, Ciprian Catana, Kara J Pavone, Rafael Vazquez, James Rhee, Violeta Contreras Ramirez, Daniel B Chonde, David Izquierdo-Garcia, Grae Arabasz, Shirley Hsu, Kathleen Habeeb, Jacob M Hooker, Vitaly Napadow, Emery N Brown, Patrick L Purdon

“…By using a novel combination of positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, we studied anesthesia-induced unconsciousness and recovery using the α2-agonist dexmedetomidine. …”
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Resting-State Functional Brain Connectivity Best Predicts the Personality Dimension of Openness to Experience by Julien Dubois, Paola Galdi, Yanting Han, Lynn K. Paul, Ralph Adolphs

“…We analyzed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 884 young healthy adults in the Human Connectome Project database. …”
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Problematic smartphone use is associated with differences in static and dynamic brain functional connectivity in young adults by Dayi Liu, Xiaoxuan Liu, Yicheng Long, Zhibiao Xiang, Zhipeng Wu, Zhening Liu, Dujun Bian, Shixiong Tang

“…IntroductionThis study aimed to investigate the possible associations between problematic smartphone use and brain functions in terms of both static and dynamic functional connectivity patterns.Materials and methodsResting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data were scanned from 53 young healthy adults, all of whom completed the Short Version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS-SV) to assess their problematic smartphone use severity. …”
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Acupuncture with twirling reinforcing and reducing manipulation shows a control of hypertension and regulation of blood pressure-related target brain regions in spontaneously hyper... by Yin-Yin Li, Ji-Peng Liu, Shu-Feng Shi, Ke-Zhen Yang, Yu Gong, Jiao Sun, Qi Xie, Xiao-Li Wu, Qing-Guo Liu, Meng Xu

“…The depth of acupuncture was 1.5–2 mm, and twisting was performed at a frequency of 60 times/min within ±360° for 3 min, followed by the needle being retained for 17 min. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed at the end of the intervention. …”
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Spatially-enhanced clusterwise inference for testing and localizing intermodal correspondence by Sarah M. Weinstein, Simon N. Vandekar, Erica B. Baller, Danni Tu, Azeez Adebimpe, Tinashe M. Tapera, Ruben C. Gur, Raquel E. Gur, John A. Detre, Armin Raznahan, Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Russell T. Shinohara, Jun Young Park

“…Using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging data from a subsample of children and adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort, we conduct simulations and data analyses where we illustrate the high statistical power and nominal type I error levels of our method. …”
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Impact of Biological and Lifestyle Factors on Cognitive Aging and Work Ability in the Dortmund Vital Study: Protocol of an Interdisciplinary, Cross-sectional, and Longitudinal Stud... by Patrick D Gajewski, Stephan Getzmann, Peter Bröde, Michael Burke, Cristina Cadenas, Silvia Capellino, Maren Claus, Erhan Genç, Klaus Golka, Jan G Hengstler, Thomas Kleinsorge, Rosemarie Marchan, Michael A Nitsche, Jörg Reinders, Christoph van Thriel, Carsten Watzl, Edmund Wascher

“…A wide range of demographic, psychological, behavioral, sensory, cardiovascular, immunological, and biochemical data, a comprehensive electroencephalography (EEG)-based cognitive test battery as well as structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been included in the study. …”
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Pressure based MRI-compatible muscle fascicle length and joint angle estimation by Song, Hyungeun, Israel, Erica, Srinivasan, Shriya Sruthi, Herr, Hugh M

“…Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides critical information about the neurophysiology of the central nervous systems (CNS), posing clinical significance for the understanding of neuropathologies and advancement of rehabilitation. …”
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Reduced Language Lateralization in Autism and the Broader Autism Phenotype as Assessed with Robust Individual‐Subjects Analyses by Jouravlev, Olessia, Kell, Alexander J.E., Mineroff, Zachary A, Haskins, Amanda J, Ayyash, Dima, Kanwisher, Nancy, Fedorenko, Evelina

“…Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we compared language lateralization between 28 adult ASD participants and carefully pairwise-matched controls, with the language regions defined individually using a well-validated language “localizer” task. …”
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Learning Task-Optimal Registration Cost Functions for Localizing Cytoarchitecture and Function in the Cerebral Cortex by Yeo, Boon Thye Thomas, Sabuncu, Mert R., Vercauteren, Tom, Holt, Daphne J., Amunts, Katrin, Zilles, Karl, Golland, Polina, Fischl, Bruce

“…We demonstrate state-of-the-art localization results in both histological and functional magnetic resonance imaging data sets.…”
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Iterative consensus spectral clustering improves detection of subject and group level brain functional modules by Gupta, Sukrit, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…Although, in vivo studies of brain functional modules involve multiple functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans, the methods used to derive functional modules from functional networks of the brain ignore individual differences in the functional architecture and use incomplete functional connectivity information. …”
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