Open AccessDissociated patterns of anti‐correlations with dorsal and ventral default‐mode networks at rest
Author(s) -
Chen Jingyuan E.,
Glover Gary H.,
Greicius Michael D.,
Chang Catie
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
human brain mapping
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.005
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1097-0193
pISSN - 1065-9471
DOI - 10.1002/hbm.23532
Subject(s) - default mode network , precuneus , posterior cingulate , neuroscience , task positive network , dorsum , correlation , resting state fmri , functional connectivity , set (abstract data type) , psychology , human connectome project , association (psychology) , biology , cortex (anatomy) , computer science , functional magnetic resonance imaging , anatomy , mathematics , geometry , psychotherapist , programming language
Previous studies of resting state functional connectivity have demonstrated that the default‐mode network (DMN) is negatively correlated with a set of brain regions commonly activated during goal‐directed tasks. However, the location and extent of anti‐correlations are inconsistent across different studies, which has been posited to result largely from differences in whether or not global signal regression (GSR) was applied as a pre‐processing step. Notably, coordinates of seed regions‐of‐interest defined within the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)/precuneus, an area often employed to study functional connectivity of the DMN, have been inconsistent across studies. Taken together with recent observations that the DMN contains functionally heterogeneous subdivisions, it is presently unclear whether these seeds map to different DMN subnetworks, whose patterns of anti‐correlation may differ. If so, then seed location may be a non‐negligible factor that, in addition to differences in preprocessing steps, contributes to the inconsistencies reported among published studies regarding DMN correlations/anti‐correlations. In this study, they examined anti‐correlations of different subnetworks within the DMN during rest using both seed‐based and point process analyses, and discovered that: (1) the ventral branch of the DMN (vDMN) yielded significantly weaker anti‐correlations than that associated with the dorsal branch of the DMN (dDMN); (2) vDMN anti‐correlations introduced by GSR were distinct from dDMN anti‐correlations; (3) PCC/precuneus seeds employed by earlier studies mapped to different DMN subnetworks, which may explain some of the inconsistency (in addition to preprocessing steps) in the reported DMN anti‐correlations. Hum Brain Mapp 38:2454–2465, 2017 . © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.