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Prediction of individual brain maturity using fMRI

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Dosenbach, Nico U. F., Nardos, Binyam, Cohen, Alexander L., Fair, Damien A., Power, Jonathan D., Church, Jessica A., Nelson, Steven M., Wig, Gagan S. +10 more·2010·Science

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Connectivity Map of the Brain: The growing appreciation that clinically abnormal behaviors in children and adolescents may be influenced or perhaps even initiated by developmental miscues has stoked an interest in mapping normal human brain maturation. Several groups have documented changes in gray and white matter using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Dosenbach et al. (p. 1358 ) developed an index of resting-state functional connectivity (that is, how tightly neuronal activities in distinct brain regions are correlated while the subject is at rest or even asleep) from analyses of three independent data sets (each based on fMRI scans of 150 to 200 individuals from ages 6 to 35 years old). Long-range connections increased with age and short-range connections decreased, indicating that networks become sparser and sharper with brain maturation.

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  • Other identified changes over time included strengthening of long-range connections and increased segregation and modularity.

    “Other identified changes over time included strengthening of long-range connections and increased segregation and modularity.”

    From Graph theory analysis of complex brain networks: new concepts in brain mapping applied to neurosurgery (2016) · cites this paper as [31]

    The paper’s discussion of fcMVPA feature weights (indexed under Abstract; page unavailable) reports strengthening of long-range connections and greater segregation of functional areas during maturation. It also reports stronger within-network and weaker between-network connections, but does not report an increase in modularity over time; modularity optimization was used to identify networks in an average adult connectivity matrix. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Machine-learning algorithms predicted brain maturation patterns with 92% accuracy based on characteristic patterns of development.

    “Characteristic patterns of development have allowed machine-learning algorithms to predict brain maturation patterns with 92% accuracy.31”

    From Graph theory analysis of complex brain networks: new concepts in brain mapping applied to neurosurgery (2016) · cites this paper as [31]

    The paper reports 92% accuracy for binary adult-versus-child classification in its second data set (passage 7); the corresponding figure for its first data set is 91% (passage 4). It predicts individual functional brain maturity, but reports that continuous prediction using variance explained, not 92% accuracy. The claim conflates the classification result with maturation prediction. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Overall this produced modules that were more segregated from each other but more densely connected within themselves.

    “Overall this produced modules that were more segregated from each other, but more densely connected within themselves.”
  • Weakening of short-range functional connections between major brain functional modules was the most important factor in the model.

    “Weakening of short-range functional connections between major brain functional modules was the most important factor in the model”
  • Prior to 2012, multiple studies found that functional connectivity between anatomically proximate ROIs gradually decreased, while long-range functional connections, especially anterior-posterior links, gradually increased until adulthood.

    “Prior to 2012, multiple studies had found that functional connectivity between anatomically proximate ROIs gradually decreased, whereas long-range functional connections, especially anterior-posterior links, gradually increased until adulthood (Dosenbach et al., 2010; Fair et al., 2009; Kelly et al., 2009; Supekar et al., 2009).”

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Authors
Dosenbach, N. U. F., Nardos, B., Cohen, A. L., Fair, D. A., Power, J. D., Church, J. A., Nelson, S. M., Wig, G. S., Vogel, A. C., Lessov-Schlaggar, C. N., Barnes, K. A., Dubis, J. W., Feczko, E., Coalson, R. S., Pruett, J. R., Barch, D. M., Petersen, S. E., & Schlaggar, B. L.
Affiliations
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Oregon Health & Science University (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Corresponding author
  • Dosenbach, Nico U. F.
  • Schlaggar, Bradley L.
Venue
Science
Published
2010-09-10
Volume
329
Issue
5997
Pages
1358-1361
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2063404606
Cited by
2,183
References
36
Citations by year
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FWCI
58.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P20MH062130, MH62130)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA027046, K01DA027046)
  • National Eye Institute (K12EY016336, EY16336)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS55582, R01NS046424, K02NS053425, NS51281, NS46424, NS 41255, NS-32979, R01NS032979, R21NS041255, NS053425, NS00169011)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD057076, HD057076)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Keywords
functional connectivity, resting-state fMRI, individual differences, brain development, functional brain networks, support vector machine, multivariate pattern analysis, nonlinear growth models
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aging, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebellum, Child, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neural Pathways, Occipital Lobe, Multivariate Analysis, Young Adult

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