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Neural connections, providing the substrate for functional networks, exist whether or not they are functionally active at any given moment. However, it is not known to what extent brain regions are continuously interacting when the brain is "at rest." In this work, we identify the major explicit activation networks by carrying out an image-based activation network analysis of thousands of separate activation maps derived from the BrainMap database of functional imaging studies, involving nearly 30,000 human subjects. Independently, we extract the major covarying networks in the resting brain, as imaged with functional magnetic resonance imaging in 36 subjects at rest. The sets of major brain networks, and their decompositions into subnetworks, show close correspondence between the independent analyses of resting and activation brain dynamics. We conclude that the full repertoire of functional networks utilized by the brain in action is continuously and dynamically "active" even when at "rest."

Original publication

DOI

10.1073/pnas.0905267106

Type

Journal article

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Publication Date

08/2009

Volume

106

Pages

13040 - 13045

Addresses

Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom. steve@fmrib.ox.ac.uk

Keywords

Brain, Nerve Net, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Brain Mapping, Adult