Precision Functional Mapping of Individual Human Brains

Neuron 2017

Gordon, Evan M. and Laumann, Timothy O. and Gilmore, Adrian W. and Newbold, Dillan J. and Greene, Deanna J. and Berg, Jeffrey J. and Ortega, Mario and Hoyt-Drazen, Catherine and Gratton, Caterina and Sun, Haoxin and Hampton, Jacqueline M. and Coalson, Rebecca S. and Nguyen, Annie L. and McDermott, Kathleen B. and Shimony, Joshua S. and Snyder, Abraham Z. and Schlaggar, Bradley L. and Petersen, Steven E. and Nelson, Steven M. and Dosenbach, Nico U.F.

Abstract

Human functional MRI (fMRI) research primarily focuses on analyzing data averaged across groups, which limits the detail, specificity, and clinical utility of fMRI resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) and task-activation maps. To push our understanding of functional brain organization to the level of individual humans, we assembled a novel MRI dataset containing 5 hr of RSFC data, 6 hr of task fMRI, multiple structural MRIs, and neuropsychological tests from each of ten adults. Using these data, we generated ten high-fidelity, individual-specific functional connectomes. This individual-connectome approach revealed several new types of spatial and organizational variability in brain networks, including unique network features and topologies that corresponded with structural and task-derived brain features. We are releasing this highly sampled, individual-focused dataset as a resource for neuroscientists, and we propose precision individual connectomics as a model for future work examining the organization of healthy and diseased individual human brains.

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