Developmental Changes in Resting State-Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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titleDevelopmental Changes in Resting State-Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging
start_date2008/11/25
schedule16h30
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location_infosalle D52
summaryCorrelation of resting state fMRI timecourses between brain regions is an exciting new tool for exploring how regions work together in networks. This method of looking at 'functional connectivity' is a current focus in the lab of Steve Petersen and Brad Schlaggar at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After a description of the concept and a methods demonstration, I hope to convince you that this tool can aid our understanding of brain function by adding information about how activated regions are connected in networks. Finally, I will present some of the results from projects in our lab, including connections between cognitive control regions in adults, the development of these connections from age 7 to adult, the development of connections between control regions and regions from the 'default' network, and finally a comparison of adolescents with Tourette's Syndrome to typically developing children and adults.
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