Systemic Inflammation and Resting State Connectivity of the Default Mode Network
Brain, behavior, and immunity January 23, 2017 Anna L. Marsland, Dora C. H. Kuan, L. Sheu et al.
The default mode network (DMN) encompasses brain systems that exhibit coherent neural activity at rest. DMN brain systems have been implicated in diverse social, cognitive, and affective processes, as well as risk for forms of dementia and psychiatric disorders that associate with systemic inflammation. Areas of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and surrounding medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)...