Valeria Onofrj, Antonio Maria Chiarelli, Richard Wise et al.
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Abstract The Salience Network (SN), Ventral Attention Network (VAN), Dorsal Attention Network (DAN) and Default Mode Network (DMN) have shown significant interactions and overlapping functions in bottom-up and top-down mechanisms of attention. In the present study we tested if the SN, VAN, DAN and DMN connectivity can infer the gestational age (GA) at birth in a study group of 88 healthy...
Richard Bakiaj, Clara Isabel Pantoja Muñoz, Alessandro Grecucci
The neural foundations of the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—remain largely unexplored despite their profound impact on social behavior. Previous research has indicated potential structural and functional alterations in the default mode network (DMN) and reward-related regions in individuals exhibiting high levels of DT traits. However, these...
Aneesh Hehr, Allesandra Iadipaolo, Austin Morales et al.
Background: Mounting evidence demonstrates that meditation can lower pain and emotional distress in adults, and more recently, in children. Meditation may be an effective form of emotion regulation in children because it is easily accessible and more easily done across a variety of settings in which toys may not be available, for e.g., settings requiring a “clean” environment (e.g., surgical...
Shaoming Wang, Lindsey J. Tepfer, Adrienne A. Taren et al.
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Abstract The default mode network (DMN) consists of several regions that selectively interact to support distinct domains of cognition. Of the various sites that partake in DMN function, the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), temporal parietal junction (TPJ), and medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) are frequently identified as key contributors. Yet, it remains unclear whether these subcomponents of...
Wei Luo, Biao Liu, Ying Tang et al.
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Abstract：The brain often switches freely between focused attention and divergent thinking, and the default mode network (DMN) is activated during brain rest. The discovery, function and characteristics of default mode network all indicate that learning does not stop when the brain "rests". Mental disease can lead to dysfunctional default mode networks, which affects learning adversely....
Ulrike Basten, Rebecca Anik Rammensee, Rebekka Weygandt et al.
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This study investigates intelligence-related differences in the adjustment of brain activity and connectivity to varying cognitive demands, testing for a moderation of an association between intelligence and neural efficiency by task difficulty. In 72 young adults (34 female, 38 male), fMRI brain activity changes during a decision-making task with five levels of difficulty were related to...
Kartik K. Iyer, Andrew Zalesky, Karen M. Barlow et al.
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ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether anatomical and functional brain features relate to key persistent post-concussion symptoms (PPCS) in children recovering from mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), and whether such brain indices can predict individual recovery from PPCS. Methods 110 children with mixed recovery following mTBI were seen at the concussion clinic at Neurology department...
Guangyao Zhang, Jinyi Hung, Nan Lin
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Abstract Neuroimaging studies have found both semantic and non-semantic effects in the default mode network (DMN), leading to an intense debate on the role of the DMN in semantic processes. Four different views have been proposed: 1) The general semantic view holds that the DMN contains several hub regions supporting general semantic processes; 2) the non-semantic view holds that the semantic...
Abhishek Saxena, Shangzan Liu, Elizabeth D. Handley et al.
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Background and Hypothesis: Social victimization (SV), the experience of physical and/or psychological harm arising from adverse social experiences (e.g., bullying), has been associated with psychotic-like experiences (PLE). Similarly, abnormal resting state neural connectivity has been linked to increased SV and PLE. Yet, research has not directly examined the connections between SV, neural...
Benjamin Becker, Feng Zhou
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Recent advances have transformed our understanding of the neural basis of emotion from localized to distributed network-level processes, with emerging evidence indicating a central role of the default mode network (DMN), particularly medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). The mPFC exhibits a functional gradient along its dorsal-ventral axis: dorsal regions primarily engage in negative emotional...