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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 33, Issue 22, Pages 9488-9497Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5911-12.2013
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- Israel Science Foundation [160/07, 1538/09]
- National Institute of Psychobiology in Israel
- European Union
- Helen and Martin Kimmel Institute
- Weizmann Institute-Tel-Hashomer Medical Center
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During rest, the cerebral cortex displays rich, coordinated patterns of spontaneous activity. The mechanism that shapes these patterns is largely unknown. Here we demonstrate that a Hebbian-like, sustained process plays a role in focusing these coherent patterns. Human subjects used an fMRI-based neurofeedback (NF) paradigm to intensely activate the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex for a single epoch (30 min). Resting-state correlations between all of the cortical voxels' BOLD time courses (functional connectivity) were mapped before, immediately after, and one day after the NF session. We found that the single epoch of cortical activation induced a lasting restructuring of the functional connections according to a Hebbian-like rule. Therefore, the change (increase and decrease) in functional connectivity strength of cortical voxels during rest reflected the level of their prior coactivation during the NF epoch. Interestingly, the effect was significantly enhanced 1 d after the NF activation epoch. The effect was evident in each subject individually, indicating its potential as a diagnostic window into the personal history of prior brain activations of both healthy and abnormal individuals.
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