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CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 32, Issue 18, Pages 4050-4067Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab465
Keywords
anaesthesia; awake; frontal cortex; macaque monkey; resting-state fMRI
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- French National Research Agency [ANR-18-CE37-0012-01, ANR-15-CE37-0003]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-18-CE37-0012, ANR-15-CE37-0003] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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This study investigates the impact of anesthesia on the functional connectivity organization of a cingulo-frontal cortical network in macaque monkeys. It reveals a similar organization to that found in the human brain, but this organization can only be observed in the awake state, suggesting anesthesia sensitivity and caution needed when comparing species under different states.
A critical aspect of neuroscience is to establish whether and how brain networks evolved across primates. To date, most comparative studies have used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) in anaesthetized nonhuman primates and in awake humans. However, anaesthesia strongly affects rs-fMRI signals. The present study investigated the impact of the awareness state (anaesthesia vs. awake) within the same group of macaque monkeys on the rs-fMRI functional connectivity organization of a well-characterized network in the human brain, the cingulo-frontal lateral network. Results in awake macaques show that rostral seeds in the cingulate sulcus exhibited stronger correlation strength with rostral compared to caudal lateral frontal cortical areas, while more caudal seeds displayed stronger correlation strength with caudal compared to anterior lateral frontal cortical areas. Critically, this inverse rostro-caudal functional gradient was abolished under anaesthesia. This study demonstrated a similar functional connectivity (FC) organization of the cingulo-frontal cortical network in awake macaque to that previously uncovered in the human brain pointing toward a preserved FC organization from macaque to human. However, it can only be observed in awake state suggesting that this network is sensitive to anaesthesia and warranting significant caution when comparing FC patterns across species under different states.
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