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Frequency-specific task modulation of human brain functional networks: A fast fMRI study

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NEUROIMAGE
卷 224, 期 -, 页码 -

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117375

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  1. Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [JP18dm0107152, JP18dm0307005]
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The study used fast fMRI to investigate shifts in brain-wide neural coherence during different task states in the ultraslow frequency range. Through clustering analysis, four frequency bands were identified to show band-specific shifts of neural coherence. The study also found that regions with similar spectra formed functional modules of the brain network, with specific shifting patterns of coherence observed in different frequency bands.
How coherent neural oscillations are involved in task execution is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Although several electrophysiological studies have tackled this issue, the brain-wide task modulation of neural coherence remains uncharacterized. Here, with a fast fMRI technique, we studied shifts of brain-wide neural coherence across different task states in the ultraslow frequency range (0.01-0.7 Hz). First, we examined whether the shifts of the brain-wide neural coherence occur in a frequency-dependent manner. We quantified the shift of a region's average neural coherence by the inter-state variance of the mean coherence between the region and the rest of the brain. A clustering analysis based on the variance's spatial correlation between frequency components revealed four frequency bands (0.01-0.15 Hz, 0.15-0.37 Hz, 0.37-0.53 Hz, and 0.53-0.7 Hz) showing band-specific shifts of the brain-wide neural coherence. Next, we investigated the similarity of the inter-state variance's spectra between all pairs of regions. We found that regions showing similar spectra correspond to those forming functional modules of the brain network. Then, we investigated the relationship between identified frequency bands and modules' inter-state variances. We found that modules showing the highest variance are those made up of parieto-occipital regions at 0.01-0.15 Hz, while it is replaced with another consisting of frontal regions above 0.15 Hz. Furthermore, these modules showed specific shifting patterns of the mean coherence across states at 0.01-0.15 Hz and above 0.15 Hz, suggesting that identified frequency bands differentially contribute to neural interactions during task execution. Our results highlight that usage of the fast fMRI enables brain-wide investigation of neural coherence up to 0.7 Hz, which opens a promising track for assessment of the large-scale neural interactions in the ultraslow frequency range.

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