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SUBMITTER: Horovitz SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2708777 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Horovitz Silvina G SG Braun Allen R AR Carr Walter S WS Picchioni Dante D Balkin Thomas J TJ Fukunaga Masaki M Duyn Jeff H JH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090619 27
The recent discovery of a circuit of brain regions that is highly active in the absence of overt behavior has led to a quest for revealing the possible function of this so-called default-mode network (DMN). A very recent study, finding similarities in awake humans and anesthetized primates, has suggested that DMN activity might not simply reflect ongoing conscious mentation but rather a more general form of network dynamics typical of complex systems. Here, by performing functional MRI in humans ...[more]