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SUBMITTER: Lu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3309754 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lu Hanbing H Zou Qihong Q Gu Hong H Raichle Marcus E ME Stein Elliot A EA Yang Yihong Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120221 10
The default mode network (DMN) in humans has been suggested to support a variety of cognitive functions and has been implicated in an array of neuropsychological disorders. However, its function(s) remains poorly understood. We show that rats possess a DMN that is broadly similar to the DMNs of nonhuman primates and humans. Our data suggest that, despite the distinct evolutionary paths between rodent and primate brain, a well-organized, intrinsically coherent DMN appears to be a fundamental feat ...[more]