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Investigating Neurophysiological Basis of Resting State fMRI Signal Components through Suppression of Cortical Slow Rhythms
Vahid Khalilzad Sharghi1, Eric Maltbie1, Wen-Ju Pan1, Shella Keilholz1, and Kaundinya Gopinath2
1Biomedical Engineering, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Suppression of cortical slow rhythms led to strong reductions in the amplitudes of quasi-periodic patterns (QPPs). On the other hand, functional connectivity in canonical brain function networks increased significantly.
Fig.3: TTA-P2 vs Baseline t-statistic maps highlighting regions with enhanced FC to the ROI encompassing all right hemisphere auditory cortex regions after TTA-P2 administration. The slice-location co-ordinates are in Paxinos space 16,17. Left-hemisphere is on the left-hand side of the maps.
Fig.1: The evolution of the strengths of QPPs with time assessed with spatio-temporal correlation of the fMRI time-series with corresponding QPP template. Examples from (a-c) three rats after systematic administration of TTA-P2; and one rat (d) after systematic administration of Vehicle.