Regional GABA Concentrations Modulate Inter-network Resting-state Functional Connectivity

@article{Chen2019RegionalGC,
  title={Regional GABA Concentrations Modulate Inter-network Resting-state Functional Connectivity},
  author={Xi Chen and Xiaoying Fan and Yuzheng Hu and Chun S. Zuo and Susan L. Whitfield-Gabrieli and Daphne J. Holt and Qiyong Gong and Yihong Yang and Diego A. Pizzagalli and Fei Du and Dost Ongur},
  journal={Cerebral Cortex},
  year={2019},
  volume={29},
  pages={1607–1618}
}
Coordinated activity within and differential activity between large-scale neuronal networks such as the default mode network (DMN) and the control network (CN) is a critical feature of brain organization. The CN usually exhibits activations in response to cognitive tasks while the DMN shows deactivations; in addition, activity between the two networks is anti-correlated at rest. To address this issue, we used functional MRI to measure whole-brain BOLD signal during resting-state and task-evoked… 
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