Resting-state fMRI confounds and cleanup

K Murphy, RM Birn, PA Bandettini - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
… Using a measure called RVT (respiration volume per time) that attempts to capture breathing
rate and depth as a surrogate for end-tidal CO 2 , Birn and colleagues demonstrated that …

The role of physiological noise in resting-state functional connectivity

RM Birn - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
… regressors modeled in RETROICOR account for a small amount of time course variance (R
2 … RM Birn is currently supported in part by NIH grant RC1MH090912 as well as the …

The impact of global signal regression on resting state correlations: are anti-correlated networks introduced?

K Murphy, RM Birn, DA Handwerker, TB Jones… - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
… the seed region are similar (ie, the correlation value between the visual and global task)
predicts almost exactly (r = … Descriptive statistics for the size of regions (after thresholding at r = …

Separating respiratory-variation-related fluctuations from neuronal-activity-related fluctuations in fMRI

RM Birn, JB Diamond, MA Smith, PA Bandettini - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
Subtle changes in a subject's breathing rate or depth, which occur naturally during rest at
low frequencies (<0.1 Hz), have been shown to be significantly correlated with fMRI signal …

The effect of scan length on the reliability of resting-state fMRI connectivity estimates

RM Birn, EK Molloy, R Patriat, T Parker, TB Meier… - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
There has been an increasing use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) by the
neuroscience community to examine differences in functional connectivity between normal …

The respiration response function: the temporal dynamics of fMRI signal fluctuations related to changes in respiration

RM Birn, MA Smith, TB Jones, PA Bandettini - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
… The data in this study were acquired at a relatively short T R (500 ms) and large flip angle
(90). This … response function derived in this study will also apply to studies with longer T R s. …

[HTML][HTML] Disrupted modularity and local connectivity of brain functional networks in childhood-onset schizophrenia

…, R Birn, L Clasen, F Lalonde, R Lenroot… - Frontiers in systems …, 2010 - frontiersin.org
… the degree distribution of G, and L R is the average minimum path length of such a … R /E(G).
For disconnected graphs, formally σ(G) is undefined, but we can again substitute λ(G) = E R /…

Childhood maltreatment is associated with altered fear circuitry and increased internalizing symptoms by late adolescence

RJ Herringa, RM Birn, PL Ruttle… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
… Across all participants, experiences of maltreatment in childhood predicted lower connectivity
(R 2 = 0.27) between the right amygdala and the vmPFC, specifically the subgenual …

Neural systems supporting lexical search guided by letter and semantic category cues: a self-paced overt response fMRI study of verbal fluency

RM Birn, L Kenworthy, L Case, R Caravella, TB Jones… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Verbal fluency tasks have been widely used to evaluate language and executive control
processes in the human brain. FMRI studies of verbal fluency, however, have used either silent …

Developmental pathways to amygdala-prefrontal function and internalizing symptoms in adolescence

…, NH Kalin, MJ Essex, RJ Davidson, RM Birn - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
… is significantly negatively associated with childhood cortisol (R 2 = 0.36, FDR-corrected P
= 0.01). This effect is driven entirely by data for females (R 2 = 0.61, FDR-corrected P = 0.01). …