title: Mapping resting-state brain networks in conscious animals.
abstract: In the present study we mapped brain functional connectivity in the conscious rat at the "resting state" based on intrinsic blood-oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) fluctuations. The conscious condition eliminated potential confounding effects of anesthetic agents on the connectivity between brain regions. Indeed, using correlational analysis we identified multiple cortical and subcortical regions that demonstrated temporally synchronous variation with anatomically well-defined regions that are crucial to cognitive and emotional information processing including the prefrontal cortex (PFC), thalamus and retrosplenial cortex. The functional connectivity maps created were stringently validated by controlling for false positive detection of correlation, the physiologic basis of the signal source, as well as quantitatively evaluating the reproducibility of maps. Taken together, the present study has demonstrated the feasibility of assessing functional connectivity in conscious animals using fMRI and thus provided a convenient and non-invasive tool to systematically investigate the connectional architecture of selected brain networks in multiple animal models.
authors.affiliation: Center for Comparative Neuroimaging (CCNI), Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, United States. Nanyin.Zhang@umassmed.edu
authors.forename: Nanyin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Pallavi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rane
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Zhifeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: Jean A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Frazier
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D020318:Rats, Long-Evans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012146:Rest; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013788:Thalamus / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen
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