Analyzing Task-Dependent Brain Network Changes by Whole-Brain Psychophysiological Interactions: A Comparison to Conventional Analysis

作者：Gerchen Martin Fungisai^*; Bernal Casas David; Kirsch Peter

来源：Human Brain Mapping, 2014, 35(10): 5071-5082.

DOI：10.1002/hbm.22532

• functional magnetic resonance imaging
• connectivity
• connectome
• episodic memory
• recall

While fMRI activation studies contrasting task conditions regularly assess the whole brain, this is usually not true for studies analyzing task-dependent brain connectivity changes by psychophysiological interactions (PPI). Here we combine standard PPI (sPPI) and generalized PPI (gPPI) with a priori brain parcellation by spatially constrained normalized cut spectral clustering (NCUT) to analyze task-dependent connectivity changes in a whole brain manner, and compare the results to multiseed conventional PPI analyses over all activation peaks in an episodic memory recall task. We show that, depending on the chosen parcellation frame, the whole-brain PPI approach is able to detect a large amount of the information that is detected by the conventional approach. Over and above, whole-brain PPI allows identification of several additional task-modulated connections, particularly from seed regions without significant activation differences between conditions. Hum Brain Mapp 35:5071-5082, 2014.

• 出版日期2014-10
• 单位上海市精神卫生中心