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Temporal complexity of fMRI is reproducible and correlates with higher order cognition

Omidvarnia, Amir
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Zalesky, Andrew
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Mansour L, Sina
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January 22, 2021
NeuroImage

It has been hypothesized that resting state networks (RSNs), extracted from resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI), likely display unique temporal complexity fingerprints, quantified by their multiscale entropy patterns (McDonough and Nashiro, 2014). This is a hypothesis with a potential capacity for developing digital biomarkers of normal brain function, as well as pathological brain dysfunction. Nevertheless, a limitation of McDonough and Nashiro (2014) was that rsfMRI data from only 20 healthy individuals was used for the analysis. To validate this hypothesis in a larger cohort, we used rsfMRI datasets of 987 healthy young adults from the Human Connectome Project (HCP), aged 22-35, each with four 14.4-min rsfMRI recordings and parcellated into 379 brain regions. We quantified multiscale entropy of rsfMRI time series averaged at different cortical and sub-cortical regions. We performed effect-size analysis on the data in 8 RSNs. Given that the morphology of multiscale entropy is affected by the choice of its tolerance parameter () and embedding dimension (), we repeated the analyses at multiple values of and including the values used in McDonough and Nashiro (2014). Our results reinforced high temporal complexity in the default mode and frontoparietal networks. Lowest temporal complexity was observed in the subcortical areas and limbic system. We investigated the effect of temporal resolution (determined by the repetition time ) after downsampling of rsfMRI time series at two rates. At a low temporal resolution, we observed increased entropy and variance across datasets. Test-retest analysis showed that findings were likely reproducible across individuals over four rsfMRI runs, especially when the tolerance parameter is equal to 0.5. The results confirmed that the relationship between functional brain connectivity strengths and rsfMRI temporal complexity changes over time scales. Finally, a non-random correlation was observed between temporal complexity of RSNs and fluid intelligence suggesting that complex dynamics of the human brain is an important attribute of high-level brain function.

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DOI
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117760
Author(s)
Omidvarnia, Amir
Zalesky, Andrew
Mansour L, Sina
Van De Ville, Dimitri
Jackson, Graeme D.
Pedersen, Mangor
Date Issued

2021-01-22

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NeuroImage
Volume

230

Article Number

117760

Subjects

Temporal complexity

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Multiscale entropy

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Resting state network

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Functional MRI

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Human connectome project

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Fluid intelligence

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Reproducibility

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