Resting Brain, Resting Self and Resting Life

Today is the first day of 2010. I closed reading an excellent review paper " Computational and dynamic models in neuroimaging " which was in press in NeuroImage. In this review, from a perspective of mathematical modeling, Dr. Friston summarized those efforts on modeling brain's function and biophysics, which have extensively enriched the neuroimaging data exploration. Of particular importance, computational neuroscience now is tending to unify the resting-state and stimulus-invoked brain, which is an extremely important transition of neuroimaging research to go beyond understanding the human brain whatever rest or task involved. We can predict, in the future (e.g., see 2010 :), that the mining schemes from computational neuroscience, machine leaning and game theory will become pretty strong for both brain mechanism and prediction. In practice, two things might attract researchers: to develop a unify measure on brain dynamic, which means that the relevant measures shou...

Back to 2006, when I came to picking up my first postdoc training in Beijing Normal University, I read four papers about resting state fMRI (RfMRI), which I strongly recommend to the new people coming to this field. Until now, they are still holding the dominant impacts on this field. Mapping of Human Resting Brain B. Biswal, F. Yetkin, V. Haughton and J. Hyde, Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo-planar MRI, Magn. Reson. Med. 34 (4) (1995), pp. 537–541. [ DOI ] M.E. Raichle, A.M. MacLeod, A.Z. Snyder, W.J. Powers, D.A. Gusnard, G.L. Shulman, A default mode of brain function, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 98 (2001), pp. 676–682. [ ABSTRACT ] M.D. Greicius, B. Krasnow, A.L. Reiss and V. Menon, Functional connectivity in the resting brain: a network analysis of the default mode hypothesis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 100 (2003), pp. 253–258. [ ABSTRACT ] M.D. Fox, A.Z. Snyder, J.L. Vincent, M. Corbetta, D.C. Van Essen and M...