Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Increased fMRI connectivity upon chemogenetic inhibition of the mouse prefrontal cortex

  • Federico Rocchi,
  • Carola Canella,
  • Shahryar Noei,
  • Daniel Gutierrez-Barragan,
  • Ludovico Coletta,
  • Alberto Galbusera,
  • Alexia Stuefer,
  • Stefano Vassanelli,
  • Massimo Pasqualetti,
  • Giuliano Iurilli,
  • Stefano Panzeri,
  • Alessandro Gozzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28591-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Pathological perturbation affects whole brain network activity. Here the authors show in mice that cortical inactivation unexpectedly results in increased fMRI connectivity between the manipulated regions and its direct axonal targets.