Brain network course patterns observed with fMRI during movie presentation

Objective: Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies mostly used abstracted paradigms to investigate different aspects of human brain function and pathological alterations of brain function in neuropsychiatric diseases. Though, the application of those particular tasks underlie several restrictions, subjects have to be compliant and without relevant cognitive impairment. Therefore, we decided to investigate human brain function in more natural conditions in subjects which freely viewed a film. Material and Methods: We investigated N=6 healthy subjects (age 20–65 years), fMRI was acquired on a…