PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Niall W. Duncan
AU  - Georg Northoff
TI  - Overview of potential procedural and participant-related confounds for neuroimaging of the resting state
AID  - 10.1503/jpn.120059
DP  - 2013 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
PG  - 84--96
VI  - 38
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jpn.ca/content/38/2/84.short
4100  - http://jpn.ca/content/38/2/84.full
SO  - J Psychiatry Neurosci2013 Mar 01; 38
AB  - Studies of intrinsic brain activity in the resting state have become increasingly common. A productive discussion of what analysis methods are appropriate, of the importance of physiologic correction and of the potential interpretations of results has been ongoing. However, less attention has been paid to factors other than physiologic noise that may confound resting-state experiments. These range from straightforward factors, such as ensuring that participants are all instructed in the same manner, to more obscure participant-related factors, such as body weight. We provide an overview of such potentially confounding factors, along with some suggested approaches for minimizing their impact. A particular theme that emerges from the overview is the range of systematic differences between types of study groups (e.g., between patients and controls) that may influence resting-state study results.