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Prominent coactivation of the hippocampus, detected in all groups, suggests that the default-mode network is closely involved with episodic memory processing. The AD group showed decreased resting-state activity in the posterior cingulate and hippocampus, suggesting that disrupted connectivity between these two regions accounts for the posterior cingulate hypometabolism commonly detected in positron emission tomography studies of early AD. Finally, a goodness-of-fit analysis applied at the individual subject level suggests that activity in the default-mode network may ultimately prove a sensitive and specific biomarker for incipient AD.</jats:p>","journal":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences","year":2004,"id":40653,"datarank":16.404053688981687,"base_score":8.22121009392507,"endowment":8.22121009392507,"self_citation_contribution":1.2331815140887605,"citation_network_contribution":15.170872174892928,"self_endowment_contribution":1.2331815140887605,"citer_contribution":15.170872174892928,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3718,"citer_count":200,"citers_with_citation_signal":200,"citers_with_endowment":200,"datacite_reuse_total":14,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":197123,"name":"Gaurav Srivastava","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":32597,"name":"Allan L. 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