Visualization of resting‐state networks in utero

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allowsthe visualization of brain function and processing ofversatile inputs of the human brain. Recently, thismethod has been shown to provide insights into thespatiotemporal distribution of processing networks thatcan be demonstrated to be active in the brain even inthe absence of a task when the brain is ‘at rest’. Theseso-called resting-state networks (RSNs), characterizedby spontaneous intrinsic fluctuations between 0.01 and0.1 Hz, have been repeatedly and reproducibly found tobe organized into specific functional networks across thebrain