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The increase of the functional entropy of the human brain with age
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Yao, Y., Lu, W. L., Xu, B., Li, C. B., Lin, C. P., Waxman, D. (David) and Feng, Jianfeng (2013) The increase of the functional entropy of the human brain with age. Scientific Reports, Volume 3 . Article number 2853. doi:10.1038/srep02853
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02853
Abstract
We use entropy to characterize intrinsic ageing properties of the human brain. Analysis of fMRI data from a large dataset of individuals, using resting state BOLD signals, demonstrated that a functional entropy associated with brain activity increases with age. During an average lifespan, the entropy, which was calculated from a population of individuals, increased by approximately 0.1 bits, due to correlations in BOLD activity becoming more widely distributed. We attribute this to the number of excitatory neurons and the excitatory conductance decreasing with age. Incorporating these properties into a computational model leads to quantitatively similar results to the fMRI data. Our dataset involved males and females and we found significant differences between them. The entropy of males at birth was lower than that of females. However, the entropies of the two sexes increase at different rates, and intersect at approximately 50 years; after this age, males have a larger entropy.
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