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@INPROCEEDINGS{Pool:153471,
author = {Pool, EM and Eickhoff, Simon and Fink, Gereon Rudolf and
Grefkes, C.},
title = {{F}unctional resting-state connectivity of the human motor
network: {D}ifferences between right- and left-handers},
journal = {Klinische Neurophysiologie},
volume = {45},
number = {01},
issn = {1439-4081},
address = {Stuttgart [u.a.]},
publisher = {Thieme},
reportid = {FZJ-2014-03069},
pages = {s-0034-1371279},
year = {2014},
abstract = {Background: Handedness, i.e., the preference to use one
hand over the other, has been shown to be associated with
differences in activation levels in various motor tasks
performed with the dominant or non-dominant hand (Gilbert
$\&$ Wysocki, 1992; White et al., 1994). We were interested
whether also in the absence of an overt motor task, i.e.,
during “resting-state”, spontaneous fluctuations of
primary motor cortex activity shows differential functional
connectivity in the left or right hemisphere depending on
whether subjects report left- or right-handedness.Methods:
We, therefore, scanned 24 volunteers (12 right-handers and
12 left-handers) with resting-state functional magnetic
resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Handedness was assessed by the
Edinburgh-Handedness-Inventory (EHI) that ranges from -100
(strongly left-handed) to +100 (strongly right-handed). We
computed two explorative whole-brain group analyses where
the time course within a sphere of 8 mm-diameters centered
on the M1 seed voxel (“hand knob” formation) was
correlated with every other voxel in the brain. To test for
differences in functional connectivity between right- and
left-handers, we used M1 (left/right) as seed region to
consider both the “dominant” (left) M1 of right-handers
and the “dominant” (right) M1 of the left-handers. We,
then, computed regression analyses including resting-state
connectivity and EHI as covariates.Results: We found a
positive correlation between EHI and resting-state
functional connectivity of left M1 with the left
supplementary motor area (SMA). That is, the stronger the
M1-SMA functional connectivity within the left hemisphere
during rest, the stronger the preference to use the right
hand for manual skills (P< 0.05 FWE-corrected on the
voxel-level). The reverse contrast did not yield significant
voxels. Likewise, multiple regression analyses between EHI
and resting-state connectivity of right M1 not reveal
differences between right- and left-handers.Conclusion: Our
results show that functional connectivity of the human motor
cortex differs between right- and left-handers, even in the
absence of overt motor performance. Right-handedness is
predicted by a stronger functional connectivity between left
SMA and left M1. An intrinsically higher connectivity of the
dominant motor cortex with premotor areas in right-handers
might explain the behavioural notion that right-handedness
is usually strongly lateralised while left-handers are more
flexible in also using their non-dominant hand in activities
of daily living.},
month = {Mar},
date = {2014-03-19},
organization = {58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Klinische
Neurophysiologie und Funktionelle
Bildgebung (DGKN), Berlin (Germany), 19
Mar 2014 - 22 Mar 2014},
cin = {INM-3 / INM-1},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-1-20090406},
pnm = {333 - Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Neurological and
Psychiatric Diseases (POF2-333) / 89572 - (Dys-)function and
Plasticity (POF2-89572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-333 / G:(DE-HGF)POF2-89572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8 / PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1055/s-0034-1371279},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/153471},
}