Head Movement Is Bad News For Neuroscience (Again)

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By Neuroskeptic
Nov 27, 2013 2:53 AMNov 20, 2019 5:09 AM

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Claims that children with autism have abnormal brain white matter connections may just reflect the fact that they move about more during their MRI scans. So say a team of Harvard and MIT neuroscientists, including Nancy "Voodoo Correlations" Kanwisher, in a new paper: Spurious group differences due to head motion in a diffusion MRI study. Essentially, the authors show how head movement during a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) scan causes apparant differences in the integrity of white matter tracts, like these ones:

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