Scientists at Yale University have invested a lot of time studying individual brain activity using MRI imaging technology, largely for contrasting healthy patients as control to contrast with unhealthy patients.
However, as they went deeper into their studies, they found that brain activity for the same function is very different from one individual to another, akin to fingerprints.
Mapping 268 brain regions in 126 subjects, they paid attention to coordination in activity between pairs of regions. With this individual information available, they then used the connectivity data across the entire brain, and were able to predict exactly how a individual was going to behave and cope with a specific task.
This research is very important, as using these markers, doctors will now be able to better treat brain related ailments more precisely based on the brain connectivity information of the individual patient.
