Basic Guidance Through Functional Connectivity Analyses

Hi there!
I'm an absolute beginner in Matalb, Brainstorm and Functional Conenctivity Analyses.
Unfortunately I have brought myself into the position where I have to finish a computation of Functional Connectivity within a very short time. I was hoping to find someone who is experienced enough to guide me through the process (Head model computation, ROI selection, investigating FC over time and comparing two conditions). My main goal is to get results (detailed explanations arent needed right now), so it might not take that much time, once I have found the right path to follow I can do all the stuff myself. I am happy to compensate any work of course!

Best wishes

The steps are explained very well in the tutorial. https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/Tutorials

Until then, there are a few questions you need to answer yourself.

  • Do you want to use the individual MRI's or the default MRI's?
  • Which ROI atlas do you want to use? (Desikan-Killiany, Destrieux, Brodmann etc.)
  • Do you want to calculate FC at the source level or electrode level?

Because this changes the process pipeline

regards Moos

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Thank you for your interest in Brainstorm.
Brainstorm has a lot of users and unfortunately little resource available for individual training.

I recommend you start by following all the introduction tutorials at least until #26 included, together with #28 if you plan on scripting this analysis, and then all the advanced tutorials corresponding to the type of analyses your would like to run. For all this, use the example dataset provided, not your personal data. I apologize in advanced: the connectivity tutorial is not finished and might be difficult to follow as is.

When you are done with this, if you still have questions, please start by preparing some screen captures illustrating your data and post them as a new thread on the forum, together with a detailed description of the existing data and the analysis you would like to run.

Enjoy the reading!