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Abstract #3713

Impact of Noise-Modelling Methods on Test-Retest Reliability of a Covert Verbal Fluency FMRI Task Across 2 Sites

Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh1, Christian Vollmar2, Gareth Barker3, Mark Symms2, Veena Kumari4, Pam Thompson2, John Duncan2, Matthias Koepp2, Mark Richardson1

1Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK; 2The National Society for Epilepsy and the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK; 3Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK; 4Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK


Here, a simple covert verbal fluency task is used to assess reliability of fMRI results across sites and sessions using voxelwise and region-based intraclass correlation techniques. The impact of modelling for motion is investigated.