Debra A Gusnard

Biographic Data

ID9300074
NAMEDebra A Gusnard
GIVEN NAMESDebra A
FAMILY NAMEGusnard
SIGNATUREGUSNARD D A
AFFILIATIONSWashington University in St. Louis
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX0

  • Being a self

    Open AccessDebra A GusnardARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2005

  • Searching for a baseline

    Open AccessDebra A Gusnard, Marcus E RaichleARTICLENature Reviews Neuroscience2001

  • Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity

    Open AccessDebra A Gusnard, Erbil Akbudak et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2001

    Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is among those brain regions having the highest baseline metabolic activity at rest and one that exhibits decreases from this baseline across a wide variety of goal-directed behaviors in functional imaging studies. This high metabolic rate and this behavior suggest the existence of an organized mode of default brain function, elements of which may be either attenuated or enhanced. Extant data suggest that these MPF…

  • A default mode of brain function

    Open AccessMarcus E Raichle, Ann Mary MacLeod et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2001

    A baseline or control state is fundamental to the understanding of most complex systems. Defining a baseline state in the human brain, arguably our most complex system, poses a particular challenge. Many suspect that left unconstrained, its activity will vary unpredictably. Despite this prediction we identify a baseline state of the normal adult human brain in terms of the brain oxygen extraction fraction or OEF. The OEF is defined as the ratio o…