Fig. 8: LC-NE mediated arousal fluctuations drive inverted U-shaped functional connectivity dynamics.

LC-NE activity and resulting extracellular NE concentrations increased with arousal in awake state, and contributed to the inverted U-shaped global FC dynamics. Based on up and downregulations on LC-NE neurons, the baseline arousal largely determined the NE-mediated inverted U-shaped global FC dynamics.