Researchers in the Shih lab published novel findings on causal control of the anterior insular cortex on the default mode network of the brain using selective neural stimulation (,听featured as an Editor鈥檚 highlight article), and multi-channel optical recording of neural activity changes during fMRI (, see also听听, and the interview of first author and neurology staff scientist, Dr. Harry Chao, by the . Drs. Sungho Lee, Margaret Broadwater, and Ian Shih also contributed a landmark article to image functional connectivity in the rodent brain (, cover of the issue).