Bottom line is that this is all reverse inference of intrinsic functional connectivity. No task. No behavior. The take-home headline inferences (behavioral, cognitive, and psychological) are misaligned with the approach. You don't need imaging at all for drawing strong psych inferences.

It’s so wild to me how there are subcommunities in brain imaging who believe you can infer anything about whether something as complex as “attention” is modulated by medication with nothing but resting state fMRI. We’re still stuck in cingulategate ten years later.

And like, all these posts about how the “story makes so much sense” and “resonates with what patients say”. I’m an ADHD person who takes stims and a neuroscientist and I find all of this totally incredulous.