Functional magnetic resonance imaging of intrinsic brain networks for translational drug discovery

•Task-independent fMRI holds great promise for translational drug discovery. •Analogous methods can be used across species to examine intrinsic brain networks. •The utility of the approach in schizophrenia research is discussed. Developing translational biomarkers is a priority for psychiatry research. Task-independent functional brain imaging is a relatively novel technique that allows examination of the brain's intrinsic networks, defined as...