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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Network architecture of the cerebral nuclei (basal ganglia) association and commissural connectome.

Larry W Swanson, Olaf Sporns, Joel D Hahn

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Larry W SwansonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; larryswanson10@gmail.com.
Olaf SpornsDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
Joel D HahnDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
University of Southern California · USIndiana University Bloomington · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cerebral nuclei form the ventral division of the cerebral hemisphere and are thought to play an important role in neural systems controlling somatic movement and motivation. Network analysis was used to define global architectural features of intrinsic cerebral nuclei circuitry in one hemisphere (association connections) and between hemispheres (commissural connections). The analysis was based on more than 4,000 reports of histologically defined axonal connections involving all 45 gray matter regions of the rat cerebral nuclei and revealed the existence of four asymmetrically interconnected modules. The modules form four topographically distinct longitudinal columns that only partly correspond to previous interpretations of cerebral nuclei structure-function organization. The network of connections within and between modules in one hemisphere or the other is quite dense (about 40% of all possible connections), whereas the network of connections between hemispheres is weak and sparse (only about 5% of all possible connections). Particularly highly interconnected regions (rich club and hubs within it) form a topologically continuous band extending through two of the modules. Connection path lengths among numerous pairs of regions, and among some of the network's modules, are relatively long, thus accounting for low global efficiency in network communication. These results provide a starting point for reexamining the connectional organization of the cerebral hemispheres as a whole (right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei together) and their relation to the rest of the nervous system.

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AnimalsBasal GangliaCerebral CortexConnectomeGray MatterNerve NetNervous SystemRatsSpinal Cordbehaviorconnectomicsmammalneural connectionsneuroinformatics

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PMID27647882
PMCPMC5056072
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