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ArticlePLoS computational biology2017

Brain network eigenmodes provide a robust and compact representation of the structural connectome in health and disease.

Maxwell B Wang, Julia P Owen, Pratik Mukherjee, Ashish Raj

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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Maxwell B WangDepartment of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9217-6593
Julia P OwenDepartment of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
Pratik MukherjeeDepartment of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
Ashish RajDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America.

Funding

Predictive model of spread of Parkinson's pathology using network diffusionR01NS092802 · NINDS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI GUPTA, AJAY, RAJ, ASHISH · 2016 to 2020
$2.8M
Multimodal modeling framework for fusing structural and functional connectome dataR01EB022717 · NIBIB · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI NAGARAJAN, SRIKANTAN S., RAJ, ASHISH · 2016 to 2018
$1.6M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022717NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS092802
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent research has demonstrated the use of the structural connectome as a powerful tool to characterize the network architecture of the brain and potentially generate biomarkers for neurologic and psychiatric disorders. In particular, the anatomic embedding of the edges of the cerebral graph have been postulated to elucidate the relative importance of white matter tracts to the overall network connectivity, explaining the varying effects of localized white matter pathology on cognition and behavior. Here, we demonstrate the use of a linear diffusion model to quantify the impact of these perturbations on brain connectivity. We show that the eigenmodes governing the dynamics of this model are strongly conserved between healthy subjects regardless of cortical and sub-cortical parcellations, but show significant, interpretable deviations in improperly developed brains. More specifically, we investigated the effect of agenesis of the corpus callosum (AgCC), one of the most common brain malformations to identify differences in the effect of virtual corpus callosotomies and the neurodevelopmental disorder itself. These findings, including the strong correspondence between regions of highest importance from graph eigenmodes of network diffusion and nexus regions of white matter from edge density imaging, show converging evidence toward understanding the relationship between white matter anatomy and the structural connectome.

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AdultAgenesis of Corpus CallosumBrainBrain DiseasesConnectomeDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMaleNerve NetNeural PathwaysReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityWhite Matter

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PMID28640803
PMCPMC5480812

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