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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Subsystem organization of axonal connections within and between the right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei (endbrain).

Larry W Swanson, Joel D Hahn, Lucas G S Jeub, Santo Fortunato, Olaf Sporns

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. The network organization of rat intrathalamic macroconnections and a comparison with other forebrain divisions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  20. Macroscale intrinsic network architecture of the hypothalamus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Larry W SwansonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; larryswanson10@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-4260-3892
Joel D HahnDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
Lucas G S JeubIndiana University Network Science Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
Santo FortunatoIndiana University Network Science Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
Olaf SpornsIndiana University Network Science Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of axonal macroconnections between the 244 regions forming the endbrain was analyzed with a multiresolution consensus clustering (MRCC) method that provides a hierarchical description of community clustering (modules or subsystems) within the network. Experimental evidence was collated from the neuroanatomical literature for the existence of 10,002 of a possible 59,292 connections within the network, and they cluster into four top-level subsystems and 60 bottom-level subsystems arranged in a 50-level hierarchy. Two top-level subsystems are bihemispheric: One deals with auditory and visual information, and the other corresponds broadly to the default mode network. The other two top-level subsystems are bilaterally symmetrical, and each deals broadly with somatic and visceral information. Because the entire endbrain connection matrix was assembled from multiple subconnectomes, it was easy to show that the status of a region as a connectivity hub is not absolute but, instead, depends on the size and coverage of its anatomical neighborhood. It was also shown numerically that creating an ultradense connection matrix by converting all "absent" connections to a "very weak" connection weight has virtually no effect on the clustering hierarchy. The next logical step in this project is to complete the forebrain connectome by adding the thalamus and hypothalamus (together, the interbrain) to the endbrain analysis.

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Cerebral CortexConnectomeModels, NeurologicalProsencephalonAnimalsAxonsRatscognitionconnectomicsmammalneural connectionsneuroinformatics

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PMID29967160
PMCPMC6055193

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