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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Macroscale intrinsic network architecture of the hypothalamus.

Joel D Hahn, Olaf Sporns, Alan G Watts, Larry W Swanson

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joel D HahnDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; joelhahn@usc.edu larryswanson10@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4024-0247
Olaf SpornsNetwork Science Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
Alan G WattsDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.ORCID 0000-0002-0942-4921
Larry W SwansonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; joelhahn@usc.edu larryswanson10@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-4260-3892
University of Southern California · USIndiana University Bloomington · US

Funding

NEUROPEPTIDES AND THEIR PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROLR01NS029728 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI WATTS, ALAN G · 1991 to 2017
$4.5M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS029728
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Control of multiple life-critical physiological and behavioral functions requires the hypothalamus. Here, we provide a comprehensive description and rigorous analysis of mammalian intrahypothalamic network architecture. To achieve this at the gray matter region (macroscale) level, macroscale connection (macroconnection) data for the rat hypothalamus were extracted from the primary literature. The dataset indicated the existence of 7,982 (of 16,770 possible) intrahypothalamic macroconnections. Network analysis revealed that the intrahypothalamic macroconnection network (its macroscale subconnectome) is divided into two identical top-level subsystems (or subnetworks), each composed of two nested second-level subsystems. At the top-level, this suggests a deeply integrated network; however, regional grouping of the two second-level subsystems suggested a partial separation between control of physiological functions and behavioral functions. Furthermore, inclusion of four candidate hubs (dominant network nodes) in the second-level subsystem that is associated prominently with physiological control suggests network primacy with respect to this function. In addition, comparison of network analysis with expression of gene markers associated with inhibitory (GAD65) and excitatory (VGLUT2) neurotransmission revealed a significant positive correlation between measures of network centrality (dominance) and the inhibitory marker. We discuss these results in relation to previous understandings of hypothalamic organization and provide, and selectively interrogate, an updated hypothalamus structure-function network model to encourage future hypothesis-driven investigations of identified hypothalamic subsystems.

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ConnectomeHypothalamusNeural PathwaysAnimalsComputational BiologyMaleModels, NeurologicalRatsRats, Sprague-Dawleyhypothalamusmammalneuroinformaticsneuromeneuronal connections

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PMID30923123
PMCPMC6475403
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