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ArticleMethodsX2020

Dynamic Functional Connectivity as a complex random walk: Definitions and the dFCwalk toolbox.

Lucas M Arbabyazd, Diego Lombardo, Olivier Blin, Mira Didic, Demian Battaglia, Viktor Jirsa

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Article in MethodsX, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Lucas M ArbabyazdUniversité Aix-Marseille, INSERM UMR 1106, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, F-13005 Marseille, France.
Diego LombardoUniversité Aix-Marseille, INSERM UMR 1106, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, F-13005 Marseille, France.
Olivier BlinUniversité Aix-Marseille, INSERM UMR 1106, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, F-13005 Marseille, France.
Mira DidicUniversité Aix-Marseille, INSERM UMR 1106, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, F-13005 Marseille, France.
Demian BattagliaUniversité Aix-Marseille, INSERM UMR 1106, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, F-13005 Marseille, France.
Viktor JirsaUniversité Aix-Marseille, INSERM UMR 1106, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, F-13005 Marseille, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

•We have developed a framework to describe the dynamics of Functional Connectivity (dFC) estimated from brain activity time-series as a complex random walk in the space of possible functional networks. This conceptual and methodological framework considers dFC as a smooth reconfiguration process, combining "liquid" and "coordinated" aspects. Unlike other previous approaches, our method does not require the explicit extraction of discrete connectivity states.•In our previous work, we introduced several metrics for the quantitative characterization of the dFC random walk. First, dFC speed analyses extract the distribution of the time-resolved rate of reconfiguration of FC along time. These distributions have a clear peak (typical dFC speed, that can already serve as a biomarker) and fat tails (denoting deviations from Gaussianity that can be detected by suitable scaling analyses of FC network streams). Second, meta-connectivity (MC) analyses identify groups of functional links whose fluctuations co-vary in time and that define veritable dFC modules organized along specific dFC meta-hub controllers (differing from conventional FC modules and hubs). The decomposition of whole-brain dFC by MC allows performing dFC speed analyses separately for each of the detected dFC modules.•We present here blocks and pipelines for dFC random walk analyses that are made easily available through a dedicated MATLAB

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