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A large normative connectome for exploring the tractographic correlates of focal brain interventions.

Gavin J B Elias, Jürgen Germann, Suresh E Joel, Ningfei Li, Andreas Horn, Alexandre Boutet, Andres M Lozano

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Article in Scientific data, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Gavin J B Elias *Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7495-550X
Jürgen Germann *Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0995-8226
Suresh E JoelGE Global Research, Bangalore, India.
Ningfei LiDepartment of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3315-3591
Andreas HornDepartment of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0695-6025
Alexandre BoutetDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6942-5195
Andres M LozanoDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. lozano@uhnresearch.ca.
University Health Network · CABrigham and Women's Hospital · USCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEGeneral Electric (India) · IN

Funding

Using human brain connectivity to identify the causal neuroanatomical substrate of depression symptomsR01MH113929 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2017 to 2026
$6.9M
Toward Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation in Obsessive Compulsive DisorderR01MH130666 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
Using Brain Lesions and Deep Brain Stimulation to Identify an Epilepsy CircuitR01NS127892 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113929NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH130666NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS127892
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is a widely used neuroimaging modality that permits the in vivo exploration of white matter connections in the human brain. Normative structural connectomics - the application of large-scale, group-derived dMRI datasets to out-of-sample cohorts - have increasingly been leveraged to study the network correlates of focal brain interventions, insults, and other regions-of-interest (ROIs). Here, we provide a normative, whole-brain connectome in MNI space that enables researchers to interrogate fiber streamlines that are likely perturbed by given ROIs, even in the absence of subject-specific dMRI data. Assembled from multi-shell dMRI data of 985 healthy Human Connectome Project subjects using generalized Q-sampling imaging and multispectral normalization techniques, this connectome comprises ~12 million unique streamlines, the largest to date. It has already been utilized in at least 18 peer-reviewed publications, most frequently in the context of neuromodulatory interventions like deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound. Now publicly available, this connectome will constitute a useful tool for understanding the wider impact of focal brain perturbations on white matter architecture going forward.

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ConnectomeWhite MatterBrainDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingHumansNeuroimaging

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PMID38589407
PMCPMC11002007
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