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ArticleNetwork neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2024

A generative model of the connectome with dynamic axon growth.

Yuanzhe Liu, Caio Seguin, Richard F Betzel, Daniel Han, Danyal Akarca, Maria A Di Biase, Andrew Zalesky

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Article in Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Yuanzhe LiuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8112-4042
Caio SeguinMelbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Richard F BetzelDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Daniel HanSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Danyal AkarcaMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Maria A Di BiaseMelbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Andrew ZaleskyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

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Abstract

Connectome generative models, otherwise known as generative network models, provide insight into the wiring principles underpinning brain network organization. While these models can approximate numerous statistical properties of empirical networks, they typically fail to explicitly characterize an important contributor to brain organization-axonal growth. Emulating the chemoaffinity-guided axonal growth, we provide a novel generative model in which axons dynamically steer the direction of propagation based on distance-dependent chemoattractive forces acting on their growth cones. This simple dynamic growth mechanism, despite being solely geometry-dependent, is shown to generate axonal fiber bundles with brain-like geometry and features of complex network architecture consistent with the human brain, including lognormally distributed connectivity weights, scale-free nodal degrees, small-worldness, and modularity. We demonstrate that our model parameters can be fitted to individual connectomes, enabling connectome dimensionality reduction and comparison of parameters between groups. Our work offers an opportunity to bridge studies of axon guidance and connectome development, providing new avenues for understanding neural development from a computational perspective.

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Axon simulationConnectomeGenerative modelNetwork neuroscience

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