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ArticleBrain : a journal of neurology2025

White matter connections within the central sulcus subserving the somato-cognitive action network.

Georgios P Skandalakis, Luca Viganò, Clemens Neudorfer, Marco Rossi, Luca Fornia, Gabriella Cerri, Kelsey P Kinsman, Zabiullah Bajouri, Armin D Tavakkoli, Christos Koutsarnakis and 17 more

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Article in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Beyond the Homunculus-SCAN-AMN as a Shared Action-Oriented Neural Substrate across Movement Disorders.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026
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  4. Sulcal anatomy of ventral temporal cortex and reading development.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Georgios P SkandalakisDepartment of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
Luca ViganòDepartment of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, MoCA Laboratory, University of Milan, IRCCS Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, 20157 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3178-1957
Clemens NeudorferDepartment of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Marco RossiDepartment of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Neurosurgical Oncology Unit, University of Milan, IRCCS Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, 20157 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0196-2370
Luca ForniaDepartment of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, MoCA Laboratory, University of Milan, IRCCS Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, 20157 Milan, Italy.
Gabriella CerriDepartment of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, MoCA Laboratory, University of Milan, IRCCS Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, 20157 Milan, Italy.
Kelsey P KinsmanDepartment of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
Zabiullah BajouriDepartment of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
Armin D TavakkoliGeisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
Christos KoutsarnakisDepartment of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens 11527, Greece.
Evgenia LaniDepartment of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens 11527, Greece.
Spyridon KomaitisDepartment of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens 11527, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7250-414X
George StranjalisDepartment of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens 11527, Greece.
Gelareh ZadehDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5T 1P5.ORCID 0000-0002-6637-4502
Jessica Barrios-MartinezDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Fang-Cheng YehDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Demitre SerletisCleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Michael KoganDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
Constantinos G HadjipanayisDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Jennifer HongDepartment of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6680-0495
Nathan SimmonsDepartment of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
Evan M GordonMallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Nico U F DosenbachDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Andreas HornDepartment of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Lorenzo BelloDepartment of Oncology and Haemato-Oncology, Neurosurgical Oncology Unit, University of Milan, IRCCS Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, 20161 Milan, Italy.
Aristotelis KalyvasDepartment of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens 11527, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0222-488X
Linton T EvansDepartment of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.

Funding

Ultra-high Resolution Structural Connectome Atlases of the Animal Brain and their Associated ToolboxR01NS120954 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FANG-CHENG YEH · 2022 to 2026
$2.8M
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und RaumfahrtGerman Research FoundationIntellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research CenterKiwanis FoundationNew Venture FundNIH HHS R01 NS120954NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS120954Washington University Hope Center for Neurological Disorders
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) consists of three nodes interspersed within Penfield's motor effector regions. The configuration of the somato-cognitive action network nodes resembles the one of the 'plis de passage' of the central sulcus: small gyri bridging the precentral and postcentral gyri. Thus, we hypothesize that these may provide a structural substrate of the somato-cognitive action network. Using microdissections of 16 human hemispheres, we consistently identified a chain of three distinct plis de passage with increased underlying white matter in locations analogous to the somato-cognitive action network nodes. We mapped localizations of plis de passage into standard stereotactic space to seed functional MRI connectivity across 9000 resting-state functional MRI scans, which demonstrated the connectivity of these sites with the somato-cognitive action network. Intraoperative recordings during direct electrical central sulcus stimulation further identified inter-effector regions corresponding to plis de passage locations. This work provides a critical step towards an improved understanding of the somato-cognitive action network in both structural and functional terms. Furthermore, our work has the potential to guide the development of refined motor cortex stimulation techniques for treating brain disorders and operative resective techniques for complex surgery of the motor cortex.

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CognitionMotor CortexNerve NetWhite MatterAdultBrain MappingFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedNeural PathwaysYoung Adultmotor cortexplis de passageSCANsomato-cognitive action networkwhite matter connectivity

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PMID39869456
PMCPMC12073987

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