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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Mapping global brain reconfigurations following local targeted manipulations.

Giovanni Rabuffo, Houefa-Armelle Lokossou, Zengmin Li, Abolfazl Ziaee-Mehr, Meysam Hashemi, Pascale P Quilichini, Antoine Ghestem, Ouafae Arab, Monique Esclapez, Parul Verma and 8 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Giovanni Rabuffo *Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3947-1662
Houefa-Armelle Lokossou *Center for Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille 13005, France.
Zengmin Li *Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4067, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5870-6557
Abolfazl Ziaee-MehrAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4696-9947
Meysam HashemiAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5289-9837
Pascale P QuilichiniAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9081-8655
Antoine GhestemAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6892-3245
Ouafae ArabAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.
Monique EsclapezAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8558-1363
Parul VermaDepartment of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.ORCID 0000-0001-9956-4954
Ashish RajDepartment of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.ORCID 0000-0003-2414-2444
Alessandro GozziFunctional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto 38068, Italy.
Pierpaolo SorrentinoAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.
Kai-Hsiang ChuangQueensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4067, Australia.
Teodora-Adriana Perles-BarbacaruCenter for Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille 13005, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4204-9609
Angèle ViolaCenter for Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille 13005, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6225-356X
Viktor K JirsaAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8251-8860
Christophe BernardAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3014-1966

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how localized brain interventions influence whole-brain dynamics is essential for deciphering neural function and designing therapeutic strategies. Using longitudinal functional MRI datasets collected from mice, we investigated the effects of focal interventions, such as thalamic lesions and chemogenetic silencing of cortical hubs. We found that these local manipulations disrupted the brain's ability to sustain network-wide activity, leading to global functional connectivity (FC) reconfigurations. Personalized mouse brain simulations based on experimental data revealed that alterations in local excitability modulate firing rates and frequency content across distributed brain regions, driving these FC changes. Notably, the topography of the affected brain regions depended on the intervention site, serving as distinctive signatures of localized perturbations. These findings suggest that focal interventions produce consistent yet region-specific patterns of global FC reorganization, providing an explanation for the seemingly paradoxical observations of hypo- and hyperconnectivity reported in the literature. This framework offers mechanistic insights into the systemic effects of localized neural modulation and holds potential for refining clinical diagnostics in focal brain disorders and advancing personalized neuromodulation strategies.

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BrainBrain MappingNerve NetAnimalsMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiceThalamusbrain lesionbrain networksbrain simulationchemogeneticsfMRI

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PMCPMC12037044

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