NeuroImage,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
257, P. 119299 - 119299
Published: May 27, 2022
Ongoing
brain
function
is
largely
determined
by
the
underlying
wiring
of
brain,
but
specific
rules
governing
this
relationship
remain
unknown.
Emerging
literature
has
suggested
that
functional
interactions
between
regions
emerge
from
structural
connections
through
mono-
as
well
polysynaptic
mechanisms.
Here,
we
propose
a
novel
approach
based
on
diffusion
maps
and
Riemannian
optimization
to
emulate
dynamic
mechanism
in
form
random
walks
connectome
predict
weighted
combination
these
walks.
Our
proposed
was
evaluated
two
different
cohorts
healthy
adults
(Human
Connectome
Project,
HCP;
Microstructure-Informed
Connectomics,
MICs).
outperformed
existing
approaches
showed
performance
plateaus
approximately
around
third
walk.
At
macroscale,
found
largest
number
required
nodes
default
mode
frontoparietal
networks,
underscoring
an
increasing
relevance
communication
mechanisms
transmodal
cortical
networks
compared
primary
unimodal
systems.
NeuroImage,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
256, P. 119220 - 119220
Published: April 26, 2022
Lysergic
acid
diethylamide
(LSD)
and
psilocybin
are
serotonergic
psychedelic
compounds
with
potential
in
the
treatment
of
mental
health
disorders.
Past
neuroimaging
investigations
have
revealed
that
both
can
elicit
significant
changes
to
whole-brain
functional
organization
dynamics.
A
recent
proposal
linked
past
findings
into
a
unified
model
hypothesized
reduced
hierarchical
as
key
mechanism
underlying
state,
but
this
has
yet
be
directly
tested.
We
applied
non-linear
dimensionality
reduction
technique
previously
used
map
connectivity
gradients
assess
cortical
LSD
state
from
two
published
pharmacological
resting-state
fMRI
datasets
(N
=
15
9,
respectively).
Results
supported
our
primary
hypothesis:
The
principal
gradient
connectivity,
describing
hierarchy
unimodal
transmodal
cortex,
was
significantly
flattened
under
drugs
relative
their
respective
placebo
conditions.
Between-condition
contrasts
driven
by
differentiation
at
extremes
-
default
frontoparietal
networks
upper
end,
somatomotor
lower.
Gradient-based
mapping
indicated
underpinned
disruption
modular
increased
unimodal-transmodal
crosstalk.
involving
second
third
gradient,
which,
respectively
represent
axes
sensory
executive
differentiation,
also
showed
alterations
across
drugs.
These
provide
support
for
mechanistic
relevant
therapeutic
applications
psychedelics.
More
fundamentally,
we
first
evidence
macroscale
sensitive
an
acute
manipulation,
supporting
role
psychedelics
scientific
tools
perturb
organization.
Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
9(1)
Published: Sept. 15, 2022
Multimodal
neuroimaging
grants
a
powerful
window
into
the
structure
and
function
of
human
brain
at
multiple
scales.
Recent
methodological
conceptual
advances
have
enabled
investigations
interplay
between
large-scale
spatial
trends
(also
referred
to
as
gradients)
in
microstructure
connectivity,
offering
an
integrative
framework
study
multiscale
organization.
Here,
we
share
multimodal
MRI
dataset
for
Microstructure-Informed
Connectomics
(MICA-MICs)
acquired
50
healthy
adults
(23
women;
29.54
±
5.62
years)
who
underwent
high-resolution
T1-weighted
MRI,
myelin-sensitive
quantitative
T1
relaxometry,
diffusion-weighted
resting-state
functional
3
Tesla.
In
addition
raw
anonymized
data,
this
release
includes
brain-wide
connectomes
derived
from
(i)
imaging,
(ii)
diffusion
tractography,
(iii)
covariance
analysis,
(iv)
geodesic
cortical
distance,
gathered
across
parcellation
Alongside,
gradients
estimated
each
modality
scale.
Our
will
facilitate
future
research
examining
coupling
microstructure,
function.
MICA-MICs
is
available
on
Canadian
Open
Neuroscience
Platform
data
portal
(
https://portal.conp.ca
)
Science
Framework
https://osf.io/j532r/
).
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
12(1)
Published: April 13, 2021
Abstract
The
pathophysiology
of
autism
has
been
suggested
to
involve
a
combination
both
macroscale
connectome
miswiring
and
microcircuit
anomalies.
Here,
we
combine
connectome-wide
manifold
learning
with
biophysical
simulation
models
understand
associations
between
global
network
perturbations
dysfunctions
in
autism.
We
studied
neuroimaging
phenotypic
data
47
individuals
37
typically
developing
controls
obtained
from
the
Autism
Brain
Imaging
Data
Exchange
initiative.
Our
analysis
establishes
significant
differences
structural
organization
relative
controls,
strong
between-group
effects
low-level
somatosensory
regions
moderate
high-level
association
cortices.
Computational
reveal
that
degree
anomalies
is
related
atypical
increases
recurrent
excitation/inhibition,
as
well
subcortical
inputs
into
cortical
microcircuits,
especially
sensory
motor
areas.
Transcriptomic
based
on
postmortem
datasets
identifies
genes
expressed
thalamic
areas
childhood
young
adulthood.
Finally,
supervised
machine
finds
are
associated
symptom
severity
scores
Diagnostic
Observation
Schedule.
Together,
our
analyses
suggest
subcortico-cortical
interactions
Adolescence
is
a
critical
time
for
the
continued
maturation
of
brain
networks.
Here,
we
assessed
structural
connectome
development
in
large
longitudinal
sample
ranging
from
childhood
to
young
adulthood.
By
projecting
high-dimensional
connectomes
into
compact
manifold
spaces,
identified
marked
expansion
connectomes,
with
strongest
effects
transmodal
regions
during
adolescence.
Findings
reflected
increased
within-module
connectivity
together
segregation,
indicating
increasing
differentiation
higher-order
association
networks
rest
brain.
Projection
subcortico-cortical
patterns
these
manifolds
showed
parallel
alterations
pathways
centered
on
caudate
and
thalamus.
Connectome
findings
were
contextualized
via
spatial
transcriptome
analysis,
highlighting
genes
enriched
cortex,
thalamus,
striatum.
Statistical
learning
cortical
subcortical
features
at
baseline
their
maturational
change
predicted
measures
intelligence
follow-up.
Our
demonstrate
that
can
bridge
conceptual
empirical
gaps
between
macroscale
network
reconfigurations,
microscale
processes,
cognitive
outcomes
adolescent
development.
Communications Biology,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
5(1)
Published: June 2, 2022
The
relationship
between
structural
and
functional
connectivity
in
the
brain
is
a
key
question
systems
neuroscience.
Modern
accounts
assume
single
global
structure-function
that
persists
over
time.
Here
we
study
coupling
from
dynamic
perspective,
show
it
regionally
heterogeneous.
We
use
temporal
unwrapping
procedure
to
identify
moment-to-moment
co-fluctuations
neural
activity,
reconstruct
time-resolved
patterns.
find
patterns
of
are
region-specific.
observe
stable
unimodal
transmodal
cortex,
intermediate
regions,
particularly
insular
cortex
(salience
network)
frontal
eye
fields
(dorsal
attention
network).
Finally,
variability
region's
related
distribution
its
connection
lengths.
Collectively,
our
findings
provide
way
relationships
perspective.
NeuroImage,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
257, P. 119323 - 119323
Published: May 20, 2022
Structural
and
functional
brain
networks
are
modular.
Canonical
systems,
such
as
the
default
mode
network,
well-known
modules
of
human
have
been
implicated
in
a
large
number
cognitive,
behavioral
clinical
processes.
However,
delineated
structural
inferred
from
tractography
generally
do
not
recapitulate
canonical
systems.
Neuroimaging
evidence
suggests
that
connectivity
between
regions
same
systems
is
always
underpinned
by
anatomical
connections.
As
such,
direct
alone
would
be
insufficient
to
characterize
modular
organization
brain.
Here,
we
demonstrate
augmenting
with
models
indirect
(polysynaptic)
communication
unveils
network
architecture
more
closely
resembles
brain's
established
We
find
diffusion
polysynaptic
connectivity,
particularly
communicability,
narrow
gap
20-60%,
whereas
routing
based
on
single
efficient
paths
improve
mesoscopic
structure-function
correspondence.
This
emerge
constraints
imposed
local
structure
facilitates
diffusive
neural
communication.
Our
work
establishes
importance
modeling
understand
basis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
119(27)
Published: July 1, 2022
Adolescence
is
a
time
of
profound
changes
in
the
physical
wiring
and
function
brain.
Here,
we
analyzed
structural
functional
brain
network
development
an
accelerated
longitudinal
cohort
spanning
14
to
25
y
(
n
=
199).
Core
our
work
was
advanced
vivo
model
cortical
incorporating
MRI
features
corticocortical
proximity,
microstructural
similarity,
white
matter
tractography.
Longitudinal
analyses
assessing
age-related
identified
continued
differentiation
multiple
networks
youth.
We
then
assessed
structure–function
coupling
using
resting-state
measures
same
participants
both
via
cross-sectional
analysis
at
baseline
by
studying
change
between
follow-up
scans.
At
baseline,
regions
with
more
similar
were
likely
be
functionally
coupled.
Moreover,
correlating
connectivity
reconfigurations,
found
that
increased
differentiation,
particularly
sensory/unimodal
default
mode
networks,
reflected
reduced
interactions.
These
findings
provide
insights
into
adolescent
human
structure
function,
illustrating
how
interacts
maturation
macroscale
hierarchies.