NDLI: Functional connectivity hubs in the human brain

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Author	Tomasi, Dardo Volkow, Nora D.
Abstract	Brain networks appear to have few and well localized regions with high functional connectivity density (hubs) for fast integration of neural processing, and their dysfunction could contribute to neuropsychiatric diseases. However the variability in the distribution of these brain hubs is unknown due in part to the overwhelming computational demands associated to their localization. Recently we developed a fast algorithm to map the local functional connectivity density (lFCD). Here we extend our method to map the global density (gFDC) taking advantage of parallel computing. We mapped the gFCD in the brain of 1031 subjects from the 1000 Functional Connectomes project and show that the strongest hubs are located in regions of the default mode network (DMN) and in sensory cortices, whereas subcortical regions exhibited the weakest hubs. The strongest hubs were consistently located in ventral precuneus/cingulate gyrus (previously identified by other analytical methods including lFCD) and in primary visual cortex (BA 17/18), which highlights their centrality to resting connectivity networks. In contrast and after rescaling, hubs in prefrontal regions had lower gFCD than lFCD, which suggests that their local functional connectivity (as opposed to long-range connectivity) prevails in the resting state. The power scaling of the probability distribution of gFCD hubs (as for lFCD) was consistent across research centers further corroborating the “scale-free” topology of brain networks. Within and between-subject variability for gFCD were twice than that for lFCD (20% vs. 12% and 84% vs. 34%, respectively) suggesting that gFCD is more sensitive to individual differences in functional connectivity.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.024
Ending Page	917
Page Count	10
Starting Page	908
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10538119
e-ISSN	10959572
Journal	NeuroImage
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	57
Language	English
Publisher Date	2011-08-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cognitive Neuroscience Neurology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neurology Cognitive Neuroscience

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