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Published in: Cognitive Neurodynamics 4/2016

01-08-2016 | Brief Communication

Role of structural inhomogeneities in resting-state brain dynamics

Authors: Vesna Vuksanović, Philipp Hövel

Published in: Cognitive Neurodynamics | Issue 4/2016

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Abstract

Brain imaging methods allow a non-invasive assessment of both structural and functional connectivity. However, the mechanism of how functional connectivity arises in a structured network of interacting neural populations is as yet poorly understood. Here we use a modeling approach to explore the way in which functional correlations arise from underlying structural connections taking into account inhomogeneities in the interactions between the brain regions of interest. The local dynamics of a neural population is assumed to be of phase-oscillator type. The considered structural connectivity patterns describe long-range anatomical connections between interacting neural elements. We find a dependence of the simulated functional connectivity patterns on the parameters governing the dynamics. We calculate graph-theoretic measures of the functional network topology obtained from numerical simulations. The effect of structural inhomogeneities in the coupling term on the observed network state is quantified by examining the relation between simulated and empirical functional connectivity. Importantly, we show that simulated and empirical functional connectivity agree for a narrow range of coupling strengths. We conclude that identification of functional connectivity during rest requires an analysis of the network dynamics.

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Footnotes
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Technical details on the numerical analysis. The simulations are carried out using the PYTHON module SCIPY. The algorithm used is based on the Bogacki-Shampine method (Boggio et al. 2009) with an adaptive step size for the numerical integration of Eq. (1). This is similar to the ODE23 routine implemented also in MATLAB (Shampine and Reichelt 1997). Initially, at \(t=0\), all phases \(\theta _{i}, i=1,\dots ,N\), are randomly chosen from a uniform distribution.
 
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Metadata
Title
Role of structural inhomogeneities in resting-state brain dynamics
Authors
Vesna Vuksanović
Philipp Hövel
Publication date
01-08-2016
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Cognitive Neurodynamics / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 1871-4080
Electronic ISSN: 1871-4099
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-016-9381-5

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