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Homological scaffolds of brain functional networks

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of The Royal Society Interface, December 2014
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Title
Homological scaffolds of brain functional networks
Published in
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, December 2014
DOI 10.1098/rsif.2014.0873
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Authors

G. Petri, P. Expert, F. Turkheimer, R. Carhart-Harris, D. Nutt, P. J. Hellyer, F. Vaccarino

Abstract

Networks, as efficient representations of complex systems, have appealed to scientists for a long time and now permeate many areas of science, including neuroimaging (Bullmore and Sporns 2009 Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 10, 186-198. (doi:10.1038/nrn2618)). Traditionally, the structure of complex networks has been studied through their statistical properties and metrics concerned with node and link properties, e.g. degree-distribution, node centrality and modularity. Here, we study the characteristics of functional brain networks at the mesoscopic level from a novel perspective that highlights the role of inhomogeneities in the fabric of functional connections. This can be done by focusing on the features of a set of topological objects-homological cycles-associated with the weighted functional network. We leverage the detected topological information to define the homological scaffolds, a new set of objects designed to represent compactly the homological features of the correlation network and simultaneously make their homological properties amenable to networks theoretical methods. As a proof of principle,we apply these tools to compare resting state functional brain activity in 15 healthy volunteers after intravenous infusion of placebo and psilocybin-the main psychoactive component of magic mushrooms. The results show that the homological structure of the brain's functional patterns undergoes a dramatic change post-psilocybin, characterized by the appearance of many transient structures of low stability and of a small number of persistent ones that are not observed in the case of placebo.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 3 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Other 8 2%
Unknown 487 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 84 17%
Student > Master 79 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 75 15%
Researcher 64 13%
Other 22 4%
Other 79 16%
Unknown 106 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 79 16%
Psychology 75 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 38 7%
Mathematics 29 6%
Other 127 25%
Unknown 120 24%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 766. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2023.
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#2
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