Small-world and scale-free organization of voxel-based resting-state functional connectivity in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 528-539

  van den Heuvel, M P ^a   Stam, C J ^b   Boersma, M ^b   Hulshoff Pol, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neurosciences ICEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 54149095921     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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