The wiring economy principle: Connectivity determines anatomy in the human brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Raj, Ashish ^a   Chen, Yu Hsien ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 80052526435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014832     Document Type: Article

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