Is the brain really a small-world network?

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2361-2366

  Hilgetag, Claus C ^a,b   Goulas, Alexandros ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain connectivity; Connectome; Hierarchical modular networks; Large world networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; MACACA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84928136704     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1035-6     Document Type: Article

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