Spontaneous functional network dynamics and associated structural substrates in the human brain

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue september, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Liao, Xuhong ^a,b   Yuan, Lin ^a   Zhao, Tengda ^a   Dai, Zhengjia ^a   Shu, Ni ^a   Xia, Mingrui ^a   Yang, Yihong ^c   Evans, Alan ^d   He, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Connectomics; Functionaldynamics; Graphtheory; Hub; Slidingwindow; Small world

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DYNAMIC FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 84940988584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00478     Document Type: Article

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