Correlating infant brain network topology with neurologic outcome

The ability to use variability in structural connectivity to explain variability in clinical outcomes would be a critical validation of connectomics, and would help push the field forward. Towards that end, Tymofiyeva et al used DTI to map the structural connectivity of a clinical cohort of six-month old infants with perinatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Since there is [...]

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Uncorrelated functional and structural connectivity during insula and parietal cortex development

The relationship between the anterior insula and the posterior parietal cortex is believed to play a role in linking the default mode network. In their Feb ’12 study, Supekar et al. used resting-state fMRI as well as DTI to hone in on the multimodal connection between these two brain regions. One of their findings is that [...]

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