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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   A Resilient, Low-Frequency, Small-World Human Brain Functional Network with Highly Connected Association Cortical Hubs

   Achard, Salvador, Whitcher, A and Bullmore · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

   Using wavelet analysis of resting fMRI from healthy volunteers, the authors found a small-world, low-frequency brain functional network with highly connected cortical hubs that resisted targeted attack.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting-state fMRI from healthy volunteers, brain networks showed a small-world pattern of sparse connections, strongest at 0.03–0.06 Hz.“After thresholding the wavelet correlation matrices to create undirected graphs of brain functional networks, we found a small-world topology of sparse connections most salient in the low-frequency interval 0.03–0.06 Hz.”
   2. Unchecked“The human functional network was dominated by a neocortical core of highly connected hubs and had an exponentially truncated power law degree distribution.”
   3. UncheckedA human resting-state brain network resisted targeted loss of its hubs better than a comparable scale-free network, and matched it under random failure.“The network was more resilient to targeted attack on its hubs than a comparable scale-free network, but about equally resilient to random error.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   GRETNA: a graph theoretical network analysis toolbox for imaging connectomics

   Wang, Wang, Xia, Liao, Evans and He · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2015

   The authors built GRETNA, a free Matlab toolbox for building and analysing brain networks from imaging data, and demonstrated it on a public resting-state fMRI dataset of 54 healthy young adults.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting-state fMRI from 54 healthy young adults, brain functional networks showed small-world, modular, hierarchical organisation with hubs, across analytical choices.“After applying the GRETNA to a publicly released R-fMRI dataset of 54 healthy young adults, we demonstrated that human brain functional networks exhibit efficient small-world, assortative, hierarchical and modular organizations and possess highly connected hubs and that these findings are robust ag…”