Mapping human brain lesions and their functional consequences

HO Karnath, C Sperber, C Rorden - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Neuroscience has a long history of inferring brain function by examining the relationship
between brain injury and subsequent behavioral impairments. The primary advantage of this …

Embracing variability in the search for biological mechanisms of psychiatric illness

A Segal, J Tiego, L Parkes, AJ Holmes… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Despite decades of research, we lack objective diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers of
mental health problems. A key reason for this limited progress is a reliance on the traditional …

Advanced lesion symptom mapping analyses and implementation as BCBtoolkit

C Foulon, L Cerliani, S Kinkingnehun, R Levy… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Patients with brain lesions provide a unique opportunity to understand the
functioning of the human mind. However, even when focal, brain lesions have local and …

Common genetic variation influencing human white matter microstructure

B Zhao, T Li, Y Yang, X Wang, T Luo, Y Shan, Z Zhu… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION White matter in the human brain serves a critical role in organizing
distributed neural networks. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) has enabled the …

Structural disconnections explain brain network dysfunction after stroke

JC Griffis, NV Metcalf, M Corbetta, GL Shulman - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Stroke causes focal brain lesions that disrupt functional connectivity (FC), a measure of
activity synchronization, throughout distributed brain networks. It is often assumed that FC …

Network diffusion model of progression predicts longitudinal patterns of atrophy and metabolism in Alzheimer's disease

A Raj, E LoCastro, A Kuceyeski, D Tosun, N Relkin… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease pathology (AD) originates in the hippocampus and subsequently
spreads to temporal, parietal, and prefrontal association cortices in a relatively stereotyped …

Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders

A Segal, L Parkes, K Aquino, SM Kia, T Wolfers… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The substantial individual heterogeneity that characterizes people with mental illness is
often ignored by classical case–control research, which relies on group mean comparisons …

[HTML][HTML] Lesion Quantification Toolkit: A MATLAB software tool for estimating grey matter damage and white matter disconnections in patients with focal brain lesions

JC Griffis, NV Metcalf, M Corbetta, GL Shulman - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2021 - Elsevier
Lesion studies are an important tool for cognitive neuroscientists and neurologists. However,
while brain lesion studies have traditionally aimed to localize neurological symptoms to …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of epilepsy surgery on the structural connectome and its relation to outcome

PN Taylor, N Sinha, Y Wang, SB Vos, J de Tisi… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Temporal lobe surgical resection brings seizure remission in up to 80% of
patients, with long-term complete seizure freedom in 41%. However, it is unclear how …

[HTML][HTML] Functional connectome reorganization relates to post-stroke motor recovery and structural and functional disconnection

ER Olafson, KW Jamison, EM Sweeney, H Liu, D Wang… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Motor recovery following ischemic stroke is contingent on the ability of surviving brain
networks to compensate for damaged tissue. In rodent models, sensory and motor cortical …