From maps to multi-dimensional network mechanisms of mental disorders

The development of advanced neuroimaging techniques and their deployment in large cohorts has enabled an assessment of functional and structural brain network architecture at an unprecedented level of detail. Across many temporal and spatial scales, network neuroscience has emerged as a central focu...

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Main Authors: Braun, Urs (Author) , Tost, Heike (Author) , Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 3 January 2018
In: Neuron
Year: 2018, Volume: 97, Issue: 1, Pages: 14-31
ISSN:1097-4199
DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.007
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.007
Verlag, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627317310358
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Author Notes:Urs Braun, Axel Schaefer, Richard F. Betzel, Heike Tost, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Danielle S. Bassett
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Summary:The development of advanced neuroimaging techniques and their deployment in large cohorts has enabled an assessment of functional and structural brain network architecture at an unprecedented level of detail. Across many temporal and spatial scales, network neuroscience has emerged as a central focus of intellectual efforts, seeking meaningful descriptions of brain networks and explanatory sets of network features that underlie circuit function in health and dysfunction in disease. However, the tools of network science commonly deployed provide insight into brain function at a fundamentally descriptive level, often failing to identify (patho-)physiological mechanisms that link system-level phenomena to the multiple hierarchies of brain function. Here we describe recently developed techniques stemming from advances in complex systems and network science that have the potential to overcome this limitation, thereby contributing mechanistic insights into neuroanatomy, functional dynamics, and pathology. Finally, we build on the Research Domain Criteria framework, highlighting the notion that mental illnesses can be conceptualized as dysfunctions of neural circuitry present across conventional diagnostic boundaries, to sketch how network-based methods can be combined with pharmacological, intermediate phenotype, genetic, and magnetic stimulation studies to probe mechanisms of psychopathology.
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ISSN:1097-4199
DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.007