Recent Advances in Human Brain Connectivity
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2020) | Viewed by 38291
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomedical imaging; brain connectivity; complex networks; medical physics; machine learning
Interests: complex networks; brain connectivity; biomedical signal processing; magnetic resonance imaging; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mapping the brain’s structural organization and understanding how neural function is related to connectivity is one of the main goals of modern neuroscience. The term “connectivity” describes a complete map of the neural elements and structural links within a neural system, together forming the fundamental substrate for neural communication, information processing, and neural integration in the brain. Neuroimaging techniques have played a key role in the field of human brain connectivity. They are currently the main methods of investigating the macroscale connectivity architecture of the human brain. The rapid development of innovative analysis techniques and the growing interest of the scientific community have produced a large amount of available data concerning the structural and functional nature of the brain. Functional and structural connectivity models of the human brain have been widely applied to uncover new insights about a great variety of biological mechanisms, such as neurodevelopment and aging, and in different diseases (e.g., neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases).
This Special Issue will cover the recent advances in brain connectivity in different fields of brain sciences. We encourage submissions of original research and reviews with a focus on new methods and applications of brain connectivity models with both neurophysiological recordings (e.g., EEG) and neuroimaging techniques (e.g., fMRI, sMRI, DWI, MEG).
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
-Functional connectivity;
-Structural connectivity;
-Predictive models in brain connectivity analysis;
-Multiscale modeling of the human brain;
-Multidimensional analysis of brain connectivity;
-Multimodal imaging;
-Statistical methods in connectivity analysis.
Dr. Sabina Tangaro
Dr. Angela Lombardi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 1. Predictive models
- 2. Brain Connectivity
- 3. Brain Networks
- 4. neuroimaging preprocessing pipeline
- 5. sMRI
- 6. fMRI
- 7. DTI
- 8. EEG
- 9. MEG.
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