Fragmentation: Loss of global coherence or breakdown of modularity in functional brain architecture?

Psychiatric illnesses characterised by disorganized cognition, such as schizophrenia, have been described in terms of fragmentation and hence understood as reduction in functional brain connectivity, particularly in prefrontal and parietal areas. However, as graph-theory shows, relatively small numb...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Main Authors:	Daan evan den Berg, Pulin eGong, Michael eBreakspear, Cees evan Leeuwen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Subjects:	Computer Simulation Schizophrenia connectivity Small-world Complex System
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2012.00020/full