Spatial organisation of the mesoscale connectome: A feature influencing synchrony and metastability of network dynamics.
Spatial organisation of the mesoscale connectome: A feature influencing synchrony and metastability of network dynamics.
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011349
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2023-08
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4.3
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Significant research has investigated synchronisation in brain networks, but the bulk of this work has explored the contribution of brain networks at the macroscale. Here we explore the effects of changing network topology on functional dynamics in spatially constrained random networks representing mesoscale neocortex. We use the Kuramoto model to simulate network dynamics and explore synchronisation and critical dynamics of the system as a function of topology in randomly generated networks with a distance-related wiring probability and no preferential attachment term. We show networks which predominantly make short-distance connections smooth out the critical coupling point and show much greater metastability, resulting in a wider range of coupling strengths demonstrating critical dynamics and metastability. We show the emergence of cluster synchronisation in these geometrically-constrained networks with functional organisation occurring along structural connections that minimise the participation coefficient of the cluster. We show that these cohorts of internally synchronised nodes also behave en masse as weakly coupled nodes and show intra-cluster desynchronisation and resynchronisation events related to inter-cluster interaction. While cluster synchronisation appears crucial to healthy brain function, it may also be pathological if it leads to unbreakable local synchronisation which may happen at extreme topologies, with implications for epilepsy research, wider brain function and other domains such as social networks. Significant research has investigated how the brain network, leads to diseases such as epilepsy. To date, most of this work has explored connectivity on the macroscale; between whole brain regions. Here we explore how the topology of mesoscale networks, between cortical columns, could affect functional behaviour. We use a model of a simple oscillator; the Kuramoto model, with a variety of networks to investigate how the network topology affects how these oscillators synchronise with each other. It is hypothesised that healthy brain operates at a critical point where regions can both synchronise and desynchronise with each other easily which is dependent on the strength of connections between nodes. We show that the topology dramatically affects this behaviour and that certain patterns allow this critical behaviour to exist over a wider range of connection strengths, making the system more robust. We show the oscillators synchronise in clusters, which themselves behave as if they were individual oscillators, and show interactions with other clusters. While this behaviour may be necessary for healthy brain function, at extreme topologies this may become pathological if it leads to unbreakable cluster synchronisation with implications for epilepsy research and other domains such as social networks.
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影响因子:
5.7
作者:
Alderson TH;Bokde ALW;Kelso JAS;Maguire L;Coyle D;Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
通讯作者:
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
DOI:
10.1098/rstb.2011.0351
发表时间:
2012-04-05
期刊:
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
影响因子:
--
作者:
Kelso JA
通讯作者:
Kelso JA
影响因子:
3
作者:
Hesse J;Gross T
通讯作者:
Gross T
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Honey, Christopher J.;Sporns, Olaf
通讯作者:
Sporns, Olaf
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Anyaeji, Chinedu, I;Cabral, Joana;Silbersweig, David
通讯作者:
Silbersweig, David