Disconnection of network hubs and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury
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Disconnection of network hubs and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury affects brain connectivity by producing traumatic axonal injury. This disrupts the function of large-scale networks that support cognition. The best way to describe this relationship is unclear, but one elegant approach is to view networks as graphs. Brain regions become nodes in the graph, and white matter tracts the connections. The overall effect of an injury can then ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv075