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Co-analysis of Brain Structure and Function using fMRI and Diffusion-weighted Imaging
Published on: November 8, 2012
Complex relationships between structural and functional brain connectivity
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Abstract:
In recent work, O'Reilly and colleagues demonstrate relatively intact interhemispheric functional connectivity in a macaque brain in the absence of major commissural fibers. This work adds to a growing body of literature challenging the notion that structural and functional brain connectivity metrics are related in a straightforward manner.
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