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Relative strength variability measures for brain structural connectomes and their relationship with cognitive

Hon Wah Yeung¹, Colin R Buchanan¹, Joanna Moodie¹

¹Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology

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New brain network measures, relative strength variability (RSV) and hierarchical RSV (hRSV), capture unique connectivity information. Higher cognitive function correlated with lower RSV and hRSV, indicating greater resistance to attack and lower complexity.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Network Science
Graph Theory

Background:

Brain connectomes are complex networks.
Existing graph measures may not fully capture weighted connectivity information.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce novel graph measures: relative strength variability (RSV) and hierarchical RSV (hRSV).
Assess the utility of RSV and hRSV in understanding brain connectivity and cognitive function.

Main Methods:

Utilized UK Biobank structural connectomes with six different network weights.
Analyzed relationships between RSV, hRSV, other network measures, and general cognitive function.

Main Results:

RSV and hRSV showed low correlations with existing graph measures, indicating novel information capture.
Higher cognitive function was associated with lower RSV and hRSV (higher resistance to attack, lower statistical complexity).
RSV and hRSV demonstrated stronger associations with cognitive function than traditional measures, improving predictive power.

Conclusions:

RSV and hRSV represent a new class of weighted network measures.
These measures offer significant improvements in predicting general cognition from structural connectomes.