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Aline Kotoski¹, Najme Soleimani², Sir-Lord Wiafe²

¹Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Atlanta, USA; Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.

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We developed a new method called structural co-modulation to better understand brain structure. This technique reveals reduced co-modulation in schizophrenia patients, linking it to cognitive deficits and symptom severity.

Keywords:

Schizophrenia Structural MRI Structural co-modulation

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Area of Science:

Neuroimaging
Brain network analysis
Structural MRI

Background:

Source-based morphometry (SBM) identifies covarying structural brain networks.
Standard SBM has limitations in characterizing inter-network relationships at the individual level.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel co-modulation approach for individualized structural brain organization.
To create a subject-specific, network-like measure of structural brain organization.
To overcome limitations of standard SBM in characterizing inter-network relationships.

Main Methods:

Developed a co-modulation approach transforming SBM loading vectors into symmetric matrices.
Computed outer products of subject-specific SBM loading vectors.
Applied the method to structural MRI data from schizophrenia patients and healthy controls.

Main Results:

Observed widespread reductions in structural co-modulation in the schizophrenia group.
Identified significant co-modulation alterations within and between visual, default-mode, and cognitive control networks.
Found correlations between co-modulation patterns, cognitive performance, and clinical symptom severity in schizophrenia patients.

Conclusions:

Structural co-modulation offers a robust framework for quantifying individualized structural brain relationships.
This method enhances the characterization of structural brain organization beyond standard SBM.
Provides a new avenue for integrating structural and functional brain analyses.