Cited by 177Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesMental Health Research TopicsAdvanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

From maps to multi-dimensional network mechanisms of mental disorders

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Braun, Urs, Schaefer, Axel, Betzel, Richard F., Tost, Heike, Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas, Bassett, Danielle S.·2018·Neuron

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The development of advanced neuroimaging techniques and their deployment in large cohorts has enabled an assessment of functional and structural brain network architecture at an unprecedented level of detail. Across many temporal and spatial scales, network neuroscience has emerged as a central focus of intellectual efforts, seeking meaningful descriptions of brain networks and explanatory sets of network features that underlie circuit function in health and dysfunction in disease. However, the tools of network science commonly deployed provide insight into brain function at a fundamentally descriptive level, often failing to identify (patho-)physiological mechanisms that link system-level phenomena to the multiple hierarchies of brain function. Here we describe recently developed techniques stemming from advances in complex systems and network science that have the potential to overcome this limitation, thereby contributing mechanistic insights into neuroanatomy, functional dynamics, and pathology. Finally, we build on the Research Domain Criteria framework, highlighting the notion that mental illnesses can be conceptualized as dysfunctions of neural circuitry present across conventional diagnostic boundaries, to sketch how network-based methods can be combined with pharmacological, intermediate phenotype, genetic, and magnetic stimulation studies to probe mechanisms of psychopathology.

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Authors
Braun, U., Schaefer, A., Betzel, R. F., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Bassett, D. S.
Affiliations
  • Heidelberg University (DE)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
Corresponding author
Bassett, Danielle S.
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-01
Volume
97
Issue
1
Pages
14-31
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2782149223
Cited by
177
References
234
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 1
FWCI
2.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuron (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • IUScholarWorks Open (Indiana University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Roche
  • Russian Science Foundation
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TO 539/3-1)
  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • National Science Foundation (BCS-1631550, BCS-1441502, PHY-1554488)
  • Army Research Office (W911NF-14-1-0679, W911NF-10-2-0022)
  • National Institutes of Health (1R01HD086888-01, R21-M MH-106799, 2-R01-DC-009209-11, R01-MH107235, R01-MH107703)
  • Stiftung Synapsis - Alzheimer Forschung Schweiz AFS
  • Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Army Research Laboratory
  • Seventh Framework Programme (602805, 602450, 115300)
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01GQ1003B, 01ZX1314G)
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Daimler und Benz Stiftung
  • Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (MED(16)/16/1, 01GQ1102)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Keywords
brain networks, mental illness, network neuroscience, complex systems, Research Domain Criteria, neural circuits, structural brain networks, neuroimaging, endophenotypes, pharmacological interventions, genetic mechanisms, transcranial magnetic stimulation
MeSH terms
Mental Disorders, Brain, Humans, Neuroimaging

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