The functional brain favours segregated modular connectivity at old age unless affected by neurodegeneration

Xue Chen
Joe Necus
Luis R. Peraza
Ramtin Mehraram
Yanjiang Wang
John T. O’Brien
Andrew Blamire
Marcus Kaiser
John-Paul Taylor

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Publication date

August 2021

DOI

10.1038/s42003-021-02497-0

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Journal

Communications Biology

Abstract

Chen at al used fMRI to study the brain connectivity in two ageing cohorts and a mixed cohort of patients with neurodegenerative diseases. They demonstrated that with ageing the brain moves towards a more segregated modular structure, however this is disrupted by neurodegenerative diseases

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The functional brain favours segregated modular connectivity at old age unless affected by neurodegeneration

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The functional brain favours segregated modular connectivity at old age unless affected by neurodegeneration

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