The Connected Brain
Maandag 23 juni 2008 09:30
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The aim of the symposium is to provide an overview of this graph-driven network approach to the brain and its major empirical findings and to present some of the fascinating consequences for the study of neuropsychiatric diseases.The brain is by far the most complex system we know and to understand the meaning of this 'enchanted loom' remains one of the greatest challenges in science. about a decade ago two seminal papers were published in Nature and Science on so-called 'small-world' and 'scale-free' networks. Today it appears that these papers did revolutionize the study of complex networks across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines, ranging from gene networks to social networks and the World Wide Web. The perhaps biggest challenge for this 'new science of networks is its application to the human brain networks (anatomical and functional) are not well-structured or purely random but indeed of small-world character. These optimal network patterns collapse in a very specific way in different neuropsychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and epilepsy. All these studies are performed with various imaging modalities be it EEG, MEG or fMRI. The aim of the symposium is to provide an overview of this graph-driven network approach to the brain and its major empirical findings and to present some of the fascinating consequences for the study of neuropsychiatric diseases.
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