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Anatomical distance affects functional connectivity in patients with schizophrenia and their siblings.
Schizophrenia bulletin - 1 Mar 2014
Guo Shuixia, Palaniyappan Lena, Yang Bo, Liu Zhening, Xue Zhimin, Feng Jianfeng
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BACKGROUND: The efficiency of human brain depends on the integrity of both long- and short-range connections, but the long-range connections need to be "penalized" to reduce overall wiring costs. This principle, termed as the anatomical distance function (ADF), refers to the presence of an inverse relationship between anatomical distance and connectivity. A crucial developmental feature that occurs in normal...
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