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Dissociable multi-scale patterns of development in personalized brain networks

  • Adam R. Pines
  • , Bart Larsen
  • , Zaixu Cui
  • , Valerie J. Sydnor
  • , Maxwell A. Bertolero
  • , Azeez Adebimpe
  • , Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch
  • , Christos Davatzikos
  • , Damien A. Fair
  • , Ruben C. Gur
  • , Raquel E. Gur
  • , Hongming Li
  • , Michael P. Milham
  • , Tyler M. Moore
  • , Kristin Murtha
  • , Linden Parkes
  • , Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
  • , Sheila Shanmugan
  • , Russell T. Shinohara
  • , Sarah M. Weinstein
  • Danielle S. Bassett, Yong Fan, Theodore D. Satterthwaite

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Abstract

The brain is organized into networks at multiple resolutions, or scales, yet studies of functional network development typically focus on a single scale. Here, we derive personalized functional networks across 29 scales in a large sample of youths (n = 693, ages 8–23 years) to identify multi-scale patterns of network re-organization related to neurocognitive development. We found that developmental shifts in inter-network coupling reflect and strengthen a functional hierarchy of cortical organization. Furthermore, we observed that scale-dependent effects were present in lower-order, unimodal networks, but not higher-order, transmodal networks. Finally, we found that network maturation had clear behavioral relevance: the development of coupling in unimodal and transmodal networks are dissociably related to the emergence of executive function. These results suggest that the development of functional brain networks align with and refine a hierarchy linked to cognition.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number2647
JournalNature communications
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This study was supported by grants from the National Institute of Health: F31 MH123063-01A1 (A.P.), R01MH113550 (T.D.S. and D.S.B.), R01EB022573 (C.D., Y.F., and T.D.S.), R01MH120482 (T.D.S. and M.M.), RF1MH116920 (T.D.S. and D.S.B.), R37MH125829 (D.F. and T.D.S.), R01MH112847 (R.T.S. and T.D.S.), K99MH127293 and T32MH014654 (B.L.). V.J.S. was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE-1845298). L.P. was supported by the National Institute Of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K99MH127296 and a 2020 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The PNC was supported by MH089983 and MH089924. Additional support was provided by the Lifespan Brain Institute at Penn and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Dowshen Program for Neuroscience. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of any of the funding agencies.

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