Journal
ELIFE
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.69480
Keywords
thalamus; functional connectivity; hub; Human
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health [R01MH122613, RO1MH117772, P50MH094258, R01NS114405, R21MH120441]
- National Health and Medical Research Council [GNT1156536]
- Neuroscience Research Foundation
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The study found that regions in the human thalamus with strong hub properties are associated with widespread cognitive deficits, while regions with weaker hub properties are associated with more limited deficits. This highlights how a large-scale network model can enhance our understanding of thalamic function in human cognition.
Hubs in the human brain support behaviors that arise from brain network interactions. Previous studies have identified hub regions in the human thalamus that are connected with multiple functional networks. However, the behavioral significance of thalamic hubs has yet to be established. Our framework predicts that thalamic subregions with strong hub properties are broadly involved in functions across multiple cognitive domains. To test this prediction, we studied human patients with focal thalamic lesions in conjunction with network analyses of the human thalamocortical functional connectome. In support of our prediction, lesions to thalamic subregions with stronger hub properties were associated with widespread deficits in executive, language, and memory functions, whereas lesions to thalamic subregions with weaker hub properties were associated with more limited deficits. These results highlight how a large-scale network model can broaden our understanding of thalamic function for human cognition.
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