Modular Brain Networks

The development of new technologies for mapping structural and functional brain connectivity has led to the creation of comprehensive network maps of neuronal circuits and systems. The architecture of these brain networks can be examined and analyzed with a large variety of graph theory tools. Methods for detecting modules, or network communities, are of particular interest because they uncover major building blocks or subnetworks that are particularly densely connected, often corresponding to specialized functional components. A large number of methods for community detection have become available and are now widely applied in network neuroscience. This article first surveys a number of these methods, with an…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• JS
  James S. McDonnell Foundation

  Award: 22002082
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: R01 AT009036-01, R01 AT009036
• DO
  Division of Graduate Education