Network dynamics scale with levels of awareness

Autor: Peter Coppola, Lennart R.B. Spindler, Andrea I. Luppi, Ram Adapa, Lorina Naci, Judith Allanson, Paola Finoia, Guy B. Williams, John D. Pickard, Adrian M. Owen, David K. Menon, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: NeuroImage, Vol 254, Iss , Pp 119128- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1095-9572
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119128
Popis: Small world topologies are thought to provide a valuable insight into human brain organisation and consciousness. However, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in consciousness have not yielded consistent results. Given the importance of dynamics for both consciousness and cognition, here we investigate how the diversity of small world dynamics (quantified by sample entropy; dSW-E11 dSW-E= dynamic small world entropy) scales with decreasing levels of awareness (i.e., sedation and disorders of consciousness). Paying particular attention to result reproducibility, we show that dSW-E is a consistent predictor of levels of awareness even when controlling for the underlying functional connectivity dynamics. We find that dSW-E of subcortical, and cortical areas are predictive, with the former showing higher and more robust effect sizes across analyses. We find that the network dynamics of intermodular communication in the cerebellum also have unique predictive power for levels of awareness. Consequently, we propose that the dynamic reorganisation of the functional information architecture, in particular of the subcortex, is a characteristic that emerges with awareness and has explanatory power beyond that of the complexity of dynamic functional connectivity.
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