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co-Chairs: Elizabeth Rounis, Thomas Funck
The hippocampus has a unique microarchitecture, is situated at the nexus of multiple macroscale functional networks, contributes to numerous cognitive and affective processes, and is highly susceptible to brain pathology across common disorders. The hippocampus can be understood and modeled as a cortical (archicortical) structure with a 2D surface topology [1]. Taking inspiration from...
Introduction: Epilepsy affects 50-65 million individuals worldwide (World Health Organization). Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is prevalent in 30-36% of clinic-based populations [1]. Surgical resection of epileptogenic zone is a common practice for treatment of focal DRE [2,3] with hippocampal sclerosis (HS), tumor-related malformations, and focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) the most common...
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The hypothalamus is crucial for maintaining homeostasis, regulating sleep-wake cycles, appetite, circadian rhythm, and thermal regulation (Nieuwenhuys et al., 2008). Despite its importance the structural organization, precise boundaries, and functional differentiation of its nuclei remain incompletely understood. Existing anatomical maps of the hypothalamus do not reflect...
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The superficial white matter (SWM) is the layer of white matter (WM) located immediately underneath the cortex. This SWM contains subcortical U-fibers interconnecting adjacent brain gyri, which remain incompletely myelinated until later in life [1]. U-fibers play a key role in brain plasticity and aging, and alterations in these fibers have been observed in conditions such...
Introduction: MRI is the standard modality to understand human brain structure and function in vivo (antemortem). Decades of research in human neuroimaging has led to the widespread development of methods and tools to provide automated volume-based segmentations and surface-based parcellations which help localize brain functions to specialized anatomical regions. Recently ex vivo...
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The variability of the cortical folding pattern is very complex. Hence, the links between folding and functional architecture have rarely been studied. To explore these links, we perform a stratification of the population according to the regional folding pattern before performing group analysis of functional maps [Sun et al., 2016]. To illustrate the potential of this...
