Publications by authors named "J L Olcoz Goni"

The complex etiology of various neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders, especially at the individual level, has posed unmatched challenges to the advancement of personalized medicine. Recent technical advancements in functional magnetic resonance imaging has enabled researchers to map brain large-scale connectivity at an unprecedented level of subject precision. Nonetheless, along with the early dawn of promises in personalized medicine using various neuroimaging modalities rose the challenge of clinical utility of brain connectomics (e.

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Higher-order properties of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) induced connectivity have been shown to unravel many exclusive topological and dynamical insights beyond pairwise interactions. Nonetheless, whether these fMRI-induced higher-order properties play a role in disentangling other neuroimaging modalities' insights remains largely unexplored and poorly understood. In this work, by analyzing fMRI data from the Human Connectome Project Young Adult dataset using persistent homology, we discovered that the volume-optimal persistence homological scaffolds of fMRI-based functional connectomes exhibited conservative topological reconfigurations from the resting state to attentional task-positive state.

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Article Synopsis
  • - The study critiques common practices in brain connectomic analysis, particularly the mapping of functional networks (FNs) onto functional connectomes (FCs) without sufficient theoretical justification regarding their appropriateness.
  • - It introduces a framework based on Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) to evaluate the information-theoretic fitness of FNs when applied to individual FCs across different fMRI tasks, optimizing choices related to FC granularity, FN partition, and thresholding strategies.
  • - The research confirms that a commonly used threshold value of 0.25 is statistically valid for group-average FCs and suggests better methodologies for employing FNs and thresholding techniques in future individualized brain research.
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Human brain function dynamically adjusts to ever-changing stimuli from the external environment. Studies characterizing brain functional reconfiguration are nevertheless scarce. Here we present a principled mathematical framework to quantify brain functional reconfiguration when engaging and disengaging from a stop signal task (SST).

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Over the past few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has exerted various impacts on the world, notably concerning mental health. Nevertheless, the precise influence of psychosocial stressors on this mental health crisis remains largely unexplored. In this study, we employ natural language processing to examine chat text from a mental health helpline.

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