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Abstract #2054

How Do White Matter Tracts Constrain Brain Oscillation Propagation? A Diffusion MRI-MEG Study

Svetla Manolova1, Carolyn McNabb1, Eirini Messaritaki1, Krish Singh1, Derek Jones1, Mara Cercignani1, and Matteo Mancini1,2
1Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 2Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Synopsis

Keywords: White Matter, Multimodal

Motivation: Substantial effort has been invested into understanding how brain structure constrains function. However, research has primarily focused on understanding structure, rather than linking brain dynamics to it.

Goal(s): Compare oscillation propagation delays estimated using neuronal avalanches from MEG resting-state data with the underlying white matter structure estimated through tractography.

Approach: We characterised the relationship between pathways length and the related propagation delays, using deterministic and probabilistic approaches, and looking at different frequency bands.

Results: While higher frequency bands scale proportionally with propagation delays and length, lower frequency bands show constant delays, regardless of tract length, for both deterministic and probabilistic tractography.

Impact: This multi-modal approach has the potential to improve understanding of how underlying white matter structure constrains brain [oscillatory] activity. Future research will focus on integrating additional structural and microstructural measurements to inform biophysical models of brain structural and functional connectivity.

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