eprintid: 10048726 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/04/87/26 datestamp: 2018-05-21 14:15:14 lastmod: 2021-09-28 22:27:07 status_changed: 2018-05-21 14:15:14 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Liu, Y creators_name: Duan, Y creators_name: Dong, H creators_name: Barkhof, F creators_name: Li, K creators_name: Shu, N title: Disrupted Module Efficiency of Structural and Functional Brain Connectomes in Clinically Isolated Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D07 divisions: F82 keywords: Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Psychology, Neurosciences & Neurology, multiple sclerosis, clinically isolated syndrome, diffusion MRI, functional MRI, graph theory, brain network, RESTING-STATE, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, DEFAULT-MODE, LESION LOAD, NETWORKS, CONNECTIVITY, DISABILITY, PATHOGENESIS, ORGANIZATION, TRACTOGRAPHY note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated disrupted topological organization of brain connectome in multiple sclerosis (MS). However, whether the communication efficiency between different functional systems is affected in the early stage of MS remained largely unknown. In this study, we constructed the structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) networks in 41 patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), 32 MS patients and 35 healthy controls (HC) based on diffusion and resting-state functional MRI. To quantify the communication efficiency within and between different functional systems, we proposed two measures called intra- and inter-module efficiency. Based on the module parcellation of functional backbone network, the intra- and inter-module efficiency of SC and FC networks was calculated for each participant. For the SC network, CIS showed decreased inter-module efficiency between the sensory-motor network (SMN), the visual network (VN), the default-mode network (DMN) and the fronto-parietal network (FPN) compared with HC, while MS showed more widespread decreased module efficiency both within and between modules relative to HC and CIS. For the FC network, no differences were found between CIS and HC, and a decreased inter-module efficiency between SMN and FPN and between VN and FPN was identified in MS, compared with HC and CIS. Moreover, both intra- and inter-module efficiency of SC network were correlated with the disability and cognitive scores in MS. Therefore, our results demonstrated early SC changes between modules in CIS, and more widespread SC alterations and inter-module FC changes were observed in MS, which were further associated with cognitive impairment and physical disability. date: 2018-04-10 date_type: published publisher: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA official_url: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00138 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1553095 doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00138 lyricists_name: Barkhof, Frederik lyricists_id: FBARK32 actors_name: Cuccu, Clara actors_id: CCCUC40 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience volume: 12 article_number: 138 pages: 11 issn: 1662-5161 citation: Liu, Y; Duan, Y; Dong, H; Barkhof, F; Li, K; Shu, N; (2018) Disrupted Module Efficiency of Structural and Functional Brain Connectomes in Clinically Isolated Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 12 , Article 138. 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00138 <https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00138>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048726/1/Liu_VoR.pdf