“Small World” architecture in brain connectivity and hippocampal volume in Alzheimer’s disease: a study via graph theory from EEG data

@article{Vecchio2016SmallWA,
  title={“Small World” architecture in brain connectivity and hippocampal volume in Alzheimer’s disease: a study via graph theory from EEG data},
  author={Fabrizio Vecchio and Francesca Miraglia and Francesca Piludu and Giuseppe Granata and Roberto Romanello and Massimo Caulo and Valeria Onofrj and Placido Bramanti and Cesare Colosimo and Paolo Maria Rossini},
  journal={Brain Imaging and Behavior},
  year={2016},
  volume={11},
  pages={473-485}
}
Brain imaging plays an important role in the study of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), where atrophy has been found to occur in the hippocampal formation during the very early disease stages and to progress in parallel with the disease’s evolution. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a possible correlation between “Small World” characteristics of the brain connectivity architecture—as extracted from EEG recordings—and hippocampal volume in AD patients. A dataset of 144 subjects, including 110… 
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