Table 3. Summary of the methods and main findings in R-fMRI studies investigating dysconnectivity in schizophrenia by graph theory-based method.
AAL: automated anatomical labeling.
Study | Sample | Nodal definition | Nodal number | Edge definition | Main findings |
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Liu et al. [72] | 31 patients with SZ 31 healthy controls |
AAL | 90 | Partial correlation | Lower degree, lower connectivity strength, decreased clustering coefficient and longer characteristic path length in patients with SZ. |
Lynall et al. [73] | 12 patients with chronic SZ 15 healthy controls |
AAL | 72 | Wavelet correlation | Decreased connectivity strength, reduced clustering and small-worldness. |
Alexander-Bloch et al. [74] | 13 patients with childhood-onset SZ 19 healthy controls |
Harvard-Oxford Probabilistic Atlas [90] | 100 | Wavelet correlation | Reduced connectivity strength, decreased clustering and local efficiency, but increased global efficiency and robustness in patients with childhood-onset SZ. |
Yu et al. [75] | 19 patients with SZ 19 healthy controls |
Brain components | 57 | Partial correlation | Higher clustering coefficient, higher local efficiency, higher characteristic path length, and lower global efficiency. |
Yu et al. [84] | 24 patients with SZ 24 healthy controls |
Brain components | 57 | Pearson correlation | More and smaller modules with different hubs in SZ. |
Bassett et al. [76] | 29 patients with chronic SZ 29 healthy controls |
AAL | 90 | Pearson correlation | Univariate measures are less sensitive to disease state than higher level bivariate and multivariate measures. |
Alexander-Bloch et al. [85] | 23 patients with childhood-onset SZ 23 healthy controls |
Gray matter of Harvard-Oxford Probabilistic Atlas | 278 | Wavelet correlation | Altered modular community structure in patients with childhood-onset SZ. The difference in the modular partition is most striking for a module that consistently includes brain regions around the right anterior insula in healthy controls. In contrast, these regions are distributed over a number of other modules in patient group. |