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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Top Med Chem. 2012;12(21):2415–2425. doi: 10.2174/156802612805289890

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
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.