机构:[1]LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,[2]National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China,[3]Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China放射科首都医科大学宣武医院
Intuitively, higher intelligence might be assumed to correspond to more efficient information transfer in the brain, but no direct evidence has been reported from the perspective of brain networks. In this study, we performed extensive analyses to test the hypothesis that individual differences in intelligence are associated with brain structural organization, and in particular that higher scores on intelligence tests are related to greater global efficiency of the brain anatomical network. We constructed binary and weighted brain anatomical networks in each of 79 healthy young adults utilizing diffusion tensor tractography and calculated topological properties of the networks using a graph theoretical method. Based on their IQ test scores, all subjects were divided into general and high intelligence groups and significantly higher global efficiencies were found in the networks of the latter group. Moreover, we showed significant correlations between IQ scores and network properties across all subjects while controlling for age and gender. Specifically, higher intelligence scores corresponded to a shorter characteristic path length and a higher global efficiency of the networks, indicating a more efficient parallel information transfer in the brain. The results were consistently observed not only in the binary but also in the weighted networks, which together provide convergent evidence for our hypothesis. Our findings suggest that the efficiency of brain structural organization may be an important biological basis for intelligence.
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the Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant Nos. 30730035, 30670601, and 60675033, the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973), Grant No. 2007CB512300,
the External Cooperation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. GJHZ200826, and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, No. NCET-07-0568.
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大类|2 区生物
小类|1 区数学与计算生物学2 区生化研究方法
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大类|2 区生物学
小类|2 区生化研究方法2 区数学与计算生物学
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Q1MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGYQ1BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS
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Q1MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGYQ1BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS
第一作者机构:[1]LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,
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通讯机构:[1]LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,[3]Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China