Sebastiano Stramaglia — Università di Bari #
Network approach for bringing together brain structure and function #
Understanding the relation between functional anatomy and structural substrates is a major challenge in 
neuroscience. To study at the aggregate level the interplay between structural brain networks and 
functional brain networks, a new method will be described; it provides an optimal brain partition 
—emerging out of a hierarchical clustering analysis— and maximizes the “cross-modularity” index, 
leading to large modularity for both networks as well as a large within-module similarity between them . The 
brain modules found by this approach will be compared with the classical Resting State Networks, as well as with 
anatomical parcellations in the Automated Anatomical Labeling atlas and with the Broadmann partition.