TY  - RPRT
M1  - working_paper
KW  - Biocomplexity
ID  - eprints3997
N2  - The brain is organized in a modular way, serving multiple functionalities. This multiplicity requires that both positive (e.g. excitatory, phase-coherent) and negative (e.g. inhibitory, phase-opposing) interactions take place across brain modules. Unfortunately, most methods to detect modules from time series either neglect or convert to positive any measured negative correlation. This may leave a significant part of the sign-dependent functional structure undetected. Here we present a novel method, based on random matrix theory, for the identification of sign-dependent modules in the brain. Our method filters out the joint effects of local (unit-specific) noise and global (system-wide) dependencies that empirically obfuscate such structure. The method is guaranteed to identify an optimally contrasted functional `signature', i.e. a partition into modules that are positively correlated internally and negatively correlated across. The method is purely data-driven, does not use any arbitrary threshold or network projection, and outputs only statistically significant structure. In measurements of neuronal gene expression in the biological clock of mice, the method systematically uncovers two otherwise undetectable, negatively correlated modules whose relative size and mutual interaction strength are found to depend on photoperiod. The neurons alternating between the two modules define a candidate region of functional plasticity for circadian modulation.
AV  - public
EP  - 11
TI  - Uncovering functional brain signature via random matrix theory
PB  - arXiv
UR  - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07046
A1  - Almog, Assaf
A1  - Roethler, Ori
A1  - Buijink, Renate
A1  - Michel, Stephan
A1  - Meijer, Johanna H
A1  - Rohling, Jos H T
A1  - Garlaschelli, Diego
VL  - arXiv:1708.07046
Y1  - 2017///
ER  -