Publications by Maria Giulia Preti

Comparing structure–function relationships in brain networks using EEG and fNIRS

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

Identifying relationships between structural and functional networks is crucial for understanding the large-scale organization of the human brain. The potential contribution of emerging techniques like functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate t ...

Nature Research2024

Longitudinal Analysis of Brain Function-Structure Dependencies in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and Psychotic Symptoms

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

Background: Compared with conventional unimodal analysis, understanding how brain function and structure relate to one another opens a new biologically relevant assessment of neural mechanisms. However, how function-structure dependencies (FSDs) evolve thr ...

2024

Linking connectivity of deep brain stimulation of nucleus accumbens area with clinical depression improvements: a retrospective longitudinal case series

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti, Thuy Anh Khoa Nguyen, Katrin Petermann, Simona Leserri

Treatment-resistant depression is a severe form of major depressive disorder and deep brain stimulation is currently an investigational treatment. The stimulation's therapeutic effect may be explained through the functional and structural connectivities be ...

Springer Heidelberg2024

Connectome embedding in multidimensional graph spaces

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Alessandra Griffa, Maria Giulia Preti, Enrico Amico, Raphaël Pierre Liégeois

Nodal properties are of particular importance when investigating patterns in brain networks. Nodal information is usually studied by comparing a few nodal measurements (up to three), resulting in analyses in three-dimensional spaces, at maximum. We offer a ...

MIT PRESS2024

Functional network centrality indicates interactions between APOE4 and age across the clinical spectrum of Alzheimer ' s Disease

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

Advanced age is the most important risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and carrier-status of the Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) allele is the strongest known genetic risk factor. Many studies have consistently shown a link between APOE4 and synaptic dysfu ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2024

The hippocampus dissociates present from past and future goals

Maria Giulia Preti

Our brain adeptly navigates goals across time frames, distinguishing between urgent needs and those of the past or future. The hippocampus is a region known for supporting mental time travel and organizing information along its longitudinal axis, transitio ...

Nature Research2024

Fingerprints of brain disease: connectome identifiability in Alzheimer’s disease

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Maria Giulia Preti, Enrico Amico

Functional connectivity patterns in the human brain, like the friction ridges of a fingerprint, can uniquely identify individuals. Does this “brain fingerprint” remain distinct even during Alzheimer’s disease (AD)? Using fMRI data from healthy and patholog ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Temporal Fluctuations of Brain Structure-Function Coupling as a Potential Marker of Drowsiness During Resting State

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a well-established methodology to probe brain organization. Previous work has demonstrated that the probability of drowsiness and even sleep increases significantly in participants during restin ...

IEEE2024

Direct imaging of neuronal activity: a multivariate perspective on DIANA data in human subjects

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) relies upon the blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) signal as a proxy for neuronal activity. Whole-brain coverage and millimetric resolution have propelled this modality as a workhorse for human neuroscienc ...

European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2024

Structure-function coupling increases during interictal spikes in temporal lobe epilepsy: A graph signal processing study

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti, Patric Hagmann

Objective: Structure-function coupling remains largely unknown in brain disorders. We studied this coupling during interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs), using graph signal processing in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). ...

ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD2023