Small-world human brain networks: Perspectives and challenges.

By Xuhong Liao, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Yong He. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017

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Application of Graph Theory for Identifying Connectivity Patterns in Human Brain Networks: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “Up to now, most human brain investigations have been devoted to the undirected networks because of the technical constraints surrounding the inference of directional networks (Liao et al., 2017).”
Distinct developmental changes in linear and nonlinear neural interactions across infancy and adulthood (2025, unknown): “Changes in functional connectivity are believed to represent shifts in the balance of information segregation and integration (Liao et al., 2017).”
Altered network connectivity and global efficiency in tourette syndrome: insights into sensorimotor integration (2025, unknown): “Reduced local clustering in brain networks indicates a lower tendency for brain regions to form tightly interconnected local groups, which are thought to support specialized information processing and efficient local communication (Liao et al., 2017; Masuda et al., 2018).”
Resting-state EEG connectome topology and social norm processing in healthy young adults (2026, unknown): “In addition, we extracted the SW, a summary metric obtained from the ratio of the normalised CC and CPL, useful to describe the balance between local segregation and global integration of the functional connectome (Watts and Strogatz 1998; Liao et al. 2017 ).”