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, Katrin Petermann, Thuy Anh Khoa Nguyen, Maria Giulia Preti, 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, Enrico Amico, Maria Giulia Preti, 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, Enrico Amico, Maria Giulia Preti

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

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

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

Automated segmentation and labeling of subcutaneous mouse implants at 14.1T

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu, Nicolas Gninenko, Maria Giulia Preti

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool for studying subcutaneous implants in rodents, providing non-invasive insight into biomaterial conformability and longitudinal characterization. However, considerable variability in existing image analysi ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

The arrow-of-time in neuroimaging time series identifies causal triggers of brain function

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thomas William Arthur Bolton, Enrico Amico, Maria Giulia Preti, Raphaël Pierre Liégeois

Moving from association to causal analysis of neuroimaging data is crucial to advance our understanding of brain function. The arrow-of-time (AoT), that is, the known asymmetric nature of the passage of time, is the bedrock of causal structures shaping phy ...

Wiley2023

Brain Fingerprinting Using Fmri Spectral Signatures On High-Resolution Cortical Graphs

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Hamid Behjat, Maria Giulia Preti, Stefano Moia, Carlo Ferritto

Resting-state fMRI has proven to entail subject-specific signatures that can serve as a fingerprint to identify individuals. Conventional methods are based on building a connectivity matrix based on correlation between the average time course of pairs of b ...

IEEE2023

Prediction of post-stroke motor recovery benefits from measures of sub-acute widespread network damages

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Elvira Pirondini, Maria Giulia Preti, Cyprien Alban Félicien Rivier

Rivier et al. report that global measures of brain connectivity estimated by introducing virtual lesions in healthy structural connectomes significantly increase the accuracy of motor recovery prediction in stroke patients when added to focal and clinical ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Mapping of Structure-Function Age-Related Connectivity Changes on Cognition Using Multimodal MRI

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

The relationship between age-related changes in brain structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) with cognition is not well understood. Furthermore, it is not clear whether cognition is represented via a similar spatial pattern of FC and ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

CSF tap test in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: still a necessary prognostic test?

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Alessandra Griffa, Maria Giulia Preti

Objective To assess whether gait, neuropsychological, and multimodal MRI parameters predict short-term symptom reversal after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tap test in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH). Methods Thirty patients (79.3 +/- 5.9 years ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2022

Brain structure-function coupling is unique to individuals across multiple frequency bands: a graph signal processing study

Alessandra Griffa, Maria Giulia Preti

The relation between brain functional activity and the underlying structure is complex and varies depending on the specific brain region. Recently, we used graph signal processing to introduce the structural-decoupling index (SDI), a novel metric quantifyi ...

IEEE2022

Brain structure-function coupling provides signatures for task decoding and individual fingerprinting

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

Brain signatures of functional activity have shown promising results in both decoding brain states, meaning distinguishing between different tasks, and fingerprinting, that is identifying individuals within a large group. Importantly, these brain signature ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Dynamic segregation and integration during interictal epileptic discharges revealed by connectome spectrum analyses

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

WILEY2022

Neural substrates of psychosis revealed by altered dependencies between brain activity and white-matter architecture in individuals with 22q11 deletion syndrome

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti, Emeline Mullier, Karin Bortolin, Farnaz Delavari

Background: Dysconnectivity has been consistently proposed as a major key mechanism in psychosis. Indeed, disruptions in large-scale structural and functional brain networks have been associated with psychotic symptoms. However, brain activity is largely c ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022