Cerebral chemoarchitecture shares organizational traits with brain structure and function

  1. Benjamin Hänisch
  2. Justine Y Hansen
  3. Boris C Bernhardt
  4. Simon B Eickhoff
  5. Juergen Dukart
  6. Bratislav Misic
  7. Sofie Louise Valk  Is a corresponding author
  1. Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour, Research Centre Jülich, Germany
  2. Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
  3. Otto Hahn Group Cognitive Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
  4. McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada
4 figures and 6 additional files

Figures

Figure 1 with 2 supplements
Organization of the cortical receptome.

(A) Analytic workflow of receptome generation and gradient decomposition. Node-level neurotransmitter receptor and transporter molecule (NTRM) fingerprints are derived from PET images of 19 …

Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Cortical receptome gradients.

(A) The first three chemoarchitectural similarity axes generated by principal component analysis (PCA). Spearman rank correlations to the respective gradients exceeds r > 0.99, indicating a high …

Figure 1—figure supplement 2
Robustness of receptome gradients.

Robustness of receptome gradient decomposition across different parcellation granularities. Left: RC G1, RC G2 and RC G3 (top-to-bottom) projected on the cortical surface. Middle: variance explained …

Figure 2 with 2 supplements
Organization of subcortical chemoarchitecture.

(A) Hierarchical agglomerative clustering of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter molecule (NTRM) densities in subcortical structures. aTHA: anterior thalamus; pTHA: posterior thalamus. (B) …

Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Subcortical receptome.

(A) MDS projection of cortico-subcortical similarity of chemoarchitectural composition. Subcortical nuclei are displayed in red, the cortex displayed in blue. The amygdala is encircled in black. (B) …

Figure 2—figure supplement 2
Robustness of agglomerative hierarchical clustering – subcortex.

Replication of agglomerative hierarchical clustering of average neurotransmitter receptor and transporter molecule (NTRM) densities in subcortical structures, using Euclidean distance and different …

Cortical receptome gradients in term-based functional activation and disorder.

(A) Cortical receptome gradients projected to the cortical surface. (B) Functional decoding of cortical receptome gradients. Wordclouds display positive and negative correlations of receptome …

Figure 4 with 2 supplements
Multimodal contextualization of the cortical receptome.

(A) Correlation strengths of cortical receptome gradients to functional connectivity (FC), structural connectivity (SC), microstructural profile covariance (MPC), and BigBrain gradients. Coloring is …

Figure 4—figure supplement 1
Contextualization of receptome gradients in hierarchical brain organization.

(A) Variance explained by gradient decomposition. Left: microstructural profile covariance (MPC); middle: functional connectivity (FC); right: structural connectivity (SC). (B) Distribution of RC G1 …

Figure 4—figure supplement 2
Robustness of agglomerative hierarchical clustering – cortex.

Replication of agglomerative hierarchical clustering of average neurotransmitter receptor and transporter molecule (NTRM) densities in functional networks, using Euclidean distance and different …

Additional files

Supplementary file 1

Table S1.

Neurotransmitter receptors and transporters included in analyses. BPND, non-displaceable binding potential; VT, tracer distribution volume; Bmax, density (pmol/ml) converted from binding potential or distributional volume using autoradiography-derived densities; SUVR, standard uptake value ratio. Neurotransmitter receptor maps without citations refer to unpublished data. Table adapted from Hansen et al., 2022.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/83843/elife-83843-supp1-v2.docx
Supplementary file 2

Table S2A.

Replication of multimodal receptome gradient contextualization through correlation using a Schaefer granularity of 100 parcels.

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Supplementary file 3

Table S2B.

Replication of multimodal receptome gradient contextualization through correlation using a Schaefer granularity of 200 parcels.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/83843/elife-83843-supp3-v2.xlsx
Supplementary file 4

Table S2C.

Replication of multimodal receptome gradient contextualization through correlation using a Schaefer granularity of 300 parcels.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/83843/elife-83843-supp4-v2.xlsx
Supplementary file 5

Table S2D.

Replication of multimodal receptome gradient contextualization through correlation using a Schaefer granularity of 400 parcels.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/83843/elife-83843-supp5-v2.xlsx
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