Therefore the paradox of the persistence of small isolated fish populations may be facilitated by a geomorphic mechanism that both limits their connectivity to larger fish populations yet dampens the effect of disturbance by decreasing connections between hillslope and channel processes above geomorphic knickpoints.
Nevertheless, we found significant differences in baseline thalamic microstructure – increased FA in MO – and in within networks connectivity – decreased connection in MO – between patients and healthy controls.
It addition, it is important to remember that the induction of increased excitatory connection strength between some parts of a circuit is expected to be associated with decreased connection strength in other parts of the circuits.
Another significant feature of the altered network is the decreased connections from the limbic system.
We also found that frontal nodes of the DMN showed increased connections within the DMN module and decreased connections to limbic system of AE patients.
The NBS method analysis showed increased connections between auditory system (right superior temporal gyrus) and visual system and decreased connections within the visual network, including the bilateral calcarine sulcus, the bilateral cuneus, and the bilateral lingual gyri.
If the value of the differences in each link with a threshold P < 0.0005 (uncorrected) is used to emphasize the severely altered connections to the nodes, a clearer pattern revealed that the frontal DMN nodes have increased connections to frontal nodes and decreased connections to limbic nodes.
Overall numbers of increased versus decreased connections were comparable between the two groups, but interestingly in autism there were slightly fewer connections during song relative to speech, and vice versa in controls (autism: song > speech = 127; speech > song = 186; total = 313; control: song > speech = 181; speech > song = 156; total = 337).
Nearly 30 states' Community Health and Civic Life scores dropped in the 2016 Index, reflecting decreasing social connections - connections imperative to opportunity, particularly for youth and young adults.
