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      A positive-negative mode of population covariation links brain connectivity, demographics and behavior

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          We investigated the relationship between individual subjects’ functional connectomes and 280 behavioral and demographic measures, in a single holistic multivariate analysis relating imaging to non-imaging data from 461 subjects in the Human Connectome Project. We identified one strong mode of population co-variation; subjects were predominantly spread along a single “positive-negative” axis, linking lifestyle, demographic and psychometric measures to each other and to a specific pattern of brain connectivity.

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                Journal
                9809671
                21092
                Nat Neurosci
                Nat. Neurosci.
                Nature neuroscience
                1097-6256
                1546-1726
                2 September 2015
                28 September 2015
                November 2015
                01 May 2016
                : 18
                : 11
                : 1565-1567
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Oxford, UK
                [2 ]University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
                [3 ]Oxford University Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), Oxford, UK
                [4 ]Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
                [5 ]Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
                Author notes
                Correspondence should be addressed to SS ( steve@ 123456fmrib.ox.ac.uk )

                Author Contributions

                DVE, KU, DB, TB, MG and SS contributed to the data acquisition and image processing. SS, KM, TN, DV, AW and TB designed and carried out the statistical analyses. All authors contributed to writing the paper.

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                EMS64911
                10.1038/nn.4125
                4625579
                26414616
                f2e7b512-e7e7-47e3-8f7f-66ee1f5b99a7

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