neural connectivity

Analysis of Complex Biological Systems


Lecture 1. Introduction

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Introduction to Matlab (Slides)


Lecture 2. Complex systems as graphs

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Lecture 3. Global network organisation: Random, small-world and scale-free networks

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Lecture 4. Local network organisation: Clusters, motifs, Jaccard index, betweenness centrality

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Lecture 5. Network changes over time: development and deconstruction

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Lecture 6. Spreading in networks

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Lecture 7. Dynamical Systems I

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Lecture 8. Dynamical Systems II

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Lecture 9. Dynamical Systems III

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Lecture 10. Dynamical Systems IV

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Lecture 11. Dynamical Systems V

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Reading material

Kaiser M (2011). A Tutorial in Connectome Analysis: Topological and Spatial Features of Brain Networks. Neuroimage 57:892-907 [Article (PDF)]

Rainhard Diestel: Graph Theory, Springer, Third Edition [First chapter (PDF)]

More information about the book including the download of all chapters is availabel at http://diestel-graph-theory.com/