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Revisiting the methodological foundation of lesion network mapping

2026-02-19 neurology Title + abstract only
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Lesion network mapping (LNM) links focal brain lesions to distributed neural circuits by projecting lesion locations through a normative functional connectome. van den Heuvel and colleagues recently showed how commonly used LNM procedures generate maps that converge on nonspecific, low-dimensional properties of the connectome, introducing a bias. Consequently, many published maps of different conditions appear strikingly similar. Here, we offer an alternative approach that does highlight distinc...

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