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Robust lesion network mapping reveals genuine symptom-specific networks

Cui, W.; Zhu, J.; Long, Y.; Zhang, W.; Huang, J.; Wang, F.; Gordon, E. M.; Dosenbach, N. U. F.; Wang, D.; Ren, J.; Liu, H.

2026-05-19 neuroscience
10.64898/2026.05.18.725812 bioRxiv
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Lesion network mapping (LNM) and its derivatives successfully integrate anatomically distributed brain loci into common symptom-associated functional networks, however, their statistical validity and specificity have recently become topics of debate. Here, we introduce a null model-based robust LNM (rLNM) framework to perform sensitivity and symptom-specificity testing. Across multiple lesion-based (10 conditions, 333 lesions) and task-based (4 conditions, 706 experiments) datasets, rLNM reveals biologically meaningful and symptom-specific networks while effectively controlling for false positives.

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