Long-Term Effects of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy on Local Neural Networks: A Graph Theoretical Analysis of Corticography Recordings
Figure 6
Network representation on the ECoG grid.
Network representation of patient 13 for an average number of connections k = 3. The characteristics of this network are: C/Cs = 2.12, L/Ls = 1.07 and S = 1.98. Note that some edges are printed bold. These edges represent connections between three so-called ‘hub’ vertices (vertices with a relative high number of connections), which increase the small world properties of the network in two ways. Firstly, the edges mark a local cluster, which increases the network characteristic C/Cs. Secondly, this particular cluster also increases the global integration of the network as almost all connected vertices in the network can be reached through these hubs, resulting in a lower L/Ls.