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Record W4414440574 · doi:10.1038/s44220-025-00503-6

The network-based underpinnings of persisting symptoms after concussion: a multimodal neuroimaging meta-analysis

2025· article· en· W4414440574 on OpenAlex
Adriano Mollica, Robin Cash, Carl Froilan D. Leochico, Peter Giacobbe, Isabella J. Sewell, Andrew Zalesky, Jennifer S. Rabin, Maged Goubran, Simon J. Graham, Benjamin Davidson, Fa‐Hsuan Lin, Nir Lipsman, Clement Hamani, Matthew J. Burke, Sean M. Nestor

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Mental Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies
Canadian institutionsOntario Brain InstituteUniversity of TorontoUniversity Health NetworkHealth Sciences CentreToronto Rehabilitation InstituteSunnybrook Health Science Centre
FundersMedical Research CouncilAzrieli FoundationUniversity of TorontoCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchSunnybrook Research InstituteNational Health and Medical Research CouncilFondation Brain Canada
KeywordsNeuroimagingFunctional magnetic resonance imagingConnectomeTranscranial magnetic stimulationFunctional neuroimagingHuman Connectome ProjectNerve netLimitingSalience (neuroscience)Neuromodulation

Abstract

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Persisting symptoms after concussion (PSaC) represent a complex and poorly understood neuropsychiatric phenomenon with limited treatment options. Neural network dysfunction has been associated with PSaC, and neuromodulation, particularly repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, may be a promising intervention. However, neuroimaging findings have been inconsistent, limiting understanding of underlying network dysfunction. We aimed to identify a core neural network associated with PSaC and explore whether this network could yield candidate cortical targets for neuromodulation at the individual level. We hypothesized that differences in network disruption would be evident between individuals with high versus low symptom burden in PSaC. Here we show that a convergent multi-analytic approach combining symptom-activation maps generated from existing fMRI datasets, systematic review of resting-state fMRI studies of PSaC, and network-based meta-analysis of coordinates derived from these studies co-localize to the salience network in high symptom burden PSaC. Using Human Connectome Project data, we mapped this network to cortical regions that could serve as individualized targets for neuromodulation. This aligns with current clinical models of PSaC and may present a new direction for network-based therapy.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.788
Threshold uncertainty score0.816

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it