Lyndon Firman-Sadler, Karen Caeyenberghs
There has been growing interest across scientific disciplines in the utility of networks. Network analysis allows researchers to examine complex relationships between the network’s individual components. Network neuroscience has conceptualised the brain as a complex network, existing at different levels of organisation. Likewise, network psychometrics has conceptualised the human mind as a network of psychological variables, in both the context of symptoms in psychopathology and in the abilities comprising cognition. Only recently have these disciplines begun to converge. Indeed, networks may be a contemporary bridge between neuroscience and psychology, and in turn, an important bridge between the brain and the mind. Our team are working to advance this new methodology, beginning with large samples of existing data, including those provided by the Human Connectome Project and the TRACK-TBI dataset.