Diseases like Alzheimer's and schizophrenia appear to affect brain hubs, impacting the entire network, suggesting new therapeutic targets.

“And so what's exciting to me is not only is that making us thinking about disease differently because now we're starting to think about how is diseases affecting these hubs that the pathology seems to be like when you look at Alzheimer's disease and you look at schizophrenia and you look at a lot of diseases it's not just that there some microscopic change in some neuron it seems to be affecting hubs in the brain that are affecting the whole network and so we have a different Target to go after for treatments what what can we do to sort of boost you know a hub that's been damaged as opposed to thinking about it in a in a less specific way”