How can connectomics advance our knowledge of psychiatric disorders?

Connectomics defines a new field in neuroscience, which aims to map the structural and functional networks through which the brain is interconnected by using cutting-edge imaging techniques, and to characterise the systems-level properties of these networks using graph theoretical approaches. The motivating hypothesis behind studying the brain as a network, or a set of sub-networks, is that the pattern of connectiv-ity between regions specialised in specific functions poses specific limits on brain dynamics and may therefore inform brain processing abilities.