1188-Human Brain Network for Diffuse Midline Glioma
The study investigates how diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs), which are fatal childhood brain tumors, integrate into and exploit human neural circuits to drive their progression. By utilizing connectomic data and advanced neuroimaging mapping, the researchers identified a specific "DMG network" of brain-wide connections that accurately predicts patient survival outcomes. Their findings suggest that these tumors do not grow in isolation but rather hijack existing healthy brain networks and synaptic pathways to facilitate infiltration and growth. The research further validates this by showing that…
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