The Networking Brain: How Extracellular Matrix, Cellular Networks, and Vasculature Shape the In Vivo Mechanical Properties of the Brain (Adv. Sci. 31/2024)

Brain Mechanical Networks Insight into the brain's mechanical networks sheds light on the relationship between microanatomy and macroscopic biomechanical changes that can be measured by elastography in patients and exploited as novel imaging markers. In article number 2402338, Ingolf Sack and colleagues develop a mechanicsinspired model of four communicating brain networks whose interactions and alterations explain current in vivo elastography findings in normal and diseased human brain. Cover art by Tom Meyer. [Image: see text]