Figure 2

Sample distributions of average clustering coefficient C (left) and average shortest path length L (middle) of evolving functional brain networks from patients during period B1 at first (A1) and second assessment (A2) and from healthy controls. Bottom and top of a box are the first and third quartiles, and the red band and the black triangle are the median and the mean of the distribution, respectively. The ends of the whiskers represent the interquartile range of the data. Outliers are marked by an o sign. Right: Scatterplot of average clustering coefficients C and average shortest path lengths L during period B1 from patients (both assessments; black dots) and healthy controls (single assessment; blue diamonds). Linear regression (all subjects) is represented with a solid black line (patients: Spearman’s ρ = − 0.80, p < 0.01; healthy controls: ρ = − 0.88, p < 0.01).