Causality methods to study the functional connectivity in brain networks: the basal ganglia - thalamus causal interactions.

"all data sets were normalized to the talairach space (table 1"

"specifically python package time series graph based measures of information transfer (tigramite) available at https://github com/jakobrunge/tigramite git was used."

"Declarations Ethical approvalExperiments were conducted in accordance to Spanish regulations (Ley 32/2007, Real Decreto 1201/2005, Ley 9/2003 and Real Decreto 178/2004) in agreement with European Union directives (86/609/CCE, 91/628/CEE and 92/65/CEE), and were supported by the La Laguna University Institutional Human Studies Committee. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. Consent to participateInformed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. Consent to publishInformed consent was obtained from all individual included in the study. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This study was funded by the Center for Networked Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain. (Grant number PI2021/02)."