Data availability

The HCP data are publicly available on the ConnectomeDB database (https://db.humanconnectome.org/app/template/Login.vm). The UCLA CNP data can be obtained from the OpenNeuro database (https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds000030/versions/00016). The TRT data can be accessed publicly (https://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/retro/yale_trt.html). The Yale Transdiagnostic Dataset can be accessed publicly (https://nda.nih.gov/edit_collection.html?id=3276). Data used to generate the atlas parcellation can be accessed at https://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/retro/yale_hires.html. Source data are provided with this paper.

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