The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing

JM Shine, LD Lewis, DD Garrett… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The thalamus is a small, bilateral structure in the diencephalon that integrates signals from
many areas of the CNS. This critical anatomical position allows the thalamus to influence …

[HTML][HTML] Linking structure and function in macroscale brain networks

LE Suárez, RD Markello, RF Betzel, B Misic - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Structure–function relationships are a fundamental principle of many naturally occurring
systems. However, network neuroscience research suggests that there is an imperfect link …

Why is everyone talking about brain state?

AS Greene, C Horien, D Barson, D Scheinost… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
The rapid and coordinated propagation of neural activity across the brain provides the
foundation for complex behavior and cognition. Technical advances across neuroscience …

Neuroscience needs network science

DL Barabási, G Bianconi, E Bullmore… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
The brain is a complex system comprising a myriad of interacting neurons, posing significant
challenges in understanding its structure, function, and dynamics. Network science has …

Edge-centric functional network representations of human cerebral cortex reveal overlapping system-level architecture

J Faskowitz, FZ Esfahlani, Y Jo, O Sporns… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Network neuroscience has relied on a node-centric network model in which cells,
populations and regions are linked to one another via anatomical or functional connections …

High-amplitude cofluctuations in cortical activity drive functional connectivity

F Zamani Esfahlani, Y Jo, J Faskowitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Resting-state functional connectivity is used throughout neuroscience to study brain
organization and to generate biomarkers of development, disease, and cognition. The …

Sensory-motor cortices shape functional connectivity dynamics in the human brain

X Kong, R Kong, C Orban, P Wang, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Large-scale biophysical circuit models provide mechanistic insights into the micro-scale and
macro-scale properties of brain organization that shape complex patterns of spontaneous …

The entangled brain

L Pessoa - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract The Entangled Brain (Pessoa, L., 2002. MIT Press) promotes the idea that we need
to understand the brain as a complex, entangled system. Why does the complex systems …

[HTML][HTML] What have we really learned from functional connectivity in clinical populations?

J Zhang, A Kucyi, J Raya, AN Nielsen, JS Nomi… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Functional connectivity (FC), or the statistical interdependence of blood-oxygen dependent
level (BOLD) signals between brain regions using fMRI, has emerged as a widely used tool …

Topographic gradients of intrinsic dynamics across neocortex

G Shafiei, RD Markello, R Vos de Wael, BC Bernhardt… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The intrinsic dynamics of neuronal populations are shaped by both microscale attributes and
macroscale connectome architecture. Here we comprehensively characterize the rich …