Beta: bursts of cognition

M Lundqvist, EK Miller, J Nordmark, J Liljefors… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Beta oscillations are linked to the control of goal-directed processing of sensory information
and the timing of motor output. Recent evidence demonstrates they are not sustained but …

Dysfunction of motor cortices in Parkinson's disease

HY Chu, Y Smith, WW Lytton, S Grafton… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The cerebral cortex has long been thought to be involved in the pathophysiology of motor
symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The impaired cortical function is believed to be a direct …

The phase of sensorimotor mu and beta oscillations has the opposite effect on corticospinal excitability

M Wischnewski, ZJ Haigh, S Shirinpour, I Alekseichuk… - Brain stimulation, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Neural oscillations in the primary motor cortex (M1) shape corticospinal
excitability. Power and phase of ongoing mu (8–13 Hz) and beta (14–30 Hz) activity may …

Reading and modulating cortical β bursts from motor unit spiking activity

M Bräcklein, DY Barsakcioglu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
β Oscillations (13–30 Hz) are ubiquitous in the human motor nervous system. Yet, their
origins and roles are unknown. Traditionally, β activity has been treated as a stationary …

Bursting with potential: How sensorimotor beta bursts develop from infancy to adulthood

H Rayson, MJ Szul, P El-Khoueiry… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Beta activity is thought to play a critical role in sensorimotor processes. However, little is
known about how activity in this frequency band develops. Here, we investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse beta burst waveform motifs characterize movement-related cortical dynamics

MJ Szul, S Papadopoulos, S Alavizadeh… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Classical analyses of induced, frequency-specific neural activity typically average band-
limited power over trials. More recently, it has become widely appreciated that in individual …

Methods and considerations for estimating parameters in biophysically detailed neural models with simulation based inference

N Tolley, PLC Rodrigues, A Gramfort… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Biophysically detailed neural models are a powerful technique to study neural dynamics in
health and disease with a growing number of established and openly available models. A …

Fronto-central resting-state 15-29 Hz transient beta events change with therapeutic transcranial magnetic stimulation for posttraumatic stress disorder and major …

AT Morris, S Temereanca, A Zandvakili, R Thorpe… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is an established treatment for major
depressive disorder (MDD) and shows promise for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet …

Spatiotemporal organisation of human sensorimotor beta burst activity

C Zich, AJ Quinn, JJ Bonaiuto, G O'Neill, LC Mardell… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Beta oscillations in human sensorimotor cortex are hallmark signatures of healthy and
pathological movement. In single trials, beta oscillations include bursts of intermittent …

[HTML][HTML] When do bursts matter in the primary motor cortex? Investigating changes in the intermittencies of beta rhythms associated with movement states

TO West, B Duchet, SF Farmer, KJ Friston… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain activity exhibits significant temporal structure that is not well captured in the power
spectrum. Recently, attention has shifted to characterising the properties of intermittencies in …