Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics

D Papo, JM Buldú - Physics of life reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Graph theory is now becoming a standard tool in system-level neuroscience. However,
endowing observed brain anatomy and dynamics with a complex network structure does not …

Structure and function in artificial, zebrafish and human neural networks

P Ji, Y Wang, T Peron, C Li, J Nagler, J Du - Physics of Life Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Network science provides a set of tools for the characterization of the structure and
functional behavior of complex systems. Yet a major problem is to quantify how the structural …

Critical dynamics arise during structured information presentation within embodied in vitro neuronal networks

F Habibollahi, BJ Kagan, AN Burkitt… - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding how brains process information is an incredibly difficult task. Amongst the
metrics characterising information processing in the brain, observations of dynamic near …

Connectome-based reservoir computing with the conn2res toolbox

LE Suárez, A Mihalik, F Milisav, K Marshall, M Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The connection patterns of neural circuits form a complex network. How signaling in these
circuits manifests as complex cognition and adaptive behaviour remains the central question …

Resting-state oscillations reveal disturbed excitation–inhibition ratio in Alzheimer's disease patients

AM Van Nifterick, D Mulder, DJ Duineveld… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
An early disruption of neuronal excitation–inhibition (E–I) balance in preclinical animal
models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been frequently reported, but is difficult to measure …

Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and functional neuroscience findings

J Achterberg, D Akarca, DJ Strouse, J Duncan… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Brain networks exist within the confines of resource limitations. As a result, a brain network
must overcome the metabolic costs of growing and sustaining the network within its physical …

Sleep restores an optimal computational regime in cortical networks

Y Xu, A Schneider, R Wessel, KB Hengen - Nature neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Sleep is assumed to subserve homeostatic processes in the brain; however, the set point
around which sleep tunes circuit computations is unknown. Slow-wave activity (SWA) is …

Critical dynamics in spontaneous EEG predict anesthetic-induced loss of consciousness and perturbational complexity

C Maschke, J O'Byrne, MA Colombo, M Boly… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Consciousness has been proposed to be supported by electrophysiological patterns poised
at criticality, a dynamical regime which exhibits adaptive computational properties …

Directed and acyclic synaptic connectivity in the human layer 2-3 cortical microcircuit

Y Peng, A Bjelde, PV Aceituno, FX Mittermaier… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The computational capabilities of neuronal networks are fundamentally constrained by their
specific connectivity. Previous studies of cortical connectivity have mostly been carried out in …

Metabolically regulated spiking could serve neuronal energy homeostasis and protect from reactive oxygen species

C Chintaluri, TP Vogels - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
So-called spontaneous activity is a central hallmark of most nervous systems. Such non-
causal firing is contrary to the tenet of spikes as a means of communication, and its purpose …