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Jagdev G, Yu N. Noise-induced synchrony of two-neuron motifs with asymmetric noise and uneven coupling. Front Comput Neurosci 2024; 18:1347748. [PMID: 38463242 PMCID: PMC10920254 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2024.1347748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024] Open
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Synchronous dynamics play a pivotal role in various cognitive processes. Previous studies extensively investigate noise-induced synchrony in coupled neural oscillators, with a focus on scenarios featuring uniform noise and equal coupling strengths between neurons. However, real-world or experimental settings frequently exhibit heterogeneity, including deviations from uniformity in coupling and noise patterns. This study investigates noise-induced synchrony in a pair of coupled excitable neurons operating in a heterogeneous environment, where both noise intensity and coupling strength can vary independently. Each neuron is an excitable oscillator, represented by the normal form of Hopf bifurcation (HB). In the absence of stimulus, these neurons remain quiescent but can be triggered by perturbations, such as noise. Typically, noise and coupling exert opposing influences on neural dynamics, with noise diminishing coherence and coupling promoting synchrony. Our results illustrate the ability of asymmetric noise to induce synchronization in such coupled neural oscillators, with synchronization becoming increasingly pronounced as the system approaches the excitation threshold (i.e., HB). Additionally, we find that uneven coupling strengths and noise asymmetries are factors that can promote in-phase synchrony. Notably, we identify an optimal synchronization state when the absolute difference in coupling strengths is maximized, regardless of the specific coupling strengths chosen. Furthermore, we establish a robust relationship between coupling asymmetry and the noise intensity required to maximize synchronization. Specifically, when one oscillator (receiver neuron) receives a strong input from the other oscillator (source neuron) and the source neuron receives significantly weaker or no input from the receiver neuron, synchrony is maximized when the noise applied to the receiver neuron is much weaker than that applied to the source neuron. These findings reveal the significant connection between uneven coupling and asymmetric noise in coupled neuronal oscillators, shedding light on the enhanced propensity for in-phase synchronization in two-neuron motifs with one-way connections compared to those with two-way connections. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of the functional roles of network motifs that may serve within neuronal dynamics.
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- Gurpreet Jagdev
- Department of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST), Unity Health Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Erlenwein J, Kästner A, Gram M, Falla D, Drewes AM, Przemeck M, Petzke F. Pain chronification impacts whole-brain functional connectivity in women with hip osteoarthritis during pain stimulation. PAIN MEDICINE (MALDEN, MASS.) 2023; 24:1073-1085. [PMID: 37158606 DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnad057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2022] [Revised: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that patients with chronic pain display altered functional connectivity across distributed brain areas involved in the processing of nociceptive stimuli. The aim of the present study was to investigate how pain chronification modulates whole-brain functional connectivity during evoked clinical and tonic pain. METHODS Patients with osteoarthritis of the hip (n = 87) were classified into 3 stages of pain chronification (Grades I-III, Mainz Pain Staging System). Electroencephalograms were recorded during 3 conditions: baseline, evoked clinical hip pain, and tonic cold pain (cold pressor test). The effects of both factors (recording condition and pain chronification stage) on the phase-lag index, as a measure of neuronal connectivity, were examined for different frequency bands. RESULTS In women, we found increasing functional connectivity in the low-frequency range (delta, 0.5-4 Hz) across pain chronification stages during evoked clinical hip pain and tonic cold pain stimulation. In men, elevated functional connectivity in the delta frequency range was observed in only the tonic cold pain condition. CONCLUSIONS Across pain chronification stages, we found that widespread cortical networks increase their synchronization of delta oscillations in response to clinical and experimental nociceptive stimuli. In view of previous studies relating delta oscillations to salience detection and other basic motivational processes, our results hint at these mechanisms playing an important role in pain chronification, mainly in women.
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- Joachim Erlenwein
- Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Clinic, University Medical Centre, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Clinic, University Medical Centre, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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- Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Aalborg University Hospital, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Centre of Precision Rehabilitation for Spinal Pain (CPR Spine), School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Aalborg University Hospital, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
- Clinical Institute, Aalborg University Hospital, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Annastift, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Clinic, University Medical Centre, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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Gansel KS. Neural synchrony in cortical networks: mechanisms and implications for neural information processing and coding. Front Integr Neurosci 2022; 16:900715. [PMID: 36262373 PMCID: PMC9574343 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2022.900715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Synchronization of neuronal discharges on the millisecond scale has long been recognized as a prevalent and functionally important attribute of neural activity. In this article, I review classical concepts and corresponding evidence of the mechanisms that govern the synchronization of distributed discharges in cortical networks and relate those mechanisms to their possible roles in coding and cognitive functions. To accommodate the need for a selective, directed synchronization of cells, I propose that synchronous firing of distributed neurons is a natural consequence of spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) that associates cells repetitively receiving temporally coherent input: the “synchrony through synaptic plasticity” hypothesis. Neurons that are excited by a repeated sequence of synaptic inputs may learn to selectively respond to the onset of this sequence through synaptic plasticity. Multiple neurons receiving coherent input could thus actively synchronize their firing by learning to selectively respond at corresponding temporal positions. The hypothesis makes several predictions: first, the position of the cells in the network, as well as the source of their input signals, would be irrelevant as long as their input signals arrive simultaneously; second, repeating discharge patterns should get compressed until all or some part of the signals are synchronized; and third, this compression should be accompanied by a sparsening of signals. In this way, selective groups of cells could emerge that would respond to some recurring event with synchronous firing. Such a learned response pattern could further be modulated by synchronous network oscillations that provide a dynamic, flexible context for the synaptic integration of distributed signals. I conclude by suggesting experimental approaches to further test this new hypothesis.
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Gamma rhythms in the visual cortex: functions and mechanisms. Cogn Neurodyn 2021; 16:745-756. [PMID: 35847544 PMCID: PMC9279528 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-021-09767-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Gamma-band activity, peaking around 30–100 Hz in the local field potential's power spectrum, has been found and intensively studied in many brain regions. Although gamma is thought to play a critical role in processing neural information in the brain, its cognitive functions and neural mechanisms remain unclear or debatable. Experimental studies showed that gamma rhythms are stochastic in time and vary with visual stimuli. Recent studies further showed that multiple rhythms coexist in V1 with distinct origins in different species. While all these experimental facts are a challenge for understanding the functions of gamma in the visual cortex, there are many signs of progress in computational studies. This review summarizes and discusses studies on gamma in the visual cortex from multiple perspectives and concludes that gamma rhythms are still a mystery. Combining experimental and computational studies seems the best way forward in the future.
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Rochart R, Liu Q, Fonteh AN, Harrington MG, Arakaki X. Compromised Behavior and Gamma Power During Working Memory in Cognitively Healthy Individuals With Abnormal CSF Amyloid/Tau. Front Aging Neurosci 2020; 12:574214. [PMID: 33192465 PMCID: PMC7591805 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.574214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Research shows that gamma activity changes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), revealing synaptic pathology and potential therapeutic applications. We aim to explore whether cognitive challenge combined with quantitative EEG (qEEG) can unmask abnormal gamma frequency power in healthy individuals at high risk of developing AD. We analyzed low (30–50 Hz) and high gamma (50–80 Hz) power over six brain regions at EEG sensor level (frontal/central/parietal/left temporal/right temporal/occipital) in a dataset collected from an aging cohort during N-back working memory (WM) testing at two different load conditions (N = 0 or 2). Cognitively healthy (CH) study participants (≥60 years old) of both sexes were divided into two subgroups: normal amyloid/tau ratios (CH-NAT, n = 10) or pathological amyloid/tau (CH-PAT, n = 14) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). During low load (0-back) challenge, low gamma is higher in CH-PATs than CH-NATs over frontal and central regions (p = 0.014∼0.032, effect size (Cohen’s d) = 0.95∼1.11). However, during high load (2-back) challenge, low gamma is lower in CH-PATs compared to CH-NATs over the left temporal region (p = 0.045, Cohen’s d = −0.96), and high gamma is lower over the parietal region (p = 0.035, Cohen’s d = −1.02). Overall, our studies show a medium to large negative effect size across the scalp (Cohen’s d = −0.51∼−1.02). In addition, low gamma during 2-back is positively correlated with 0-back accuracy over all regions except the occipital region only in CH-NATs (r = 0.69∼0.77, p = 0.0098∼0.027); high gamma during 2-back correlated positively with 0-back accuracy over all regions in CH-NATs (r = 0.68∼0.78, p = 0.007∼0.030); high gamma during 2-back negatively correlated with 0-back response time over parietal, right temporal, and occipital regions in CH-NATs (r = −0.70∼−0.66, p = 0.025∼0.037). We interpret these preliminary results to show: (1) gamma power is compromised in AD-biomarker positive individuals, who are otherwise cognitively healthy (CH-PATs); (2) gamma is associated with WM performance in normal aging (CH-NATs) (most significantly in the frontoparietal region). Our pilot findings encourage further investigations in combining cognitive challenges and qEEG in developing neurophysiology-based markers for identifying individuals in the prodromal stage, to help improving our understanding of AD pathophysiology and the contributions of low- and high-frequency gamma oscillations in cognitive functions.
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- Roger Rochart
- Neurosciences, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China
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- Neurosciences, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA, United States
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- Neurosciences, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA, United States
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- Neurosciences, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA, United States
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Roca P, Diez GG, Castellanos N, Vazquez C. Does mindfulness change the mind? A novel psychonectome perspective based on Network Analysis. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0219793. [PMID: 31318929 PMCID: PMC6638953 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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If the brain is a complex network of functionally specialized areas, it might be expected that mental representations could also behave in a similar way. We propose the concept of ‘psychonectome’ to formalize the idea of psychological constructs forming a dynamic network of mutually dependent elements. As a proof-of-concept of the psychonectome, networks analysis (NA) was used to explore structural changes in the network of constructs resulting from a psychological intervention. NA was applied to explore the effects of an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in healthy participants (N = 182). Psychological functioning was measured by questionnaires assessing five key domains related to MBSR: mindfulness, compassion, psychological well-being, psychological distress and emotional-cognitive control. A total of 25 variables, covering the five constructs, were considered as nodes in the NA. Participants significantly improved in most of the psychological questionnaires. More interesting from a network perspective, there were also significant changes in the topological relationships among the elements. Expected influence and strength centrality indexes revealed that mindfulness and well-being measures were the most central nodes in the networks. The nodes with highest topological change after the MBSR were attentional control, compassion measures, depression and thought suppression. Also, cognitive appraisal, an adaptive emotion regulation strategy, was associated to rumination before the MBSR program but became related to mindfulness and well-being measures after the program. Community analysis revealed a strong topological association between mindfulness, compassion, and emotional regulation, which supports the key role of compassion in mindfulness training. These results highlight the importance of exploring psychological changes from a network perspective and support the conceptual advantage of considering the interconnectedness of psychological constructs in terms of a ‘psychonectome’ as it may reveal ways of functioning that cannot be analyzed through conventional analytic methods.
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- Pablo Roca
- Clinical Psychology Department, School of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Nirakara Institute and Niraka Chair (Complutense University), Madrid, Spain
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- Clinical Psychology Department, School of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Ionic Imbalances and Coupling in Synchronization of Responses in Neurons. J 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/j2010003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Most neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) are a result of changes in the chemical composition of neurons. For example, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the product of Aβ peptide deposition which results in changes in the ion concentration. These changes in ion concentration affect the responses of the neuron to stimuli and often result in inducing excessive excitation or inhibition. This paper investigates the dynamics of a single neuron as ion changes occur. These changes are incorporated using the Nernst equation. Within the central and peripheral nervous system, signals and hence rhythms, are propagated through the coupling of the neurons. It was found that under certain conditions the coupling strength between two neurons could mitigate changes in ion concentration. By defining the state of perfect synchrony, it was shown that the effect of ion imbalance in coupled neurons was reduced while in uncoupled neurons these changes had a more significant impact on the neuronal behavior.
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Schubert L, Körner A, Lindau B, Strack F, Topolinski S. Open-Minded Midwifes, Literate Butchers, and Greedy Hooligans-The Independent Contributions of Stereotype Valence and Consistency on Evaluative Judgments. Front Psychol 2017; 8:1723. [PMID: 29062289 PMCID: PMC5640976 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Do people evaluate an open-minded midwife less positively than a caring midwife? Both open-minded and caring are generally seen as positive attributes. However, consistency varies-the attribute caring is consistent with the midwife stereotype while open-minded is not. In general, both stimulus valence and consistency can influence evaluations. Six experiments investigated the respective influence of valence and consistency on evaluative judgments in the domain of stereotyping. In an impression formation paradigm, valence and consistency of stereotypic information about target persons were manipulated orthogonally and spontaneous evaluations of these target persons were measured. Valence reliably influenced evaluations. However, for strongly valenced stereotypes, no effect of consistency was observed. Parameters possibly preventing the occurrence of consistency effects were ruled out, specifically, valence of inconsistent attributes, processing priority of category information, and impression formation instructions. However, consistency had subtle effects on evaluative judgments if the information about a target person was not strongly valenced and experimental conditions were optimal. Concluding, in principle, both stereotype valence and consistency can play a role in evaluative judgments of stereotypic target persons. However, the more subtle influence of consistency does not seem to substantially influence evaluations of stereotyped target persons. Implications for fluency research and stereotype disconfirmation are discussed.
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- Lisa Schubert
- Institute of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Social Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Social Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Kanno K, Hida T, Uchida A, Bunsen M. Spontaneous exchange of leader-laggard relationship in mutually coupled synchronized semiconductor lasers. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:052212. [PMID: 28618492 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.052212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We investigate the instantaneous behavior of synchronized temporal wave forms in two mutually coupled semiconductor lasers numerically and experimentally. The temporal wave forms of two lasers are synchronized with a propagation delay time, with one laser oscillating in advance of the other, known as the leader-laggard relationship. The leader-laggard relationship can be determined by measuring the cross-correlation between the two temporal wave forms with the propagation delay time. The leader can be identified when the optical carrier frequency of the leader laser is higher than that of the other laser. However, spontaneous exchange between the leader and laggard lasers can be observed in low-frequency fluctuations by short-term cross-correlation measurements, even for a fixed initial optical frequency detuning. The spontaneous exchange of the leader-laggard relationship originates from alternation of partial optical frequency locking between the two lasers. This observation is analyzed using a phase space trajectory on steady-state solutions for mutually coupled lasers with optical frequency detuning.
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- Kazutaka Kanno
- Department of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Johnan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
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- Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
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- Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
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- Department of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Johnan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
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Luo Q, Holroyd T, Mitchell D, Yu H, Cheng X, Hodgkinson C, Chen G, McCaffrey D, Goldman D, Blair RJ. Heightened amygdala responsiveness in s-carriers of 5-HTTLPR genetic polymorphism reflects enhanced cortical rather than subcortical inputs: An MEG study. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38:4313-4321. [PMID: 28580622 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2016] [Revised: 03/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Short allele carriers (S-carriers) of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) show an elevated amygdala response to emotional stimuli relative to long allele carriers (LL-homozygous). However, whether this reflects increased responsiveness of the amygdala generally or interactions between the amygdala and the specific input systems remains unknown. It is argued that the amygdala receives input via a quick subcortical and a slower cortical pathway. If the elevated amygdala response in S-carriers reflects generally increased amygdala responding, then group differences in amygdala should be seen across the amygdala response time course. However, if the difference is a secondary consequence of enhanced amygdala-cortical interactions, then group differences might only be present later in the amygdala response. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we found an enhanced amygdala response to fearful expressions starting 40-50 ms poststimulus. However, group differences in the amygdala were only seen 190-200 ms poststimulus, preceded by increased superior temporal sulcus (STS) responses in S-carriers from 130 to 140 ms poststimulus. An enhanced amygdala response to angry expressions started 260-270 ms poststimulus with group differences in the amygdala starting at 160-170 ms poststimulus onset, preceded by increased STS responses in S-carriers from 150 to 160 ms poststimulus. These suggest that enhanced amygdala responses in S-carriers might reflect enhanced STS-amygdala connectivity in S-carriers. Hum Brain Mapp 38:4313-4321, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Qian Luo
- Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, NIMH/NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- MEG Core Facility, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Anatomy & Cell Biology, Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, NIMH/NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, NIAID/NIH, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, NIMH/NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIAAA/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, NIMH/NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Stupacher J, Wood G, Witte M. Neural Entrainment to Polyrhythms: A Comparison of Musicians and Non-musicians. Front Neurosci 2017; 11:208. [PMID: 28446864 PMCID: PMC5388767 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 03/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Music can be thought of as a dynamic path over time. In most cases, the rhythmic structure of this path, such as specific sequences of strong and weak beats or recurring patterns, allows us to predict what and particularly when sounds are going to happen. Without this ability we would not be able to entrain body movements to music, like we do when we dance. By combining EEG and behavioral measures, the current study provides evidence illustrating the importance of ongoing neural oscillations at beat-related frequencies-i.e., neural entrainment-for tracking and predicting musical rhythms. Participants (13 musicians and 13 non-musicians) listened to drum rhythms that switched from a quadruple rhythm to a 3-over-4 polyrhythm. After a silent period of ~2-3 s, participants had to decide whether a target stimulus was presented on time with the triple beat of the polyrhythm, too early, or too late. Results showed that neural oscillations reflected the rhythmic structure of both the simple quadruple rhythm and the more complex polyrhythm with no differences between musicians and non-musicians. During silent periods, the observation of time-frequency plots and more commonly used frequency spectra analyses suggest that beat-related neural oscillations were more pronounced in musicians compared to non-musicians. Neural oscillations during silent periods are not driven by an external input and therefore are thought to reflect top-down controlled endogenous neural entrainment. The functional relevance of endogenous neural entrainment was demonstrated by a positive correlation between the amplitude of task-relevant neural oscillations during silent periods and the number of correctly identified target stimuli. In sum, our findings add to the evidence supporting the neural resonance theory of pulse and meter. Furthermore, they indicate that beat-related top-down controlled neural oscillations can exist without external stimulation and suggest that those endogenous oscillations are strengthened by musical expertise. Finally, this study shows that the analysis of neural oscillations can be a useful tool to assess how we perceive and process complex auditory stimuli such as polyrhythms.
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- Jan Stupacher
- Department of Psychology, University of GrazGraz, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, University of GrazGraz, Austria.,BioTechMed-GrazGraz, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, University of GrazGraz, Austria
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Cheyette SJ, Plaut DC. Modeling the N400 ERP component as transient semantic over-activation within a neural network model of word comprehension. Cognition 2016; 162:153-166. [PMID: 27871623 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Revised: 10/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The study of the N400 event-related brain potential has provided fundamental insights into the nature of real-time comprehension processes, and its amplitude is modulated by a wide variety of stimulus and context factors. It is generally thought to reflect the difficulty of semantic access, but formulating a precise characterization of this process has proved difficult. Laszlo and colleagues (Laszlo & Plaut, 2012; Laszlo & Armstrong, 2014) used physiologically constrained neural networks to model the N400 as transient over-activation within semantic representations, arising as a consequence of the distribution of excitation and inhibition within and between cortical areas. The current work extends this approach to successfully model effects on both N400 amplitudes and behavior of word frequency, semantic richness, repetition, semantic and associative priming, and orthographic neighborhood size. The account is argued to be preferable to one based on "implicit semantic prediction error" (Rabovsky & McRae, 2014) for a number of reasons, the most fundamental of which is that the current model actually produces N400-like waveforms in its real-time activation dynamics.
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- Samuel J Cheyette
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.
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- Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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Papadelis C, Arfeller C, Erla S, Nollo G, Cattaneo L, Braun C. Inferior frontal gyrus links visual and motor cortices during a visuomotor precision grip force task. Brain Res 2016; 1650:252-266. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Revised: 09/06/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Intracarotid Etomidate Decreases the Interhemispheric Synchronization in Electroencephalogram (EEG) During the Wada Test. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 2016; 28:341-6. [DOI: 10.1097/ana.0000000000000241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Stupacher J, Witte M, Hove MJ, Wood G. Neural Entrainment in Drum Rhythms with Silent Breaks: Evidence from Steady-state Evoked and Event-related Potentials. J Cogn Neurosci 2016; 28:1865-1877. [PMID: 27458750 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The fusion of rhythm, beat perception, and movement is often summarized under the term "entrainment" and becomes obvious when we effortlessly tap our feet or snap our fingers to the pulse of music. Entrainment to music involves a large network of brain structures, and neural oscillations at beat-related frequencies can help elucidate how this network is connected. Here, we used EEG to investigate steady-state evoked potentials (SSEPs) and event-related potentials (ERPs) during listening and tapping to drum clips with different rhythmic structures that were interrupted by silent breaks of 2-6 sec. This design allowed us to address the question of whether neural entrainment processes persist after the physical presence of musical rhythms and to link neural oscillations and event-related neural responses. During stimulus presentation, SSEPs were elicited in both tasks (listening and tapping). During silent breaks, SSEPs were only present in the tapping task. Notably, the amplitude of the N1 ERP component was more negative after longer silent breaks, and both N1 and SSEP results indicate that neural entrainment was increased when listening to drum rhythms compared with an isochronous metronome. Taken together, this suggests that neural entrainment to music is not solely driven by the physical input but involves endogenous timing processes. Our findings break ground for a tighter linkage between steady-state and transient evoked neural responses in rhythm processing. Beyond music perception, they further support the crucial role of entrained oscillatory activity in shaping sensory, motor, and cognitive processes in general.
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Kober SE, Reichert JL, Neuper C, Wood G. Interactive effects of age and gender on EEG power and coherence during a short-term memory task in middle-aged adults. Neurobiol Aging 2016; 40:127-137. [PMID: 26973112 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The effects of age and gender on electroencephalographic (EEG) activity during a short-term memory task were assessed in a group of 40 healthy participants aged 22-63 years. Multi-channel EEG was recorded in 20 younger (mean = 24.65-year-old, 10 male) and 20 middle-aged participants (mean = 46.40-year-old, 10 male) during performance of a Sternberg task. EEG power and coherence measures were analyzed in different frequency bands. Significant interactions emerged between age and gender in memory performance and concomitant EEG parameters, suggesting that the aging process differentially influences men and women. Middle-aged women showed a lower short-term memory performance compared to young women, which was accompanied by decreasing delta and theta power and increasing brain connectivity with age in women. In contrast, men showed no age-related decline in short-term memory performance and no changes in EEG parameters. These results provide first evidence of age-related alterations in EEG activity underlying memory processes, which were already evident in the middle years of life in women but not in men.
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- Silvia Erika Kober
- Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria; Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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Van Hecke AV, Stevens S, Carson AM, Karst JS, Dolan B, Schohl K, McKindles RJ, Remmel R, Brockman S. Measuring the plasticity of social approach: a randomized controlled trial of the effects of the PEERS intervention on EEG asymmetry in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 2015; 45:316-35. [PMID: 23812665 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-013-1883-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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This study examined whether the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS: Social skills for teenagers with developmental and autism spectrum disorders: The PEERS treatment manual, Routledge, New York, 2010a) affected neural function, via EEG asymmetry, in a randomized controlled trial of adolescents with Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a group of typically developing adolescents. Adolescents with ASD in PEERS shifted from right-hemisphere gamma-band EEG asymmetry before PEERS to left-hemisphere EEG asymmetry after PEERS, versus a waitlist ASD group. Left-hemisphere EEG asymmetry was associated with more social contacts and knowledge, and fewer symptoms of autism. Adolescents with ASD in PEERS no longer differed from typically developing adolescents in left-dominant EEG asymmetry at post-test. These findings are discussed via the Modifier Model of Autism (Mundy et al. in Res Pract Persons Severe Disabl 32(2):124, 2007), with emphasis on remediating isolation/withdrawal in ASD.
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- Amy Vaughan Van Hecke
- Department of Psychology, Marquette University, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI, 53201-1881, USA,
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Gramowski-Voß A, Schwertle HJ, Pielka AM, Schultz L, Steder A, Jügelt K, Axmann J, Pries W. Enhancement of Cortical Network Activity in vitro and Promotion of GABAergic Neurogenesis by Stimulation with an Electromagnetic Field with a 150 MHz Carrier Wave Pulsed with an Alternating 10 and 16 Hz Modulation. Front Neurol 2015; 6:158. [PMID: 26236278 PMCID: PMC4500930 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2015] [Accepted: 06/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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In recent years, various stimuli were identified capable of enhancing neurogenesis, a process which is dysfunctional in the senescent brain and in neurodegenerative and certain neuropsychiatric diseases. Applications of electromagnetic fields to brain tissue have been shown to affect cellular properties and their importance for therapies in medicine is recognized. In this study, differentiating murine cortical networks on multiwell microelectrode arrays were repeatedly exposed to an extremely low-electromagnetic field (ELEMF) with alternating 10 and 16 Hz frequencies piggy backed onto a 150 MHz carrier frequency. The ELEMF exposure stimulated the electrical network activity and intensified the structure of bursts. Further, the exposure to electromagnetic fields within the first 28 days in vitro of the differentiation of the network activity induced also reorganization within the burst structure. This effect was already most pronounced at 14 days in vitro after 10 days of exposure. Overall, the development of cortical activity under these conditions was accelerated. These functional electrophysiological changes were accompanied by morphological ones. The percentage of neurons in the neuron glia co-culture was increased without affecting the total number of cells, indicating an enhancement of neurogenesis. The ELEMF exposure selectively promoted the proliferation of a particular population of neurons, evidenced by the increased proportion of GABAergic neurons. The results support the initial hypothesis that this kind of ELEMF stimulation could be a treatment option for specific indications with promising potential for CNS applications, especially for degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
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- Division of Electrophysiology, NeuroProof GmbH , Rostock , Germany ; Division of Molecular Biology, NeuroProof GmbH , Rostock , Germany
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- Division of Electrophysiology, NeuroProof GmbH , Rostock , Germany
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- Engineering Office for Bioresonance and Environmental Technology , Werder/Havel , Germany
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Poel W, Zakharova A, Schöll E. Partial synchronization and partial amplitude death in mesoscale network motifs. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:022915. [PMID: 25768577 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.022915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We study the interplay between network topology and complex space-time patterns and introduce a concept to analytically predict complex patterns in networks of Stuart-Landau oscillators with linear symmetric and instantaneous coupling based solely on the network topology. These patterns consist of partial amplitude death and partial synchronization and are found to exist in large variety for all undirected networks of up to 5 nodes. The underlying concept is proved to be robust with respect to frequency mismatch and can also be extended to larger networks. In addition it directly links the stability of complete in-phase synchronization to only a small subset of topological eigenvalues of a network.
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- Winnie Poel
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Chen CMA, Stanford AD, Mao X, Abi-Dargham A, Shungu DC, Lisanby SH, Schroeder CE, Kegeles LS. GABA level, gamma oscillation, and working memory performance in schizophrenia. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2014; 4:531-9. [PMID: 24749063 PMCID: PMC3989525 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2014] [Revised: 03/17/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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A relationship between working memory impairment, disordered neuronal oscillations, and abnormal prefrontal GABA function has been hypothesized in schizophrenia; however, in vivo GABA measurements and gamma band neural synchrony have not yet been compared in schizophrenia. This case–control pilot study (N = 24) compared baseline and working memory task-induced neuronal oscillations acquired with high-density electroencephalograms (EEGs) to GABA levels measured in vivo with magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Working memory performance, baseline GABA level in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and measures of gamma oscillations from EEGs at baseline and during a working memory task were obtained. A major limitation of this study is a relatively small sample size for several analyses due to the integration of diverse methodologies and participant compliance. Working memory performance was significantly lower for patients than for controls. During the working memory task, patients (n = 7) had significantly lower amplitudes in gamma oscillations than controls (n = 9). However, both at rest and across working memory stages, there were significant correlations between gamma oscillation amplitude and left DLPFC GABA level. Peak gamma frequency during the encoding stage of the working memory task (n = 16) significantly correlated with GABA level and working memory performance. Despite gamma band amplitude deficits in patients across working memory stages, both baseline and working memory-induced gamma oscillations showed strong dependence on baseline GABA levels in patients and controls. These findings suggest a critical role for GABA function in gamma band oscillations, even under conditions of system and cognitive impairments as seen in schizophrenia. We compared in vivo GABA measures and gamma band oscillations in schizophrenia. Correlations between left DLPFC GABA and gamma amplitude were significant. Peak gamma frequency significantly correlated with GABA and performance. Patients had significantly lower amplitudes in gamma oscillations than controls. Working memory performance was significantly lower for patients than for controls.
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- Chi-Ming A Chen
- Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Institute for the Neurosciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, 516 East 72nd Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA ; Department of Radiology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, 516 East 72nd Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Trent Drive and Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA ; Department of Radiology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Mori K, Manabe H, Narikiyo K, Onisawa N. Olfactory consciousness and gamma oscillation couplings across the olfactory bulb, olfactory cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex. Front Psychol 2013; 4:743. [PMID: 24137148 PMCID: PMC3797617 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2013] [Accepted: 09/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The orbitofrontal cortex receives multi-modality sensory inputs, including olfactory input, and is thought to be involved in conscious perception of the olfactory image of objects. Generation of olfactory consciousness may require neuronal circuit mechanisms for the “binding” of distributed neuronal activities, with each constituent neuron representing a specific component of an olfactory percept. The shortest neuronal pathway for odor signals to reach the orbitofrontal cortex is olfactory sensory neuron—olfactory bulb—olfactory cortex—orbitofrontal cortex, but other pathways exist, including transthalamic pathways. Here, we review studies on the structural organization and functional properties of the shortest pathway, and propose a model of neuronal circuit mechanisms underlying the temporal bindings of distributed neuronal activities in the olfactory cortex. We describe a hypothesis that suggests functional roles of gamma oscillations in the bindings. This hypothesis proposes that two types of projection neurons in the olfactory bulb, tufted cells and mitral cells, play distinct functional roles in bindings at neuronal circuits in the olfactory cortex: tufted cells provide specificity-projecting circuits which send odor information with early-onset fast gamma synchronization, while mitral cells give rise to dispersedly-projecting feed-forward binding circuits which transmit the response synchronization timing with later-onset slow gamma synchronization. This hypothesis also suggests a sequence of bindings in the olfactory cortex: a small-scale binding by the early-phase fast gamma synchrony of tufted cell inputs followed by a larger-scale binding due to the later-onset slow gamma synchrony of mitral cell inputs. We discuss that behavioral state, including wakefulness and sleep, regulates gamma oscillation couplings across the olfactory bulb, olfactory cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex.
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- Kensaku Mori
- Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan ; Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST, Tokyo, Japan
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Brázdil M, Janeček J, Klimeš P, Mareček R, Roman R, Jurák P, Chládek J, Daniel P, Rektor I, Halámek J, Plešinger F, Jirsa V. On the time course of synchronization patterns of neuronal discharges in the human brain during cognitive tasks. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63293. [PMID: 23696809 PMCID: PMC3655978 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 03/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Using intracerebral EEG recordings in a large cohort of human subjects, we investigate the time course of neural cross-talk during a simple cognitive task. Our results show that human brain dynamics undergo a characteristic sequence of synchronization patterns across different frequency bands following a visual oddball stimulus. In particular, an initial global reorganization in the delta and theta bands (2-8 Hz) is followed by gamma (20-95 Hz) and then beta band (12-20 Hz) synchrony.
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- Milan Brázdil
- Behavioural and Social Neuroscience Research Group, CEITEC-Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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To investigate whether self-reflection on personality traits engages distinct neural mechanisms of self-related attentional orientation and self-related evaluation, we recorded electroencephalograms from adults while they made trait judgments about themselves and an age- and gender-matched friend, or judgments of word valence. Each trial consisted of a cue word that indicated a target person for trait judgment or instructed valence judgment, followed by a trait adjective to be evaluated. Using a wavelet analysis, we calculated time-frequency power at each electrode and phase synchrony between electrode pairs associated with self-, friend- or valence-cues and with trait adjectives during trait or valence judgments. Relative to friend- and valence-cues, self-cues elicited increased synchronous activity in delta (2-4Hz), theta (5-7Hz), alpha (8-13Hz), beta (14-26Hz), and gamma (28-40Hz) bands, and increased large-scale phase synchrony in these frequency bands. Self-related evaluation compared to friend-related evaluation during trait judgments induced stronger desynchronization in alpha, beta and gamma band activities, and decreased phase synchrony in alpha and gamma band activities. Our findings suggest that self-related attentional orientation and self-related evaluation engage distinct neural mechanisms that are respectively characterized by synchrony and desynchrony of neural activity in local assemblies and between long-distance brain regions.
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- Yan Mu
- Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China
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Vecchiato G, Susac A, Margeti S, De Vico Fallani F, Maglione AG, Supek S, Planinic M, Babiloni F. High-resolution EEG analysis of power spectral density maps and coherence networks in a proportional reasoning task. Brain Topogr 2012; 26:303-14. [PMID: 23053602 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0259-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2012] [Accepted: 09/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Proportional reasoning is very important logical skill required in mathematics and science problem solving as well as in everyday life decisions. However, there is a lack of studies on neurophysiological correlates of proportional reasoning. To explore the brain activity of healthy adults while performing a balance scale task, we used high-resolution EEG techniques and graph-theory based connectivity analysis. After unskilled subjects learned how to properly solve the task, their cortical power spectral density (PSD) maps revealed an increased parietal activity in the beta band. This indicated that subjects started to perform calculations. In addition, the number of inter-hemispheric connections decreased after learning, implying a rearrangement of the brain activity. Repeated performance of the task led to the PSD decrease in the beta and gamma bands among parietal and frontal regions along with a synchronization of lower frequencies. These findings suggest that repetition led to a more automatic task performance. Subjects were also divided in two groups according to their scores on the test of logical thinking (TOLT). Although no group differences in the accuracy and reaction times were found, EEG data showed higher activity in the beta and gamma bands for the group that scored better on TOLT. Learning and repetition induced changes in the pattern of functional connectivity were evident for all frequency bands. Overall, the results indicated that higher frequency oscillations in frontal and parietal regions are particularly important for proportional reasoning.
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- Giovanni Vecchiato
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Wilmer A, de Lussanet M, Lappe M. Time-delayed mutual information of the phase as a measure of functional connectivity. PLoS One 2012; 7:e44633. [PMID: 23028571 PMCID: PMC3445535 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 08/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We propose a time-delayed mutual information of the phase for detecting nonlinear synchronization in electrophysiological data such as MEG. Palus already introduced the mutual information as a measure of synchronization. To obtain estimates on small data-sets as reliably as possible, we adopt the numerical implementation as proposed by Kraskov and colleagues. An embedding with a parametric time-delay allows a reconstruction of arbitrary nonstationary connective structures--so-called connectivity patterns--in a wide class of systems such as coupled oscillatory or even purely stochastic driven processes. By using this method we do not need to make any assumptions about coupling directions, delay times, temporal dynamics, nonlinearities or underlying mechanisms. For verifying and refining the methods we generate synthetic data-sets by a mutual amplitude coupled network of Rössler oscillators with an a-priori known connective structure. This network is modified in such a way, that the power-spectrum forms a 1/f power law, which is also observed in electrophysiological recordings. The functional connectivity measure is tested on robustness to additive uncorrelated noise and in discrimination of linear mixed input data. For the latter issue a suitable de-correlation technique is applied. Furthermore, the compatibility to inverse methods for a source reconstruction in MEG such as beamforming techniques is controlled by dedicated dipole simulations. Finally, the method is applied on an experimental MEG recording.
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- Andreas Wilmer
- Department of Psychology, Otto-Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (OCC), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
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Michels L, Lüchinger R, Koenig T, Martin E, Brandeis D. Developmental changes of BOLD signal correlations with global human EEG power and synchronization during working memory. PLoS One 2012; 7:e39447. [PMID: 22792176 PMCID: PMC3391196 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2011] [Accepted: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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In humans, theta band (5–7 Hz) power typically increases when performing cognitively demanding working memory (WM) tasks, and simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings have revealed an inverse relationship between theta power and the BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent) signal in the default mode network during WM. However, synchronization also plays a fundamental role in cognitive processing, and the level of theta and higher frequency band synchronization is modulated during WM. Yet, little is known about the link between BOLD, EEG power, and EEG synchronization during WM, and how these measures develop with human brain maturation or relate to behavioral changes. We examined EEG-BOLD signal correlations from 18 young adults and 15 school-aged children for age-dependent effects during a load-modulated Sternberg WM task. Frontal load (in-)dependent EEG theta power was significantly enhanced in children compared to adults, while adults showed stronger fMRI load effects. Children demonstrated a stronger negative correlation between global theta power and the BOLD signal in the default mode network relative to adults. Therefore, we conclude that theta power mediates the suppression of a task-irrelevant network. We further conclude that children suppress this network even more than adults, probably from an increased level of task-preparedness to compensate for not fully mature cognitive functions, reflected in lower response accuracy and increased reaction time. In contrast to power, correlations between instantaneous theta global field synchronization and the BOLD signal were exclusively positive in both age groups but only significant in adults in the frontal-parietal and posterior cingulate cortices. Furthermore, theta synchronization was weaker in children and was –in contrast to EEG power– positively correlated with response accuracy in both age groups. In summary we conclude that theta EEG-BOLD signal correlations differ between spectral power and synchronization and that these opposite correlations with different distributions undergo similar and significant neuronal developments with brain maturation.
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- Lars Michels
- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
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ZOURIDAKIS GEORGE, PATIDAR UDIT, SITU NING, REZAIE ROOZBEH, CASTILLO EDUARDOM, LEVIN HARVEYS, PAPANICOLAOU ANDREWC. FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY CHANGES IN MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY ASSESSED USING MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY. J MECH MED BIOL 2012. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219519412400064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In this study, we analyzed brain connectivity profiles from 10 mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients and 10 age- and gender-matched normal controls. We computed Granger causality measures from magnetoencephalographic (MEG) activity obtained at the resting state, in an attempt to understand how the default network is affected by mTBI. A connectivity matrix was computed for each subject individually and then group templates were estimated by averaging all matrices in each group. Furthermore, we performed classification of the subjects using support vector machines and Fisher's criterion to rank the features and identify the best subset for maximum separation of the groups. Our results show that a combined model based on connectivity matrices and graph theory measures can provide a minimum of 85% classification accuracy in separating the two groups, with a sensitivity and specificity of 90% and 80%, respectively. These findings suggest that analysis of functional connectivity patterns may provide a valuable tool for early detection of mTBI.
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- GEORGE ZOURIDAKIS
- Engineering Technology, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 218 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX 77204-3058, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 218 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX 77204-3058, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 218 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX 77204-3058, USA
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- Center for Clinical Neurosciences, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Clinical Neurosciences, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Good vibrations, bad vibrations: Oscillatory brain activity in the attentional blink. Adv Cogn Psychol 2011; 7:92-107. [PMID: 22253672 PMCID: PMC3259030 DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0089-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2011] [Accepted: 08/30/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The attentional blink (AB) is a deficit in reporting the second
(T2) of two targets (T1, T2) when presented in close temporal succession and
within a stream of distractor stimuli. The AB has received a great deal of
attention in the past two decades because it allows to study the mechanisms that
influence the rate and depth of information processing in various setups and
therefore provides an elegant way to study correlates of conscious perception in
supra-threshold stimuli. Recently evidence has accumulated suggesting that
oscillatory signals play a significant role in temporally coordinating
information between brain areas. This review focuses on studies looking into
oscillatory brain activity in the AB. The results of these studies indicate that
the AB is related to modulations in oscillatory brain activity in the theta,
alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands. These modulations are sometimes
restricted to a circumscribed brain area but more frequently include several
brain regions. They occur before targets are presented as well as after the
presentation of the targets. We will argue that the complexity of the findings
supports the idea that the AB is not the result of a processing impairment in
one particular process or brain area, but the consequence of a dynamic interplay
between several processes and/or parts of a neural network.
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A comparison of multivariate causality based measures of effective connectivity. Comput Biol Med 2011; 41:1132-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2010] [Revised: 06/03/2011] [Accepted: 06/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Chen CMA, Mathalon DH, Roach BJ, Cavus I, Spencer DD, Ford JM. The corollary discharge in humans is related to synchronous neural oscillations. J Cogn Neurosci 2011; 23:2892-904. [PMID: 20946054 PMCID: PMC4155919 DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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How do animals distinguish between sensations coming from external sources and those resulting from their own actions? A corollary discharge system has evolved that involves the transmission of a copy of motor commands to sensory cortex, where the expected sensation is generated. Through this mechanism, sensations are tagged as coming from self, and responsiveness to them is minimized. The present study investigated whether neural phase synchrony between motor command and auditory cortical areas is related to the suppression of the auditory cortical response. We recorded electrocorticograms from the human brain during a vocalizing/listening task. Neural phase synchrony between Broca's area and auditory cortex in the gamma band (35 to ∼50 Hz) in the 50-msec time window preceding speech onset was greater during vocalizing than during listening to a playback of the same spoken sounds. Because prespeech neural synchrony was correlated (r = -.83, p = .006), with the subsequent suppression of the auditory cortical response to the spoken sound, we hypothesize that phase synchrony in the gamma band between Broca's area and auditory cortex is the neural instantiation of the transmission of a copy of motor commands. We suggest that neural phase synchrony of gamma frequencies may contribute to transmission of corollary discharges in humans.
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- Chi-Ming A. Chen
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 21, New York, NY 10032
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 300 George St., New Haven, CT 06511
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 300 George St., New Haven, CT 06511
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, SFVA, 4150 Clement Street, Building 8, Room 9B-30 116D, San Francisco, CA 94121
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 300 George St., New Haven, CT 06511
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, SFVA, 4150 Clement Street, Building 8, Room 9B-30 116D, San Francisco, CA 94121
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 300 George St., New Haven, CT 06511
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University, 789 Howard Ave., New Haven, CT 06519
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 300 George St., New Haven, CT 06511
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, SFVA, 4150 Clement Street, Building 8, Room 9B-30 116D, San Francisco, CA 94121
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Hicke K, D'Huys O, Flunkert V, Schöll E, Danckaert J, Fischer I. Mismatch and synchronization: influence of asymmetries in systems of two delay-coupled lasers. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 83:056211. [PMID: 21728634 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.056211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2010] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We study the synchronization properties of the delay dynamics of two identical semiconductor lasers coupled through a semitransparent mirror. Via an analytical and numerical approach, we investigate the influence of asymmetries, in particular mismatches of self- and cross-coupling strength and differences in self- and cross-coupling delay. We show that the former mismatch affects the stability of the zero-lag state but not the dynamics within the synchronization manifold, while the latter mismatch does not affect the quality of synchronization but alters the dynamics significantly. Our results are extended to different unidirectional coupling schemes. This is highly relevant for communication schemes utilizing chaotic dynamics. Finally, the influence of nonlinear gain saturation on the dynamics and stability of synchronization is discussed.
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- K Hicke
- Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC), UIB-CSIC, Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Pollonini L, Patidar U, Situ N, Rezaie R, Papanicolaou AC, Zouridakis G. Functional connectivity networks in the autistic and healthy brain assessed using Granger causality. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011; 2010:1730-3. [PMID: 21096408 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2010.5626702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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In this study, we analyze brain connectivity based on Granger causality computed from magnetoencephalographic (MEG) activity obtained at the resting state in eight autistic and eight normal subjects along with measures of network connectivity derived from graph theory in an attempt to understand how communication in a human brain network is affected by autism. A connectivity matrix was computed for each subject individually and then group templates were estimated by averaging all matrices in each group. Furthermore, we performed classification of the subjects using support vector machines and Fisher's criterion to rank the features and identify the best subset for maximum separation of the groups. Our results show that a combined model based on connectivity matrices and graph theory measures can provide 87.5% accuracy in separating the two groups. These findings suggest that analysis of functional connectivity patterns may provide a valuable method for the early detection of autism.
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- Luca Pollonini
- Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
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De Vico Fallani F, Astolfi L, Cincotti F, Mattia D, Maglione AG, Vecchiato G, Toppi J, Della Penna F, Salinari S, Babiloni F, Zouridakis G. Large-scale cortical networks estimated from scalp EEG signals during performance of goal-directed motor tasks. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011; 2010:1738-41. [PMID: 21096410 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2010.5626710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The evaluation of the topological properties of brain networks is an emergent research topic, since the estimated cerebral connectivity patterns often have relatively large size and complex structure. Since a graph is a mathematical representation of a network, the use of a theoretical graph approach would describe concisely the topological features of the functional brain connectivity network estimated using neuroimaging techniques. In the present study, we analyze the changes in brain synchronization networks using high-resolution EEG signals obtained during performance of a complex goal-directed visuomotor task. Our results show that the cortical network is more stable when subjects reach the goal than when they fail by hitting an obstacle. These findings suggest the presence of a possible cerebral "marker" for motor actions that result in successful reaching of a target.
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D'Huys O, Vicente R, Danckaert J, Fischer I. Amplitude and phase effects on the synchronization of delay-coupled oscillators. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2010; 20:043127. [PMID: 21198097 DOI: 10.1063/1.3518363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We consider the behavior of Stuart-Landau oscillators as generic limit-cycle oscillators when they are interacting with delay. We investigate the role of amplitude and phase instabilities in producing symmetry-breaking/restoring transitions. Using analytical and numerical methods we compare the dynamics of one oscillator with delayed feedback, two oscillators mutually coupled with delay, and two delay-coupled elements with self-feedback. Taking only the phase dynamics into account, no chaotic dynamics is observed, and the stability of the identical synchronization solution is the same in each of the three studied networks of delay-coupled elements. When allowing for a variable oscillation amplitude, the delay can induce amplitude instabilities. We provide analytical proof that, in case of two mutually coupled elements, the onset of an amplitude instability always results in antiphase oscillations, leading to a leader-laggard behavior in the chaotic regime. Adding self-feedback with the same strength and delay as the coupling stabilizes the system in the transverse direction and, thus, promotes the onset of identically synchronized behavior.
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- O D'Huys
- Department of Physics (DNTK), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium.
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Scherbaum S, Fischer R, Dshemuchadse M, Goschke T. The dynamics of cognitive control: evidence for within-trial conflict adaptation from frequency-tagged EEG. Psychophysiology 2010; 48:591-600. [PMID: 21044093 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01137.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A central topic in the cognitive sciences is how cognitive control is adapted flexibly to changing task demands. Conflict monitoring theory originally proposed conflict triggered adjustments of cognitive control after a conflict trial to improve subsequent performance. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that readjustments of cognitive control occur continuously within a conflict trial itself. Using frequency tagged electroencephalogram in a flanker task, we traced the allocation of attention to target and distracter stimuli. We found evidence for a conflict-triggered within-trial contrast enhancement dissociating target and distracters. This contrast enhancement vanished for consecutive trials with constant tagging frequencies, indicating that trial-to-trial conflict adaptation effects may, at least partly, be the product of interacting processes serving conflict resolution within trials.
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- Stefan Scherbaum
- Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
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Ok DM, Park HS. A Study on Applicability of EEG Spectral Relative Power as a Measure of Expertise Level. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.5143/jesk.2010.29.5.741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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There has been a long controversy concerning whether the amygdala's response to emotional stimuli is automatic or dependent on attentional load. Using magnoencephalography and an advanced beamformer source localization technique, we found that amygdala automaticity was a function of time: while early amygdala responding to emotional stimuli (40-140 ms) was unaffected by attentional load, later amygdala response (280-410 ms), subsequent to frontoparietal cortex activity, was modulated by attentional load.
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Sheeba JH, Chandrasekar VK, Lakshmanan M. Chimera and globally clustered chimera: impact of time delay. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:046203. [PMID: 20481803 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.046203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2009] [Revised: 01/11/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Following a short report of our preliminary results [Sheeba, Phys. Rev. E 79, 055203(R) (2009)], we present a more detailed study of the effects of coupling delay in diffusively coupled phase oscillator populations. We find that coupling delay induces chimera and globally clustered chimera (GCC) states in delay coupled populations. We show the existence of multiclustered states that act as link between the chimera and the GCC states. A stable GCC state goes through a variety of GCC states, namely, periodic, aperiodic, long- and short-period breathers and becomes unstable GCC leading to global synchronization in the system, on increasing time delay. We provide numerical evidence and theoretical explanations for the above results and discuss possible applications of the observed phenomena.
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- Jane H Sheeba
- Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 620 024, Tamilnadu, India
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de Vico Fallani F, Astolfi L, Cincotti F, Mattia D, la Rocca D, Maksuti E, Salinari S, Babiloni F, Vegso B, Kozmann G, Nagy Z. Evaluation of the brain network organization from EEG signals: a preliminary evidence in stroke patient. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2010; 292:2023-31. [PMID: 19943355 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Synchronous brain activity in motor cortex in perception or in complex cognitive processing has been the subject of several studies. The advanced analysis of cerebral electro-physiological activity during the course of planning (PRE) or execution of movement (EXE) in a high temporal resolution could reveal interesting information about the brain functional organization in patients following stroke damage. High-power (128 channels) electroencephalography registration was carried out on 8 healthy subjects and on a patient with stroke with capsular lacuna in the right hemisphere. For activation of motor cortex, the finger tapping paradigm was used. In this preliminary study, we tested a theoretical graph approach to characterize the task-related spectral coherence. All of the obtained brain functional networks were analyzed by the connectivity degree, the degree distribution, and efficiency parameters in the Theta, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma bands during the PRE and EXE intervals. All the brain networks were found to hold a regular and ordered topology. However, significant differences (P < 0.01) emerged between the patient with stroke and the control subjects, independently of the neural processes related to the PRE or EXE periods. In the Beta (13-29 Hz) and Gamma (30-40 Hz) bands, the significant (P < 0.01) decrease in global- and local-efficiency in the patient's networks, reflected a lower capacity to integrate communication between distant brain regions and a lower tendency to be modular. This weak organization is principally due to the significant (P < 0.01 Bonferroni corrected) increase in disconnected nodes together with the significant increase in the links in some other crucial vertices.
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- Fabrizio de Vico Fallani
- Laboratory of Neurofisiopatologia Clinica, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, Rome, Italy
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Voss U, Holzmann R, Tuin I, Hobson JA. Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming. Sleep 2009; 32:1191-200. [PMID: 19750924 PMCID: PMC2737577 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/32.9.1191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES The goal of the study was to seek physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dissociated state with aspects of waking and dreaming combined in a way so as to suggest a specific alteration in brain physiology for which we now present preliminary but intriguing evidence. We show that the unusual combination of hallucinatory dream activity and wake-like reflective awareness and agentive control experienced in lucid dreams is paralleled by significant changes in electrophysiology. DESIGN 19-channel EEG was recorded on up to 5 nights for each participant. Lucid episodes occurred as a result of pre-sleep autosuggestion. SETTING Sleep laboratory of the Neurological Clinic, Frankfurt University. PARTICIPANTS Six student volunteers who had been trained to become lucid and to signal lucidity through a pattern of horizontal eye movements. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Results show lucid dreaming to have REM-like power in frequency bands delta and theta, and higher-than-REM activity in the gamma band, the between-states-difference peaking around 40 Hz. Power in the 40 Hz band is strongest in the frontal and frontolateral region. Overall coherence levels are similar in waking and lucid dreaming and significantly higher than in REM sleep, throughout the entire frequency spectrum analyzed. Regarding specific frequency bands, waking is characterized by high coherence in alpha, and lucid dreaming by increased delta and theta band coherence. In lucid dreaming, coherence is largest in frontolateral and frontal areas. CONCLUSIONS Our data show that lucid dreaming constitutes a hybrid state of consciousness with definable and measurable differences from waking and from REM sleep, particularly in frontal areas.
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- Ursula Voss
- JW Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Bonn, Germany.
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An individual, human or animal, is defined to be in a conscious state empirically by the behavioral ability to respond meaningfully to stimuli, whereas the loss of consciousness is defined by unresponsiveness. PET measurements of glucose or oxygen consumption show a widespread approximately 45% reduction in cerebral energy consumption with anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness. Because baseline brain energy consumption has been shown by (13)C magnetic resonance spectroscopy to be almost exclusively dedicated to neuronal signaling, we propose that the high level of brain energy is a necessary property of the conscious state. Two additional neuronal properties of the conscious state change with anesthesia. The delocalized fMRI activity patterns in rat brain during sensory stimulation at a higher energy state (close to the awake) collapse to a contralateral somatosensory response at lower energy state (deep anesthesia). Firing rates of an ensemble of neurons in the rat somatosensory cortex shift from the gamma-band range (20-40 Hz) at higher energy state to <10 Hz at lower energy state. With the conscious state defined by the individual's behavior and maintained by high cerebral energy, measurable properties of that state are the widespread fMRI patterns and high frequency neuronal activity, both of which support the extensive interregional communication characteristic of consciousness. This usage of high brain energies when the person is in the "state" of consciousness differs from most studies, which attend the smaller energy increments observed during the stimulations that form the "contents" of that state.
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Sheeba JH, Chandrasekar VK, Lakshmanan M. Globally clustered chimera states in delay-coupled populations. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 79:055203. [PMID: 19518512 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.055203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2009] [Revised: 04/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We have identified the existence of globally clustered chimera states in delay-coupled oscillator populations and find that these states can breathe periodically and aperiodically and become unstable depending upon the value of coupling delay. We also find that the coupling delay induces frequency suppression in the desynchronized group. We provide numerical evidence and theoretical explanations for the above results and discuss possible applications of the observed phenomena.
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- Jane H Sheeba
- Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620024 Tamilnadu, India
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Uclés P, Méndez M, Garay J. Low-level defective processing of non-verbal sounds in dyslexic children. DYSLEXIA (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2009; 15:72-85. [PMID: 18324649 DOI: 10.1002/dys.360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We compared processing of non-verbal auditory stimuli by dyslexic and non-dyslexic children using electrophysiological methods. The study included 39 children (17 with dyslexia plus 22 controls) assessed via frontal, central, parietal, and temporal electrodes. As an extension of previous P300 event-related potential studies, we analysed variations in the power values of 40-Hz oscillations (gamma-band oscillations involved in cognitive processing) during a specific time window in response to the auditory 'oddball' paradigm that entail target (random 2 kHz) and standard (frequent 1 kHz) stimuli. Dyslexic children differed significantly from controls (P<0.001) in the mean power of the wavelet-transformed 40-Hz oscillation in a time interval starting at 25 ms after stimulus onset up to 50 ms. This means defective processing of sounds. Within groups, standard and target tones elicited significantly different power values (P<0.001). Correlations of values between standard and target responses at each electrode position were not significant within either group, although dyslexics showed a lower correlation than controls. Significant differences in the mean power of these oscillations detected at very early stages of auditory processing in dyslexic children and the wide range of mean values reveal impairment in processing non-verbal sounds in dyslexia. Our results also support recent findings using behavioural and electrophysiological methods suggesting that dyslexia is a general auditory deficit instead of a speech-specific deficit.
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- Paulino Uclés
- University Hospital Miguel Servet, Service of Clinical Neurophysiology, Zaragoza, Spain.
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Sheeba JH, Chandrasekar VK, Stefanovska A, McClintock PVE. Asymmetry-induced effects in coupled phase-oscillator ensembles: Routes to synchronization. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 79:046210. [PMID: 19518315 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.046210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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A system of two coupled ensembles of phase oscillators can follow different routes to interensemble synchronization. Following a short report of our preliminary results [Phys. Rev. E 78, 025201(R) (2008)], we present a more detailed study of the effects of coupling, noise, and phase asymmetries in coupled phase-oscillator ensembles. We identify five distinct synchronization regions and routes to synchronization that are characteristic of the coupling asymmetry. We show that noise asymmetry induces effects similar to that of coupling asymmetry when the latter is absent. We also find that phase asymmetry controls the probability of occurrence of particular routes to synchronization. Our results suggest that asymmetry plays a crucial role in controlling synchronization within and between oscillator ensembles, and hence that its consideration is vital for modeling real life problems.
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- Jane H Sheeba
- Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, United Kingdom
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Blinowska KJ, Kaminski M, Kus R, Ginter J. Transmission of brain activity in cognitive and motor tasks. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2009; 2008:3508-11. [PMID: 19163465 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The Short-time Directed Transfer Function was used for estimation of dynamical patterns of brain activity propagation. The SDTF is based on the multivariate autoregressive model, where all channels of the process are considered simultaneously. Time-frequency patterns of EEG propagation were found for the task of finger movement and its imagination and for the Continuous Attention Test. The results supported the neurophysiological hypotheses concerning information processing in brain and in particular the theory of active inhibition.
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Korzeniewska A, Crainiceanu CM, Kuś R, Franaszczuk PJ, Crone NE. Dynamics of event-related causality in brain electrical activity. Hum Brain Mapp 2008; 29:1170-92. [PMID: 17712784 PMCID: PMC6870676 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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A new method (Event-Related Causality, ERC) is proposed for the investigation of functional interactions between brain regions during cognitive processing. ERC estimates the direction, intensity, spectral content, and temporal course of brain activity propagation within a cortical network. ERC is based upon the short-time directed transfer function (SDTF), which is measured in short EEG epochs during multiple trials of a cognitive task, as well as the direct directed transfer function (dDTF), which distinguishes direct interactions between brain regions from indirect interactions via brain regions. ERC uses new statistical methods for comparing estimates of causal interactions during prestimulus "baseline" epochs and during poststimulus "activated" epochs in order to estimate event-related increases and decreases in the functional interactions between cortical network components during cognitive tasks. The utility of the ERC approach is demonstrated through its application to human electrocorticographic recordings (ECoG) of a simple language task. ERC analyses of these ECoG recordings reveal frequency-dependent interactions, particularly in high gamma (>60 Hz) frequencies, between brain regions known to participate in the recorded language task, and the temporal evolution of these interactions is consistent with the putative processing stages of this task. The method may be a useful tool for investigating the dynamics of causal interactions between various brain regions during cognitive task performance.
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- Anna Korzeniewska
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer 2‐147, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St., E3636, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biomedical Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoza 69, 00‐681 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer 2‐147, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer 2‐147, Baltimore, Maryland
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Vicente R, Fischer I, Mirasso CR. Synchronization properties of three delay-coupled semiconductor lasers. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2008; 78:066202. [PMID: 19256920 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.78.066202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We present detailed numerical studies of the dynamics of three semiconductor lasers when interacting in a linear chain through the mutual injection of their optical fields. In particular, we focus on the synchronization properties of the coupling-induced dynamics and the role of the delay in the interaction between the lasers. The recently experimentally and numerically demonstrated zero-lag synchronization [Fischer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123902 (2006)] between the outer lasers in the chain is here further analyzed in detail along with a study of the robustness of this phenomenon. In addition, the propagation properties of perturbing pulses and of harmonic modulation are discussed.
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- Raúl Vicente
- Department of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Luo Q, Mitchell D, Cheng X, Mondillo K, Mccaffrey D, Holroyd T, Carver F, Coppola R, Blair J. Visual awareness, emotion, and gamma band synchronization. Cereb Cortex 2008; 19:1896-904. [PMID: 19047574 PMCID: PMC2705698 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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What makes us become aware? A popular hypothesis is that if cortical neurons fire in synchrony at a certain frequency band (gamma), we become aware of what they are representing. We tested this hypothesis adopting brain-imaging techniques with good spatiotemporal resolution and frequency-specific information. Specifically, we examined the degree to which increases in event-related synchronization (ERS) in the gamma band were associated with awareness of a stimulus (its detectability) and/or the emotional content of the stimulus. We observed increases in gamma band ERS within prefrontal-anterior cingulate, visual, parietal, posterior cingulate, and superior temporal cortices to stimuli available to conscious awareness. However, we also observed increases in gamma band ERS within the amygdala, visual, prefrontal, parietal, and posterior cingulate cortices to emotional relative to neutral stimuli, irrespective of their availability to conscious access. This suggests that increased gamma band ERS is related to, but not sufficient for, consciousness.
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- Qian Luo
- Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, MEG Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, 15K North Drive, MSC 2670, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Komarov MA, Osipov GV, Suykens JAK. Variety of synchronous regimes in neuronal ensembles. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2008; 18:037121. [PMID: 19045495 DOI: 10.1063/1.2959340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
We consider a Hodgkin-Huxley-type model of oscillatory activity in neurons of the snail Helix pomatia. This model has a distinctive feature: It demonstrates multistability in oscillatory and silent modes that is typical for the thalamocortical neurons. A single neuron cell can demonstrate a variety of oscillatory activity: Regular and chaotic spiking and bursting behavior. We study collective phenomena in small and large arrays of nonidentical cells coupled by models of electrical and chemical synapses. Two single elements coupled by electrical coupling show different types of synchronous behavior, in particular in-phase and antiphase synchronous regimes. In an ensemble of three inhibitory synaptically coupled elements, the phenomenon of sequential synchronous dynamics is observed. We study the synchronization phenomena in the chain of nonidentical neurons at different oscillatory behavior coupled with electrical and chemical synapses. Various regimes of phase synchronization are observed: (i) Synchronous regular and chaotic spiking; (ii) synchronous regular and chaotic bursting; and (iii) synchronous regular and chaotic bursting with different numbers of spikes inside the bursts. We detect and study the effect of collective synchronous burst generation due to the cluster formation and the oscillatory death.
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Affiliation(s)
- M A Komarov
- Department of Control Theory, Nizhny Novgorod University, Gagarin Avenue, 23, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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