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Sawicki J, Hartmann L, Bader R, Schöll E. Modelling the perception of music in brain network dynamics. FRONTIERS IN NETWORK PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 2:910920. [PMID: 36926090 PMCID: PMC10013054 DOI: 10.3389/fnetp.2022.910920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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We analyze the influence of music in a network of FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators with empirical structural connectivity measured in healthy human subjects. We report an increase of coherence between the global dynamics in our network and the input signal induced by a specific music song. We show that the level of coherence depends crucially on the frequency band. We compare our results with experimental data, which also describe global neural synchronization between different brain regions in the gamma-band range in a time-dependent manner correlated with musical large-scale form, showing increased synchronization just before transitions between different parts in a musical piece (musical high-level events). The results also suggest a separation in musical form-related brain synchronization between high brain frequencies, associated with neocortical activity, and low frequencies in the range of dance movements, associated with interactivity between cortical and subcortical regions.
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- Jakub Sawicki
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.,Institut für Musikpädagogik, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Basel, Switzerland.,Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.,Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
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Sadaghiani S, Brookes MJ, Baillet S. Connectomics of human electrophysiology. Neuroimage 2021; 247:118788. [PMID: 34906715 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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We present both a scientific overview and conceptual positions concerning the challenges and assets of electrophysiological measurements in the search for the nature and functions of the human connectome. We discuss how the field has been inspired by findings and approaches from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and informed by a small number of significant multimodal empirical studies, which show that the canonical networks that are commonplace in fMRI are in fact rooted in electrophysiological processes. This review is also an opportunity to produce a brief, up-to-date critical survey of current data modalities and analytical methods available for deriving both static and dynamic connectomes from electrophysiology. We review hurdles that challenge the significance and impact of current electrophysiology connectome research. We then encourage the field to take a leap of faith and embrace the wealth of electrophysiological signals, despite their apparent, disconcerting complexity. Our position is that electrophysiology connectomics is poised to inform testable mechanistic models of information integration in hierarchical brain networks, constructed from observable oscillatory and aperiodic signal components and their polyrhythmic interactions.
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- Sepideh Sadaghiani
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States; Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
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- Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG72RD, United Kingdom
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Conklin BD, Bressler SL. Organization of areal connectivity in the monkey frontoparietal network. Neuroimage 2021; 241:118414. [PMID: 34298082 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Activity observed in biological neural networks is determined by anatomical connectivity between cortical areas. The monkey frontoparietal network facilitates cognitive functions, but the organization of its connectivity is unknown. Here, a new connectivity matrix is proposed which shows that the network utilizes a small-world architecture and the 3-node M9 motif. Its areas exhibit relatively homogeneous connectivity with no suggestion of the hubs seen in scale-free networks. Crucially, its M9 dynamical relay motif is optimally arranged for near-zero and non-zero phase synchrony to arise in support of cognition, serving as a candidate topological mechanism for previously reported findings. These results can serve as a benchmark to be used in the treatment of neurological disorders where the types of cognition the frontoparietal network supports are impaired.
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- Bryan D Conklin
- School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 654 Cherry Str. NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332, United States.
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- Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, United States
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Sawicki J, Koulen JM, Schöll E. Synchronization scenarios in three-layer networks with a hub. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2021; 31:073131. [PMID: 34340334 DOI: 10.1063/5.0055835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We study various relay synchronization scenarios in a three-layer network, where the middle (relay) layer is a single node, i.e., a hub. The two remote layers consist of non-locally coupled rings of FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators modeling neuronal dynamics. All nodes of the remote layers are connected to the hub. The role of the hub and its importance for the existence of chimera states are investigated in dependence on the inter-layer coupling strength and inter-layer time delay. Tongue-like regions in the parameter plane exhibiting double chimeras, i.e., chimera states in the remote layers whose coherent cores are synchronized with each other, and salt-and-pepper states are found. At very low intra-layer coupling strength, when chimera states do not exist in single layers, these may be induced by the hub. Also, the influence of the dilution of links between the remote layers and the hub upon the dynamics is investigated. The greatest effect of dilution is observed when links to the coherent domain of the chimeras are removed.
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- Jakub Sawicki
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A, 31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A, 31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A, 31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Bénar CG, Velmurugan J, López-Madrona VJ, Pizzo F, Badier JM. Detection and localization of deep sources in magnetoencephalography: A review. CURRENT OPINION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cobme.2021.100285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Smailovic U, Koenig T, Savitcheva I, Chiotis K, Nordberg A, Blennow K, Winblad B, Jelic V. Regional Disconnection in Alzheimer Dementia and Amyloid-Positive Mild Cognitive Impairment: Association Between EEG Functional Connectivity and Brain Glucose Metabolism. Brain Connect 2020; 10:555-565. [PMID: 33073602 PMCID: PMC7757561 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2020.0785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Introduction: The disconnection hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is supported by growing neuroimaging and neurophysiological evidence of altered brain functional connectivity in cognitively impaired individuals. Brain functional modalities such as [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography ([18F]FDG-PET) and electroencephalography (EEG) measure different aspects of synaptic functioning, and can contribute to understanding brain connectivity disruptions in AD. Aim: This study investigated the relationship between cortical glucose metabolism and topographical EEG measures of brain functional connectivity in subjects along AD continuum. Methods: Patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD (n = 67), and stratified into amyloid-positive (n = 32) and negative (n = 10) groups according to cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42/40 ratio, were assessed with [18F]FDG-PET and resting-state EEG recordings. EEG-based neuroimaging analysis involved standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA), which estimates functional connectivity from cortical sources of electrical activity in a 3D head model. Results: Glucose hypometabolism in temporoparietal lobes was significantly associated with altered EEG functional connectivity of the same regions of interest in clinically diagnosed MCI and AD patients and in patients with biomarker-verified AD pathology. The correlative pattern of disrupted connectivity in temporoparietal lobes, as detected by EEG sLORETA analysis, included decreased instantaneous linear connectivity in fast frequencies and increased lagged linear connectivity in slow frequencies in relation to the activity of remaining cortex. Conclusions: Topographical EEG measures of functional connectivity detect regional dysfunction of AD-vulnerable brain areas as evidenced by association and spatial overlap with the cortical glucose hypometabolism in MCI and AD patients.
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- Una Smailovic
- Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Medical Radiation Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Clinic for Cognitive Disorders, Karolinska University Hospital-Huddinge, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Division of Neurogeriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Geriatrics, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Clinic for Cognitive Disorders, Karolinska University Hospital-Huddinge, Huddinge, Sweden
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Drauschke F, Sawicki J, Berner R, Omelchenko I, Schöll E. Effect of topology upon relay synchronization in triplex neuronal networks. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2020; 30:051104. [PMID: 32491914 DOI: 10.1063/5.0008341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Relay synchronization in complex networks is characterized by the synchronization of remote parts of the network due to their interaction via a relay. In multilayer networks, distant layers that are not connected directly can synchronize due to signal propagation via relay layers. In this work, we investigate relay synchronization of partial synchronization patterns like chimera states in three-layer networks of interacting FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators. We demonstrate that the phenomenon of relay synchronization is robust to topological random inhomogeneities of small-world type in the layer networks. We show that including randomness in the connectivity structure either of the remote network layers or of the relay layer increases the range of interlayer coupling strength where relay synchronization can be observed.
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- Fenja Drauschke
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Zaleshin A, Merzhanova G. Synchronization of Independent Neural Ensembles in Human EEG during Choice Tasks. Behav Sci (Basel) 2019; 9:bs9120132. [PMID: 31795106 PMCID: PMC6960748 DOI: 10.3390/bs9120132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During behavioral experiments, humans placed in a situation of having to choose between a more valuable but risky reward and a less valuable but guaranteed reward make their decisions in accordance with external situational factors and individual characteristics, such as inclination to risk or caution. In such situations, humans can be divided into “risk-inclined” and “risk-averse” (or “cautious”) subjects. In this work, characteristics of EEG rhythms, such as phase–phase relationships and time lags between rhythms, were studied in pairs of alpha–beta and theta–beta rhythms. Phase difference can also be expressed as a time lag. It has been suggested that statistically significant time lags between rhythms are due to the combined neural activity of anatomically separate, independent (in activation/inhibition processes) ensembles. The extents of synchronicity between rhythms were compared as percentages between risk-inclined and risk-averse subjects. The results showed that synchronicity in response to stimuli was more often observed in pairs of alpha–beta rhythms of risk-averse subjects compared with risk-inclined subjects during the choice of a more valuable but less probable reward. In addition, significant differences in the percentage ratio of alpha and beta rhythms were revealed between (i) cases of synchronization without long time lags and (ii) cases with long time lags between rhythms (from 0.08 to 0.1 s).
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Mirasso CR, Carelli PV, Pereira T, Matias FS, Copelli M. Anticipated and zero-lag synchronization in motifs of delay-coupled systems. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2017; 27:114305. [PMID: 29195321 DOI: 10.1063/1.5006932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Anticipated and zero-lag synchronization have been observed in different scientific fields. In the brain, they might play a fundamental role in information processing, temporal coding and spatial attention. Recent numerical work on anticipated and zero-lag synchronization studied the role of delays. However, an analytical understanding of the conditions for these phenomena remains elusive. In this paper, we study both phenomena in systems with small delays. By performing a phase reduction and studying phase locked solutions, we uncover the functional relation between the delay, excitation and inhibition for the onset of anticipated synchronization in a sender-receiver-interneuron motif. In the case of zero-lag synchronization in a chain motif, we determine the stability conditions. These analytical solutions provide an excellent prediction of the phase-locked regimes of Hodgkin-Huxley models and Roessler oscillators.
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- Claudio R Mirasso
- Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Universitat de les Illes Baleares, Campus UIB, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Slovik M, Rosin B, Moshel S, Mitelman R, Schechtman E, Eitan R, Raz A, Bergman H. Ketamine induced converged synchronous gamma oscillations in the cortico-basal ganglia network of nonhuman primates. J Neurophysiol 2017; 118:917-931. [PMID: 28468999 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00765.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2016] [Revised: 04/19/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists are widely used in anesthesia, pain management, and schizophrenia animal model studies, and recently as potential antidepressants. However, the mechanisms underlying their anesthetic, psychotic, cognitive, and emotional effects are still elusive. The basal ganglia (BG) integrate input from different cortical domains through their dopamine-modulated connections to achieve optimal behavior control. NMDA antagonists have been shown to induce gamma oscillations in human EEG recordings and in rodent cortical and BG networks. However, network relations and implications to the primate brain are still unclear. We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) simultaneously from the primary motor cortex (M1) and the external globus pallidus (GPe) of four vervet monkeys (26 sessions, 97 and 76 cortical and pallidal LFPs, respectively) before and after administration of ketamine (NMDA antagonist, 10 mg/kg im). Ketamine induced robust, spontaneous gamma (30-50 Hz) oscillations in M1 and GPe. These oscillations were initially modulated by ultraslow oscillations (~0.3 Hz) and were highly synchronized within and between M1 and the GPe (mean coherence magnitude = 0.76, 0.88, and 0.41 for M1-M1, GPe-GPe, and M1-GPe pairs). Phase differences were distributed evenly around zero with broad and very narrow distribution for the M1-M1 and GPe-GPe pairs (-3.5 ± 31.8° and -0.4 ± 6.0°), respectively. The distribution of M1-GPe phase shift was skewed to the left with a mean of -18.4 ± 20.9°. The increased gamma coherence between M1 and GPe, two central stages in the cortico-BG loops, suggests a global abnormal network phenomenon with a unique spectral signature, which is enabled by the BG funneling architecture.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study is the first to show spontaneous gamma oscillations under NMDA antagonist in nonhuman primates. These oscillations appear in synchrony in the cortex and the basal ganglia. Phase analysis refutes the confounding effects of volume conduction and supports the funneling and amplifying architecture of the cortico-basal ganglia loops. These results suggest an abnormal network phenomenon with a unique spectral signature that could account for pathological mental and neurological states.
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- Maya Slovik
- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel; .,Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.,Department of Family Medicine, Clalit Health Services, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.,Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.,The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.,The Research Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Stimulation, The Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Kfar-Shaul Eitanim, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.,The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.,Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.,Department of Anesthesiology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; and
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- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.,The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.,Department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Acute Exposure to Pacific Ciguatoxin Reduces Electroencephalogram Activity and Disrupts Neurotransmitter Metabolic Pathways in Motor Cortex. Mol Neurobiol 2016; 54:5590-5603. [PMID: 27613284 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-016-0093-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is a common human food poisoning caused by consumption of ciguatoxin (CTX)-contaminated fish affecting over 50,000 people worldwide each year. CTXs are classified depending on their origin from the Pacific (P-CTXs), Indian Ocean (I-CTXs), and Caribbean (C-CTXs). P-CTX-1 is the most toxic CTX known and the major source of CFP causing an array of neurological symptoms. Neurological symptoms in some CFP patients last for several months or years; however, the underlying electrophysiological properties of acute exposure to CTXs remain unknown. Here, we used CTX purified from ciguatera fish sourced in the Pacific Ocean (P-CTX-1). Delta and theta electroencephalography (EEG) activity was reduced remarkably in 2 h and returned to normal in 6 h after a single exposure. However, second exposure to P-CTX-1 induced not only a further reduction in EEG activities but also a 2-week delay in returning to baseline EEG values. Ciguatoxicity was detected in the brain hours after the first and second exposure by mouse neuroblastoma assay. The spontaneous firing rate of single motor cortex neuron was reduced significantly measured by single-unit recording with high spatial resolution. Expression profile study of neurotransmitters using targeted profiling approach based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry revealed an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters in the motor cortex. Our study provides a possible link between the brain oscillations and neurotransmitter release after acute exposure to P-CTX-1. Identification of EEG signatures and major metabolic pathways affected by P-CTX-1 provides new insight into potential biomarker development and therapeutic interventions.
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Yang Y, Qiu Y, Schouten AC. Dynamic Functional Brain Connectivity for Face Perception. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:662. [PMID: 26696870 PMCID: PMC4672064 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00662] [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: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Face perception is mediated by a distributed brain network comprised of the core system at occipito-temporal areas and the extended system at other relevant brain areas involving bilateral hemispheres. In this study we explored how the brain connectivity changes over the time for face-sensitive processing. We investigated the dynamic functional connectivity in face perception by analyzing time-dependent EEG phase synchronization in four different frequency bands: theta (4-7 Hz), alpha (8-14 Hz), beta (15-24 Hz), and gamma (25-45 Hz) bands in the early stages of face processing from 30 to 300 ms. High-density EEG were recorded from subjects who were passively viewing faces, buildings, and chairs. The dynamic connectivity within the core system and between the extended system were investigated. Significant differences between faces and non-faces mainly appear in theta band connectivity: (1) at the time segment of 90-120 ms between parietal area and occipito-temporal area in the right hemisphere, and (2) at the time segment of 150-180 ms between bilateral occipito-temporal areas. These results indicate (1) the importance of theta-band connectivity in the face-sensitive processing, and (2) that different parts of network are involved for the initial stage of face categorization and the stage of face structural encoding.
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- Yuan Yang
- Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China
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- Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology Delft, Netherlands ; MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands
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Self-Organized Near-Zero-Lag Synchronization Induced by Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity in Cortical Populations. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0140504. [PMID: 26474165 PMCID: PMC4608682 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 09/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Several cognitive tasks related to learning and memory exhibit synchronization of macroscopic cortical areas together with synaptic plasticity at neuronal level. Therefore, there is a growing effort among computational neuroscientists to understand the underlying mechanisms relating synchrony and plasticity in the brain. Here we numerically study the interplay between spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) and anticipated synchronization (AS). AS emerges when a dominant flux of information from one area to another is accompanied by a negative time lag (or phase). This means that the receiver region pulses before the sender does. In this paper we study the interplay between different synchronization regimes and STDP at the level of three-neuron microcircuits as well as cortical populations. We show that STDP can promote auto-organized zero-lag synchronization in unidirectionally coupled neuronal populations. We also find synchronization regimes with negative phase difference (AS) that are stable against plasticity. Finally, we show that the interplay between negative phase difference and STDP provides limited synaptic weight distribution without the need of imposing artificial boundaries.
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Gollo LL, Breakspear M. The frustrated brain: from dynamics on motifs to communities and networks. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 369:rstb.2013.0532. [PMID: 25180310 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Cognitive function depends on an adaptive balance between flexible dynamics and integrative processes in distributed cortical networks. Patterns of zero-lag synchrony likely underpin numerous perceptual and cognitive functions. Synchronization fulfils integration by reducing entropy, while adaptive function mandates that a broad variety of stable states be readily accessible. Here, we elucidate two complementary influences on patterns of zero-lag synchrony that derive from basic properties of brain networks. First, mutually coupled pairs of neuronal subsystems-resonance pairs-promote stable zero-lag synchrony among the small motifs in which they are embedded, and whose effects can propagate along connected chains. Second, frustrated closed-loop motifs disrupt synchronous dynamics, enabling metastable configurations of zero-lag synchrony to coexist. We document these two complementary influences in small motifs and illustrate how these effects underpin stable versus metastable phase-synchronization patterns in prototypical modular networks and in large-scale cortical networks of the macaque (CoCoMac). We find that the variability of synchronization patterns depends on the inter-node time delay, increases with the network size and is maximized for intermediate coupling strengths. We hypothesize that the dialectic influences of resonance versus frustration may form a dynamic substrate for flexible neuronal integration, an essential platform across diverse cognitive processes.
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- Leonardo L Gollo
- Systems Neuroscience Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Systems Neuroscience Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and The Black Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Ghasemi Esfahani Z, Valizadeh A. Zero-lag synchronization despite inhomogeneities in a relay system. PLoS One 2014; 9:e112688. [PMID: 25486522 PMCID: PMC4259331 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2014] [Accepted: 10/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A novel proposal for the zero-lag synchronization of the delayed coupled neurons, is to connect them indirectly via a third relay neuron. In this study, we develop a Poincaré map to investigate the robustness of the synchrony in such a relay system against inhomogeneity in the neurons and synaptic parameters. We show that when the inhomogeneity does not violate the symmetry of the system, synchrony is maintained and in some cases inhomogeneity enhances synchrony. On the other hand if the inhomogeneity breaks the symmetry of the system, zero lag synchrony can not be preserved. In this case we give analytical results for the phase lag of the spiking of the neurons in the stable state.
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Müller MF, Rummel C, Goodfellow M, Schindler K. Standing waves as an explanation for generic stationary correlation patterns in noninvasive EEG of focal onset seizures. Brain Connect 2014; 4:131-44. [PMID: 24494638 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2013.0192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cerebral electrical activity is highly nonstationary because the brain reacts to ever changing external stimuli and continuously monitors internal control circuits. However, a large amount of energy is spent to maintain remarkably stationary activity patterns and functional inter-relations between different brain regions. Here we examine linear EEG correlations in the peri-ictal transition of focal onset seizures, which are typically understood to be manifestations of dramatically changing inter-relations. Contrary to expectations we find stable correlation patterns with a high similarity across different patients and different frequency bands. This skeleton of spatial correlations may be interpreted as a signature of standing waves of electrical brain activity constituting a dynamical ground state. Such a state could promote the formation of spatiotemporal neuronal assemblies and may be important for the integration of information stemming from different local circuits of the functional brain network.
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- Markus Franziskus Müller
- 1 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos , Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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López ME, Aurtenetxe S, Pereda E, Cuesta P, Castellanos NP, Bruña R, Niso G, Maestú F, Bajo R. Cognitive reserve is associated with the functional organization of the brain in healthy aging: a MEG study. Front Aging Neurosci 2014; 6:125. [PMID: 24982632 PMCID: PMC4056015 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Accepted: 05/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The proportion of elderly people in the population has increased rapidly in the last century and consequently “healthy aging” is expected to become a critical area of research in neuroscience. Evidence reveals how healthy aging depends on three main behavioral factors: social lifestyle, cognitive activity, and physical activity. In this study, we focused on the role of cognitive activity, concentrating specifically on educational and occupational attainment factors, which were considered two of the main pillars of cognitive reserve (CR). Twenty-one subjects with similar rates of social lifestyle, physical and cognitive activity were selected from a sample of 55 healthy adults. These subjects were divided into two groups according to their level of CR; one group comprised subjects with high CR (9 members) and the other one contained those with low CR (12 members). To evaluate the cortical brain connectivity network, all participants were recorded by Magnetoencephalography (MEG) while they performed a memory task (modified version of the Sternberg's Task). We then applied two algorithms [Phase Locking Value (PLV) and Phase Lag Index (PLI)] to study the dynamics of functional connectivity. In response to the same task, the subjects with lower CR presented higher functional connectivity than those with higher CR. These results may indicate that participants with low CR needed a greater “effort” than those with high CR to achieve the same level of cognitive performance. Therefore, we conclude that CR contributes to the modulation of the functional connectivity patterns of the aging brain.
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- María E López
- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain ; Department of Basic Psychology II, Complutense University of Madrid Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain ; Department of Basic Psychology II, Complutense University of Madrid Spain
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- Grupo de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Bioingeniería, Department of Industrial Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Technology, Universidad de La Laguna La Laguna, Tenerife
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain ; Department of Basic Psychology II, Complutense University of Madrid Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain ; Department of Basic Psychology II, Complutense University of Madrid Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Centre for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain ; Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) Logroño, Spain
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Modeling positive Granger causality and negative phase lag between cortical areas. Neuroimage 2014; 99:411-8. [PMID: 24893321 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Revised: 05/10/2014] [Accepted: 05/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Different measures of directional influence have been employed to infer effective connectivity in the brain. When the connectivity between two regions is such that one of them (the sender) strongly influences the other (the receiver), a positive phase lag is often expected. The assumption is that the time difference implicit in the relative phase reflects the transmission time of neuronal activity. However, Brovelli et al. (2004) observed that, in monkeys engaged in processing a cognitive task, a dominant directional influence from one area of sensorimotor cortex to another may be accompanied by either a negative or a positive time delay. Here we present a model of two brain regions, coupled with a well-defined directional influence, that displays similar features to those observed in the experimental data. This model is inspired by the theoretical framework of Anticipated Synchronization developed in the field of dynamical systems. Anticipated Synchronization is a form of synchronization that occurs when a unidirectional influence is transmitted from a sender to a receiver, but the receiver leads the sender in time. This counterintuitive synchronization regime can be a stable solution of two dynamical systems coupled in a master-slave (sender-receiver) configuration when the slave receives a negative delayed self-feedback. Despite efforts to understand the dynamics of Anticipated Synchronization, experimental evidence for it in the brain has been lacking. By reproducing experimental delay times and coherence spectra, our results provide a theoretical basis for the underlying mechanisms of the observed dynamics, and suggest that the primate cortex could operate in a regime of Anticipated Synchronization as part of normal neurocognitive function.
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Mechanisms of zero-lag synchronization in cortical motifs. PLoS Comput Biol 2014; 10:e1003548. [PMID: 24763382 PMCID: PMC3998884 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2013] [Accepted: 02/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Zero-lag synchronization between distant cortical areas has been observed in a diversity of experimental data sets and between many different regions of the brain. Several computational mechanisms have been proposed to account for such isochronous synchronization in the presence of long conduction delays: Of these, the phenomenon of “dynamical relaying” – a mechanism that relies on a specific network motif – has proven to be the most robust with respect to parameter mismatch and system noise. Surprisingly, despite a contrary belief in the community, the common driving motif is an unreliable means of establishing zero-lag synchrony. Although dynamical relaying has been validated in empirical and computational studies, the deeper dynamical mechanisms and comparison to dynamics on other motifs is lacking. By systematically comparing synchronization on a variety of small motifs, we establish that the presence of a single reciprocally connected pair – a “resonance pair” – plays a crucial role in disambiguating those motifs that foster zero-lag synchrony in the presence of conduction delays (such as dynamical relaying) from those that do not (such as the common driving triad). Remarkably, minor structural changes to the common driving motif that incorporate a reciprocal pair recover robust zero-lag synchrony. The findings are observed in computational models of spiking neurons, populations of spiking neurons and neural mass models, and arise whether the oscillatory systems are periodic, chaotic, noise-free or driven by stochastic inputs. The influence of the resonance pair is also robust to parameter mismatch and asymmetrical time delays amongst the elements of the motif. We call this manner of facilitating zero-lag synchrony resonance-induced synchronization, outline the conditions for its occurrence, and propose that it may be a general mechanism to promote zero-lag synchrony in the brain. Understanding large-scale neuronal dynamics – and how they relate to the cortical anatomy – is one of the key areas of neuroscience research. Despite a wealth of recent research, the key principles of this relationship have yet to be established. Here we employ computational modeling to study neuronal dynamics on small subgraphs – or motifs – across a hierarchy of spatial scales. We establish a novel organizing principle that we term a “resonance pair” (two mutually coupled nodes), which promotes stable, zero-lag synchrony amongst motif nodes. The bidirectional coupling between a resonance pair acts to mutually adjust their dynamics onto a common and relatively stable synchronized regime, which then propagates and stabilizes the synchronization of other nodes within the motif. Remarkably, we find that this effect can propagate along chains of coupled nodes and hence holds the potential to promote stable zero-lag synchrony in larger sub-networks of cortical systems. Our findings hence suggest a potential unifying account of the existence of zero-lag synchrony, an important phenomenon that may underlie crucial cognitive processes in the brain. Moreover, such pairs of mutually coupled oscillators are found in a wide variety of physical and biological systems suggesting a new, broadly relevant and unifying principle.
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Applying EEG phase synchronization measures to non-linearly coupled neural mass models. J Neurosci Methods 2014; 226:1-14. [PMID: 24485868 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2013] [Revised: 12/18/2013] [Accepted: 01/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Recent neuroimaging analyses aim to understand how information is integrated across brain regions that have traditionally been studied in isolation; however, detecting functional connectivity networks in experimental EEG recordings is a non-trivial task. NEW METHOD We use neural mass models to simulate 10-s trials with coupling between 1-3 and 5-8s and compare how well three phase-based connectivity measures recover this connectivity pattern across a set of experimentally relevant conditions: variable oscillation frequency and power spectrum, feed forward connections with or without feedback, and simulated signals with and without volume conduction. RESULTS Overall, the results highlight successful detection of the onset and offset of significant synchronizations for a majority of the 28 simulated configurations; however, the tested phase measures sometimes differ in their sensitivity and specificity to the underlying connectivity. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS Prior work has shown that these phase measures perform well on signals generated by a computational model of coupled oscillators. In this work we extend previous studies by exploring the performance of these measures on a different class of computational models, and we compare the methods on 28 variations that capture a set of experimentally relevant conditions. CONCLUSIONS Our results underscore that no single phase synchronization measure is substantially better than all others, and experimental investigations will likely benefit from combining a set of measures together that are chosen based on both the experimental question of interest, the signal to noise ratio in the EEG data, and the approach used for statistical significance.
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Kato H, Cuellar CA, Delgado-Lezama R, Rudomin P, Jimenez-Estrada I, Manjarrez E, Mirasso CR. Modeling zero-lag synchronization of dorsal horn neurons during the traveling of electrical waves in the cat spinal cord. Physiol Rep 2013; 1:e00021. [PMID: 24303110 PMCID: PMC3831917 DOI: 10.1002/phy2.21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2013] [Accepted: 06/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The first electrophysiological evidence of the phenomenon of traveling electrical waves produced by populations of interneurons within the spinal cord was reported by our interdisciplinary research group. Two interesting observations derive from this study: first, the negative spontaneous cord dorsum potentials (CDPs) that are superimposed on the propagating sinusoidal electrical waves are not correlated with any scratching phase; second, these CDPs do not propagate along the lumbosacral spinal segments, but they appear almost simultaneously at different spinal segments. The aim of this study was to provide experimental data and a mathematical model to explain the simultaneous occurrence of traveling waves and the zero-lag synchronization of some CDPs.
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- Hideyuki Kato
- Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC, UIB-CSIC), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears E-07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Noh K, Shin KS, Shin D, Hwang JY, Kim JS, Jang JH, Chung CK, Kwon JS, Cho KH. Impaired coupling of local and global functional feedbacks underlies abnormal synchronization and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2013; 7:30. [PMID: 23575114 PMCID: PMC3639871 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2012] [Accepted: 03/14/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Background Abnormal synchronization of brain oscillations is found to be associated with various core symptoms of schizophrenia. However, the underlying mechanism of this association remains yet to be elucidated. Results In this study, we found that coupled local and global feedback (CLGF) circuits in the cortical functional network are related to the abnormal synchronization and also correlated to the negative symptom of schizophrenia. Analysis of the magnetoencephalography data obtained from patients with chronic schizophrenia during rest revealed an increase in beta band synchronization and a reduction in gamma band power compared to healthy controls. Using a feedback identification method based on non-causal impulse responses, we constructed functional feedback networks and found that CLGF circuits were significantly reduced in schizophrenia. From computational analysis on the basis of the Wilson-Cowan model, we unraveled that the CLGF circuits are critically involved in the abnormal synchronization and the dynamical switching between beta and gamma bands power in schizophrenia. Moreover, we found that the abundance of CLGF circuits was negatively correlated with the development of negative symptoms of schizophrenia, suggesting that the negative symptom is closely related to the impairment of this circuit. Conclusions Our study implicates that patients with schizophrenia might have the impaired coupling of inter- and intra-regional functional feedbacks and that the CLGF circuit might serve as a critical bridge between abnormal synchronization and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
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- Kyungchul Noh
- Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Chen JL, Ros T, Gruzelier JH. Dynamic changes of ICA-derived EEG functional connectivity in the resting state. Hum Brain Mapp 2012; 34:852-68. [PMID: 22344782 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2010] [Revised: 09/04/2011] [Accepted: 09/05/2011] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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An emerging issue in neuroscience is how to identify baseline state(s) and accompanying networks termed "resting state networks" (RSNs). Although independent component analysis (ICA) in fMRI studies has elucidated synchronous spatiotemporal patterns during cognitive tasks, less is known about the changes in EEG functional connectivity between eyes closed (EC) and eyes open (EO) states, two traditionally used baseline indices. Here we investigated healthy subjects (n = 27) in EC and EO employing a four-step analytic approach to the EEG: (1) group ICA to extract independent components (ICs), (2) standardized low-resolution tomography analysis (sLORETA) for cortical source localization of IC network nodes, followed by (3) graph theory for functional connectivity estimation of epochwise IC band-power, and (4) circumscribing IC similarity measures via hierarchical cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling (MDS). Our proof-of-concept results on alpha-band power demonstrate five statistically clustered groups with frontal, central, parietal, occipitotemporal, and occipital sources. Importantly, during EO compared with EC, graph analyses revealed two salient functional networks with frontoparietal connectivity: a more medial network with nodes in the mPFC/precuneus which overlaps with the "default-mode network" (DMN), and a more lateralized network comprising the middle frontal gyrus and inferior parietal lobule, coinciding with the "dorsal attention network" (DAN). Furthermore, a separate MDS analysis of ICs supported the emergence of a pattern of increased proximity (shared information) between frontal and parietal clusters specifically for the EO state. We propose that the disclosed component groups and their source-derived EEG functional connectivity maps may be a valuable method for elucidating direct neuronal (electrophysiological) RSNs in healthy people and those suffering from brain disorders.
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- Jean-Lon Chen
- Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
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Banerjee R, Ghosh D, Padmanaban E, Ramaswamy R, Pecora LM, Dana SK. Enhancing synchrony in chaotic oscillators by dynamic relaying. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:027201. [PMID: 22463360 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.027201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2011] [Revised: 12/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In a chain of mutually coupled oscillators, the coupling threshold for synchronization between the outermost identical oscillators decreases when a type of impurity (in terms of parameter mismatch) is introduced in the inner oscillator(s). The outer oscillators interact indirectly via dynamic relaying, mediated by the inner oscillator(s). We confirm this enhancing of critical coupling in the chaotic regimes of the Lorenz system, in the Rössler system in the absence of coupling delay, and in the Mackey-Glass system with delay coupling. The enhancing effect is experimentally verified in the electronic circuit of Rössler oscillators.
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- Ranjib Banerjee
- Department of Mathematics, Gargi Memorial Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India
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Gollo LL, Kinouchi O, Copelli M. Statistical physics approach to dendritic computation: the excitable-wave mean-field approximation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:011911. [PMID: 22400595 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.011911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2011] [Revised: 11/23/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We analytically study the input-output properties of a neuron whose active dendritic tree, modeled as a Cayley tree of excitable elements, is subjected to Poisson stimulus. Both single-site and two-site mean-field approximations incorrectly predict a nonequilibrium phase transition which is not allowed in the model. We propose an excitable-wave mean-field approximation which shows good agreement with previously published simulation results [Gollo et al., PLoS Comput. Biol. 5, e1000402 (2009)] and accounts for finite-size effects. We also discuss the relevance of our results to experiments in neuroscience, emphasizing the role of active dendrites in the enhancement of dynamic range and in gain control modulation.
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- Leonardo L Gollo
- IFISC (CSIC - UIB), Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Campus Universitat Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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