Data-driven modelling of neurodegenerative disease progression: thinking outside the black box

AL Young, NP Oxtoby, S Garbarino, NC Fox… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Data-driven disease progression models are an emerging set of computational tools that
reconstruct disease timelines for long-term chronic diseases, providing unique insights into …

A synergetic turn in cognitive neuroscience of brain diseases

A Ibanez, ML Kringelbach, G Deco - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Despite significant improvements in our understanding of brain diseases, many barriers
remain. Cognitive neuroscience faces four major challenges: complex structure–function …

The BrainLat project, a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of neurodegeneration from underrepresented backgrounds

P Prado, V Medel, R Gonzalez-Gomez… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) has released a unique
multimodal neuroimaging dataset of 780 participants from Latin American. The dataset …

Heterogeneous factors influence social cognition across diverse settings in brain health and age-related diseases

S Fittipaldi, A Legaz, M Maito, H Hernandez… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Aging diminishes social cognition, and changes in this capacity can indicate brain diseases.
However, the relative contribution of age, diagnosis and brain reserve to social cognition …

[HTML][HTML] Gaming expertise induces meso‑scale brain plasticity and efficiency mechanisms as revealed by whole-brain modeling

C Coronel-Oliveros, V Medel, S Orellana, J Rodiño… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Video games are a valuable tool for studying the effects of training and neural plasticity on
the brain. However, the underlying mechanisms related to plasticity-associated brain …

Neural geometrodynamics, complexity, and plasticity: a psychedelics perspective

G Ruffini, E Lopez-Sola, J Vohryzek, R Sanchez-Todo - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
We explore the intersection of neural dynamics and the effects of psychedelics in light of
distinct timescales in a framework integrating concepts from dynamics, complexity, and …

Alzheimer's Disease: Insights from Large-Scale Brain Dynamics Models

L Yang, J Lu, D Li, J Xiang, T Yan, J Sun, B Wang - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disease, and the condition is difficult to
assess. In the past, numerous brain dynamics models have made remarkable contributions …

Visual deep learning of unprocessed neuroimaging characterises dementia subtypes and generalises across non-stereotypic samples

S Moguilner, R Whelan, H Adams, V Valcour… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Dementia's diagnostic protocols are mostly based on standardised
neuroimaging data collected in the Global North from homogeneous samples. In other non …

Biophysical models applied to dementia patients reveal links between geographical origin, gender, disease duration, and loss of neural inhibition

S Moguilner, R Herzog, YS Perl, V Medel… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2024 - Springer
Background The hypothesis of decreased neural inhibition in dementia has been sparsely
studied in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data across patients with different …

Viscous dynamics associated with hypoexcitation and structural disintegration in neurodegeneration via generative whole‐brain modeling

C Coronel‐Oliveros, RG Gómez… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
(bvFTD) lack mechanistic biophysical modeling in diverse, underrepresented populations …