Criticality is the singular state of complex systems poised at the brink of a phase transition
between order and randomness. Such systems display remarkable information-processing …

Recent findings suggesting the potential transdiagnostic efficacy of psychedelic-assisted
therapy have fostered the need to deepen our understanding of psychedelic brain action …

Synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators is an emergent phenomenon present in
several complex systems, ranging from social and physical to biological and technological …

The past twenty-five years have seen a strong increase in the number of publications related
to criticality in different areas of neuroscience. The potential of criticality to explain various …

Emerging neural theories of consciousness suggest a correlation between a specific type of
neural dynamical complexity and the level of consciousness: When awake and aware …

For several years it has been argued that neural synchronisation is crucial for cognition. The
idea that synchronised temporal patterns between different neural groups carries …

This Research Topic in “Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience” contains a collection of original
contributions and review articles on the hypothesis that the normal, healthy brain resides in …

Biological neuronal networks are the computing engines of the mammalian brain. These
networks exhibit structural characteristics such as hierarchical architectures, small-world …

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a widely employed tool for exploring brain dynamics and
is used extensively in various domains, ranging from clinical diagnosis via neuroscience …

Brain oscillations exhibit long-range temporal correlations (LRTCs), which reflect the
regularity of their fluctuations: low values representing more random (decorrelated) while …