A complex systems perspective on psychedelic brain action

M Girn, FE Rosas, RE Daws, CL Gallen… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Recent findings suggesting the potential transdiagnostic efficacy of psychedelic-assisted
therapy have fostered the need to deepen our understanding of psychedelic brain action …

Neuromodulatory control of complex adaptive dynamics in the brain

JM Shine - Interface focus, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How is the massive dimensionality and complexity of the microscopic constituents of the
nervous system brought under sufficiently tight control so as to coordinate adaptive …

Neuronal connected burst cascades bridge macroscale adaptive signatures across arousal states

BR Munn, EJ Müller, V Medel, SL Naismith… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The human brain displays a rich repertoire of states that emerge from the microscopic
interactions of cortical and subcortical neurons. Difficulties inherent within large-scale …

Large-scale neural dynamics in a shared low-dimensional state space reflect cognitive and attentional dynamics

H Song, WM Shim, MD Rosenberg - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Cognition and attention arise from the adaptive coordination of neural systems in response
to external and internal demands. The low-dimensional latent subspace that underlies large …

[HTML][HTML] Structural connections between the noradrenergic and cholinergic system shape the dynamics of functional brain networks

NL Taylor, A D'Souza, BR Munn, J Lv, L Zaborszky… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Complex cognitive abilities are thought to arise from the ability of the brain to adaptively
reconfigure its internal network structure as a function of task demands. Recent work has …

Understanding cognitive processes across spatial scales of the brain

H Song, JJ Park, MD Rosenberg - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Cognition arises from neural operations at multiple spatial scales, from individual neurons to
large-scale networks. Despite extensive research on coding principles and emergent …

Fractal basins as a mechanism for the nimble brain

E Bollt, J Fish, A Kumar, E Roque dos Santos… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
An interesting feature of the brain is its ability to respond to disparate sensory signals from
the environment in unique ways depending on the environmental context or current brain …

[HTML][HTML] A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for fMRI time-series classification

P Popov, U Mahmood, Z Fu, C Yang, V Calhoun, S Plis - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Current neuroimaging studies frequently use complex machine learning models to classify
human fMRI data, distinguishing healthy and disordered brains, often to validate new …

[HTML][HTML] The biological role of local and global fMRI BOLD signal variability in human brain organization

G Baracchini, Y Zhou, J da Silva Castanheira… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Variability drives the organization and behavior of complex systems, including the human
brain. Understanding the variability of brain signals is thus necessary to broaden our …

A computational mechanism of cue-stimulus integration for pain in the brain

J Kim, S Gim, SBM Yoo, CW Woo - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
The brain integrates information from pain-predictive cues and noxious inputs to construct
the pain experience. Although previous studies have identified neural encodings of …