Criticality, Connectivity, and Neural Disorder: A Multifaceted Approach to Neural Computation

The Role of Excitability and Network Structure in the Emergence of Focal and Generalized Seizures

(2020) Marinho A. Lopes et al.   Frontiers in Neurology

Antiepileptic drugs induce subcritical dynamics in human cortical networks

(2020) Christian Meisel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Critical slowing down as a biomarker for seizure susceptibility

(2020) Matias I. Maturana et al.   Nature Communications

Homeostatic mechanisms regulate distinct aspects of cortical circuit dynamics

(2020) Yue Kris Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why Brain Criticality Is Clinically Relevant: A Scoping Review

(2020) Vincent Zimmern   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Tuning network dynamics from criticality to an asynchronous state

(2020) Jingwen Li et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Forest Fire Model: The Subtleties of Criticality and Scale Invariance

(2020) Lorenzo Palmieri et al.   Frontiers in Physics

Feedback Mechanisms for Self-Organization to the Edge of a Phase Transition

(2020) Victor Buendía et al.   Frontiers in Physics

Mechanisms of Self-Organized Quasicriticality in Neuronal Network Models

(2020) Osame Kinouchi et al.   Frontiers in Physics

Small changes in synaptic gain lead to seizure-like activity in neuronal network at criticality

(2019) Jiaxin Du et al.   Scientific Reports

Scale-free networks are rare

(2019) Anna D. Broido et al.   Nature Communications

Between Perfectly Critical and Fully Irregular: A Reverberating Model Captures and Predicts Cortical Spike Propagation

(2019) J Wilting et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Rogue bioelectrical waves in the brain: the Hurst exponent as a potential measure for presurgical mapping in epilepsy

(2019) Caroline Witton et al.   Journal of Neural Engineering

Cracklin’ Fish Brains

(2019) Mark P Beenhakker   Epilepsy Currents

Fast and robust learning in Spiking Feed-forward Neural Networks based on Intrinsic Plasticity mechanism

(2019) Anguo Zhang et al.   NEUROCOMPUTING

Precursors of seizures due to specific spatial-temporal modifications of evolving large-scale epileptic brain networks

(2019) Thorsten Rings et al.   Scientific Reports

No evidence for critical slowing down prior to human epileptic seizures

(2019) Theresa Wilkat et al.   CHAOS

Hyperexcitability in Cultured Cortical Neuron Networks from the G93A-SOD1 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Model Mouse and its Molecular Correlates

(2019) Stefania Marcuzzo et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

25 years of criticality in neuroscience — established results, open controversies, novel concepts

(2019) J Wilting et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Cortical Circuit Dynamics Are Homeostatically Tuned to Criticality In Vivo

(2019) Zhengyu Ma et al.   NEURON

The scale-invariant, temporal profile of neuronal avalanches in relation to cortical γ–oscillations

(2019) Stephanie R. Miller et al.   Scientific Reports

Seizure prediction and intervention

(2019) Christian Meisel et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Critical synchronization dynamics of the Kuramoto model on connectome and small world graphs

(2019) Géza Ódor et al.   Scientific Reports

Dependence of absence seizure dynamics on physiological parameter evolution

(2018) F. Deeba et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Computational modeling of spiking neural network with learning rules from STDP and intrinsic plasticity

(2018) Xiumin Li et al.   PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Colloquium : Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

(2018) Miguel A. Muñoz   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Inferring collective dynamical states from widely unobserved systems

(2018) Jens Wilting et al.   Nature Communications

Amyloid β causes excitation/inhibition imbalance through dopamine receptor 1-dependent disruption of fast-spiking GABAergic input in anterior cingulate cortex

(2018) Si-Qiang Ren et al.   Scientific Reports

Impaired Functional Criticality of Human Brain during Alzheimer’s Disease Progression

(2018) Lili Jiang et al.   Scientific Reports

Homeostatic Plasticity and External Input Shape Neural Network Dynamics

(2018) Johannes Zierenberg et al.   Physical Review X

Can a time varying external drive give rise to apparent criticality in neural systems?

(2018) Viola Priesemann et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Critical dynamics, anesthesia and information integration: Lessons from multi-scale criticality analysis of voltage imaging data

(2018) Tomer Fekete et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Growing Critical: Self-Organized Criticality in a Developing Neural System

(2018) Felipe Yaroslav Kalle Kossio et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Relationship of critical dynamics, functional connectivity, and states of consciousness in large-scale human brain networks

(2018) Heonsoo Lee et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Heterogeneity of synaptic input connectivity regulates spike-based neuronal avalanches

(2018) Shengdun Wu et al.   NEURAL NETWORKS

Self-Organized Supercriticality and Oscillations in Networks of Stochastic Spiking Neurons

(2017) Ariadne Costa et al.   Entropy

Coexistence of critical sensitivity and subcritical specificity can yield optimal population coding

(2017) Leonardo L. Gollo   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Network neuroscience

(2017) Danielle S Bassett et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Development of neural population activity toward self-organized criticality

(2017) Yuichiro Yada et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Biological modelling of a computational spiking neural network with neuronal avalanches

(2017) Xiumin Li et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The dialectic of Hebb and homeostasis

(2017) Gina G. Turrigiano   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Criticality in the brain: A synthesis of neurobiology, models and cognition

(2017) Luca Cocchi et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Injured Brains and Adaptive Networks: The Benefits and Costs of Hyperconnectivity

(2017) Frank G. Hillary et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Subsampling scaling

(2017) A. Levina et al.   Nature Communications

Ion Channel Genes and Epilepsy: Functional Alteration, Pathogenic Potential, and Mechanism of Epilepsy

(2017) Feng Wei et al.   Neuroscience Bulletin

Neutral Theory and Scale-Free Neural Dynamics

(2017) Matteo Martinello et al.   Physical Review X

Quantifying antiepileptic drug effects using intrinsic excitability measures

(2016) Christian Meisel et al.   EPILEPSIA

Regional and global connectivity disturbances in focal epilepsy, related neurocognitive sequelae, and potential mechanistic underpinnings

(2016) Dario J. Englot et al.   EPILEPSIA

Deviations from Critical Dynamics in Interictal Epileptiform Activity

(2016) O. Arviv et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

GABAergic Interneurons in the Neocortex: From Cellular Properties to Circuits

(2016) Robin Tremblay et al.   NEURON

Small-World Brain Networks Revisited

(2016) Danielle S. Bassett et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Griffiths phase and long-range correlations in a biologically motivated visual cortex model

(2016) M. Girardi-Schappo et al.   Scientific Reports

Analysis of Power Laws, Shape Collapses, and Neural Complexity: New Techniques and MATLAB Support via the NCC Toolbox

(2016) Najja Marshall et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Synaptic plasticity and neuronal refractory time cause scaling behaviour of neuronal avalanches

(2016) L. Michiels van Kessenich et al.   Scientific Reports

Phase transitions and self-organized criticality in networks of stochastic spiking neurons

(2016) Ludmila Brochini et al.   Scientific Reports

Physiology of functional and effective networks in epilepsy

(2015) Robert B. Yaffe et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Common Mechanisms of Excitatory and Inhibitory Imbalance in Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorders

(2015) R. Gao et al.   CURRENT MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Synaptic Mechanisms of Tight Spike Synchrony at Gamma Frequency in Cerebral Cortex

(2015) D. B. Salkoff et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Can dynamical synapses produce true self-organized criticality?

(2015) Ariadne de Andrade Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Adaptation to sensory input tunes visual cortex to criticality

(2015) Woodrow L. Shew et al.   Nature Physics

The connectomics of brain disorders

(2015) Alex Fornito et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Nonsynchronous updating in the multiverse of cellular automata

(2015) Sandro M. Reia et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Self-organized dynamical complexity in human wakefulness and sleep: Different critical brain-activity feedback for conscious and unconscious states

(2015) Paolo Allegrini et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Intrinsic excitability measures track antiepileptic drug action and uncover increasing/decreasing excitability over the wake/sleep cycle

(2015) Christian Meisel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-organized criticality in cortical assemblies occurs in concurrent scale-free and small-world networks

(2015) Paolo Massobrio et al.   Scientific Reports

Griffiths phases and localization in hierarchical modular networks

(2015) Géza Ódor et al.   Scientific Reports

Seizures and Epilepsy: An Overview for Neuroscientists

(2015) C. E. Stafstrom et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Critical Slowing Down Governs the Transition to Neuron Spiking

(2015) Christian Meisel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Synaptic Plasticity Enables Adaptive Self-Tuning Critical Networks

(2015) Nigel Stepp et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Maximizing Sensory Dynamic Range by Tuning the Cortical State to Criticality

(2015) Shree Hari Gautam et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Structural determinants of criticality in biological networks

(2015) Sergi Valverde et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Modern network science of neurological disorders

(2014) Cornelis J. Stam   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Conway's game of life is a near-critical metastable state in the multiverse of cellular automata

(2014) Sandro M. Reia et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Scale-free and economical features of functional connectivity in neuronal networks

(2014) Jean-Philippe Thivierge   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

powerlaw: A Python Package for Analysis of Heavy-Tailed Distributions

(2014) Jeff Alstott et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Cellular Homeostatic Intrinsic Plasticity on Dynamical and Computational Properties of Biological Recurrent Neural Networks

(2013) J. Naude et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Fading Signatures of Critical Brain Dynamics during Sustained Wakefulness in Humans

(2013) C. Meisel et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Structural robustness of scale-free networks against overload failures

(2013) Shogo Mizutaka et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Network hubs in the human brain

(2013) Martijn P. van den Heuvel et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Griffiths phases and the stretching of criticality in brain networks

(2013) Paolo Moretti et al.   Nature Communications

Neuronal avalanches of a self-organized neural network with active-neuron-dominant structure

(2012) Xiumin Li et al.   CHAOS

Seizure generation: The role of nodes and networks

(2012) John R. Terry et al.   EPILEPSIA

Neuronal avalanches and coherence potentials

(2012) D. Plenz   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

The organization of strong links in complex networks

(2012) Sinisa Pajevic et al.   Nature Physics

The economy of brain network organization

(2012) Ed Bullmore et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The Functional Benefits of Criticality in the Cortex

(2012) Woodrow L. Shew et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Hierarchical modular structure enhances the robustness of self-organized criticality in neural networks

(2012) Sheng-Jun Wang et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Attaining and maintaining criticality in a neuronal network model

(2012) Jiayi Peng et al.   PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Universal Critical Dynamics in High Resolution Neuronal Avalanche Data

(2012) Nir Friedman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scaling Effects and Spatio-Temporal Multilevel Dynamics in Epileptic Seizures

(2012) Christian Meisel et al.   PLoS One

A small world of weak ties provides optimal global integration of self-similar modules in functional brain networks

(2012) L. K. Gallos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Activity-Dependent Neuronal Model on Complex Networks

(2012) Lucilla de Arcangelis et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Detrended Fluctuation Analysis: A Scale-Free View on Neuronal Oscillations

(2012) Richard Hardstone et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Criticality in Large-Scale Brain fMRI Dynamics Unveiled by a Novel Point Process Analysis

(2012) Enzo Tagliazucchi et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Are post intracerebral hemorrhage seizures prevented by anti-epileptic treatment?

(2011) Ronit Gilad et al.   EPILEPSY RESEARCH

Information Capacity and Transmission Are Maximized in Balanced Cortical Networks with Neuronal Avalanches

(2011) W. L. Shew et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Information processing in echo state networks at the edge of chaos

(2011) Joschka Boedecker et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Neurobiologically Realistic Determinants of Self-Organized Criticality in Networks of Spiking Neurons

(2011) Mikail Rubinov et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Three groups of interneurons account for nearly 100% of neocortical GABAergic neurons

(2010) Bernardo Rudy et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Aberrant Neuronal Avalanches in Cortical Tissue Removed From Juvenile Epilepsy Patients

(2010) Jon P. Hobbs et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Self-organization without conservation: are neuronal avalanches generically critical?

(2010) Juan A Bonachela et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Emergent complex neural dynamics

(2010) Dante R. Chialvo   Nature Physics

Griffiths Phases on Complex Networks

(2010) Miguel A. Muñoz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scale-free correlations in starling flocks

(2010) A. Cavagna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large-scale brain networks in cognition: emerging methods and principles

(2010) Steven L. Bressler et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Self-Organized Criticality in Developing Neuronal Networks

(2010) Christian Tetzlaff et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

One Rule to Grow Them All: A General Theory of Neuronal Branching and Its Practical Application

(2010) Hermann Cuntz et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Neuronal Avalanches Imply Maximum Dynamic Range in Cortical Networks at Criticality

(2009) W. L. Shew et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Self-organization without conservation: true or just apparent scale-invariance?

(2009) Juan A Bonachela et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems

(2009) Ed Bullmore et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

A New Hypothesis for Sleep: Tuning for Criticality

(2009) Barak A. Pearlmutter et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

Adaptive self-organization in a realistic neural network model

(2009) Christian Meisel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

GABAergic Hub Neurons Orchestrate Synchrony in Developing Hippocampal Networks

(2009) P. Bonifazi et al.   SCIENCE

Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

(2009) Aaron Clauset et al.   SIAM REVIEW

Efficient Network Reconstruction from Dynamical Cascades Identifies Small-World Topology of Neuronal Avalanches

(2009) Sinisa Pajevic et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Self-organized criticality and the development of EEG phase reset

(2008) Robert Wayne Thatcher et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

A Mathematical Analysis of the Effects of Hebbian Learning Rules on the Dynamics and Structure of Discrete-Time Random Recurrent Neural Networks

(2008) Benoît Siri et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

Self-organization and neuronal avalanches in networks of dissociated cortical neurons

(2008) V. Pasquale et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Neuronal avalanches organize as nested theta- and beta/gamma-oscillations during development of cortical layer 2/3

(2008) E. D. Gireesh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Homeostasis of neuronal avalanches during postnatal cortex development in vitro

(2007) Craig V. Stewart et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

The criticality hypothesis: how local cortical networks might optimize information processing

(2007) J. M Beggs   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES