Neural activity induced by sensory stimulation can drive large-scale cerebrospinal fluid flow during wakefulness in humans

SD Williams, B Setzer, NE Fultz, Z Valdiviezo… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow maintains healthy brain homeostasis, facilitating solute
transport and the exchange of brain waste products. CSF flow is thus important for brain …

Multisensory flicker modulates widespread brain networks and reduces interictal epileptiform discharges

LT Blanpain, ER Cole, E Chen, JK Park… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Modulating brain oscillations has strong therapeutic potential. Interventions that both non-
invasively modulate deep brain structures and are practical for chronic daily home use are …

Characterizing spatiotemporal population receptive fields in human visual cortex with fMRI

I Kim, ER Kupers, G Lerma-Usabiaga… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
The use of fMRI and computational modeling has advanced understanding of spatial
characteristics of population receptive fields (pRFs) in human visual cortex. However, we …

Perception is associated with the brain's metabolic response to sensory stimulation

M DiNuzzo, S Mangia, M Moraschi, D Mascali… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Processing of incoming sensory stimulation triggers an increase of cerebral perfusion and
blood oxygenation (neurovascular response) as well as an alteration of the metabolic …

Temporal sensitivity for achromatic and chromatic flicker across the visual cortex

CP Gentile, M Spitschan, HO Taskin, AS Bock… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
The retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) receive different combinations of L, M, and S cone inputs
and give rise to one achromatic and two chromatic postreceptoral channels. The goal of the …

40-Hz blue light changes hippocampal activation and functional connectivity underlying recognition memory

Z Lin, G Hou, Y Yao, Z Zhou, F Zhu, L Liu… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Research on light modulation has typically examined the wavelength, intensity, and
exposure time of light, and measured rhythm, sleep, and cognitive ability to evaluate the …

Abnormalities in rich-club connections are associated with an exacerbation of genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia

Y Li, E Sun, R Dai, J Chen, H Huang, X Shan, Y Li - BMC psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
Background Schizophrenia (SZ) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous disorder that is
often associated with widespread structural brain abnormalities. However, the causes of …

Spatiotemporal resonance in mouse primary visual cortex

R Gulbinaite, M Nazari, ME Rule… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Human primary visual cortex (V1) responds more strongly, or resonates, when exposed to∼
10,∼ 15–20, and∼ 40–50 Hz rhythmic flickering light. Full-field flicker also evokes the …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of dynamic lightness induction

A Malik, H Boyaci - Journal of Vision, 2024 - tvst.arvojournals.org
The lightness of a surface depends not only on the amount of light reflected off, it but also on
the context in which it is embedded. Despite a long history of research, neural correlates of …

Toward precise localization of abnormal brain activity: 1D CNN on single voxel fMRI time-series

YY Wu, YS Hu, J Wang, YF Zang… - Frontiers in Computational …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the best techniques for precise
localization of abnormal brain activity non-invasively. Machine-learning approaches have …