How critical is brain criticality?

J O'Byrne, K Jerbi - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022‏ - cell.com
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 …

From mechanisms to markers: novel noninvasive EEG proxy markers of the neural excitation and inhibition system in humans

J Ahmad, C Ellis, R Leech, B Voytek, P Garces… - Translational …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Brain function is a product of the balance between excitatory and inhibitory (E/I) brain
activity. Variation in the regulation of this activity is thought to give rise to normal variation in …

Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

MA Munoz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018‏ - APS
A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

The physics of brain network structure, function and control

CW Lynn, DS Bassett - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019‏ - nature.com
The brain is characterized by heterogeneous patterns of structural connections supporting
unparalleled feats of cognition and a wide range of behaviours. New non-invasive imaging …

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

L Cocchi, LL Gollo, A Zalesky, M Breakspear - Progress in neurobiology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Cognitive function requires the coordination of neural activity across many scales, from
neurons and circuits to large-scale networks. As such, it is unlikely that an explanatory …

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 …

Measurement of excitation-inhibition ratio in autism spectrum disorder using critical brain dynamics

H Bruining, R Hardstone, EL Juarez-Martinez… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Balance between excitation (E) and inhibition (I) is a key principle for neuronal network
organization and information processing. Consistent with this notion, excitation-inhibition …

The economy of brain network organization

E Bullmore, O Sporns - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2012‏ - nature.com
The brain is expensive, incurring high material and metabolic costs for its size—relative to
the size of the body—and many aspects of brain network organization can be mostly …

Scaling brain size, kee** timing: evolutionary preservation of brain rhythms

G Buzsáki, N Logothetis, W Singer - Neuron, 2013‏ - cell.com
Despite the several-thousand-fold increase of brain volume during the course of mammalian
evolution, the hierarchy of brain oscillations remains remarkably preserved, allowing for …

Why brain criticality is clinically relevant: a sco** review

V Zimmern - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The past 25 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 …