Beta: bursts of cognition

M Lundqvist, EK Miller, J Nordmark, J Liljefors… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Beta oscillations are linked to the control of goal-directed processing of sensory information
and the timing of motor output. Recent evidence demonstrates they are not sustained but …

Dysfunction of motor cortices in Parkinson's disease

HY Chu, Y Smith, WW Lytton, S Grafton… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The cerebral cortex has long been thought to be involved in the pathophysiology of motor
symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The impaired cortical function is believed to be a direct …

Bio-inspired design of superconducting spiking neuron and synapse

AE Schegolev, NV Klenov, GI Gubochkin… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The imitative modelling of processes in the brain of living beings is an ambitious task.
However, advances in the complexity of existing hardware brain models are limited by their …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse beta burst waveform motifs characterize movement-related cortical dynamics

MJ Szul, S Papadopoulos, S Alavizadeh… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Classical analyses of induced, frequency-specific neural activity typically average band-
limited power over trials. More recently, it has become widely appreciated that in individual …

[HTML][HTML] When do bursts matter in the primary motor cortex? Investigating changes in the intermittencies of beta rhythms associated with movement states

TO West, B Duchet, SF Farmer, KJ Friston… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain activity exhibits significant temporal structure that is not well captured in the power
spectrum. Recently, attention has shifted to characterising the properties of intermittencies in …

Oscillatory and non-oscillatory features of the magnetoencephalic sensorimotor rhythm in Parkinson's disease

MC Vinding, CH Yeh, Y Xu, W Shi, JJ FitzGerald, AL Green… - Brain stimulation, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Gait impairment has a major impact on quality of life in patients with Parkinson's
disease (PD). It is believed that basal ganglia oscillatory activity at β frequencies (15–30 Hz) …

Closed-loop adaptive deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: procedures to achieve it and future perspectives

S Wang, G Zhu, L Shi, C Zhang, B Wu… - Journal of …, 2023 - content.iospress.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with a heavy burden on patients,
families, and society. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) can improve the symptoms of PD …

Why so slow? Models of parkinsonian bradykinesia

D Williams - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Bradykinesia, or slowness of movement, is a defining feature of Parkinson disease (PD) and
a major contributor to the negative effects on quality of life associated with this disorder and …