The secret life of predictive brains: what's spontaneous activity for?

G Pezzulo, M Zorzi, M Corbetta - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Brains at rest generate dynamical activity that is highly structured in space and time. We
suggest that spontaneous activity, as in rest or dreaming, underlies top-down dynamics of …

A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex

EM Gordon, RJ Chauvin, AN Van, A Rajesh, A Nielsen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Motor cortex (M1) has been thought to form a continuous somatotopic homunculus
extending down the precentral gyrus from foot to face representations,, despite evidence for …

Sculpting memory during sleep: concurrent consolidation and forgetting

GB Feld, J Born - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Broad behavioural and neurophysiological support for consolidation during
sleep.•Neurophysiological support for sleep enhancing forgetting and new learning.•Large …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal organization of the individual human cerebellum

S Marek, JS Siegel, EM Gordon, RV Raut, C Gratton… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The cerebellum contains the majority of neurons in the human brain and is unique for its
uniform cytoarchitecture, absence of aerobic glycolysis, and role in adaptive plasticity …

Targeted neurostimulation reverses a spatiotemporal biomarker of treatment-resistant depression

A Mitra, ME Raichle, AD Geoly… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is widely hypothesized to result from disordered
communication across brain-wide networks. Yet, prior resting-state-functional MRI (rs-fMRI) …

Subcortical-cortical dynamical states of the human brain and their breakdown in stroke

C Favaretto, M Allegra, G Deco, NV Metcalf… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The mechanisms controlling dynamical patterns in spontaneous brain activity are poorly
understood. Here, we provide evidence that cortical dynamics in the ultra-slow frequency …

Default-mode network streams for coupling to language and control systems

EM Gordon, TO Laumann, S Marek… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The human brain is organized into large-scale networks identifiable using resting-state
functional connectivity (RSFC). These functional networks correspond with broad cognitive …

Spontaneous infra-slow brain activity has unique spatiotemporal dynamics and laminar structure

A Mitra, A Kraft, P Wright, B Acland, AZ Snyder… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Systems-level organization in spontaneous infra-slow (< 0.1 Hz) brain activity, measured
using blood oxygen signals in fMRI and optical imaging, has become a major theme in the …

Individual-specific functional connectivity of the amygdala: A substrate for precision psychiatry

CM Sylvester, Q Yu, AB Srivastava… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The amygdala is central to the pathophysiology of many psychiatric illnesses. An imprecise
understanding of how the amygdala fits into the larger network organization of the human …

Rescue of astrocyte activity by the calcium sensor STIM1 restores long-term synaptic plasticity in female mice modelling Alzheimer's disease

A Lia, G Sansevero, A Chiavegato, M Sbrissa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Calcium dynamics in astrocytes represent a fundamental signal that through gliotransmitter
release regulates synaptic plasticity and behaviour. Here we present a longitudinal study in …