Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Metastable brain waves

  • James A. Roberts,
  • Leonardo L. Gollo,
  • Romesh G. Abeysuriya,
  • Gloria Roberts,
  • Philip B. Mitchell,
  • Mark W. Woolrich,
  • Michael Breakspear

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08999-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Large-scale brain activity arises from inter-areal interactions determined by the underlying connectivity. Here, the authors develop a whole-brain model based on connectivity data that captures activity patterns such as cortical waves and metastability, relating these to underlying brain anatomy.