Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
120(21)
Published: May 15, 2023
Major
depressive
disorder
(MDD)
is
widely
hypothesized
to
result
from
disordered
communication
across
brain-wide
networks.
Yet,
prior
resting-state-functional
MRI
(rs-fMRI)
studies
of
MDD
have
studied
zero-lag
temporal
synchrony
(functional
connectivity)
in
brain
activity
absent
directional
information.
We
utilize
the
recent
discovery
stereotyped
directed
signaling
patterns
humans
investigate
relationship
between
rs-fMRI
activity,
MDD,
and
treatment
response
FDA-approved
neurostimulation
paradigm
termed
Stanford
neuromodulation
therapy
(SNT).
find
that
SNT
over
left
dorsolateral
prefrontal
cortex
(DLPFC)
induces
shifts
DLPFC
bilateral
anterior
cingulate
(ACC).
Directional
ACC,
but
not
DLPFC,
predict
improvement
depression
symptoms,
moreover,
pretreatment
ACC
predicts
both
severity
likelihood
response.
Taken
together,
our
findings
suggest
ACC-based
are
a
potential
biomarker
MDD.
Annual Review of Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
43(1), P. 391 - 415
Published: April 6, 2020
Neural
activity
and
behavior
are
both
notoriously
variable,
with
responses
differing
widely
between
repeated
presentation
of
identical
stimuli
or
trials.
Recent
results
in
humans
animals
reveal
that
these
variations
not
random
their
nature,
but
may
fact
be
due
large
part
to
rapid
shifts
neural,
cognitive,
behavioral
states.
Here
we
review
recent
advances
the
understanding
waking
state,
how
generated,
they
modulate
neural
mice
humans.
We
propose
brain
has
an
identifiable
set
states
through
which
it
wanders
continuously
a
nonrandom
fashion,
owing
ascending
modulatory
fast-acting
corticocortical
subcortical-cortical
pathways.
These
state
provide
backdrop
upon
operates,
them
is
critical
making
progress
revealing
mechanisms
underlying
cognition
behavior.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
117(34), P. 20890 - 20897
Published: Aug. 12, 2020
Multimodal
evidence
suggests
that
brain
regions
accumulate
information
over
timescales
vary
according
to
anatomical
hierarchy.
Thus,
these
experimentally
defined
"temporal
receptive
windows"
are
longest
in
cortical
distant
from
sensory
input.
Interestingly,
spontaneous
activity
also
plays
out
relatively
slow
(i.e.,
exhibits
slower
temporal
autocorrelation
decay).
These
findings
raise
the
possibility
hierarchical
represent
an
intrinsic
organizing
principle
of
function.
Here,
using
resting-state
functional
MRI,
we
show
timescale
ongoing
dynamics
follows
spatial
gradients
throughout
human
cerebral
cortex.
give
rise
systematic
frequency
differences
among
large-scale
networks
and
predict
individual-specific
features
connectivity.
Whole-brain
coverage
permitted
us
further
investigate
organization
subcortical
dynamics.
We
topographically
mirrored
striatum,
thalamus,
cerebellum.
Finally,
hippocampus
followed
a
posterior-to-anterior
gradient,
corresponding
longitudinal
axis
increasing
representational
scale.
emerge
as
global
mammalian
brains.
Cerebral Cortex,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
30(1), P. 421 - 437
Published: Aug. 17, 2019
Abstract
Recent
studies
in
mice
reveal
widespread
cortical
signals
during
task
performance;
however,
the
various
task-related
and
task-independent
processes
underlying
this
activity
are
incompletely
understood.
Here,
we
recorded
wide-field
neural
activity,
as
revealed
by
GCaMP6s,
from
dorsal
cortex
while
simultaneously
monitoring
orofacial
movements,
walking,
arousal
(pupil
diameter)
of
head-fixed
performing
a
Go/NoGo
visual
detection
examined
ability
performance
spontaneous
or
movements
to
predict
activity.
A
linear
model
was
able
explain
significant
fraction
(33–55%
variance)
widefield
with
largest
factors
being
(facial,
walk,
eye),
response
choice
(hit,
miss,
false
alarm),
indicate
that
trial-to-trial
variability
arises
both
changes
state
(e.g.,
arousal).
Importantly,
secondary
motor
highly
correlated
lick
rate,
critical
for
optimal
(high
d′),
first
region
significantly
on
target
trials.
These
findings
suggest
is
critically
involved
decision
learned
variation
results
variations
behavioral/arousal
state.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
117(29), P. 17308 - 17319
Published: July 6, 2020
Significance
The
human
brain
is
organized
into
large
networks.
One
important
network
the
Default
network,
which
enables
cognitive
functions
such
as
social
thinking,
memory,
and
reward.
In
group-averaged
data,
this
emerges
a
unitary
whole,
despite
its
involvement
in
multiple
functions.
Here,
we
tested
whether
networks
found
individual
humans,
rather
than
group-average
networks,
contain
substructure.
individuals,
consistently
nine
subnetworks
within
network.
These
matched
activity
patterns
during
tasks.
Some
resembled
circuits
involved
specific
Others
linked
to
other
summary,
study
describes
set
of
humans.
Trends in Neurosciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
46(7), P. 508 - 524
Published: May 8, 2023
The
rapid
and
coordinated
propagation
of
neural
activity
across
the
brain
provides
foundation
for
complex
behavior
cognition.
Technical
advances
neuroscience
subfields
have
advanced
understanding
these
dynamics,
but
points
convergence
are
often
obscured
by
semantic
differences,
creating
silos
subfield-specific
findings.
In
this
review
we
describe
how
a
parsimonious
conceptualization
state
as
fundamental
building
block
whole-brain
offers
common
framework
to
relate
findings
scales
species.
We
present
examples
diverse
techniques
commonly
used
study
states
associated
with
physiology
higher-order
cognitive
processes,
discuss
integration
them
will
enable
more
comprehensive
mechanistic
characterization
dynamics
that
crucial
survival
disrupted
in
disease.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(1)
Published: Feb. 25, 2022
Abstract
While
shaped
and
constrained
by
axonal
connections,
fMRI-based
functional
connectivity
reorganizes
in
response
to
varying
interareal
input
or
pathological
perturbations.
However,
the
causal
contribution
of
regional
brain
activity
whole-brain
fMRI
network
organization
remains
unclear.
Here
we
combine
neural
manipulations,
resting-state
vivo
electrophysiology
probe
how
inactivation
a
cortical
node
causally
affects
brain-wide
coupling
mouse.
We
find
that
chronic
inhibition
medial
prefrontal
cortex
(PFC)
via
overexpression
potassium
channel
increases
between
inhibited
area
its
direct
thalamo-cortical
targets.
Acute
chemogenetic
PFC
produces
analogous
patterns
overconnectivity.
Using
electrophysiology,
enhances
low
frequency
(0.1–4
Hz)
oscillatory
power
suppression
firing
not
phase-locked
slow
rhythms,
resulting
increased
δ
band
coherence
areas
exhibit
These
results
provide
evidence
can
counterintuitively
increase
enhanced,
less-localized
processes.