scholarly journals Retraction Note to: Stability of neuronal avalanches and long-range temporal correlations during the first year of life in human infant

2020 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 1167-1167
Author(s):  
Mostafa Jannesari ◽  
Alireza Saeedi ◽  
Marzieh Zare ◽  
Silvia Ortiz-Mantilla ◽  
Dietmar Plenz ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 224 (7) ◽  
pp. 2453-2465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Jannesari ◽  
Alireza Saeedi ◽  
Marzieh Zare ◽  
Silvia Ortiz-Mantilla ◽  
Dietmar Plenz ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 1169-1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Jannesari ◽  
Alireza Saeedi ◽  
Marzieh Zare ◽  
Silvia Ortiz-Mantilla ◽  
Dietmar Plenz ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Dalla Porta ◽  
Mauro Copelli

AbstractWe revisit the CROS (“CRitical OScillations”) model which was recently proposed as an attempt to reproduce both scale-invariant neuronal avalanches and long-range time correlations. With excitatory and inhibitory stochastic neurons locally connected in a two-dimensional disordered network, the model exhibits a transition from an active to an oscillating state. Precisely at the transition, the fluctuations of the network activity have detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) exponents close to one, and avalanches (defined as supra-threshold activity) have power law distributions of size and duration. By simulating larger system sizes, we show that, differently from previous results, the exponents governing the distributions of avalanche size and duration are not necessarily those of the mean-field directed percolation universality class (3/2 and 2, respectively). Instead, exponents obtained via a maximum-likelihood estimator vary continuously in a narrow region of parameter space. Around that critical region, moreover, the values of avalanche and DFA exponents display a spread with negative correlations, in qualitative agreement with the interindividual variability that was experimentally observed in M/EEG data.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Lombardi ◽  
Oren Shriki ◽  
Hans J. Herrmann ◽  
Lucilla de Arcangelis

AbstractResting-state brain activity is characterized by the presence of neuronal avalanches showing absence of characteristic size. Such evidence has been interpreted in the context of criticality and associated with the normal functioning of the brain. At criticality, a crucial role is played by long-range power-law correlations. Thus, to verify the hypothesis that the brain operates close to a critical point and consequently assess deviations from criticality for diagnostic purposes, it is of primary importance to robustly and reliably characterize correlations in resting-state brain activity. Recent works focused on the analysis of narrow band electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) signal amplitude envelope, showing evidence of long-range temporal correlations (LRTC) in neural oscillations. However, this approach is not suitable for assessing long-range correlations in broadband resting-state cortical signals. To overcome such limitation, here we propose to characterize the correlations in the broadband brain activity through the lens of neuronal avalanches. To this end, we consider resting-state EEG and long-term MEG recordings, extract the corresponding neuronal avalanche sequences, and study their temporal correlations. We demonstrate that the broadband resting-state brain activity consistently exhibits long-range power-law correlations in both EEG and MEG recordings, with similar values of the scaling exponents. Importantly, although we observe that avalanche size distribution depends on scale parameters, scaling exponents characterizing long-range correlations are quite robust. In particular, they are independent of the temporal binning (scale of analysis), indicating that our analysis captures intrinsic characteristics of the underlying dynamics. Because neuronal avalanches constitute a fundamental feature of neural systems with universal characteristics, the proposed approach may serve as a general, systems- and experiment-independent procedure to infer the existence of underlying long-range correlations in extended neural systems, and identify pathological behaviors in the complex spatio-temporal interplay of cortical rhythms.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Maggie-Lee Huckabee

Abstract Research exists that evaluates the mechanics of swallowing respiratory coordination in healthy children and adults as well and individuals with swallowing impairment. The research program summarized in this article represents a systematic examination of swallowing respiratory coordination across the lifespan as a means of behaviorally investigating mechanisms of cortical modulation. Using time-locked recordings of submental surface electromyography, nasal airflow, and thyroid acoustics, three conditions of swallowing were evaluated in 20 adults in a single session and 10 infants in 10 sessions across the first year of life. The three swallowing conditions were selected to represent a continuum of volitional through nonvolitional swallowing control on the basis of a decreasing level of cortical activation. Our primary finding is that, across the lifespan, brainstem control strongly dictates the duration of swallowing apnea and is heavily involved in organizing the integration of swallowing and respiration, even in very early infancy. However, there is evidence that cortical modulation increases across the first 12 months of life to approximate more adult-like patterns of behavior. This modulation influences primarily conditions of volitional swallowing; sleep and naïve swallows appear to not be easily adapted by cortical regulation. Thus, it is attention, not arousal that engages cortical mechanisms.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A209-A209
Author(s):  
G RIEZZO ◽  
R CASTELLANA ◽  
T DEBELLIS ◽  
F LAFORGIA ◽  
F INDRIO ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Brody ◽  
Sidney Axelrad

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document