We propose two experiments for identifying quantum markers in neural data based on quantum variants of well-known equations for neural activity that describe electrical signal propagation on axonal ar...

A new study adds evidence that electric fields in the brain help to organize and shape underlying neural activity via “ephaptic coupling.”

Abstract. The waxing and waning cortical oscillatory power correlates with function and disease. This cross-trial variability has been thought to be due to

Abstract. The initial therapeutic exposure to Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) during implantation surgery has reproducible acute behavioral effects that carry

Abstract. The initial therapeutic exposure to Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) during implantation surgery has reproducible acute behavioral effects that carry

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The waxing and waning cortical oscillatory power correlates with function and disease. This cross-trial variability has been thought to be due to neuromodulation, uncertainty encoding, and/or changes ...

Abstract. It is increasingly clear that memories are distributed across multiple brain areas. Such “engram complexes” are important features of memory form

The emergence of the Dirac equation from a stochastic master equation suggests a profound link between relativistic quantum mechanics and underlying probabilistic descriptions of brain dynamics. In pa...

By photostimulating specific visual cortical ensembles, Bounds et al. discovered that an ensemble’s impact on local neural activity, not its visual encoding properties, predicts its impact on stimulus...

Ephaptic coupling is a phenomenon describing the influence of endogenous electric fields on neuronal activity. Although ephaptic coupling is deemed to contribute to computations in the brain, the olfa...

In 1949, Donald Hebb proposed that groups of neurons that activate stereotypically form the organizational building blocks of perception, cognition, and behavior. Finding the structural underpinning o...

Background: Atypical intrinsic brain activity has been widely observed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet the temporal complexity of these neural signals remains underexplored. This study aimed to...