[Comp-neuro] Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience - Research Topic on: Criticality as a signature of healthy neural systems: multi-scale experimental and computational studies

Dear collegues,

 

we are glad to invite you to submit research papers as well as reviews to the Research Topic: “Criticality as a signature of healthy neural systems: multi-scale experimental and computational studies”

published on Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. More information can be found on the following link: http://www.frontiersin.org/Systems_Neuroscience/researchtopics/Criticality_as_a_signature_of__1/1663.

 

The main objective of this Research Topic is to investigate the emergence/disruption of the emergent critical-like states in healthy/impaired neural systems and to link these phenomena to the underlying cellular and network features, with specific attention to structural connectivity. In particular, we would like this Research Topic to collect contributions coming from the study of neural systems at different levels of architectural complexity (from in vitro neuronal ensembles up to the human brain imaged by fMRI).

Here are some of the questions which we would like to be investigated within this Research Topic:

i)                    Does loss of scale invariance lead to brain disorders?

ii)                   How is scale free behavior related to network properties?

iii)                 How the scale free behavior observed in the network activity recorded in small neuronal populations relate to the emergence of absence of a characteristic scale at higher levels?

iv)                 How criticality in spontaneous activity affects evoked activity?

v)                  How close is the brain to be in a critical state?

vi)                 How can lack of scale be reconciled with the many studies that identify specific characteristic regions and structures being involved in specific tasks?

 

We welcome researchers to contribute original research, review and methodological articles related to the aforementioned topics. Research articles which combine theoretical and experimental work are especially encouraged.

Deadline for manuscript submission

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 June 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Dec 2013

Topic editors

Paolo Massobrio, University of Genova, ITALY

Lucilla de Arcangelis, Second University of Napoli, ITALY

Valentina Pasquale, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, ITALY

Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Imperial College, UK

Dietmar Plenz, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA

 

Thanks in advance for your interest!

 

Paolo

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Paolo Massobrio, PhD
Neuroengineering and Bio-Nano Technology - NBT - Lab
Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering - DIBRIS
University of Genova
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