Electrophysiological Resting State Networks

Functional imaging of the resting brain consistently reveals broad motifs of correlated activity that engage cerebral regions from distinct functional systems. Yet, the neurophysiological processes underlying these organized large-scale fluctuations have been unknown. Our MEG research indicates that a gating mechanism in the synchronized dynamics of neural oscillations accounts for these fluctuations (Florin and Baillet, 2015) and envelope correlations (Pelzer et al., 2024).

E. Florin, S. Baillet (2015): The brain’s resting-state activity is shaped by synchronized cross-frequency coupling of oscillatory neural activity, NeuroImage, 111:26-35.

E.A. Pelzer, A. Sharma, E. Florin (2024): Data-driven MEG analysis to extract fMRI resting state networks, Human Brain Mapping, 45: e26644.