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N Roy1, P Sanz-Leon1, P A Robinson1
1School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia and Center for Integrative Brain Function, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
Abstract:
The spatiotemporal spectrum of feedback-driven fluctuations of brain connectivity is investigated using nonlinear neural field theory of the corticothalamic system. Weakly nonlinear dynamics of neural feedbacks are expanded in terms of first order perturbations of neural activity relative to a fixed point. Susceptibilities are used to quantify the change in connectivity per unit change in presynaptic or postsynaptic activity caused by nonlinear feedbacks such as facilitation, depression, sensitization, potentiation, and the effects of discrete eigenmode structure are included for a spherical brain geometry. Spectral signatures such as resonances are identified that allow the presence of particular presynaptic and postsynaptic feedback effects to be inferred. These include additional resonances at high frequencies and shifts of existing spectral peaks, mostly visible in the lowest spatial modes of the response.
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