Dissecting Transient Burst Events

Catharina Zich; Andrew J Quinn; Lydia C Mardell; Nick S Ward; Sven Bestmann

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.07.004

Dissecting Transient Burst Events

Trends Cogn Sci. 2020 Oct;24(10):784-788. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.07.004. Epub 2020 Aug 19.

Authors

Catharina Zich¹, Andrew J Quinn², Lydia C Mardell³, Nick S Ward³, Sven Bestmann⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical and Movement Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: c.zich@ucl.ac.uk.
² Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Department of Clinical and Movement Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Clinical and Movement Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK.

Abstract

Increasing efforts are being made to understand the role of intermittent, transient, high-power burst events of neural activity. These events have a temporal, spectral, and spatial domain. Here, we argue that considering all three domains is crucial to fully reveal the functional relevance of these events in health and disease.

Keywords: burst events; multidimensional; oscillations.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom