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Are there quantum effects in mesoscale brain dynamics? Here are two experiments to find out. link.springer.com/article/10.1... arxiv.org/abs/2508.21490
Testing quantum-like markers in neural dynamics - Journal of Computational Neuroscience
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...
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News alert: New paper! Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment “The brain is a rollicking sea of electrical influences” picower.mit.edu/news/electri... work by @pinotsislab.bsky.social #neuroscience
Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment
A new study adds evidence that electric fields in the brain help to organize and shape underlying neural activity via “ephaptic coupling.”
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Variability in brain oscillations can be explained by ephaptic coupling w/ @earlkmiller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
Ephaptic coupling can explain variability in neural activity
Abstract. The waxing and waning cortical oscillatory power correlates with function and disease. This cross-trial variability has been thought to be due to
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How does the brain process information? We found evidence in favour of a hybrid predictive coding-routing model that combines top-down predictions with superficial-layer inhibition. Models are complementary,not competing-w/ @earlkmiller.bsky.social Andre Bastos www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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New discovery! Spoiler alert: Neural dynamics are key. Evidence for predictive computations in a brain hierarchy during a visual search task doi.org/10.64898/202... Work led by @pinotsislab.bsky.social #neuroscience
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Electric fields. Brains are awash in them and they have an influence. It would be weird if they didn't. Ephaptic coupling and power fluctuations in depression doi.org/10.1093/cerc... #neuroscience
Ephaptic coupling and power fluctuations in depression
Abstract. The initial therapeutic exposure to Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) during implantation surgery has reproducible acute behavioral effects that carry
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In #depression, electric fields diverging from the activity of neurons that generate them may signal a loss of coordinated control—much like an orchestra in which musicians gradually drift out of alignment with the conductor. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
The dynamics of neurons, fields and their interactions shift in depression - w/ Helen Mayberg Chris Rozell Sankar Alagapan Tanya Nauvel Parisa Sarikhani academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Ephaptic coupling and power fluctuations in depression
Abstract. The initial therapeutic exposure to Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) during implantation surgery has reproducible acute behavioral effects that carry
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Work by Ghose and @pinotsislab.bsky.social on quantum effects in the brain is of the most-read physics stories of 2025! physicsworld.com/a/winning-th... #neuroscience
Winning the popularity contest: the 10 most-read physics stories of 2025 – Physics World
Here's a second chance to catch up with the most popular stories Physics World published in 2025
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Our work was featured among the most read physics stories in 2025 by @instituteofphysics physicsworld.com/a/winning-th...
Winning the popularity contest: the 10 most-read physics stories of 2025 – Physics World
Here's a second chance to catch up with the most popular stories Physics World published in 2025
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New results! Ephaptic coupling can explain variability in neural activity doi.org/10.64898/202... Work led by @pinotsislab.bsky.social #neuroscience
Ephaptic coupling can explain variability in neural activity
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 ...
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Ephaptic coupling can explain variability in neural activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.21.695758v1
UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop: This Tuesday, with an amazing speaker line up, see link below. #uktheneuro
@pinotsislab.bsky.social · last yr.UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop & Call for Posters – Dec 16, 2025 lnkd.in/gS9J55_F An exciting lineup of invited talks covering diverse areas of theoretical and computational neuroscience.
Causal evidence for ephaptic coupling (theory+experiment) academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
In vivo ephaptic coupling allows memory network formation
Abstract. It is increasingly clear that memories are distributed across multiple brain areas. Such “engram complexes” are important features of memory form
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Recent talk at The Fields Institute For Research In Mathematical Sciences on how electric fields generated by neural populations are not just epiphenomena but may play causal, organizing roles in brain network formation in depression. lnkd.in/eJQWYa7D
From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Are there quantum phenomena in the brain? arxiv.org/abs/2508.21490
Testing quantum markers of brain processes
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...
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UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop & Call for Posters – Dec 16, 2025 lnkd.in/gS9J55_F An exciting lineup of invited talks covering diverse areas of theoretical and computational neuroscience.
Network influence determines the impact of cortical ensembles on stimulus detection: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Network influence determines the impact of cortical ensembles on stimulus detection
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...
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Empirical validation of ephaptic coupling in printed human neural circuits doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Empirical validation of ephaptic coupling in printed human neural circuits
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...
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Hebb's Vision: The Structural Underpinnings of Hebbian Assemblies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hebb's Vision: The Structural Underpinnings of Hebbian Assemblies
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...
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Multiscale Entropy of Resting-State fMRI Signals Reveals Differences in Brain Complexity in Autism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiscale Entropy of Resting-State fMRI Signals Reveals Differences in Brain Complexity in Autism
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...
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