A massive shoutout to our incredible mentors and TAs! 🙌 They delivered 6 wonderful tutorials. Their energy and dedication make this school special. 💻🧠 🇿🇦 @spiroschav.bsky.social | Will Dorrell | @kiradust.bsky.social | @isabelmaria-c.bsky.social | @colleenjg.bsky.social | @rherzoga.bsky.social

Check out this new model from @ivanmindlin.bsky.social, @rherzoga.bsky.social and friends showing that a local homeostatic inhibition allows for a broader repertoire of states, including spatial mosaics of wake and sleep-like activity. Could this be the basis of the phenomenon of local sleep? 🧠🧪💤

Ivan Mindlin@ivanmindlin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠 We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/5

📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠 We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/5

The impact of homeostatic inhibitory plasticity in a generative biophysical model

A main characteristic of biological systems is their capacity to dynamically adapt to environmental changes. In the brain, synaptic plasticity enables the strengthening or weakening of connections bet...

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[🚨LATAM ALERT🚨] Do you want to strengthen consciousness science in Latin America? 🧠🌎 Take this short survey (5-10 mins) and join us in the creation of the first Latin American Society for Consciousness Science. Your voice matters: forms.gle/iEd91YWVXcwH... #Consciousnes #Science #LATAM

Survey towards a Latin-American Society for Scientific Studies of Consciousness

This survey explores the community's interest in a dedicated Society for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness in Latin America (LA). The focus of this society may be, among others, to develop regio...

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💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤 After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com **A dream EEG and mentation database** rdcu.be/eAwni

Dream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !

A dream EEG and mentation database

Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...

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📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜 I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep. In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social #sleep #dreams #EEG

A dream EEG and mentation database

Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...

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📜🧠[PREPRINT RELEASE]🧠📜 I'm very happy to share our new preprint: “The synergistic interactions of low-dimensional brain modes.” Thanks to Vohryzek, Luppi, Geli, Geli, Kringelbach, Tagliazucchi, Deco & Sanz-Perl ! DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025... See below! #neuroscience #brain #synergy 1/9

The synergistic interactions of low-dimensional brain modes

Neuroimaging techniques produce vast amounts of data, capturing brain activity in a high-dimensional space. However, brain dynamics are consistently shown to reside in a rather lower-dimensional space...

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📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜 I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics" w@thomasandrillon.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter Strap in! 1/n

Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics

Conscious experience depends on the coordinated activity of neural processes that span multiple scales--from synapses to whole-brain dynamics. A recently introduced measure, dynamical independence, id...

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📢 New preprint alert! With an incredible crew: Carlos Coronel @rherzoga.bsky.social & Matteo Neri We propose a computational framework for diversity-sensitive brain health combining: • Brain clocks • High-order interactions • 🧠 Whole-brain modeling 👇👇👇 www.authorea.com/users/825533...

🚨New preprint out! 🚨 We investigated the EEG signatures of Idiopathic Hypersomnia (IH) with long sleep time using fine-grained EEG analysis in PSG recordings. Here’s what we found 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (Illustration from nicolasdecat.com) (1/12)

🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉 We outline how to capture the #emergent dynamical structure in #biophysical neural models. coauthored with a team dear to my heart; @thomasandrillon.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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With immense pleasure, here is our #TICS opinion paper on "mind blanking"! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social **Where is my mind?** A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Jenny Windt, @antoinelutz.bsky.social and @ademertzi.bsky.social

📢 Registration extension📢 Join us in the Embracing Complexity Workshop: Principled and Practical Approaches to Emergence! The workshop is scheduled for June 23-27 2025 at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems in Palma de Mallorca, Spain 🇪🇸 #emergence #complexity 👇👇👇

New paper on #sleep in #insomnia now available online in the Journal of Sleep Research (@esrs.bsky.social): Deciphering Insomnia: Benchmarking Automated Sleep Staging Algorithms for Complex Sleep Disorders onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A collaboration with Prof Damien Léger's team. 🧠🧪💤

<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Polysomnography (PSG) is essential for diagnosing sleep disorders, but its manual interpretation is labor-intensive. Automated sleep staging algorithms are promising, yet their utility in complex sle...

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Excited to be organizing the Embracing Complexity: Principled & Practical Approaches to Emergence workshop. An event to explore how emergence is studied across disciplines from theory to application. Submit your abstract and join us! See you in Mallorca🏝️ 🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/events/co...

In 1/3 of #insomnia, the #1 #sleep disorder, objective sleep recordings do not reveal abnormalities, contradicting subjective assessments. This has bugged sleep experts for decades! @rherzoga.bsky.social publishes a new study in @commsbio.bsky.social to understand this paradox: rdcu.be/edj22 1/n

A continuous approach to explain insomnia and subjective-objective sleep discrepancy

Communications Biology - Sleep and wake intrusions distinguish insomnia with and without subjective-objective sleep discrepancy, providing a robust framework to reconcile subjective and objective...

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