RESEARCH Reconfigurations in brain networks upon awakening from slow wave sleep: Interventions and implications in neural communication Cassie J. Hilditch1* , Kanika Bansal2,3*, Ravi Chachad1, Lily R. Wong1, Nicholas G. Bathurst4, Nathan H. Feick1, Amanda Santamaria5, Nita L. Shattuck6, Javier O. Garcia3**, and Erin E. Flynn-Evans4** 1Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory, Abteilung für Psychologie, San José State University, San José, CA, USA 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia

RESEARCH Coupling of the spatial distributions between sMRI and PET reveals the progression of Alzheimer’s disease Kun Zhao1#, Jiaji Lin2#, Martin Dyrba3, Dong Wang4, Tongtong Che1, Haoyang Wu5, Jingyu Wang5, Yong Liu6 , and Shuyu Li7, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 1Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Peking, China 2Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated

RESEARCH Dynamical interactions reconfigure the gradient of cortical timescales P. Sorrentino1,2* M. Quarantelli6, G. Sorrentino2,5† , G. Rabuffo1*, F. Baselice3, E. Troisi Lopez4,5, M. Liparoti4,5, , C. Bernard1† , and V. Jirsa1† 1Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France 2Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council, Pozzuoli, Italy 3Department of Engineering, Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy 4Department of Motor

REVIEW Theoretical foundations of studying criticality in the brain Yang Tian1,2 , Zeren Tan3, Hedong Hou4, Guoqi Li5,6, Aohua Cheng7, Yike Qiu7, Kangyu Weng7, Chun Chen1, and Pei Sun1 1Department of Psychology & Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Peking, China 2Laboratory of Advanced Computing and Storage, Central Research Institute, 2012 Laboratories, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Peking, China 3Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science,

RESEARCH Pattern of frustration formation in the functional brain network Majid Saberi1, Reza Khosrowabadi1, Ali Khatibi2, Bratislav Misic3, and Gholamreza Jafari1,4,5 1Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C. Tehran, Iran 2Centre of Precision Rehabilitation for Spinal Pain (CPR Spine), School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 3McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill-Universität, Montréal, QC,

METHODS Structural connectome constrained graphical lasso for MEG partial coherence Anirudh Wodeyar1,2,3,4 and Ramesh Srinivasan2 1Department of Cognitive Sciences, Universität von Kalifornien, Irvine, Kalifornien, USA 2Department of Statistics, Universität von Kalifornien, Irvine, Kalifornien, USA 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universität von Kalifornien, Irvine, Kalifornien, USA 4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Keywords: MEG, Gaussian graphical model, Coherence, Structural connectivity, Functional connectivity a

RESEARCH Hypothalamic effective connectivity at rest is associated with body weight and energy homeostasis Katharina Voigt1, Zane B. Andrews2, Ian H. Harding3, Adeel Razi1,4, and Antonio Verdejo-García1 1School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Victoria, Australia 2Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia 3Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 4The

METHODS FiNN: A toolbox for neurophysiological network analysis Maximilian Scherer1,2 , Tianlu Wang1, Robert Guggenberger1, Luka Milosevic1,2, and Alireza Gharabaghi1 1Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany 2Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Universität von Toronto, Toronto, Canada Keywords: Konnektivität, Cross-frequency coupling, Neural oscillations, Phase-amplitude coupling a n o p e n a c

RESEARCH Functional coordinates: Modeling interactions between brain regions as points in a function space Craig Poskanzer1,2 and Stefano Anzellotti2 1Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA Keywords: Nonlinear, Konnektivität, Functional coordinates a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Here,

RESEARCH Stability and dynamics of a spectral graph model of brain oscillations Parul Verma , Srikantan Nagarajan , and Ashish Raj Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Keywords: Brain activity, Connectomes, Magnetoencephalography, Spectral graph theory, Stability ABSTRACT We explore the stability and dynamic properties of a hierarchical, linearized, and analytic spectral graph model for neural oscillations

REVIEW From calcium imaging to graph topology Ann S. Blevins1, Dani S. Bassett1,2,3,4,5,6, Ethan K. Scott7,8, and Gilles C. Vanwalleghem9,10 1Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 3Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 4Department of Electrical and

PERSPECTIVE The global neuronal workspace as a broadcasting network Abel Wajnerman Paz1,2 1Department of Philosophy, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile 2Neuroethics Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Keywords: Consciousness, Global neuronal workspace, Broadcasting, Functional connectivity ABSTRACT A new strategy for moving forward in the characterization of the global neuronal workspace (GNW) is proposed. According to Dehaene, Changeux, and colleagues (Dehaene, 2014, S. 304, 312; Dehaene &

RESEARCH A perturbative approach to study information communication in brain networks Varun Madan Mohan and Arpan Banerjee National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, India Keywords: Information flow, Perturbation, Network-dynamical interactions, Computational modeling, Response asymmetry a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT How communication among neuronal ensembles shapes functional brain dynamics is a question

RESEARCH Conservative significance testing of tripartite statistical relations in multivariate neural data Aleksejs Fomins1,2, Yaroslav Sych1,3,4† , and Fritjof Helmchen1,2† 1Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland 3Experimental Neurology Center, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland 4Present address: Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, University of Strasbourg and CNRS, Strasbourg, France †Shared senior author.

RESEARCH Applying multilayer analysis to morphological, strukturell, and functional brain networks to identify relevant dysfunction patterns Jordi Casas-Roma1* , Eloy Martinez-Heras2* , Albert Solé-Ribalta3 Elisabet Lopez-Soley2 , Francesc Vivó2 , Marcos Diaz-Hurtado1 , Elisabeth Solana2 , , Salut Alba-Arbalat2 , Maria Sepulveda2 , Yolanda Blanco2 , Albert Saiz2 , Javier Borge-Holthoefer3 , Sara Llufriu2 , and Ferran Prados1,4,5 1e-Health Center, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona,

RESEARCH Structural white matter characteristics for working memory and switching/inhibition in children with reading difficulties: The role of the left superior longitudinal fasciculus Rola Farah1, Noam Glukhovsky1, Keri Rosch2,3, and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus1,2,3 1Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 2Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral

FOKUS-FUNKTION: Konnektivität, Cognition, and Consciousness A natural cortical axis connecting the outside and inside of the human brain Claus C. Hilgetag1,2 , Alexandros Goulas1 , and Jean-Pierre Changeux3,4 1Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany 2Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA 3CNRS UMR 3571, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 4Communications Cellulaires, Collège de France, Paris, France Keywords:

RESEARCH Intermittent brain network reconfigurations and the resistance to social media influence Italo’Ivo Lima Dias Pinto1, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana2, Kristen Flaherty1,3, Aditi Periyannan1,4, Amir Meghdadi5, Christian Richard5, Chris Berka5, Kanika Bansal1,6*, and Javier Omar Garcia1* 1US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA 2The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA 3Cornell Tech, New York, New York, USA 4Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA