Topic: neuronal communication

White matter microstructure underpins cognition and function in the human brain through the facilitation of neuronal communication, and the non-invasive characterization of this structure remains an elusive goal in the neuroscience community. Efforts to assess white matter microstructure are hampered by the sheer amount of information needed for characterization. Current techniques address this problem by representing white matter features with single scalars that are often not easy to interpret. Here, we address these issues by introducing tools from soft matter for the characterization of wh

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The spatio-temporal structure of brain dynamics at the macroscopic level has been hypothesized to reflect neuronal communication for cognitive processes. In particular, recent studies have focused on time-irreversibility and its relationship with consciousness [1,2]. Beyond this example of high-level cognitive function, this raises the question of the role of different ingredients that shape the structure-function relationship in whole-brain dynamics, which can be formalized using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process that combines input “noise” and effective connectivity as key ingredients. Her