Criticality in Neural Systems

DIETMAR PLENZ is Chief of the Section on Critical Brain Dynamics in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 at the Max-Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and the University Tuebingen. Dr. Plenz joined the NIMH as an Investigator in 1999. He pioneered the development of in vitro networks to study and identify the emergence of neuronal avalanches in the brain. ERNST NIEBUR is Professor of Neuroscience and of Brain and Psychological Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. He holds degrees in Physics from the Universities of Dortmund, Germany and Lausanne, Switzerland, and a postgraduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Prof. Niebur has authored more than 100 scientific articles in physics and computational neuroscience. HEINZ GEORG SCHUSTER is Professor (em.) of Theoretical Physics at the University of Kiel in Germany. At the beginning of his academic career, he was appointed Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He was a visiting professor at the Weizmann-Institute of Science in Israel and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. He is author and editor of research monographs and topical handbooks on chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics and neural networks, but also on popular science books, and editor of a Wiley series on Nonlinear Physics and Complexity.

• Neuronal Avalanches in Cortical NetworksDietmar Plenz The Dynamic Brain in Action: Coordinative Structures,Criticality and Coordination DynamicsJ. A. Scott Kelso Critical Brain Dynamics at Large ScaleDante R Chialvo The Correlation of the Neuronal Long-range Temporal Correlations, Avalanche Dynamics with the Behavioral Scaling Laws and Interindividual VariabilityJ. Matias Palva and Satu Palva The Turbulent Human BrainArnold. J. Mandell, Stephen E. Robinson, Karen A. Selz, Constance Schrader, Tom Holroyd and Richard Coppola Thermodynamic Model of Criticality in the Cortex Based on EEG/ECoG DataRobert Kozma, Marko Puljic and Walter J. Freeman Neuronal Avalanches in the Human BrainOren Shriki and Dietmar Plenz Critical Slowing and PerceptionKarl Friston, Michael Breakspear and Gustavo Deco Self-organized Criticality in Neural Network ModelsMatthias Rybarsch and Stefan Bornholdt Single Neuron Response Fluctuations: A Self-organized Criticality Point of ViewAsaf Gal and Shimon Marom Activity Dependent Model for Neuronal AvalanchesLucilla de Arcangelis and Hans J. Herrmann The Neuronal Network Oscillation as a Critical PhenomenonRichard Hardstone, Huibert D. Mansvelder, Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen Critical Exponents, Universality Class & Thermodynamic: The "Temperature" Of the BrainShan Yu, Hongdian Yang, Oren Shriki and Dietmar Plenz Peak Variability and Optimal Performance in Cortical Networks at CriticalityHongdian Yang, Woodrow L. Shew, Rajarshy Roy, and Dietmar Plenz Criticality At Work: How Do Critical Networks Respond to Stimuli?Mauro Copelli Critical Dynamics in Complex NetworksDaniel B. Larremore, Woodrow L. Shew, Juan G. Restrepo Mechanisms of Self-organized Criticality in Adaptive NetworksThilo Gross, Anne-Ly Do, Felix Droste, and Christian Meisel Cortical Networks with Lognormal Synaptic Connectivity and their Implications in Neuronal AvalanchesTomoki Fukai, Vladimir Klinshov and Jun-nosuke Teramae Jump Right In: Transitions to Criticality in Neural Systems with Dynamic SynapsesAnna Levina, J. Michael Herrmann, Theo Geisel Non-conservative Neuronal Networks During Up states Self-organize Near Critical PointsStefan Mihalas, Daniel Millman, Ramakrishnan Iyer, Alfredo Kirkwood and Ernst Niebur Self-organized Criticality and Near Criticality in Neural NetworksJ. D. Cowan, J. Neuman, and W. van Drongelen Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, Avalanches and Entrainment between Complex Networks P. Grigolini, M. Zare, A. Svenkeson, B. J. West Complex Networks: From Social Crises to Neuronal AvalanchesB. J. West, M. Turalska and P. Grigolini The Dynamics of NeuromodulationGerhard Werner and Bernhard J. Mitterauer