ReviewThe European journal of neuroscience2014
The highs and lows of beta activity in cortico-basal ganglia loops.
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- Neurophysiological effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation combined with multidisciplinary rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Modulation of motor inhibition by subthalamic stimulation in obsessive-compulsive disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2016Trial
- Higher cortical beta oscillatory power before balance perturbations is associated with worse balance in older adults with Parkinson's Disease, but not in age-matched older adults.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Varying patterns of association between cortical large-scale networks and subthalamic nucleus activity in Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- Parkinsonism disrupts the population-level organization of cortical dynamics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Cerebellar Time and Relative Time: A Comparator-Based Dynamical Timing Model and its Relevance to Psychopathology and Therapies.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Review
- Mapping Executive Function Performance Based on Resting-State EEG in Healthy Individuals: A Systematic and Mechanistic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Local Field Potentials in Movement Disorders: A Narrative Review.Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery · 2026Review
- Different Brain Network Connectomic Relationships Subserve Hand Dexterity During Task Versus Resting States in People with Brain Tumors.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Deep brain stimulation-induced local evoked potentials outperform spectral features in spatial and clinical STN mapping.Journal of neural engineering · 2025Article
- Deep brain stimulation-induced local evoked potentials outperform spectral features in spatial and clinical STN mapping.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Essential tremor disrupts rhythmic brain networks during naturalistic movement.Neurobiology of disease · 2025Article
- Bifocal tACS over the primary sensorimotor cortices increases interhemispheric inhibition and improves bimanual dexterity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Beta bursts in the parkinsonian cortico-basal ganglia network form spatially discrete ensembles.Neurobiology of disease · 2024Article
- Globus pallidus externus drives increase in network-wide alpha power with propofol-induced loss-of-consciousness in humans.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Beta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling as a Non-Invasive Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease: Insights from Electroencephalography Studies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Modulation of Cerebellar Oscillations with Subthalamic Stimulation in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Biophysical modulation and robustness of itinerant complexity in neuronal networks.Frontiers in network physiology · 2024Article
- From Motivation to Action: Action Cost Better Predicts Changes in Premovement Beta-Band Activity than Speed.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Characterizing neurocognitive impairments in Parkinson's disease with mobile EEG when walking and stepping over obstacles.Brain communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Oscillatory activity in the beta (13-30 Hz) frequency band is widespread in cortico-basal ganglia circuits, and becomes prominent in Parkinson's disease (PD). Here we develop the hypothesis that the degree of synchronization in this frequency band is a critical factor in gating computation across a population of neurons, with increases in beta band synchrony entailing a loss of information-coding space and hence computational capacity. Task and context drive this dynamic gating, so that for each state there will be an optimal level of network synchrony, and levels lower or higher than this will impair behavioural performance. Thus, both the pathological exaggeration of synchrony, as observed in PD, and the ability of interventions like deep brain stimulation (DBS) to excessively suppress synchrony can potentially lead to impairments in behavioural performance. Indeed, under physiological conditions, the manipulation of computational capacity by beta activity may itself present a mechanism of action selection and maintenance.
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