ArticleNature communications2019
Metastable brain waves.
Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
103 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Hidden Spirals Reveal the Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Traveling Waves in Human Memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Comparing Dynamical Models Through Diffeomorphic Vector Field Alignment.Neural computation · 2026Article
- Three parsimonious spatiotemporal patterns in cerebellum reveal individual traits in function and behavior.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A geometry aware framework enhances noninvasive mapping of whole human brain dynamics.Nature biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Competitive interactions shape mammalian brain network dynamics and computation.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Hierarchical Flows of Human Cortical Activity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Beyond networks: Toward adaptive models of biological complexity.Physics of life reviews · 2026Review
- Geometry of neural dynamics along the cortical attractor landscape reflects changes in attention.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A complex network perspective on brain disease.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Metastability induced by non-reciprocal adaptive couplings in Kuramoto models.Frontiers in network physiology · 2026Article
- Task-invariant anterior-to-posterior large-scale phase gradients of electrocorticogram oscillations during picture naming and wrist extension.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The myth of the Bayesian brain.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- Local homeostasis preserves global neural dynamics compensating for structural loss during human lifespan aging.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Modulation of motor excitability reflects traveling waves of neural oscillations.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Neuronal traveling waves form preferred pathways using synaptic plasticity.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2025Article
- Article
- On the robustness of the emergent spatiotemporal dynamics in biophysically realistic and phenomenological whole-brain models at multiple network resolutions.Frontiers in network physiology · 2025Article
43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Traveling patterns of neuronal activity-brain waves-have been observed across a breadth of neuronal recordings, states of awareness, and species, but their emergence in the human brain lacks a firm understanding. Here we analyze the complex nonlinear dynamics that emerge from modeling large-scale spontaneous neural activity on a whole-brain network derived from human tractography. We find a rich array of three-dimensional wave patterns, including traveling waves, spiral waves, sources, and sinks. These patterns are metastable, such that multiple spatiotemporal wave patterns are visited in sequence. Transitions between states correspond to reconfigurations of underlying phase flows, characterized by nonlinear instabilities. These metastable dynamics accord with empirical data from multiple imaging modalities, including electrical waves in cortical tissue, sequential spatiotemporal patterns in resting-state MEG data, and large-scale waves in human electrocorticography. By moving the study of functional networks from a spatially static to an inherently dynamic (wave-like) frame, our work unifies apparently diverse phenomena across functional neuroimaging modalities and makes specific predictions for further experimentation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.