ArticleFrontiers in neural circuits2020
Why Brain Criticality Is Clinically Relevant: A Scoping Review.
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- Hippocampal criticality tracks cognitive demand and shifts with memory impairment.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Characteristics of electroencephalographic changes induced by different hypnotics in elderly patients: a narrative review.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2026Review
- Multiscale metabolic covariance networks uncover stage-specific biomarker signatures across the Alzheimer's disease continuum.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Hierarchical whole-brain modeling of critical synchronization dynamics in the human brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Emergent critical oscillations in motor cortex of Parkinson's patients.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Critical Dynamics in the Association Cortex Predict Higher Intelligence in Typically Developing Children.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
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- EEG criticality as a prognostic tool for functional outcomes in sedated pediatric intensive care patients.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Diminished spatial dynamics and maladaptive spatial complexity link resting brain network disruption to cognition in schizophrenia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Criticality and increased intrinsic neural timescales in stroke.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2025Article
- The aperiodic and periodic activities of EEG dynamically relate with cognitive performance in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Review
- Ephaptic coupling and power fluctuations in depression.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Synergy mediates Long-Range Correlations in the Visual Cortex Near Criticality.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The past 25 years have seen a strong increase in the number of publications related to criticality in different areas of neuroscience. The potential of criticality to explain various brain properties, including optimal information processing, has made it an increasingly exciting area of investigation for neuroscientists. Recent reviews on this topic, sometimes termed brain criticality, make brief mention of clinical applications of these findings to several neurological disorders such as epilepsy, neurodegenerative disease, and neonatal hypoxia. Other clinicallyrelevant domains - including anesthesia, sleep medicine, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, and psychiatry - are seldom discussed in review papers of brain criticality. Thorough assessments of these application areas and their relevance for clinicians have also yet to be published. In this scoping review, studies of brain criticality involving human data of all ages are evaluated for their current and future clinical relevance. To make the results of these studies understandable to a more clinical audience, a review of the key concepts behind criticality (e.g., phase transitions, long-range temporal correlation, self-organized criticality, power laws, branching processes) precedes the discussion of human clinical studies. Open questions and forthcoming areas of investigation are also considered.
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