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Criticality supports cross-frequency cortical-thalamic information transfer during conscious states.
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- Critical dynamics in spontaneous EEG predict anesthetic-induced loss of consciousness and perturbational complexity.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Anesthesia and the neurobiology of consciousness.Neuron · 2024Review
- Criticality supports cross-frequency cortical-thalamic information transfer during conscious states.eLife · 2024Article
- Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Consciousness is thought to be regulated by bidirectional information transfer between the cortex and thalamus, but the nature of this bidirectional communication - and its possible disruption in unconsciousness - remains poorly understood. Here, we present two main findings elucidating mechanisms of corticothalamic information transfer during conscious states. First, we identify a highly preserved spectral channel of cortical-thalamic communication that is present during conscious states, but which is diminished during the loss of consciousness and enhanced during psychedelic states. Specifically, we show that in humans, mice, and rats, information sent from either the cortex or thalamus via δ/θ/α waves (∼1-13 Hz) is consistently encoded by the other brain region by high γ waves (52-104 Hz); moreover, unconsciousness induced by propofol anesthesia or generalized spike-and-wave seizures diminishes this cross-frequency communication, whereas the psychedelic 5-methoxy-
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