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Long-range phase synchronization of high-frequency oscillations in human cortex
(2020-10-23) Arnulfo, G.; Wang, S. H.; Myrov, V.; Toselli, Benedetta; Hirvonen, Jonni; Fato, M. M.; Nobili, L.; Cardinale, F.; Rubino, Annalisa; Zhigalov, A.; Palva, S.; Palva, J. M.
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Inter-areal synchronization of neuronal oscillations at frequencies below ~100 Hz is a pervasive feature of neuronal activity and is thought to regulate communication in neuronal circuits. In contrast, faster activities and oscillations have been considered to be largely local-circuit-level phenomena without large-scale synchronization between brain regions. We show, using human intracerebral recordings, that 100–400 Hz high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) may be synchronized between widely distributed brain regions. HFO synchronization expresses individual frequency peaks and exhibits reliable connectivity patterns that show stable community structuring. HFO synchronization is also characterized by a laminar profile opposite to that of lower frequencies. Importantly, HFO synchronization is both transiently enhanced and suppressed in separate frequency bands during a response-inhibition task. These findings show that HFO synchronization constitutes a functionally significant form of neuronal spike-timing relationships in brain activity and thus a mesoscopic indication of neuronal communication per se.
Modules in connectomes of phase-synchronization comprise anatomically contiguous, functionally related regions
(2023-05-15) Williams, N.; Wang, S. H.; Arnulfo, G.; Nobili, L.; Palva, S.; Palva, J. M.
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Modules in brain functional connectomes are essential to balancing segregation and integration of neuronal activity. Connectomes are the complete set of pairwise connections between brain regions. Non-invasive Electroencephalography (EEG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG) have been used to identify modules in connectomes of phase-synchronization. However, their resolution is suboptimal because of spurious phase-synchronization due to EEG volume conduction or MEG field spread. Here, we used invasive, intracerebral recordings from stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG, N = 67), to identify modules in connectomes of phase-synchronization. To generate SEEG-based group-level connectomes affected only minimally by volume conduction, we used submillimeter accurate localization of SEEG contacts and referenced electrode contacts in cortical gray matter to their closest contacts in white matter. Combining community detection methods with consensus clustering, we found that the connectomes of phase-synchronization were characterized by distinct and stable modules at multiple spatial scales, across frequencies from 3 to 320 Hz. These modules were highly similar within canonical frequency bands. Unlike the distributed brain systems identified with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), modules up to the high-gamma frequency band comprised only anatomically contiguous regions. Notably, the identified modules comprised cortical regions involved in shared repertoires of sensorimotor and cognitive functions including memory, language and attention. These results suggest that the identified modules represent functionally specialised brain systems, which only partially overlap with the brain systems reported with fMRI. Hence, these modules might regulate the balance between functional segregation and functional integration through phase-synchronization.