Why Brain Criticality Is Clinically Relevant: A Scoping Review

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 investigatio...

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Vydáno v:Frontiers in neural circuits Ročník 14; s. 54
Hlavní autor: Zimmern, Vincent
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 26.08.2020
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ISSN:1662-5110, 1662-5110
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Shrnutí: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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Edited by: Ioanna Sandvig, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Reviewed by: Adriano Barra, University of Salento, Italy; Stephen M. Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
ISSN:1662-5110
1662-5110
DOI:10.3389/fncir.2020.00054