P.S.: Feedback and thoughts are very welcome before the final publication. Specially if I forgot relevant work!

Altogether, our findings highlight how molecular-level heterogeneity contributes to macroscale brain function and state transitions, from wakefulness to sleep-like dynamics.

Thanks to co-authors Jan Fousek, Alain Destexhe and Mavi Sanchez-Vives. This work is a direct fruit from the HBP!

2) It boosts information flow across brain regions; and

3) Localized sleep-like slow waves can emerge within otherwise awake-like states — linking molecular and structural diversity to complex brain behavior.

In this study, we explore how regional variability in cholinergic receptor expression shapes large-scale brain dynamics. Using a biologically grounded whole-brain computational model, we show that:
1) Incorporating cholinergic heterogeneity enhances network synchronization;

I missed your above post 🤣

Timely by Xiao-Jing Wang

Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.

www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

Congrats!!!!

Great news Dan. All the best!!!

I'd put these on the NeuroAI vision board:

@tyrellturing.bsky.social's Deep learning framework
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@tonyzador.bsky.social's Next-gen AI through neuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@adriendoerig.bsky.social's Neuroconnectionist framework
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Despite species and task differences, timescales of these reward history signals (as well as intrinsic timescales) follow the same pattern of cortical hierarchy across different species.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...