{"653466":{"#nid":"653466","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Brain Space Initiative Talk Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, December 17\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, 2021, at 11 AM EST\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Efor an exciting\u0026nbsp;virtual\u0026nbsp;talk by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Gustavo Deco\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eentitled: \u0026ldquo;Turbulence in Human Brain Dynamics\u0026nbsp;\u0026rdquo; as part of the activities of the Brain Space Initiative, co-sponsored by the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) and the Data Science Initiative, IEEE Signal Processing Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETurbulence in Human Brain Dynamics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETurbulence is a special dynamical state driving many physical systems by way of its ability to facilitate fast energy\/information transfer across scales. These qualities are important for brain function, but it is currently unknown if the brain also exhibits turbulence as a fundamental organisational principle. Using large-scale neuroimaging empirical data from 1003 healthy participants, we demonstrate amplitude turbulence in human brain dynamics. Furthermore, we build a whole-brain model with coupled oscillators to demonstrate that the best fit of our model to the data corresponds to a region of maximally developed amplitude turbulence, which also corresponds to maximal sensitivity to the processing of external stimulations (information capability). The model shows the economy of anatomy by following the Exponential Distance Rule of anatomical connections as a cost-of-wiring principle. This establishes a firm link between turbulence and optimal brain function. Overall, our results reveal a novel way of analysing and modelling whole-brain dynamics that for the first time ever establishes turbulence as a fundamental basic principle of brain organisation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiosketch:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EGustavo Deco is Research Professor at the Instituci\u0026oacute; Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avan\u0026ccedil;ats (ICREA) and Professor (Catedr\u0026aacute;tico)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) where he leads the Computational Neuroscience group. He is also Director of the Center of Brain and Cognition (UPF). In 1987 he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on Relativistic Atomic Collisions. In 1987, he was a postdoc at the University of Bordeaux in France. From 1988 to 1990, he obtained a postdoc of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Giessen in Germany. From 1990 to 2003, he leads the Computational Neuroscience Group at Siemens Corporate Research Center in Munich, Germany. He obtained in 1997 his Habilitation (maximal academical degree in Germany) in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) at the Technical University of Munich for his thesis on Neural Learning. In 2001, he received his PhD in Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022_Hlk56149393\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERecommended Articles:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022_Hlk72130752\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDeco, G. and Kringelbach, M.L., 2020. Turbulent-like dynamics in the human brain. Cell reports, 33(10), p.108471.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celrep.2020.108471\u0022\u003ELink to Paper\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDeco, G., Kemp, M. and Kringelbach, M.L., 2021. Leonardo da Vinci and the search for order in neuroscience. Current Biology, 31(11), pp.R704-R709.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2021.03.098\u0022\u003ELink to Paper\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDeco, G., Perl, Y.S., Vuust, P., Tagliazucchi, E., Kennedy, H. and Kringelbach, M.L., 2021. 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