Electric fields in the brain

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Classic models of neural computation focus on neural codes represented by the firing of individual neurons. However, neurons also collaborate to produce electric fields. Are they epiphenomena or do they aid neural computation?

Measurements and models of electric fields in the in vivo human brain during transcranial electric stimulation

Yu Huang, Anli Liu, Belen Lafon et al.

2017eLife

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Traveling Waves in Visual Cortex

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2012Neuron

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Direction-selective motion discrimination by traveling waves in visual cortex

Stewart Heitmann, G. Ermentrout

2020PLoS Comput. Biol.

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Latency analysis of resting-state BOLD-fMRI reveals traveling waves in visual cortex linking task-positive and task-negative networks

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2019NeuroImage

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Suppressive Traveling Waves Shape Representations of Illusory Motion in Primary Visual Cortex of Awake Primate

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2019The Journal of Neuroscience

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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial using a low-frequency magnetic field in the treatment of musculoskeletal chronic pain.

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2007Pain research & management

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Standing Waves and Traveling Waves Distinguish Two Circuits in Visual Cortex

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2007Neuron

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Electric and magnetic fields: over 40 years of scientific studies

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Spiral Wave Dynamics in Neocortex

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2010Neuron

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Treatment with AC pulsed electromagnetic fields improves olfactory function in Parkinson's disease.

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1999The International journal of neurosci...

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The effect of low-frequency electromagnetic field on human bone marrow stem/progenitor cell differentiation

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2015Stem cell research

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Spike Timing Amplifies the Effect of Electric Fields on Neurons: Implications for Endogenous Field Effects

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2007The Journal of Neuroscience

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Effect of low-frequency magnetic fields on brain electrical activity in human subjects

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2004Clinical Neurophysiology

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Endogenous Electric Fields May Guide Neocortical Network Activity

F. Fröhlich, D. McCormick

2010Neuron

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Sensitivity of Neurons to Weak Electric Fields

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2003The Journal of Neuroscience

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Changes in paroxysmal brainwave patterns of epileptics by weak-field magnetic stimulation.

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50-60 Hz electric and magnetic field effects on cognitive function in humans: a review.

M. Crasson

2003Radiation protection dosimetry

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Magnetosensory evoked potentials: Consistent nonlinear phenomena

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2008Neuroscience Research

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The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes

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2012Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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Effects of uniform extracellular DC electric fields on excitability in rat hippocampal slices in vitro

M. Bikson, M. Inoue, Hiroki Akiyama et al.

2004The Journal of physiology

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Alterations in brain electrical activity caused by magnetic fields: detecting the detection process.

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Detection of weak electric fields by sharks, rays, and skates.

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1998Chaos

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Influence of static electric field on cognition in mice

Yaqian Xu, S. Wu, G. Di et al.

2016Bioengineered

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Beyond dimension reduction: Stable electric fields emerge from and allow representational drift

D. Pinotsis, E. Miller

2021

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Neuromodulation of Axon Terminals

D. Chakraborty, D. Truong, M. Bikson et al.

2018Cerebral cortex

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