As a psychiatrist, I also hope to contribute to our understanding of major mental illnesses such as mood disorders, schizophrenia, autism and dementia. These contribute strongly to the burden of illness in all societies and cause significant distress to those affected. I believe advancing our understanding of these disorders requires that we employ - and further advance - cutting edge neuroscience techniques. This is why we focus on these techniques in our group, as well as their applications. Selected Papers: Aquino KM, Schira MM, Robinson PA, Drysdale PM, Breakspear M (2012). Hemodynamic travelling waves in human visual cortex. PLoS Computational Biology e1002435. Freyer, F., Roberts, J.A., Becker, R., Robinson, P.A., Ritter, P., Breakspear, M. (2011) Dynamic mechanisms of multistability in the human alpha rhythm. Journal of Neuroscience 31: 6353-6361. Rubinov M, Sporns O, Thivierge J-P, Breakspear M (2011) Neurobiologically realistic determinants of self-organized criticality in networks of spiking neurons. PLoS Computational Biology 7: e1002038. Breakspear, M., Heitmann, S., Daffertshofer, A. (2010) Generative models of cortical oscillations: Neurobiological implications of the Kuramoto model. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 4: 190-202. Schira, M.M., Tyler, C.W. , Spehar, B., Breakspear, M. (2010) Modeling magnification and anisotropy in the primate foveal confluence. PLoS Computational Biology 6: e1000651.
Langdon, A., Boonstra, T.W., Breakspear, M. (2010) Multi-frequency phase locking in human somatosensory cortex. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 105: 58-66. Freyer, F., Aquino, K., Robinson, P.A., Ritter, P., Breakspear, M. (2009) Non-Gaussian statistics in temporal fluctuations of spontaneous cortical activity. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 8512– 8524. |
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