Publications

2012

  • Karim M, Harris JA, Morley JW, Breakspear M (2012) Prior and Present Evidence: How Prior Experience Interacts with Present Information in a Perceptual Decision Making Task. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37580. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037580.
  • Aquino KM, Schira MM, Robinson PA, Drysdale PM, Breakspear M (2012). Hemodynamic travelling waves in human visual cortex. PLoS Computational Biology e1002435.
  • van den Berg D, Gong P, Breakspear M, van Leeuwen C (2012). Fragmentation: Loss of global coherence or breakdown of modularity in functional brain architecture? Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 6:20. DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2012.00020.
  • Birznieks I, Boonstra TW, Macefield VG (2012). Modulation of human muscle spindle discharge by arterial pulsations - functional effects and consequences. PLoS ONE 7: e35091.
  • Boonstra TW, Breakspear M (2012). Neural mechanisms of intermuscular coherence: Implications for the rectification of surface electromyography. Journal of Neurophysiology 107: 796-807.
  • Breakspear M (2012). Dynamic and stochastic models of neuroimaging data. NeuroImage (in press).
  • Heitmann S, Ferns N, Breakspear M (2012). Muscle co-contraction modulates damping and joint stability in a three-link biomechanical limb. Frontiers in Neurorobotics 5: 5.

2011


  • Breakspear M, McIntosh AR (2011). Networks, noise and models: Reconceptualizing the brain as a complex, distributed system. NeuroImage 58: 293-295.

  • Ehnvall A, Mitchell PB, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Loo C, Breakspear M, Wright A, Roberts G, Frankland A, Corry J (2011). Pain and rejection sensitivity in bipolar depression. Bipolar Disorders 13: 59-66.

  • Freyer F, Roberts JA, Becker R,  Robinson PA, Ritter P, Breakspear M (2011). Dynamic mechanisms of multistability in the human alpha rhythm. Journal of Neuroscience 31: 6353-6361.

  • Kochan NA, Breakspear M, Valenzuela M, Slavin MJ, Brodaty H, Wen W, Trollow JN, Turner A, Crawford JD, Sachdev PS (2011). Cortical responses to a graded working memory challenge predict functional decline in mild cognitive impairment. Biological Psychiatry 70: 123-130.
  • Kochan NA, Valenzuela M, Slavin MJ, McCraw S, Sachdev PS, Breakspear M (2011). Impact of load-related neural processes on feature binding in visual working memory. PLoS ONE 6: e23960.
  • Mehrkanoon S, Breakspear M, Daffertshofer A, Boonstra TW (2011). Generalized time-frequency coherency for assessing neural interactions in electrophysiological recordings. Nature Precedings. doi:10.1038/npre.2011.6615.1.
  • Mitchell P, Frankland A, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Roberts G, Corry J, Wright A, Loo C, Breakspear M (2011). A comparison of depressive episodes in bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder within bipolar disorder pedigrees. British Journal of Psychiatry 199: 303-309. 
  • Rubinov M, Bassett DS (2011). Emerging evidence of connectomic abnormalities in schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience 31: 6263-6265.
  • Rubinov M, Sporns O (2011). Weight-conserving characterization of complex functional brain networks. Neuroimage 56: 2068-2079.
  • Rubinov M, Sporns O, Thivierge J-P, Breakspear M (2011) Neurobiologically Realistic Determinants of Self-Organized Criticality in Networks of Spiking Neurons. PLoS Comput Biol 7: e1002038.
  • Schultze-Kraft M, Becker R, Breakspear M, Ritter P (2011). Exploiting the potential of three dimensional spatial wavelet analysis to explore the nesting of temporal oscillations and spatial variance in simultaneous EEG-fMRI data. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 105: 67-79.

2010
  • Breakspear M, Jirsa V, Deco G (2010). Computational models of the brain: From structure to function. NeuroImage 52: 727-730.

  • Breakspear M, Heitmann S, Daffertshofer A (2010). Generative models of cortical oscillations: Neurobiological implications of the Kuramoto model. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 4: 190.

  • Jirsa V, Sporns O, Breakspear M, Deco G, McIntosh AR (2010). Towards the virtual brain: Network modeling of the intact and the damaged brain. Archives Italiennes de Biologie 148: 189-205.
  • Kochan NA, Breakspear M, Slavin MJ, Valenzuela M, McCraw S, Brodaty H, Sachdev PS (2010). Functional alterations in brain activation and deactivation in mild cognitive impairment revealed by a graded WM challenge. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 30: 553-568
  • Parker G, Fletcher K, Barrett M, Breakspear M, Rees AM (2010). Evaluating the first 1000 patients referred to a specialist depression clinic: a case for tertiary referral facilities. Journal of Affective Disorders, in press.
  • Parker P, Fletcher K, Barrett M, Synnott, H, Breakspear M, Hadzi-Pavlovic D (2010). Inching toward Bethlehem: Mapping Melancholia. Journal of Affective Disorders 123: 291-298.
  • Rubinov M, Sporns O (2010). Complex network measures of brain connectivity: Uses and interpretations. NeuroImage 52: 1059-1069.
  • Schira MM, Tyler CW, Spehar B, Breakspear M (2010). Modeling magnification and anisotropy in the primate foveal confluence. PLoS Computational Biology 6: e1000651.

2009
  • Alstott J, Breakspear M, Hagman, P, Cammoun L, Sporns O (2009). Modeling the impact of lesions in the human brain. PLoS Computational Biology 5: e1000408.
  • Boonstra TW, Daffertshofer A, Roerdink M, Flipse I, Groenewoud K, Beek PJ (2009). Bilateral motor unit synchronization of leg muscles during a simple dynamic balance task. European Journal of Neuroscience 29: 613-622.
  • Boonstra TW, Houweling S, Muskulus M (2009). Does asynchronous neuronal activity average out on a macroscopic scale? Journal of Neuroscience 29: 8871– 8874.
  • Boonstra TW, van Wijk BCM, Praamstra P, Daffertshofer A (2009). Corticomuscular and bilateral EMG coherence reflect distinct aspects of neural synchronization. Neuroscience Letters 463: 17-21.
  • Breakspear M, Ritter P, Daffertshofer A (2009). Brain Modes: A principled approach to modeling and measuring large-scale neuronal activity. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 183: 1-4.
  • Mitchell PB, Loo CK, Breakspear M (2009). Recent progress in the pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder. Future Neurology 4: 493-508.
  • Freyer F, Aquino K, Robinson PA, Ritter P, Breakspear M (2009). Bistability and non-gaussian fluctuations in spontaneous cortical activity. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 8512-8524.
  • Knock SA, McIntosh AR, Sporns O, Kötter O, Hagmann P, Jirsa VK (2009). The effects of physiologically plausible connectivity structure on local and global dynamics in large scale brain models. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 183: 86–9.
  • Rubinov M, Knock SA, Stam CJ, Micheloyannis S, Harris AWF, Williams LM, Breakspear M (2009). Small-world properties of nonlinear brain activity in schizophrenia. Human Brain Mapping 30: 403-416.
  • Rubinov M, McIntosh AR, Valenzuela MJ, Breakspear M (2009). Simulation of neuronal death and network recovery in a computational model of distributed cortical activity. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 17: 210-217.
  • Rubinov M, Sporns O, van Leeuwen C, Breakspear M (2009). Symbiotic relationship between brain structure and dynamics. BMC Neuroscience 10: 55.
  • Schira MM, Tyler CW, Breakspear M, Spehar B (2009). The foveal confluence in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 950-9058.

2008
  • Boonstra TW, Daffertshofer A, van Ditshuizen JC, van den Heuvel MRC, Hofman C, Willigenburg NW, Beek PJ (2008). Fatigue-related changes in motor-unit synchronization of quadriceps muscles within and across legs. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology 18: 717-731.
  • Boonstra TW, Roerdink M, Daffertshofer A, van Vugt B, van Werven G, Beek PJ (2008). Low alcohol doses reduce common 10-15 Hz input to bilateral leg muscles during quiet standing. Journal of Neurophysiology 100: 2158-2164.
  • Breakspear M, Knock S (2008). Kinetic models of brain activity. Brain Imaging and Behavior 2: 270-288.
  • Deco G, Jirsa VK, Robinson PA, Breakspear M, Friston K (2008). The dynamic brain: from spiking neurons to neural masses and cortical fields. PLoS Computational Biology 4: e1000092.
  • Parker G, Fletcher K, Barrett M, Synnott H, Breakspear M, Hyett M, Hadzi-Pavlovic D (2008). Screening for bipolar disorder: The utility and comparative properties of the MSS and MDQ measures. Journal of Affective Disorders, 109: 83-89.
  • Stephan KE, Kasper L, Harrison LM, Daunizeau J, den Ouden HEM, Breakspear M, Friston KJ (2008). Nonlinear dynamic causal models for fMRI. NeuroImage 42: 649-662.

2007
  • Boonstra TW, Daffertschofer A, Breakspear M, Beek PJ (2007). Multivariate time-frequency analysis of electromagnetic brain activity during bimanual motor learning. NeuroImage 36: 370-377.
  • Burke D, Hickie I, Breakspear M, Götz J (2007). Recent advances in the biopsychosocial treatment and prevention of cognitive impairment and dementia. British Journal of Psychiatry 190: 371-373.
  • Honey C, Kotter R, Breakspear M, Sporns O (2007). Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple time scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 10240-10245.
  • Stam CJ, Jones BF, Nolte G, Breakspear M, Scheltens PH (2007). Small-world networks and functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease. Cerebral Cortex 17: 92-99.
  • Valenzuela MJ, Breakspear M, Sachdev P (2007). Complex mental activity and the aging brain: Molecular, cellular and cortical network mechanisms. Brain Research Reviews 56: 198-213.

2006
  • Breakspear M (2006). The nonlinear theory of schizophrenia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 40: 20-34.
  • Breakspear M, Roberts JA, Terry JR, Rodrigues S, Robinson PA (2006). A unifying explanation of generalized seizures via the bifurcation analysis of a dynamical brain model. Cerebral Cortex 16: 1296-1313.
  • Breakspear M, Bullmore E, Aquino K, Dass P, Williams LM (2006). The multiscale properties of evoked cortical activity. NeuroImage 30: 1230-1242.
  • Micheloyannis S, Stam CJ, Breakspear M, Bitsios P, Vourkas S, Erimaki S, Zervakis M (2006). Small-world networks and disturbed functional connectivity in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 87: 60-66.
  • Rodriguez S, Terry JR, Breakspear M (2006). On the genesis of spike-wave activity in a mean-field model of human corticothalamic dynamics. Physics Letters A 355: 352-357.
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