Publications on Brain Dynamics

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Conference Proceedings:

Lin A, Liu KKL, Bartsch RP, and Ivanov PCh.

Dynamic network interactions among distinct brain rhythms as a hallmark of physiologic state and function. [PDF]

(Supporting Information [PDF])

Nature Communications Biology, 2020; 3: 197.


Lombardi F, Wang JWJL, Zhang X, and Ivanov PCh.

Power-law correlations and coupling of active and quiet states underlie a class of complex systems with self-organization at criticality. [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020; 230: 00005.


Lombardi F, Gómez-Extremera M, Bernaola-Galván P, Vetrivelan R, Saper CB, Scammell TE, and Ivanov PCh

Critical dynamics and coupling in bursts of cortical rhythms indicate non-homeostatic mechanism for sleep-stage transitions and dual role of VLPO neurons in both sleep and wake. [PDF]

Journal of Neuroscience, 2020; 40(1), pp.171-190.


Wang JWJL, Lombardi F, Zhang X, Anaclet C, and Ivanov PCh.

Non-equilibrium critical dynamics of bursts in θ and δ rhythms as fundamental characteristic of sleep and wake micro-architecture. [PDF]

(Supporting Information [PDF])

PLOS Computational Biology, 2019; 15(11): e1007268.


Ciria, Luis F., Antonio Luque‐Casado, Daniel Sanabria, Darías Holgado, Plamen Ch Ivanov, and Pandelis Perakakis.

Oscillatory brain activity during acute exercise: Tonic and transient neural response to an oddball task. [PDF]

Psychophysiology, 2019: e13326.


Hila Dvir, Idan Elbaz, Shlomo Havlin, Lior Appelbaum, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, and Ronny P. Bartsch

Neuronal noise as an origin of sleep arousals and its role in sudden infant death syndrome. [PDF]

Science Advances, 2018:Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar6277


Lin A, Liu KKL, Bartsch RP, and Ivanov PCh.

Delay-correlation landscape reveals characteristic time delays of brain rhythms and heart interactions [ PDF ]

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 374: 20150182.


Lo C-C, Bartsch RP, Ivanov PCh.

Asymmetry and basic pathways in sleep-stage transitions. [ PDF ]

Europhysics Letters (EPL) 2013; 102(1): 10008


Chen Z, Hu K, Stanley HE, Novak V, and Ivanov PCh.

Cross-Correlation of instantaneous phase increments in pressure-flow fluctuations: applications to cerebral autoregulation. [ PDF ]

Physical Review E 2006; 73(3):031915(14).


Lo C-C, Chou T, Penzel T, Scammell T, Strecker RE, Stanley HE, and Ivanov PCh.

Common scale-invariant patterns of sleep-wake transitions across mammalian species. [ PDF ]

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2004;101(52):17545-17548.


Angelini L, De Tommaso M, Guido M, Hu K, Ivanov PCh, Marinazzo D, Nardulli G, Nitti L, Pellicoro M, Pierro C, Stramaglia S.

Steady-state visual evoked potentials and phase synchronization in migraine patients. [ PDF ]

Physical Review Letters 2004;93(3):038103(4).


Ivanov PCh.

Detection of hierarchies and complex networks in cerebral synchronization patterns.

Physica A 2003;330(1-2):296.


Chen Z, Ivanov PCh, Hu K, Stanley HE, Novak V.

Synchronization patterns in cerebral blood flow and peripheral blood pressure under minor stroke.

In "Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics", editors Schimansky-Geier L, Abbott D, Neiman A, Van den Broeck C. SPIE Proceedings 5114, 2003; p. 498-506.


Lo C-C, Amaral LAN, Havlin S, Ivanov PCh, Penzel T Peter J-H, Stanley HE.

Dynamics of sleep-wake transitions during sleep. [ PDF ]

Europhysics Letters 2002;57(5):625-631.