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Overview

Michael Breakspear is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia. Their research spans across multiple domains within neuroscience and medicine, with a strong focus on brain connectivity, neural dynamics, and cognitive aging.

Breakspear's work emphasizes several main fields of study including:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these broad areas, they have contributed to several specialized subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Physiology

Their main research topics showcase a broad range of interests in brain function and health including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Frequent venues for Breakspear's publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife

Among Breakspear's recent notable papers are:

  • Topographic organization of the human subcortex unveiled with functional connectivity gradients, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Heterogeneous aging across multiple organ systems and prediction of chronic disease and mortality, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Geometric constraints on human brain function, 2023, Nature
  • Computational models link cellular mechanisms of neuromodulation to large-scale neural dynamics, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Movie viewing elicits rich and reliable brain state dynamics, 2020, Nature Communications

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Jürgen Fripp
  • Michelle K. Lupton
  • Luca Cocchi
  • Andrew Zalesky
  • Saurabh Sonkusare

Best Publications

  • Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple time scales.

    Christopher J. Honey;Rolf Kötter;Michael Breakspear;Olaf Sporns

  • The connectomics of brain disorders

    Alex Fornito;Andrew Zalesky;Michael Breakspear

  • Small-world networks and functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    CJ Stam;BF Jones;G Nolte;M Breakspear;M Breakspear

  • The Dynamic Brain: From Spiking Neurons to Neural Masses and Cortical Fields

    Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa;Peter A. Robinson;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear

  • Dynamic models of large-scale brain activity

    Michael Breakspear

  • Graph analysis of the human connectome: promise, progress, and pitfalls.

    Alex Fornito;Andrew Zalesky;Michael Breakspear

  • Time-resolved resting-state brain networks

    Andrew Zalesky;Alex Fornito;Alex Fornito;Luca Cocchi;Leonardo L. Gollo

  • Criticality in the brain: A synthesis of neurobiology, models and cognition.

    Luca Cocchi;Leonardo L. Gollo;Andrew Zalesky;Michael Breakspear

  • Topographic organization of the human subcortex unveiled with functional connectivity gradients

    Ye Tian;Daniel S Margulies;Michael Breakspear;Andrew Zalesky

  • Modeling the impact of lesions in the human brain.

    Jeffrey Alstott;Michael Breakspear;Patric Hagmann;Patric Hagmann;Leila Cammoun;Leila Cammoun

  • Questions and controversies in the study of time-varying functional connectivity in resting fMRI

    Daniel J. Lurie;Daniel Kessler;Danielle S. Bassett;Richard F. Betzel

  • Synchronous Gamma activity: a review and contribution to an integrative neuroscience model of schizophrenia

    Kwang-Hyuk Lee;Leanne M. Williams;Michael Breakspear;Evian Gordon

  • Naturalistic Stimuli in Neuroscience: Critically Acclaimed.

    Saurabh Sonkusare;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear;Christine Guo

  • Perceptions as Hypotheses: Saccades as Experiments

    Karl John Friston;Rick A. Adams;Laurent U. Perrinet;Michael J. Breakspear

  • Generative Models of Cortical Oscillations: Neurobiological Implications of the Kuramoto Model

    Michael Breakspear;Stewart Heitmann;Andreas Daffertshofer

  • Human cognition involves the dynamic integration of neural activity and neuromodulatory systems

    James M Shine;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear;Peter T Bell;Kaylena A Ehgoetz Martens

  • Small‐world properties of nonlinear brain activity in schizophrenia

    Mikail Rubinov;Stuart A. Knock;Cornelis J. Stam;Sifis Micheloyannis

  • Small-world networks and disturbed functional connectivity in schizophrenia.

    Sifis Micheloyannis;Ellie Pachou;Cornelis Jan Stam;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear

  • Nonlinear Dynamic Causal Models for fMRI

    Klaas Enno Stephan;Lars Kasper;Lee M. Harrison;Jean Daunizeau

  • A unifying explanation of primary generalized seizures through nonlinear brain modeling and bifurcation analysis

    Michael Breakspear;J.A. Roberts;John R. Terry;Serafim Rodrigues

Frequent Co-Authors

Tjeerd W. Boonstra
Tjeerd W. Boonstra Maastricht University
Gloria Roberts
Gloria Roberts University of New South Wales
Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker University of New South Wales
Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Luca Cocchi
Luca Cocchi University of Queensland
Andrew Zalesky
Andrew Zalesky University of Melbourne
Perminder S. Sachdev
Perminder S. Sachdev University of New South Wales
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Sampsa Vanhatalo
Sampsa Vanhatalo University of Helsinki
Florence Levy
Florence Levy University of New South Wales

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