2026 Michael Breakspear: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	91	1060	951	23	23	327	35427

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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

1997
Citations
The connectomics of brain disorders

Alex Fornito;Andrew Zalesky;Michael Breakspear

1784
Citations
Small-world networks and functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

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

1504
Citations
The Dynamic Brain: From Spiking Neurons to Neural Masses and Cortical Fields

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

1244
Citations
Dynamic models of large-scale brain activity

Michael Breakspear

1226
Citations
Graph analysis of the human connectome: promise, progress, and pitfalls.

Alex Fornito;Andrew Zalesky;Michael Breakspear

852
Citations
Time-resolved resting-state brain networks

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

846
Citations
Criticality in the brain: A synthesis of neurobiology, models and cognition.

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

845
Citations
Topographic organization of the human subcortex unveiled with functional connectivity gradients

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

742
Citations
Modeling the impact of lesions in the human brain.

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

653
Citations
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

618
Citations
Synchronous Gamma activity: a review and contribution to an integrative neuroscience model of schizophrenia

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

595
Citations
Naturalistic Stimuli in Neuroscience: Critically Acclaimed.

Saurabh Sonkusare;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear;Christine Guo

584
Citations
Perceptions as Hypotheses: Saccades as Experiments

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

581
Citations
Generative Models of Cortical Oscillations: Neurobiological Implications of the Kuramoto Model

Michael Breakspear;Stewart Heitmann;Andreas Daffertshofer

561
Citations
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

541
Citations
Small‐world properties of nonlinear brain activity in schizophrenia

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

533
Citations
Small-world networks and disturbed functional connectivity in schizophrenia.

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

532
Citations
Nonlinear Dynamic Causal Models for fMRI

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

522
Citations
A unifying explanation of primary generalized seizures through nonlinear brain modeling and bifurcation analysis

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

522
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