Studies on human brain dynamics for both psychiatric disorders and normal healthy individuals have been rapidly increasing in recent years given the development of newer and improved technologies for brain imaging, that employ whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG), ambulatory and stationary whole-head Electroencephalography (EEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Sleep studies and waking studies are both of great interest here for understanding and treating psychiatric disorders at large. The advances in the computational methodologies for the analysis of the high frequency sampled data, with the major frequency bands, especially in MEG and EEG, now add to the abilities and challenges to devise appropriate and improved experimental designs, capture high-frequency data, and interpret real-time and long sampling times across the whole head. Even leaders in the field find it difficult to stay informed of the results of these wide-ranging technologies and complex computational advances. In addition, the scope of the studies in this burgeoning and super complex field now lead to difficulties in the interpretation of many of the studies, due to the complexity of the analyses, using both linear and nonlinear algorithms, and how significant they may contribute to a better understanding for the real-time dynamics of the brain, and the brain’s role in interpreting reality. We face the challenge of how to translate this novel and complex data for therapeutic benefits for treating psychiatric disorders, and for a broader understanding of the brain-mind continuum. These studies are creating a new frontier for perhaps a better understanding of consciousness itself, and ultimately learning how to regulate our consciousness towards greater awareness and a higher state of consciousness.
The goal of this Research Topic is to contribute to the publication and understanding of the newer and past experimental studies on brain dynamics, and to put them into a more enlightened perspective that will lead to more translational science for improving brain function in the healthy and for the improved treatment of psychiatric disorders in general.
More specifically the aim of this Research Topic is to collect papers on both the general and the more specific aspect of brain dynamics in healthy and psychiatric patients.
We welcome the following article types: Original Research (both clinical and basic science); Reviews; Systematic Reviews; Mini-reviews; Perspectives on Brain Dynamics; Case Reports; and Brief Research Reports.
We encourage submissions on brain dynamical studies addressing but not limited to the following topics:
• MEG studies during waking and sleep in healthy or psychiatric disorders (preferably unmedicated);
• EEG studies during waking and sleep in healthy or psychiatric disorders (preferably unmedicated);
• fMRI studies during waking in healthy or psychiatric disorders (preferably unmedicated);
• TMS studies during waking in psychiatric disorders (preferably in unmedicated);
• tDCS studies during waking in psychiatric disorders (preferably in unmedicated);
• Yogic & meditation influences brain dynamics in healthy and/or psychiatric patients;
• Drug effects of ketamine, psychedelic, and related drugs during waking in psychiatric patients.
Studies on human brain dynamics for both psychiatric disorders and normal healthy individuals have been rapidly increasing in recent years given the development of newer and improved technologies for brain imaging, that employ whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG), ambulatory and stationary whole-head Electroencephalography (EEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Sleep studies and waking studies are both of great interest here for understanding and treating psychiatric disorders at large. The advances in the computational methodologies for the analysis of the high frequency sampled data, with the major frequency bands, especially in MEG and EEG, now add to the abilities and challenges to devise appropriate and improved experimental designs, capture high-frequency data, and interpret real-time and long sampling times across the whole head. Even leaders in the field find it difficult to stay informed of the results of these wide-ranging technologies and complex computational advances. In addition, the scope of the studies in this burgeoning and super complex field now lead to difficulties in the interpretation of many of the studies, due to the complexity of the analyses, using both linear and nonlinear algorithms, and how significant they may contribute to a better understanding for the real-time dynamics of the brain, and the brain’s role in interpreting reality. We face the challenge of how to translate this novel and complex data for therapeutic benefits for treating psychiatric disorders, and for a broader understanding of the brain-mind continuum. These studies are creating a new frontier for perhaps a better understanding of consciousness itself, and ultimately learning how to regulate our consciousness towards greater awareness and a higher state of consciousness.
The goal of this Research Topic is to contribute to the publication and understanding of the newer and past experimental studies on brain dynamics, and to put them into a more enlightened perspective that will lead to more translational science for improving brain function in the healthy and for the improved treatment of psychiatric disorders in general.
More specifically the aim of this Research Topic is to collect papers on both the general and the more specific aspect of brain dynamics in healthy and psychiatric patients.
We welcome the following article types: Original Research (both clinical and basic science); Reviews; Systematic Reviews; Mini-reviews; Perspectives on Brain Dynamics; Case Reports; and Brief Research Reports.
We encourage submissions on brain dynamical studies addressing but not limited to the following topics:
• MEG studies during waking and sleep in healthy or psychiatric disorders (preferably unmedicated);
• EEG studies during waking and sleep in healthy or psychiatric disorders (preferably unmedicated);
• fMRI studies during waking in healthy or psychiatric disorders (preferably unmedicated);
• TMS studies during waking in psychiatric disorders (preferably in unmedicated);
• tDCS studies during waking in psychiatric disorders (preferably in unmedicated);
• Yogic & meditation influences brain dynamics in healthy and/or psychiatric patients;
• Drug effects of ketamine, psychedelic, and related drugs during waking in psychiatric patients.
