Brandon Munn

The paper develops methods to infer norepinephrine dynamics from partial observations, revealing temporal patterns during arousal.

The paper identifies a conserved locus coeruleus (LC) fMRI signature across sleep, anesthesia, and wakefulness, showing its impact on brain-state transitions and functional connectivity.

The paper investigates the role of cerebellar and subcortical regions in working memory manipulation using fMRI during a mental rotation task, finding increased BOLD activity and delayed responses in these areas with larger rotation angles.

This paper constructs a biophysical model of perceptual awareness in mice that explains neural and behavioral signatures and predicts electrophysiological responses.

This study examines the effects of sedation on brain-wide activity and auditory processing in larval zebrafish using calcium imaging, revealing a quieter, more stable brain state with altered sensory processing.

The paper examines cortical acetylcholine dynamics during behavioral state transitions, finding that axon activity and behavior predict ACh levels.

This study shows the thalamus controls cortical dynamics across conscious states using fMRI, electrophysiology, and biophysical modeling.

The paper shows that multiscale neuronal activity patterns are preserved across species and scales, reconciling scale-dependent theories of brain function through self-similar scaling.

The paper uses inverted neural mass models to link electrophysiological signatures of awareness to thalamocortical mechanisms across arousal states.

This study shows that tonic and burst firing patterns of the locus coeruleus modulate brain activity and dynamics in mice through distinct mechanisms.

This study investigates how the ascending arousal system modulates cortical dynamics and conscious awareness through neural gain and low-dimensional energy landscapes.

This study shows that increasing diffuse cortical coupling in a biophysical model leads to quasi-critical brain states associated with complex network dynamics, observed in both simulations and human neuroimaging data.

The paper identifies Core and Matrix thalamic sub-populations and links them to spatio-temporal cortical connectivity gradients using fMRI and calcium-binding protein data.