James M. Shine

This paper shows that excitability gradients in the hippocampus generate travelling waves and influence their interaction with the cortex, revealing directional asymmetry in communication.

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

This study uses a neural field model to show that neuromodulatory systems dynamically gate cortical wave propagation by altering gain and spatial patterns of activity.

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 extends a dynamical model of binocular rivalry to explain perceptual suppression in two experimental paradigms using competitive inhibition.

The paper investigates aphantasia by analyzing fMRI data, finding reduced spatial signal complexity in temporal lobes during imagery compared to perception in aphantasics.

The paper uses fMRI and recurrent neural networks to show that compositional cognition involves specialized cortical regions for components and a distributed cortico-cerebellar network for recombination.

This paper introduces a framework for geometry-constrained coupling between neural manifolds, showing how inter-manifold interactions reorganize dynamics and produce critical transitions in brain activity.

The paper investigates how heart rate influences large-scale brain network dynamics using EEG, fMRI, and HR data during emotional stimuli, finding both direct and obscured neural-cardiac links.

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.

The paper maps the relationship between homotopic functional connectivity and anatomical, functional, and transcriptomic organization in the human cerebral cortex, showing preserved regional patterns across neuropsychiatric disorders.

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

The paper introduces the Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) to evaluate spatial correspondence between novel neuroimaging results and existing brain atlases, enabling standardized reporting and comparison across studies.

This paper introduces T-TVFC, a method for targeted time-varying functional connectivity analysis, and shows it captures task-related information in thalamocortical networks not found in traditional methods.

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.

This study integrates brainstem and cortical functional architectures using fMRI, revealing brainstem hubs that connect to the cortex and influence cortical functional organization.

This study analyzes LC neuron firing patterns across species and biological factors, revealing diverse activity patterns and subregions enriched for specific factors and disease models.

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 shows thalamocortical connections develop along a sensorimotor-association gradient in youth, linking structural connectivity to cortical plasticity and environmental sensitivity.

This study links cardiometabolic state, measured by an allostatic load index, with neurovascular burden and brain structure/function changes across age using EEG and MRI data.

The paper identifies a preserved cross-frequency cortical-thalamic communication channel during conscious states and shows its disruption in unconsciousness and enhancement in psychedelic states.

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

This study investigates macroscale thalamic functional organization disturbances and their relation to core cytoarchitecture in early-onset schizophrenia using resting-state fMRI and gene expression data.

The paper investigates how parallel processing in the human brain relies on a distributed cortico-cerebellar architecture using fMRI data from dual-task experiments.

The paper investigates how thalamocortical interactions support cognitive task activity by analyzing fMRI data from 127 tasks and showing thalamic hubs transform activity to cortical representations.

Neurotransmitter receptor/transporter PET maps (19 targets, 1239 healthy participants) align with connectomes, explain MEG power, and track cognitive gradients and cortical thinning in 13 disorders.

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

The paper uses topological data analysis to reveal a hub-like transition state in resting brain activity, showing consistent dynamics within individuals and potential for precision medicine.