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@ARTICLE{Dimulescu:280905,
author = {Dimulescu, Cristiana and Strömsdörfer, Ronja and Flöel,
Agnes and Obermayer, Klaus},
title = {{O}n the robustness of the emergent spatiotemporal dynamics
in biophysically realistic and phenomenological whole-brain
models at multiple network resolutions.},
journal = {Frontiers in network physiology},
volume = {5},
issn = {2674-0109},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Media},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00989},
pages = {1589566},
year = {2025},
abstract = {The human brain is a complex dynamical system which
displays a wide range of macroscopic and mesoscopic patterns
of neural activity, whose mechanistic origin remains poorly
understood. Whole-brain modelling allows us to explore
candidate mechanisms causing the observed patterns. However,
it is not fully established how the choice of model type and
the networks' spatial resolution influence the simulation
results, hence, it remains unclear, to which extent
conclusions drawn from these results are limited by
modelling artefacts. Here, we compare the dynamics of a
biophysically realistic, linear-nonlinear cascade model of
whole-brain activity with a phenomenological Wilson-Cowan
model using three structural connectomes based on the
Schaefer parcellation scheme with 100, 200, and 500 nodes.
Both neural mass models implement the same mechanistic
hypotheses, which specifically address the interaction
between excitation, inhibition, and a slow adaptation
current which affects the excitatory populations. We
quantify the emerging dynamical states in detail and
investigate how consistent results are across the different
model variants. Then we apply both model types to the
specific phenomenon of slow oscillations, which are a
prevalent brain rhythm during deep sleep. We investigate the
consistency of model predictions when exploring specific
mechanistic hypotheses about the effects of both short- and
long-range connections and of the antero-posterior
structural connectivity gradient on key properties of these
oscillations. Overall, our results demonstrate that the
coarse-grained dynamics is robust to changes in both model
type and network resolution. In some cases, however, model
predictions do not generalize. Thus, some care must be taken
when interpreting model results.},
keywords = {network physiology (Other) / network resolution (Other) /
neural mass modeling (Other) / slow oscillations (Other) /
spatiotemporal dynamics (Other) / whole-brain modeling
(Other)},
cin = {AG Flöel},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)5000081},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40861379},
pmc = {pmc:PMC12371574},
doi = {10.3389/fnetp.2025.1589566},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/280905},
}