When brain rhythms aren’t “rhythmic”: implication for their mechanisms and meaning

By S. Jones. 2016

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The Interaction between Sleep and Development on Wake EEG Oscillations (2026, unknown): “Second, sensorimotor beta was found to occur in “ bursts ” of power of <150 ms long (Sherman et al., 2016) and could thus correspond to only 1 – 3 cycles of beta (Jones, 2016; van Ede et al., 2018; Rayson et al., 2023).”
Spontaneous α Brain Dynamics Track the Episodic “When” (2023, background): “As is now acknowledged, spontaneous brain rhythms display nonstationarities with “ up and down states ” of bursting activity over time (Steriade et al., 1990; Jones, 2016; Sherman et al., 2016; Cole and Voytek, 2017; Shin et al., 2017).”
Targeting neural oscillations with transcranial alternating current stimulation (2021, background): “Neural oscillations do not typically occur as sustained oscillations, but in rhythmic bursts of activity (van Ede, 2018; Jones, 2016; Allen and Cohen, 2010) (Fig.”
Mechanisms and Controversies of tACS (Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation) (2024, background): “Brain oscillations are not sustained, but rather, intermittent (Jones, 2016).”
Fluctuations in functional connectivity associated with interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) in intracranial EEG (2021, background): “Determining precisely which processes are involved in each frequency requires a careful parameterization of both the frequency- and timedomain properties of a signal[27].”