Anton Tokariev

📢 Excited to share our new paper from Synnöve Carlson’s team! We show how prematurity impacts higher-order brain network dynamics in school-aged children and adolescents:

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

#Neuroscience #Brain #Prematurity #BrainHealth #Neurodevelopment

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Heading to #ECCN2025 in London?

Don’t miss our symposium “New insights into premature infant EEG” on Wed Sept 10, 14:00–15:30

I’ll speak on how early cortical activity networks link to neurodevelopment. See you there!

#Brain #Neurodevelopment #Prematurity #BrainHealth

Interested in fetal and infant brain development?

Join our symposium at #OHBM2025 in Brisbane!

🎙️ Speakers:
Joel Frohlich
Sahar Moghimi
Francesca Garbarini
James Roberts

🗓️ Friday, June 27
🕒 3:45–5:00 PM
📍 Room P2 (Plaza Level)

Emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the brains of human infants - Communications Biology During early maturation, the human brain self-organizes into a unified system capable of supporting synergistic processing and cognitive functions. Environmental enrichment can modulate the developmen...

A new study shows that during early maturation, the human brain self-organizes into a unified system capable of supporting synergistic processing and cognitive functions. @antontokariev.bsky.social; @thosvarley.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I’m really happy to see that our synergistic collaboration has resulted in a paper characterizing emerging synergies in the human infant brain!

Thank you for your great work, and thanks to all the other authors for their valuable contributions. This work on brain synergy would not have been possible without a truly synergistic team!

Great opportunity for postdocs! I would be happy to support projects aiming to study developing (human) brain.

Warmest congrats, Juha!

The developing Human Connectome Project fetal functional MRI release: Methods and data structures Abstract. Recent advances in fetal fMRI present a new opportunity for neuroscience to study functional human brain connectivity at the time of its emergence. Progress in the field, however, has been h...

Very pleased to share the fMRI pipeline paper from the fetal release or the developing human connectome project, a true labour of love and incredible work from Slava Karolis #dhcp #connectome #fmri direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Our work applying the local O-information to BOLD data was just accepted to a focus issue on Higher Order Brain Networks in JPhys Complexity!
doi.org/10.1088/2632...
Here’s a quick thread, which boils down to… timescale really matters when you’re talking about synergy and redundancy in the brain!

Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain The mammalian brain is comprised of anatomically and functionally distinct regions. Substantial work over the past century has pursued the generation of ever-more accurate maps of regional boundaries,...

For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Metastability is a concept from dynamical systems. In the brain, it is thought to reflect the balance between the cooperative and independent functioning of brain...

Finally published:
“Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future”
rdcu.be/d3bh9

All about metastability: what the heck it is, how to measure it in models and data, and how to interpret it in neuroscience!

Impact of In Utero Exposure to Antiepileptic Drugs on Neonatal Brain Function Abstract. In utero brain development underpins brain health across the lifespan but is vulnerable to physiological and pharmacological perturbation. Here,

We found that in utero exposure to AEDs causes persistent changes in functional networks, which also correlate with children's neurocognitive performance. In our previous study on this cohort at term age, we also observed similar effects:

doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

Effect of in utero exposure to antiepileptic drugs on cortical networks and neurophysiological outcomes at 6 years Objective The human brain undergoes an activity-dependent organization during late gestation, making it very sensitive to all effects on the spontaneous neuronal activity. Pregnant mothers with epil.....

📄 In our new study by Sebastian König and Co, we followed up on children who were exposed to #antiepileptics in utero and compared their cortical #EEG networks and neurophysiological outcomes assessed at six years of age to those of their peers:

doi.org/10.1111/epi....

- High-density EEG is critical for local properties;
- Lower-density caps are OK for global measures;
- Low-frequency amplitude networks are more robust to EEG number;
- High-frequency phase networks are most sensitive to EEG number;
- Use simulations to evaluate any head model before analysis;

The impact of EEG electrode density on the mapping of cortical activity networks in infants Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used for assessing infant's brain activity, and multi-channel recordings support studies on functional cortical…

📄 Our new paper examines the impact of #EEG density on the resolution and fidelity of cortical network mapping in infants. More electrodes are better in theory, but less convenient in practice. What is the compromise?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello, Bluesky🦋! I am a researcher studying the development of the human newborn brain. My work focuses on understanding normal brain development as well as the impact of various risk factors and environmental influence on these processes. Also, I develop methods for analyzing biomedical signals.