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Research InterestsAssociate Professor Michael Breakspear | | (Position Details) | | Phone +61-2-9382-2987 | | Email | | Qualifications MB BS, Ba(Hons), Bsc(Med), PhD |
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| School of Psychiatry | |
| | Broad Research Areas | |
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Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Biostatistics
Medical Informatics
Physiology
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| | | | Specific Research Keywords | |
| Brain Sciences
Schizophrenia
electrophysiology
Dementia
Functional Connectivity
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| | | | Research Interests | |
| I am interested in developing and refining mathematical theories of large-scale neural systems, testing and refuting these through functional neuroscience experiments and using these to understand cognitive, perceptual and motor action processes. A larger goal is to use these tools to understand disturbances of mood and thinking such as occur in mood disorders, psychosis and dementia.
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| | | | Teaching Interests | |
| Supervision of research methods | |
| | | | Funding Sources | |
| NH&MRC Program grant
ARC Thinking Systems
James S. McDonnell Foundation, Brain NRG
Rotary | |
| | | | Thesis topics for current UNSW Medicine postgraduate research students |
- Computational models of the brain.
- Modelling the relationship between large scale brain structure and dynamics.
- The dynamics of neural co-ordination in sensorimotor integration
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| | | | Key works/Publications | |
| Freyer, F., Aquino, K., Robinson, P.A., Ritter, P., Breakspear, M. (2009) Non-Gaussian statistics in temporal fluctuations of spontaneous cortical activity. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 8512– 8524.
Schira, M.M., Tyler, C.W. , Breakspear, M., Spehar, B., (2009) The foveal confluence in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 29:9050 –9058.
Honey, C., Kotter, R., Breakspear, M., Sporns, O. (2007) Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple time scales. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104: 10240-10245.
Breakspear, M, Roberts, J.A., Terry, J.R., Rodrigues, S., Robinson, P.A. (2006) A unifying explanation of generalized seizures via the bifurcation analysis of a dynamical brain model. Cerebral Cortex, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj072.
Breakspear, M., Bullmore, E., Aquino, K., Dass, P., Williams, L.M. (2006) The multiscale properties of evoked cortical activity. NeuroImage, 30: 1230 – 1242.
Breakspear, M., Stam, K.J. (2005) Dynamics of a neural system with a multiscale architecture. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 360: 1051-1074.
Breakspear, M., Brammer, M., Dass, P., Bullmore, E., Williams, L.M. (2004) Spatio-temporal wavelet resampling for functional neuroimaging data. Human Brain Mapping, 23: 1-25. | |
| | | | Further Information | |
| http://sites.google.com/site/systemsneurosciencegroup/ | |
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