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TYPE Editorial

PUBLISHED 12 December 2023


DOI 10.3389/fnins.2023.1302505

Editorial: New theories, models,


OPEN ACCESS and AI methods of brain
dynamics, brain decoding and
EDITED AND REVIEWED BY
Jürgen Dammers,
Institute of Neuroscience and
Medicine, Germany

*CORRESPONDENCE
neuromodulation
Yuzhu Guo
[email protected]

RECEIVED 26 September 2023


Yuzhu Guo1,2*, Yang Li1 , Hua-Liang Wei3 and Yifan Zhao4
ACCEPTED 04 December 2023 1
School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2 BAIoT
PUBLISHED 12 December 2023
Brain-Computer Intelligence Joint Laboratory, Beijing, China, 3 Department of Automatic Control and
CITATION System Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 4 Centre for Life-Cycle
Guo Y, Li Y, Wei H-L and Zhao Y (2023) Engineering and Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
Editorial: New theories, models, and AI
methods of brain dynamics, brain decoding and
neuromodulation. Front. Neurosci. 17:1302505. KEYWORDS
doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1302505
brain dynamics, brain connectivity, neuromodulation, brain decoding, neural coupling
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The human brain is highly dynamic and complex, supporting a remarkable range of
functions by dynamically integrating and coordinating different brain regions and networks
across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Research on the human brain has become
truly interdisciplinary involving medicine, neurobiology, engineering, and related fields. A
thorough understanding of the mechanisms of neuromodulation actions is urgently needed
for stimulation parameters optimization, response prediction, and consistent therapy. This
Research Topic aims to combine top-down and bottom-up methods to produce robust
results that allow for a meaningful interpretation in terms of the underlying brain dynamics
with an emphasis on brain decoding and neuromodulation.
Since the nonlinear, non-stationary, and complex couplings in brain activity, extremely
rich information, including temporal, spatial, frequency, phase, and connectivity features,
is embedded in every single measurement (Cao et al., 2022). Many methods are dedicated
to extracting specific features from the measurement. Even though more and more end-
to-end deep models have been utilized for brain activity decoding, including convolutional
neural networks, graphical neural networks, attention models, capsule networks, generative
models, and so on, revealing the underlying mechanisms is essential for clinical practices (Li
et al., 2023), especially, neuromodulation. Hence, an important alternative is to study these
features as a whole and study the complex couplings among a wide range of brain activity (Li
et al., 2022).
The collection of articles in this Research Topic showcases the diversity of theoretical
and empirical developments across a wide spectrum of brain dynamics research into
complex couplings. Although this Research Topic only accepts four articles following
the review process, it still covers a surprisingly wide range of approaches. Liu et al.
studied the cross-domain data augmentation and showed that combining spatial-
temporal features can improve the richness of generated data and contribute to the
identification of brain disorders; Kim et al. focused on the cross-frequency couplings
(CFC) and the CFC- transcranial alternating current stimulation (CFC-tACS) was used to
improve working memory performance and resulted in a significantly reduced response
time; de Freitas Zanona et al. studied inter-stimulus coupling and showed that the
somatosensory cortex (S1) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and sensory
stimulation (SS) alone or in combination the S1 excitability was changed, but only

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their combination increased primary motor cortex (M1) was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (grant
excitability; Guo et al. revealed the connections between retinal number 2023YFC2506600).
microvascular changes and NMOSD.
In summary, this Research Topic highlights multiple methods
for capturing brain dynamics and coupling analysis with high Conflict of interest
potential in a wide range of applications, such as brain disorder
identification (Liu et al.), improvement of working memory The authors declare that the research was conducted in the
(Kim et al.), treatment of stroke (de Freitas Zanona et al.) and absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be
biomarker discovery (Guo et al.), and so on. The brain dynamics construed as a potential conflict of interest.
and coupling analyses, especially, have far-reaching implications The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board
on neuromodulation. member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact
on the peer review process and the final decision.

Author contributions
YG: Writing—original draft. YL: Writing—review & editing. Publisher’s note
H-LW: Writing—review & editing. YZ: Writing—review & editing.
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