Bratislav Misic, PhD
Misic will use non-invasive neuroimaging to explain how the links and interactions among brain areas determine and affect our thinking and behaviour.
Bratislav Misic leads the Network Neuroscience Lab and investigates how cognitive operations and complex behaviour emerge from the connections and interactions among brain areas. The goal of this research is to quantify the effects of disease on brain structure and function. His research program emphasizes representations and models that not only embody the topological organization of the brain, but also capture the complex multi-scale relationships that link brain network topology to dynamic biological processes, such as neural signalling and disease spread. Misic's research lies at the intersection of network science, dynamical systems and multivariate statistics, with a focus on complex data sets involving multiple neuroimaging modalities, including fMRI, DWI, MEG/EEG and PET.
Misic, B., & Sporns, O. (2016). From regions to connections and networks: New bridges between brain and behavior. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 40, 1-7. S0959-4388(16)30054-X
Misic, B., Betzel, R. F., Nematzadeh, A., Goni, J., Griffa, A., Hagmann, P., . . . Sporns, O. (2015). Cooperative and competitive spreading dynamics on the human connectome. Neuron, 86(6), 1518-1529. 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.05.035
Misic, B., Betzel, R. F., de Reus, M. A., van den Heuvel, M. P., Berman, M. G., McIntosh, A. R., & Sporns, O. (2016). Network-level structure-function relationships in human neocortex. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991), 26(7), 3285-3296. 10.1093/cercor/bhw089
Misic, B., Dunkley, B. T., Sedge, P. A., Da Costa, L., Fatima, Z., Berman, M. G., . . . Taylor, M. J. (2016). Post-traumatic stress constrains the dynamic repertoire of neural activity. The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 36(2), 419-431. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1506-15.2016
Misic, B., Sporns, O., & McIntosh, A. R. (2014). Communication efficiency and congestion of signal traffic in large-scale brain networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(1), e1003427. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003427
