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Synchronous neural oscillations in Parkinson’s disease: Variability and its potential network mechanisms
poster abstractRecent studies indicate that patterns of oscillatory synchronous activity in Basal Ganglia (BG) may be relevant to BG physiology and disorders, including Parkinson’s disease (PD). Oscillations in BG, in particular, in relation to motor control, are observed in different species, different conditions and different dopaminergic states (e.g., PD vs. normal). The rich membrane properties of BG neurons easily support oscillatory behavior. Correlations of oscillatory activity between different BG locations depend on the brain state and are dynamically organized.
A general feature of BG oscillations is strong power and correlations of the β-band activity when no movement is performed and replacement of β with γ-band activity during movement. Dopamine-depleted state, such as PD, is marked by increase of oscillatory and synchronous activity, in particular in the β-band. This study explores the dynamical nature of these oscillations on short time-scales
Synchronous neural oscillations in Parkinson’s disease: Variability and its potential network mechanisms
poster abstractRecent studies indicate that patterns of oscillatory synchronous activity in Basal Ganglia (BG) may be relevant to BG physiology and disorders, including Parkinson’s disease (PD). Oscillations in BG, in particular, in relation to motor control, are observed in different species, different conditions and different dopaminergic states (e.g., PD vs. normal). The rich membrane properties of BG neurons easily support oscillatory behavior. Correlations of oscillatory activity between different BG locations depend on the brain state and are dynamically organized.
A general feature of BG oscillations is strong power and correlations of the β-band activity when no movement is performed and replacement of β with γ-band activity during movement. Dopamine-depleted state, such as PD, is marked by increase of oscillatory and synchronous activity, in particular in the β-band. This study explores the dynamical nature of these oscillations on short time-scales
Horava Gravity and Gravitons at a Conformal Point
Recently Horava proposed a renormalizable gravity theory with higher
derivatives by abandoning the Lorenz invariance in UV. Here, I study the Horava
model at , where an anisotropic Weyl symmetry exists in the UV
limit, in addition to the foliation-preserving diffeomorphism. By considering
linear perturbations around Minkowski vacuum, I show that the scalar graviton
mode is completely disappeared and only the usual tensor graviton modes remain
in the physical spectrum. The existence of the UV conformal symmetry is unique
to the theory with the detailed balance and it is quite probable that
be the UV fixed point. This situation is analogous to
, which is Lorentz invariant in the IR limit and is believed to be
the IR fixed point.Comment: Added comments and references, Accepted in GER
The horizon and its charges in the first order gravity
In this work the algebra of charges of diffeomorphisms at the horizon of
generic black holes is analyzed within first order gravity. This algebra
reproduces the algebra of diffeomorphisms at the horizon, (Diff(S^1)), without
central extension
Role of dipolar and exchange interactions in the positions and widths of EPR transitions for the single-molecule magnets Fe8 and Mn12
We examine quantitatively the temperature dependence of the linewidths and
line shifts in electron paramagnetic resonance experiments on single crystals
of the single-molecule magnets Fe and Mn, at fixed frequency, with
an applied magnetic field along the easy axis. We include inter-molecular
spin-spin interactions (dipolar and exchange) and distributions in both the
uniaxial anisotropy parameter and the Land\'{e} -factor. The temperature
dependence of the linewidths and the line shifts are mainly caused by the
spin-spin interactions. For Fe and Mn, the temperature dependence of
the calculated line shifts and linewidths agrees well with the trends of the
experimental data. The linewidths for Fe reveal a stronger temperature
dependence than those for Mn, because for Mn a much wider
distribution in overshadows the temperature dependence of the spin-spin
interactions. For Fe, the line-shift analysis suggests two competing
interactions: a weak ferromagnetic exchange coupling between neighboring
molecules and a longer-ranged dipolar interaction. This result could have
implications for ordering in Fe at low temperatures.Comment: published versio
Near-Horizon Conformal Symmetry and Black Hole Entropy in Any Dimension
Recently, Carlip proposed a derivation of the entropy of the two-dimensional
dilatonic black hole by investigating the Virasoro algebra associated with a
newly introduced near-horizon conformal symmetry. We point out not only that
the algebra of these conformal transformations is not well defined on the
horizon, but also that the correct use of the eigenvalue of the operator
yields vanishing entropy. It has been shown that these problems can be resolved
by choosing a different basis of the conformal transformations which is regular
even at the horizon. We also show the generalization of Carlip's derivation to
any higher dimensional case in pure Einstein gravity. The entropy obtained is
proportional to the area of the event horizon, but it also depends linearly on
the product of the surface gravity and the parameter length of a horizon
segment in consideration. We finally point out that this derivation of black
hole entropy is quite different from the ones proposed so far, and several
features of this method and some open issues are also discussed.Comment: 14 pages, no figur
On the Thermodynamic Geometry of BTZ Black Holes
We investigate the Ruppeiner geometry of the thermodynamic state space of a
general class of BTZ black holes. It is shown that the thermodynamic geometry
is flat for both the rotating BTZ and the BTZ Chern Simons black holes in the
canonical ensemble. We further investigate the inclusion of thermal
fluctuations to the canonical entropy of the BTZ Chern Simons black holes and
show that the leading logartithmic correction due to Carlip is reproduced. We
establish that the inclusion of thermal fluctuations induces a non zero scalar
curvature to the thermodynamic geometry.Comment: 1+17 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figure
Broadening of band-gap in photonic crystals with optically saturated media
Due to strong absorption of the incident light, the media with high
refractive index are considered restrictive for applications in photonic
crystals (PhCs). The possibility to resolve this problem by optical saturation
effectively minimizing the absorption of the PhC medium is discussed. Such
approach might be promising for the significant broadening of the photonic
band-gap.Comment: 10 page
Revised Phase Diagram of the Gross-Neveu Model
We confirm earlier hints that the conventional phase diagram of the discrete
chiral Gross-Neveu model in the large N limit is deficient at non-zero chemical
potential. We present the corrected phase diagram constructed in mean field
theory. It has three different phases, including a kink-antikink crystal phase.
All transitions are second order. The driving mechanism for the new structure
of baryonic matter in the Gross-Neveu model is an Overhauser type instability
with gap formation at the Fermi surface.Comment: Revtex, 12 pages, 15 figures; v2: Axis labelling in Fig. 9 correcte
Novel universality class of absorbing transitions with continuously varying critical exponents
The well-established universality classes of absorbing critical phenomena are
directed percolation (DP) and directed Ising (DI) classes. Recently, the pair
contact process with diffusion (PCPD) has been investigated extensively and
claimed to exhibit a new type of critical phenomena distinct from both DP and
DI classes. Noticing that the PCPD possesses a long-term memory effect, we
introduce a generalized version of the PCPD (GPCPD) with a parameter
controlling the memory effect. The GPCPD connects the DP fixed point to the
PCPD point continuously. Monte Carlo simulations show that the GPCPD displays
novel type critical phenomena which are characterized by continuously varying
critical exponents. The same critical behaviors are also observed in models
where two species of particles are coupled cyclically. We suggest that the
long-term memory may serve as a marginal perturbation to the ordinary DP fixed
point.Comment: 13 pages + 10 figures (Full paper version
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