Nima Dehghani
⌥ Blog · long-form

Notes & essays.

Companion writing to the papers — the reasoning behind the rooms, in plainer language.

Post · 2026

Interneuron Diversity Is Not Only a Taxonomy Problem: Cortical Depth as a Continuous Axis of Morphoelectric Organization

Mar 6, 2026
interneuronsinhibitory-neuronscortex
Post · 2025

Open Data in Neurophysiology: From Data Sharing to Scientific Infrastructure

Nov 20, 2025
open-scienceneurophysiologyODIN
Post · 2025

Symmetry’s Edge in Cortical Dynamics

May 27, 2025
cortical dynamicsexcitation-inhibition balancestatistical physics
Post · 2025

Rethinking Physical Complexity in the Data-Driven Era

May 12, 2025
Data-Driven ModelingAIComplexity
Post · 2024

Beyond Neural Imitation: Multi-Scale Biological Complexity as a Design Principle for AI

Nov 22, 2024
Post · 2024

Systematizing Cellular Complexity: Toward a Hilbertian Program for Biology

Nov 5, 2024
biological-computationbiophysicssystems-biology
Post · 2024

When Does a Physical System Compute?

Jul 24, 2024
physical computationbiological computationquantum computing
Post · 2019

Beyond the Relay: A Computational Perspective on the Thalamocortical Cognitive Engine

Jul 1, 2019
Post · 2019

Collective Dynamics of Excitation and Inhibition: An Ising Model Approach

Mar 7, 2019
statistical physicsmaximum entropyIsing model
Post · 2018

Causal Scale of Rotors in a Cardiac System

Sep 4, 2018
Post · 2018

Theoretical Principles of Multiscale Spatiotemporal Control of Neuronal Networks: A Complex Systems Perspective

Jan 1, 2018
Post · 2017

What Does the Local Field Potential Measure?

Jan 17, 2017
LFPspikesinhibition
Post · 2016

Inhibitory Orchestration of Neocortical Beta and Gamma Oscillations Across the Wake--Sleep Cycle

Aug 11, 2016
Post · 2016

Multiscale evidence for self-organized cortical balance

Mar 16, 2016
complex systemscortical dynamicsEI balance
Post · 2012

Revisiting the Critical Brain: Neuronal Avalanches, Power Laws, and the Statistical Structure of In Vivo Cortex

Aug 12, 2012
iEEGEEGforward-modeling
Post · 2012

Local Excitation, Broad Inhibition: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cortical Microcircuits during Sleep

Jan 17, 2012
Post · 2011

The Hidden Topography of Sleep Spindles: From Asynchronous MEG Generators to Synchronous EEG Events

Jul 2, 2011
SpindleThalamocorticalSynchrony
Post · 2011

Spatio-Spectro-Temporal Dynamics of Sleep Spindles

Feb 1, 2011
SpindleMEGEEG
Post · 2010

Electromagnetic scaling in the brain: EEG, MEG, and the resistive-medium assumption

Aug 1, 2010
ElectromagnetismScalingEEG
Post · 2010

Divergent Cortical Generators of MEG and EEG during Human Sleep Spindles

Jul 10, 2010
neurophysiologysleepspindles
Post · 2010

Re-evaluating Thalamocortical Synchrony: Multiple Asynchronous Generators of Human Sleep Spindles

Mar 28, 2010
SpindleSleepMEG
Post · 2010

Electromagnetic scaling in the brain: EEG, MEG, and the resistive-medium assumption

Jan 10, 2010
iEEGEEGforward-modeling
Post · 2009

The Human K-Complex as an Isolated Cortical Down-State

Apr 24, 2009
SleepSlow-WaveLocal Field Potential