If the brain operates in a critical regime, it's said to be beneficial for information manipulation. In this paper, criticality of motor cortex of Parkinson’s disease patients was compared with controls. So patients' brain is closer to (not farther from) the critical point, regardless of the meds.🆒🆒
Alina Studenova
Emergent critical oscillations in motor cortex of Parkinson's patients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698590v1
