ArticleBrain topography2024
Current State of EEG/ERP Microstate Research.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Detecting electrophysiological alterations in psychiatric disorders through event-related microstates: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Acute Whole-Body Heat Exposure Modulates EEG Microstate Dynamics, Phase-Lagged Connectivity, and Cortical Source Activity.Brain topography · 2026Article
- Repeated Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation Modulates Resting-State EEG Microstate Dynamics in Athletes with Chronic Insomnia.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Phase synchronization modes are associated with heterogeneous social orienting in children and adolescents with autism.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Altered EEG microstate associated with anxiety and somatization symptoms in major depressive disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sex-dominant differences in resting-state EEG microstates among young adults at risk of smartphone addiction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Academic burnout in higher education: a multimodal study of resting-state EEG microstate correlates beyond trait anxiety, depressive symptoms, and self-efficacy in Chinese undergraduates.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- EEG microstate reconfiguration across cognitive states in preschool children with developmental language disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Editorial: Complex network dynamics of cognitive processing in health and disease: current knowledge and future research.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Tutorial on using EEG microstates to study moment-to-moment large-scale functional brain network dynamics in neurodevelopment.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Brain network differences in second language learning depend on individual competencies.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- An Innovative Method for Refractory Epilepsy Diagnosis Based on Microstate Analysis and Graph Convolutional Network.Journal of medical systems · 2025Article
- EEG Microstates During Multisensory Stimulation: Assessing the Severity of Disorders of Consciousness and Distinguishing the Minimally Conscious State.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- EEG Microstate Differences Between Alzheimer's Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, and Healthy Controls Using 4 and 7 Clustering Classes with a Ratio Approach.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- New Insights Into Slow Reading: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Analyses of Visual Word Recognition in Arabic.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Microstate analysis in infancy: Examining infant brain at rest and during experimental tasks.Brain and cognition · 2025Article
- Stimulation Parameters Recruit Distinct Cortico-Cortical Pathways: Insights from Microstate Analysis on TMS-Evoked Potentials.Brain topography · 2025Article
- Metastability demystified - the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- EEG microstate analysis between patients with major depressive disorder, subclinical depression, and healthy controls.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Time-frequency feature calculation of multi-stage audiovisual neural processing via electroencephalogram microstates.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
The analysis of EEG microstates for investigating rapid whole-brain network dynamics during rest and tasks has become a standard practice in the EEG research community, leading to a substantial increase in publications across various affective, cognitive, social and clinical neuroscience domains. Recognizing the growing significance of this analytical method, the authors aim to provide the microstate research community with a comprehensive discussion on methodological standards, unresolved questions, and the functional relevance of EEG microstates. In August 2022, a conference was hosted in Bern, Switzerland, which brought together many researchers from 19 countries. During the conference, researchers gave scientific presentations and engaged in roundtable discussions aiming at establishing steps toward standardizing EEG microstate analysis methods. Encouraged by the conference's success, a special issue was launched in Brain Topography to compile the current state-of-the-art in EEG microstate research, encompassing methodological advancements, experimental findings, and clinical applications. The call for submissions for the special issue garnered 48 contributions from researchers worldwide, spanning reviews, meta-analyses, tutorials, and experimental studies. Following a rigorous peer-review process, 33 papers were accepted whose findings we will comprehensively discuss in this Editorial.
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