Centre de Recerca Matemàtica

The 1820 Mallorca plague was not a classic bubonic outbreak

The 1820 plague outbreak in eastern Mallorca—long treated as a local episode and traditionally classified as a late bubonic manifestation of the Second Plague Pandemic—offers a unique opportunity to reassess transmission dynamics in a prebacteriological context. Using a previousl...

Critical neuronal avalanches arise from excitation-inhibition balanced spontaneous activity

Neuronal avalanches are sequences of neural activations exhibiting scale-invariant statistics, indicative of critical dynamics. Theoretical studies proposed that the balance between excitation (E) and inhibition (I), along with neuromodulation, are key factors influencing this cr...