(Mal-) adaptive synchronization in the human brain Signatures of neural oscillations in psychiatric and normative populations

Neural oscillations are a fundamental mechanism to orchestrate precise temporal coordination in the brain and slightly different patterns in neural oscillations may have far-reaching consequences for cognitive functioning. The goal of this thesis is to elucidate the neuronal oscillatory mechanisms that reflect cognitive processing. I investigated the cognitive mechanism of attention in normative groups as well as in people with psychiatric disorders namely, post-traumatic stress disorder and autism spectrum disorder. I aim to shed light on attentional resource allocation in various cognitive paradigms as well as neural mechanisms at rest. For the final chapter, I had the unique opportunity to investigate neural power and connectivity in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder while they received deep brain stimulation treatment.