As described in their research paper "Synchronous neural interactions assessed by magnetoencephalography: a functional biomarker for brain disorders", the team demonstrated that interactions among neuronal populations - an essential aspect of brain function - can potentially act as biomarkers for several brain diseases.

... We found that subsets of z(ij)(0) successfully classified individual subjects to their respective groups (multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, Sjögren's syndrome, chronic alcoholism, facial pain, healthy controls) and gave excellent external cross-validation results.