Optimization is a common problem faced by complex living systems, over the full course of their development and at all spatial and temporal levels. Biological systems are required to maintain a dynamic range of functioning that provides sensitivity to a variety of different inputs and will thus tend to organize at the critical point where dynamics are supple enough to respond to the external environment, yet stable enough to maintain homeostasis . It has been hypothesized in this light that improper optimization could lead to an overall dysregulated system, performing in a too stiff or too chaotic behavior range . Over the past few decades, the preference for this critical balance between chaos and order has been witnessed derived by theory and confirmed by experiments in various networks, such as the cardiac , endocrine , and central nervous systems, as well as at microscopic levels in mitochondria and in synaptic dynamics . Since nonlinear methods have proved to be so successful diagnostically for both cardiac and other physiological contexts, it seems likely that dynamic network methods may also be suited towards addressing the complex neural system wide processing. Technical progress of both neuroimaging and mathematical methods over the past two decades has made it increasingly possible to approach the dynamic architecture of the brain as an evolving nonlinear system . Yet, despite the widespread use of heart rate variability analyses to measure autonomic dysregulation in psychiatric disorders, applications of these computational techniques have not yet been directed, at least to our knowledge, towards understanding the network-wide neural disregulations allegedly present in such conditions.