Author Summary In this work, we use controlled perturbations in silico to identify regions that influence and mediate information flow in active brain networks. Conventional approaches of identifying such regions require the extensive analytical treatment of mathematical models describing node dynamics, thus restricting its scope only to systems where such models have been defined. The presented formalism can identify regions of dynamical and functional importance by simply measuring responses to perturbations, and can thus be applied at any scale where regions can be perturbed, and without any prerequisite information about node dynamics. Furthermore, the relation of metrics to interregional communication, functional capabilities, and structure-function mapping in general affords them considerable practical importance, especially for identifying targets for therapeutic interventions. Abstract How communication among neuronal ensembles shapes functional brain dynamics is a question of fundamental importance to neuroscience. Communication in the brain can be viewed as a product of the interaction of node activities with the structural network over which these activities flow. The study of these interactions is, however, restricted by the difficulties in describing the complex dynamics of the brain. There is thus a need to develop methods to study these network-dynamical interactions and how they impact information flow, without having to ascertain dynamics a priori or resort to restrictive analytical approaches. Here, we adapt a recently established network analysis method based on perturbations, it to a neuroscientific setting to study how information flow in the brain can raise from properties of underlying structure. For proof-of-concept, we apply the approach on in silico whole-brain models. We expound on the functional implications of the distributions of metrics that capture network-dynamical interactions, termed net influence and flow . We also study the network-dynamical interactions at the level of resting-state networks. An attractive feature of this method is its simplicity, which allows a direct translation to an experimental or clinical setting, such as for identifying targets for stimulation studies or therapeutic interventions.