Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development.

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Day 2 of #SANS2026 underway with the BIOPAC Systems presentation! "Advancing Brain-Body Research: Introducing the BIOPAC MedelOpt+ Integrated Neurophysiology Platform"

Hmmm, something a little bit more in depth than what was blasted. POs are continuing to support the scientific community in the ways they best can, in an climate that makes it hard.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by KC K. Nkurumeh, Han Yuan, and Lei Ding:

Recurring transient brain-wide co-activation patterns from EEG spatially resembling time-averaged resting-state networks

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | How Visual Cortices Develop; Dopamine Dynamics during Decision-Making
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/14/etwij46142026

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What are the downstream implications of censoring high motion volumes in fMRI? Two new preprints find that aggressive censoring leads to noisier FC, more attenuated and variable BWAS, and worse personalized TMS targets.

arxiv.org/html/2603.07...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Regional brain age deviations reveal divergent developmental pathways in youth Normative modeling of brain development has gained traction for quantifying individual deviations in maturation. The brain age gap (BAG), the difference between predicted age from MRI features and…

Regional brain age gap patterns are linked to distinct behavioral trajectories during development.

abstract image of brain made up of colorful interconnected blocks

📢 We’re excited to announce the next call for applications for the DPN Editors' New Investigator Award! This award waives the article processing charge ($2290) for new investigators who aim to publish an original report in DPN.

Apply by May 18th!

Details: www.nature.com/dpn/announce...

Mastering meltdowns and big feelings with Associate Professor Erin Gonzalez Discover practical, evidence-based ways to help children manage big emotions.

“Gentle” doesn’t have to mean “no boundaries.” Associate Prof. Erin Gonzalez of explains how children with big emotions often need more structure, clear limits, and strategic attention – alongside warmth & empathy.​
Blog: https://bit.ly/3N0sSct

Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Previous fMRI studies have documented links between internalizing problems in youth and brain functional connectivity of the default (DN), frontoparietal (FP), and salience (SA) networks. Characterize...

Very excited to share that our paper “Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis” has been published in European Child & Adolescence Psychiatry doi.org/10.1007/s007...

Congrats!!!!

Normative amygdala fMRI response during emotional processing as a trait of depressive symptoms in the UK Biobank - PubMed The amygdala response to negative stimuli was associated with an individual's risk of recurrence of depressive episodes, and AD treatment reduced these associations. This study highlights the relevance of amygdala reactivity as a trait, but not a state biomarker for (recurrent) depression. Moreover, …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41059632/

So proud of @meganspurney.bsky.social and team for this exciting new paper from my lab!

Younger adolescents' working memory performance benefits more from reward than older teens and young adults.

This occurs even though all ages report similar preferences about reward value and cognitive demand.

Amygdala reactivity to threat, negative facial perception, and risk of future psychiatric hospitalizations: a longitudinal study in major depressive and bipolar disorders Neuropsychopharmacology - Amygdala reactivity to threat, negative facial perception, and risk of future psychiatric hospitalizations: a longitudinal study in major depressive and bipolar disorders

This study identified biomarkers that predict 1-year risk of hospitalization for individuals with major MDD and BD

Results show amygdala hyperactivity & a faster recognition of negative facial expressions were significant predictors 😠

For those of you who are interested, I just pushed a draft of the final chapter of Better Code, Better Science: bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/ - now I just have to go back and rewrite the AI coding chapter which is already outdated just five months after writing it!

Interesting to see how our lab's recruitment sources have shifted over the last 3 years (see plot).

FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady.

Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?

Acute stress induces changes in epigenome-wide DNA methylation Neuropsychopharmacology - Acute stress induces changes in epigenome-wide DNA methylation

Analysis of 122 healthy individuals revealed that specific epigenetic markers in genes related to thyroid function and synaptic processes predict how strongly a person reacts to stress 😰

A transdiagnostic group exercise intervention for mental health outpatients in Germany (ImPuls): results of a pragmatic, multisite, block-randomised, phase 3 controlled trial ImPuls is an efficacious transdiagnostic adjunctive treatment in outpatient mental health care. Our findings suggest that exercise therapy should be implemented in outpatient mental health care as an ...

#TeamWolf super cool - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Higher physical activity is associated with reduced odds of depressive symptoms among university students: A meta-analysis of over 66,000 participants - PubMed Depression is highly prevalent among university students, who also exhibit low levels of physical activity. Although physical activity is associated with a lower likelihood of depressive symptoms, the magnitude of its effect in this population has not been systematically assessed. This study reviewe …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41621452/

Subcomponents of reward processing in adolescent anhedonia - Nature Reviews Psychology Understanding the link between anhedonia and reward processing in adolescence can enhance mental health interventions specifically for young people. In this Review, Ma et al. examine the evidence on c...

Subcomponents of reward processing in adolescent anhedonia

Review by Xueqing Ma, Angad Sahni & Ciara McCabe

go.nature.com/4kvqfw7

Females have shorter scalp-to-cortex distances and receive stronger TMS electrical fields: Implications for clinical treatment Neuropsychopharmacology - Females have shorter scalp-to-cortex distances and receive stronger TMS electrical fields: Implications for clinical treatment

Biological sex impacts TMS intensity because ♀️ typically have shorter scalp-to-cortex distances than ♂️

While these differences are widespread, they are absent in the motor cortex—the site usually used to determine clinical dosage

Check out our new paper evaluating the performance of five brain age algorithms in two population-based cohorts of youth 🧠

@ohbmofficial.bsky.social

New tour de force from @giuliaabaracc.bsky.social. Everything you ever wanted to know about brain signal variability! 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by James D. Kent, Alejandro de la Vega, et al:

Neurosynth Compose: A web-based platform for flexible and reproducible neuroimaging meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...

My review with @caterinagratton.bsky.social is (apparently) open access for those who couldn't see it before:

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We discuss individual differences in brain network organization and how to home in on and talk about commonalities in the face of such differences

Hierarchical Phenotyping of Psychopathology: Implications and Opportunities for Precision Psychiatry When Biology Could Be Associated With Both Symptoms and Syndromes As psychiatry increasingly embraces precision medicine principles, there have been efforts to characterize the specificity of biology-psychopathology associations (e.g., is biology associated with syn...

Excited for the 1st lab paper to be live @biologicalpsych.bsky.social !

@emilyrperkins.bsky.social @keananjoyner.bsky.social and I discuss testing biology as simultaneous + unique predictors of different levels of psychopathology hierarchies 1/7🧵

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Built a pipeline that automatically runs each morning and pulls new papers + preprints, merges them with CV (recent pubs + grants), and prepares an LLM-ready summary of emerging research directions and relevant funding opportunities.
First pass, please improve.
OSF: lnkd.in/ev3T2ibn

Holy cow. This will be super useful for accelerating the development of all kinds of projects and methods from UKB—huge kudos to everyone in this team that made it happen (and the broader UKB team too)!