I couldn't find a tool to plot different #neuroimaging data in one consistent style, so I made one! Meet yabplot (yet another brain plot) - a #Python package for (sub)cortex & tracts.🧠
- Simple API
- Built-in atlases
- Custom atlas support
🔗 github.com/teanijarv/ya... (drop a ⭐️!)
Neural correlates of child temperament: The role of brain network connectivity in psychopathology risk - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
7/ This research identifies the aperiodic exponent as a potential biomarker for individual differences in cognitive ageing. A huge thanks to the Healthy Brain Ageing team at UniSC and the @lund-memory-lab.bsky.social at @lund-university.bsky.social
🔗 Check out the paper here:
6/ This pattern suggests that flatter aperiodic exponents may reflect a marker of decrement in age-related memory performance, whereas steeper exponents, potentially reflecting an optimised E/I balance within neural circuits, may index a protective mechanism against age-related memory decline.
5/ However, those with average or lower exponents showed the typical pattern of poorer memory performance with advancing age.
4/ What we found: The aperiodic exponent moderates the link between age and memory. For those with a higher (steeper) exponent, age wasn't significantly associated with episodic or visual short-term memory performance.
3/ Specifically, we looked at individual alpha peak frequency (IAF) and the "aperiodic exponent" - a measure of the brain's "background noise" often linked to the balance of excitation and inhibition (E/I) in neural circuits.
2/ We studied 99 healthy adults (ages 50-84) using computerised CANTAB tasks to measure episodic, working, and visual short-term memory. We wanted to see how resting-state EEG markers relate to these different memory systems and age.
1/ 🧠 Is there a "hidden" brain signal that protects against age-related memory decline? Our new paper in @neurobiology-aging.bsky.social explores how periodic (oscillatory) and aperiodic (non-oscillatory) EEG activity may be a key biomarker for cognitive resilience in older adults. 🧵
7/ This research identifies the aperiodic exponent as a potential biomarker for individual differences in cognitive ageing. A huge thanks to the Healthy Brain Ageing team at UniSC and the @lund-memory-lab.bsky.social at @lund-university.bsky.social 🧠 Check out the paper here:
6/ This pattern suggests that flatter aperiodic exponents may reflect a marker of decrement in age-related memory performance, whereas steeper exponents, potentially
reflecting an optimised E/I balance within neural circuits, may index a protective mechanism against age-related memory decline.
5/ However, those with average or lower exponents showed the typical pattern of poorer memory performance with advancing age.
4/ What we found: The aperiodic exponent moderates the link between age and memory. For those with a higher (steeper) exponent, age wasn't significantly associated with episodic or visual short-term memory performance.
3/ Specifically, we looked at individual alpha peak frequency (IAF) and the "aperiodic exponent" - a measure of the brain's "background noise" often linked to the balance of excitation and inhibition (E/I) in neural circuits.
2/ We studied 99 healthy adults (ages 50-84) using computerised CANTAB tasks to measure episodic, working, and visual short-term memory. We wanted to see how resting-state EEG markers relate to these different memory systems and age.
Pretty much. The argument is not really about the brain,
it’s about what you consider “significant variance” lol
🚨New paper alert! Our study led by @teanijarv.bsky.social
investigated why some individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develop hemispheric asymmetry in tau pathology and what drives this phenomenon.
Out now in Nature Communications! 🔗Full article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
A thread🧵👇
Yooooo love love love. Amazing work as always and indeed VERY COOL! 🧠✨
🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.
We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
The preprint of my first PhD project is live! 🧠 Find the link to the manuscript and read about the key findings below. 👇 #alzheimersdisease #neuroimaging #tau #amyloid #mri #pet #biofinder
Eating a diet high in specific types of nutrients — including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, unsaturated fats, nuts, legumes, and low-fat dairy products — is associated with improved physical and mental health in older age, according to a study in Nature Medicine. #medsky 🧪
Check out our recent pre-print looking at resting-state EEG individual alpha peak frequency and aperiodic exponent and memory performance across episodic memory, working memory and visual short/term memory tasks in a sample of healthy older adults 🧠👵🏻
New research out in Psychophysiology (doi.org/10.1111/psyp...). The EEG aperiodic slope, thought to reflect cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance, was linked to temperament traits (surgency, regulation) in infancy and moderated associations between maternal anxiety/depression and infant regulation.
So fascinating! 👀🧠
My favourite part of the week is seeing the new meme on @linniplidot.bsky.social 's office door 👀🧠🤡
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