Distinct visual pathways of threat retrieval in fear-conditioned faces www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Happy to share our newest preprint! I always wondered whether the (alleged) subcortical route of fear perception responds to newly acquired threat associations. Our research suggests that it does indeed, how cool!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

EDGE is looking for contributions from scientists and artists to the annual meeting of ICAD (international community of auditory display) under the theme of UNERHÖRT! (“unheard of!”).

Find the call-out here: edge-neuro.art/blog/opencal...

ah, yes, the

A network of basolateral amygdala projection neurons contributes to stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis A network of basolateral amygdala neurons, but not singular projections, contributes to the neuroendocrine response to stress.

New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats!!

"What is baseline, maladaptive, rest or post depends on context" - great presidential address by Christine Larson at #SPR2025

Today, I also learned the scary spooky hard way that when you are alone at night at a lake in pitch black darkness, you will hear a sudden, VERY LOUD bang on the water because the local beaver is protecting their territory

🍁🍂 (or: if you are interested in amygdalar contributions to verbal emotion processing come to my poster 44-3 on Friday #SPR2025 @therealspr.bsky.social)

Human amygdala nuclei show distinct developmental trajectories from adolescence to adulthood in functional integration with prefrontal circuitry Ojha et al. use longitudinal 7 T neuroimaging to characterize distinct developmental trajectories of fronto-amygdala connectivity across nuclei through adolescence. They identify how age-related conne...

How does human amygdala circuitry develop through adolescence to support affective and cognitive control processes? Excited to share recent work from my dissertation, now out in Cell Reports, that uses longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging at 7 Tesla to answer this question! A 🧵 tinyurl.com/5aaf9fpv

Rethinking women’s brain health - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Far from being a niche concern, women’s brain health is a global issue, affecting more than half of the world’s population. Despite this, the unique aspects of how the female brain adapts, reorganizes...

Rethinking women’s brain health — a Comment article by Julia Sacher & Ingo Bechmann

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

GitHub - ChrisWoodsSays/bird_colours: #rstats project to create a complete data visualisation using ggplot, i.e. without the need to add any finishing touches with a package such as Illustrator. To in... #rstats project to create a complete data visualisation using ggplot, i.e. without the need to add any finishing touches with a package such as Illustrator. To include specific fonts, cropped image...

And this as well: github.com/ChrisWoodsSa...

g-thomson.github.io/Manu/ this is wonderful

Matlab has live scripts that are kind of similar to markdown I guess, but the initial matlab script might need to be changed a bit to make the live script more informative

NeuroCamp | Munich | Neuroscience summer school NeuroCamp is a summer school for high school students in Munich that is organized by LMU students as well as young researchers. We want to get students enthusiastic about the fascinating and exciting ...

Looking forward to our SciComm and Art-Sci workshop tomorrow at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social with @edgeneuro.bsky.social 🌈💖 www.neurocamp-munich.com together with @prask.bsky.social

Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes - Communications Biology Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear perception, while the left d...

Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear perception, while the left down-regulates it continuously.
@eweidner1.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes Communications Biology - Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear...

This took a WHILE but here it is!! The last part of my PhD work is now published @commsbio.nature.com 🕊 We uncovered the temporal and spatial context that define the mTL's role in fear processing. Huge thank you to my co-authors, reviewers, editors, and participants 💖

rdcu.be/exQKb

If you're gonna assign ontological properties to a fucking AI bro I'm gonna walk out of here right now.

Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity | TechPolicy.Press If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.

There’s a reason Peter Thiel hesitated when asked in a recent interview if he “would prefer the human race to endure”:

Within certain tech circles, pro-extinctionism is a mainstream ideology—and some are trying to realize it.

A must-read by @xriskology.bsky.social
techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

Bonus bonus

Team knitting forever!! (and the rest is also very impressive, ofc)

Bonus picture

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) Bewerberfrist: 06.07.2025

We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory.
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

No neuroscience but my favorite compilation of pictures of myself

It is the view from the library 💖🤣

#PuG2025 see you later! @pug2025.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social 🌞

Hellooooo Würzburg! @pug2025.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social I have to admit I am here since Monday but all I have got to know is the inside of the university library and the stunning view from up here. Looking forward to talk to somebody besides my computer soon! 🌸

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence

(And yes I noticed the typo after printing)