Selective DBS-induced deactivations in the SCAN, building on our recent @nature.com paper.

Thrilled to announce our new paper in @natneuro.nature.com!
We managed the impossible: precision functional mapping during #DBS, with 11.7h fMRI/patient.
Selective DBS-induced deactivations in the SCAN, building on our recent @nature.com paper.
nature.com/articles/s41...
@ndosenbach.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint: Objective Quality Assessment for Precision fMRI

Precision functional mapping (PFM) enables individual-level brain network studies — but demands more, and better, data.

We introduce an objective framework to determine when a dataset truly supports interpretable, replicable PFM.

I’m very excited about this new work describing the specific cortical-striatal circuits that are altered in Parkinson’s Disease and that should be targeted for optimal PD treatment.

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

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Artificial transneurons emulate neuronal activity in different areas of brain cortex - Nature Communications The noisy dynamics of biological neurons is vital for cognition, but artificial neurons failed to replicate it. Here, the authors show that neurons built with diffusive memristors can emulate the bala...

This is cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And featured here: interestingengineering.com/innovation/t...

#neuroskyence #compneuro

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...

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
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That’s a wrap! Thanks for a great #Flux2025 meeting, Dublin 🧠 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Considerations for conducting developmental neuroimaging research on mental health topics - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Considerations for conducting developmental neuroimaging research on mental health topics

Very happy to have gotten to work with @deannajgreene.bsky.social and Steve Petersen on this article in Neuropsychopharmacology: "Considerations for conducting dev neuroimaging research on mental health topics". Hopefully trainees and clinicians will find it useful! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The APC at @imagingneurosci.bsky.social is now only $1400! Keep the great submissions coming 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Great flash talk this morning Sarah!
Check out her poster today.
#flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Well shit
#flux2025

Here we go Fluxers! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Eveline Crone gives thoughtful opening remarks at @fluxsociety.bsky.social - thanking all the organizers and also acknowledging our challenging times. Very excited for the next 3 days of developmental cognitive neuroscience in Dublin! #flux2025

α-Synuclein driven cell susceptibility in Parkinson's disease www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08....

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Can we run a child version of the Midnight Scan Club? Not at midnight, of course, but turns out we can! We collected large amounts of resting-state fMRI data from individual kids, and show high reliability with increasing amounts of data and individual variability. Check it out!

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

More on the Action Mode Network!

Staff Research Associate I - 135608 Apply for Staff Research Associate I - 135608 position at UC San Diego in La Jolla, California on https://employment.ucsd.edu/

My lab is hiring a research coordinator/assistant! If you or someone you know is interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging (MRI, EEG), clinical populations (specifically children with Tourette syndrome), and brain networks, check it out: employment.ucsd.edu/staff-resear...

For Tourette syndrome awareness month, think about your understanding of Tourette and tic disorders. Most people don't know much about these disorders even though they are quite prevalent. Learn more at tourette.org/about-touret... and tics.wustl.edu

It turns out the brain🧠is silently🤫working when your arm is in a cast. 🩼 🚧
Plastic changes occur, and revert again when the cast is removed … not just in cortex.

@samkrimmelneuro.bsky.social shows the utility of Precision Functional Mapping deep into the brainstem! The red nucleus turns out to be much more potentially interesting for cognitive neuroscience than anyone thought, including connectivity to the Somato-Cognitive Action Network.

Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

I think this hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. Please look at this Executive Order, read what it says about grants, and think about what this means for scientific grants.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

It continues to get worse. We can’t breathe a sigh of relief because it isn’t MY grant. We all risk being on the chopping block. Not even to mention the severe detriment to science, society, etc. 😢

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump Places Freeze On Federal Credit Cards In Newest DOGE Executive Order The order gives the Department of Government Efficiency more power over federal funds and spending practices.

This is a straight ban on purchasing at #NIH — for cancer trials, treating patients, and developing cures. @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Almost all purchases at NIH are made on govt credit cards.

It’s clear what’s happening: Trump/Musk are blowing up the govt using devious… 1/
www.forbes.com/sites...

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:      Section 1.

Predictably, it keeps getting worse

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Inspired by @juliedgolomb.bsky.social I spent 15 minutes explaining research budgets and indirect costs to my lab meeting today, here's how I did it (1/4)