Out now in @natcomms.nature.com, our latest from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social: Visual perception, oscillatory excitability markers, and network connectivity are modulated by the breathing rhythm - depending on how much you know about the stimulus.
#brainbody #neuroskyence
New preprint 🚀
Can we use hierarchical RNNs to model individual brain dynamics from short and noisy rs-fMRI time series?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Incredibly excited to finally share this project! Most heartfelt thanks to everyone involved for their support 🫶🏻 Looking forward to much more gut-brain research to come!
Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals?
Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others.
Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...
March is #Endometriosis Awareness Month, and this Editorial by Alex Tosun (@atosun.bsky.social) discusses why greater awareness, education, funding and research for this systemic condition is imperative to redefining pain, equity, and investment in women’s health 🧪🌻 #Medsky
plos.io/4slvscE
Exemplary analysis pipeline for respiratory data
'Robust circular cluster-based statistics
for respiration-brain coupling'
New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses.
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New paper out! 🚀
Using a differentiable implementation of the reduced Wong–Wang model, we optimized whole-brain simulations for 1444 subjects.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
Rethinking women’s brain health — a Comment article by Julia Sacher & Ingo Bechmann
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Undoubtedly the most massive group effort I was ever lucky to be involved in. Led by the ever-unwavering
@annekeitel.bsky.social, this preprint synthesizes the status quo of what we (don't) know about neural oscillations. Grateful to be part of the @scone-neuro.bsky.social network. #neuroskyence
New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:
How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New year, new preprint out! 🧨
'Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration'
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Great team effort w/ Andrea Zaccaro, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Marcello Costantini, @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social
#Neuroskyence #Interoception
New paper from our lab in NeuroImage on cortical chronotopy, led by Falko Mecklenbrauck!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Time to share some news: I'm still somewhat perplexed but incredibly happy to be awarded an #ERC Starting Grant (starting in early 2025) to escalate our brain-body research: M/EEG + resp/cardiac/gastric rhythms, TMS, olfactory bulb recordings, patient studies, ...
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Happy to see our opinion piece on the dynamics of brain-body states now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Really enjoyed drawing this up with @micahgallen.com and @jgross.bsky.social!
#CogSci #interoception #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Huge thanks to everone who was involved, in particular: @jgross.bsky.social, Christina Stier, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, Niels Focke & Udo Dannlowski!
