⚠️ Postdoc Opportunity in System Neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute ⚠️
Feel passionate about neuroscience and sleep 🧠? Want to learn cutting-edge techniques 🔬 to answer exciting basic science questions? Want to work in a multidisciplinary environment at the heart of Paris 🏨?
Come join us !
New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social
Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness
Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Congrats to Nicolas Decat!
New paper (with lots of cute animal videos!)
Ever watch your dog "run" while asleep and wonder what’s going on in their brain? In Current Bio we suggest that those twitches aren't just leaky dreams—they’re a vital maintenance system for the most precise movements
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using AI to predict how brain lesions perturb consciousness and how to restore it!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 We're very happy to introduce TRIBE v2: a foundation model of the brain's responses to sight, sound & language.
📄 Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub...
▶️ Demo: aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/
💻 Code: github.com/facebookrese...
🤗 Model: huggingface.co/facebook/tri...
🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3XA...
"I dream therefore I sleep"
Neural correlates of subjective sleep depth and subjective sleepiness. Scalp topographies illustrate the results of GLME models assessing the relationship between EEG activity (delta power, gamma power, and gamma/delta ratio) and subjective sleep depth (top half) or subjective sleepiness (bottom half). The top rows show the main effects of each brain activity index; the bottom rows show the interaction between brain activity and conscious experience (CE+CEWR vs. NCE). Significant interaction effects were found for subjective sleep depth but not sleepiness.
Perceived #sleep depth is generally thought to reflect reduced brain activity. @giuliobernardi.bsky.social &co show this relationship weakens during #dreaming, suggesting that dreaming helps sustain the subjective experience of deep sleep @spacelabimt.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4v8OxkH
Join us in Paris Sleep Day, 19th of May, a free one-day symposium dedicated to connect early-career researchers working on sleep in Paris and build a long-term local support network.
Registration and submission details are available here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hope to see you there! ✨
This project spanned years and continents!
I am grateful to my previous and current institutions: @monash-m3cs.bsky.social and @institutducerveau.bsky.social
Our funders: NHMRC and @erc.europa.eu
Last but not least my co-authors, especially the newly minted Dr Elaine Pinggal!
Et pour les francophones un peu pressés, le communiqué de presse de l'@inserm.fr!
presse.inserm.fr/tdah-les-tro...
You can read this thread summarising our paper and its findings:
bsky.app/profile/thom...
🚨 Paper alert 🚨
Our work on sleep intrusions in #ADHD is now published in Journal of Neuroscience @sfnjournals.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2026/03/05/JNEUROSCI.1694-25.2025
Adults with ADHD show more sleep-like slow waves during wake, which partially account for ADHD symptoms
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NeuroBrain is now open source! Real-time AI pipeline that filters Bluesky's firehose into a curated neuroscience feed using a local LLM. Includes a step-by-step guide for building your own AI-curated feed on any topic. github.com/micahgallen/bsky_neurobrain
My institute, @institutducerveau.bsky.social, is recruiting Junior (<7y post-PhD) Group Leaders (5y contract + start-up package)
Focus on AI and Data Science, researchers in cognitive and computational science are welcome to apply!
Details of the call:
institut-du-cerveau.wiin.io/en/applicati...
Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social, out now in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New preprint! with @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ve6c5_v1
Consciousness seems central to moral status debates, from AI to animal welfare.
But is consciousness necessary for moral status? Is it sufficient?
We surveyed >1000 people to find out. 🧵 1/n
57 days, 21 hours and 20 minutes.
They did it! They just popped the loop. What an adventure!
This simple but effective account!
It's always important to consider the context of EEG biomarkers!
Esther and Luca's hypothesis was that it could all be explained by a change in the state of the participants.
In particular, whether they had their eyes open or close. This simple change can push the EEG in different territories of alpha oscillations with opposite relationship with alpha.
Alpha oscillations in EEG recordings are a frequently reported marker of mind wandering.
But the literature can be a bit confusing when looking at the direction of this effect! Sometimes an increase in alpha is associated with mind wandering, sometimes a decrease...
🚨 Preprint altert 🚨
**Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed**
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!
Notre article sur le vide mental a les honneurs du @lemonde.fr !
Merci @hnirom.bsky.social pour ce bel article !
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Happy to share new preprint on wake slow waves in older adults with subjective cognitive decline, with my awesome postdoc mentors @thomasandrillon.bsky.social & @oudietted.bsky.social at @institutducerveau.bsky.social
Thanks @alzheimer-recherche.org for support!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Check out this new model from @ivanmindlin.bsky.social, @rherzoga.bsky.social and friends showing that a local homeostatic inhibition allows for a broader repertoire of states, including spatial mosaics of wake and sleep-like activity.
Could this be the basis of the phenomenon of local sleep?
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📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠
We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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