What are the systems in neuroscience that we really have something that we can call “explanation” at all relevant levels, other than reflexive feed-forward like circuits.

Here are a few that I would argue are getting there. Obviously not complete explanations but genuinely satisfying.

Early heads-up: There will be one postdoc and one PhD position in the field of learning/decision making open in my lab from Sept 2026. More information to follow soon, but feel free to already get in touch for informal inquiries! Please spread the word!

What is the status of DBS for epilepsy?
Find out in our new review/metaanalysis spearheaded by @laurenahart.bsky.social & Garance Meyer in JNNP: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40666371/

A 🧵 — please RT for reach! 🙏

Out now as a preprint!

We investigated the effect of outcome-uncertainty on learning and endogenous pain modulation in a probabilistic gambling task.

Results show that pain inhibition from winning pain relief increases as a function of certainty in what action lead to the relief of pain.

Electrophysiological signatures predict the therapeutic window of deep brain stimulation electrode contacts npj Digital Medicine - Electrophysiological signatures predict the therapeutic window of deep brain stimulation electrode contacts

New paper out in npj Digital Medicine! Fayed Rassoulou demonstrates how electrophysiology + machine learning can help identify the optimal contact for deep brain stimulation. rdcu.be/eNgG1

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Poster 45 of MEGUKI 2025 from Jan Schalla.

Just arrived at @meguki2025.bsky.social excited to present results on head movement reduction in people with Parkinson‘s using individual head casts. Additionally we can replicate prior findings on laminar source reconstruction! If you want to find out more, do not hesitate to find me at poster 45!

I’m sure you’ve always wondered how reliable Granger causality of source reconstructed MEG really is. Better yet, you surely wonder how to improve it. You’re in luck, I’ve just arrived at @meguki2025.bsky.social to discuss it. All jokes aside, meet me at poster 38 if you’re interested. 👋🏼🧠

Check out Jan's poster if you're at @meguki2025.bsky.social Great work! I'm so pleased to see these results replicated independently, even with a different type of MEG scanner!

Movement-responsive deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease using a remotely optimized neural decoder - Nature Biomedical Engineering An adaptive deep brain stimulation algorithm delivers targeted stimulation increases during movement using brain motor signals.

Happy to share our latest study led by Tanner Dixon and our team @ucsfhealth.bsky.social and @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social out today in Nature BME! Movement Responsive, AI programmed, BCI-aDBS improves naturalistic movements and reduces excessive movements at rest in PD.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Massive, Herculanean work by @laurenahart.bsky.social and Garance Meyer to compile and integrate findings from DBS for epilepsy (20 targets!) including meta-analytical evidence for optimal stimulation sites for the two main targets (ANT & CM). Preprint out now 👇👇

Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

The ad is no longer online, but we have another opening soon. If you are looking for a PhD position focusing on body-brain interactions, tVNS and anhedonia, please send me a message (more information on our website). #neurojobs

Context-dependent modulations of subthalamo-cortical synchronization during rapid reversals of movement direction in Parkinson’s disease Beta synchrony between motor cortex and the subthalamic nucleus is intensified when instructional cues within a continuous motor sequence become less predictable, calling for more cautious behavior.

Now out in the final version @elife.bsky.social: Context-dependent modulations of subthalamo-cortical synchronization during rapid reversals of movement direction in Parkinson’s disease doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Call - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica

🚨 Two PhD positions open in Barcelona!
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.

Details:
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky

Our pic on the cover of the current issue of Movement Disorders 🤩

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊

Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

How does subthalamic activity relate to Parkinson’s disease symptoms?

In a truly collaborative effort across #DBS centers, we aggregated a diverse dataset of invasive recordings from 119 patients.

Full article: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Main findings 🧵⬇️

We're hiring - a great opportunity to join our team of dedicated researchers and help push the boundaries of human neuroimaging!

Our human brain imaging Core Facility (ImageTech) welcomes applications for a MEG/EEG Research Engineer: tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/ca...

Join us at ICFOG 2025 in Atlanta (June 3–6), here global minds meet to tackle one of the most disabling symptoms of Parkinson’s and related disorders: Freezing of Gait.

Connect with top experts, share breakthroughs, and shape the future of care. Don’t miss out, register now!
🔗Learn more icfog.org

So well deserved! Congratulations @barbarahollunder.bsky.social🎉🎊

Postdoc position 2025: for more information, please visit www.psychologie.hhu.de/en/research-...

Great opportunity for science journalists: 3-5 month residency here in Aarhus, Denmark!
@thetransmitter.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social @videnskab.dk

Looking for an awesome postdoc opportunity in neurophysiology and neuromodulation? Then check out this exciting opening! You’ll work on cutting-edge research, all while being mentored by @carinaoehrn.bsky.social – one of the most talented and fun people around. Can’t beat that!

When measuring activity in different parts of the brain in tremor patients, we find activity to be rhythmic and synchronized in certain areas. The brain rhythm matches the rhythm of the shaking hand. We believe it might cause the shaking

Oscillatory Coupling Between Thalamus, Cerebellum, and Motor Cortex in Essential Tremor Background Essential tremor is hypothesized to emerge from synchronized oscillatory activity within the cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit. However, this hypothesis has not yet been tested using loc.....

Happy to share our most recent paper about the neural underpinnings of essential tremor. We mapped tremor-related changes of thalamocortical coupling and provide evidence for thalamo-cerebellar synchronization. Congrats to 1st author Alex Steina and thank u Düsseldorf team! doi.org/10.1002/mds....

Detection of Deep Brain Stimulation Lead Position and Orientation in Patients Using Magnetoencephalography Deep brain stimulation (DBS) programming in patients with directional DBS requires precise lead position and orientation knowledge. Current computed t…

New paper out. 🙂
This is the latest work of our fruitful cooperation with our colleagues from @uni-kiel.de led by Mevlüt Yalaz and Günther Deuschl.
#MEG 🧠 #DBS
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Cohen Lab of Translational Neuroimaging is looking to hire a bioinformatics and research data scientist to help accelerate our research and develop new analysis tools! @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social

Please consider applying or sharing!
jobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions.

Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!

Congratulations, Andy! This is great news! Cologne is a fine place to live, I can tell ya. Let me know when you have settled in enough to have a coffee in relaxed mode