Nora Moog

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake infants has the potential to reveal how the early developing brain gives rise to cognition and behavior. However, awake infant fMRI poses signifi....

Awake infant fMRI offers a rare window into early brain and cognitive development. In a new paper out now in Infancy, we leverage data from hundreds of infant scans from the Saxe and Turk-Browne Labs to reveal what factors drive scanning success — and how future studies can maximize data retention!

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming “Psychology and the Brain” conference, which will take place in Heidelberg from June 3 to 6, 2026. Conference registration and submission of contributions are now open. Visit us at pug2026.org
#pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience

Epigenetic age and fertility timeline: testing an epigenetic clock to forecast in vitro fertilization success rate - Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology Background In the field of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the search for reliable success predictors is ongoing, with novel biomarkers gaining increasing attention. Epigenetic clocks, mathematical mode...

Interesting application "Epigenetic clocks may enhance IVF success prediction, particularly in women between 31 and 35.... importance of developing epigenetic models specifically tailored to fertility outcomes " link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Franziska Weinmar, Birgit Derntl, et al:

Neural emotion regulation during pregnancy: An fMRI study investigating a transdiagnostic mental health factor in healthy first-time pregnant women

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Contribution of an under-recognized adversity to child health risk: large-scale, population-based ACEs screening Background and Objectives Whereas adverse early life experiences (ACEs) correlate with cognitive, emotional and physical health at the population level, existing ACEs screens are only weakly predictiv...

Found in translation! from clinic to the lab-and now back! Our California initiative for precision medicine-funded study in >30,000 kids shows unpredictable signals from parents & environment impact mental health outcomes: they are a major risk factor for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Eine ältere Dame mit kurzen braunen Haaren und schwarzer Steppjacke. Text: "Charlotte Merz, Ehefrau von CDU-Kanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz, erinnert sich auch gerne an die Zeit, in der ihr Mann nicht aktiver Politiker war."

Wir alle, Charlotte, wir alle.

A precision neuroscience approach to estimating reliability of neural responses during emotion processing: Implications for task-fMRI Recent work demonstrating low test-retest reliability of neural activation during fMRI tasks raises questions about the utility of task-based fMRI for…

Findings from monthly scans of the same adolescents show that diffs between people don't tell us much about brain responses to the tasks; rather, within person variability is what's up. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#ResearchMatters
#NeuroscienceIsCool
#academicbluesky

A fortune from a cookie that reads "Attention is the mother of memory"

Didn't expect my fortune cookie to have such a strong theoretical stance on memory encoding #cogpsych #psychscisky

Ja, auf jeden Fall. Hab es auch geliebt und deswegen vielleicht ein bisschen früh eingeführt aber es ist trotzdem bei meinen Kindern sehr gut angekommen.

In general, the female brain is still massively understudied in cognitive neuroscience. Even though sex steroid hormones are powerful modulators of learning and memory, less than 0.5% of the neuroimaging-literature considers hormonal transition phases, such as the menstrual cycle, the influence of hormonal contraceptives, pregnancy and menopause.

#neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

neurosciencenews.com/menstrual-cy...

Since BlueSky is still pretty small and slow sometimes, they should assign us all side quests to fill time.

Whitney Houston

Intergenerational transmission of parent adverse childhood experiences to child outcomes: A systemat... The current meta-analytic review provides a comprehensive synthesis of studies examining parent exposure to ACEs and the developmental and mental heal…

Important meta-analytic work (THANK YOU AUTHORS FOR DOING THIS) showing that parents' experiences of childhood stress carries across generations and links with child mental health (WE NEED MORE PREVENTION Y'ALL).
#psychscisky #devpsy #healthpolicy #publichealth
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