Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
Canonical Hidden Markov Model Networks for Studying M/EEG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683692v1
Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations.
buff.ly/489DYfB
#Parkinsons
Today we retired our cryogenic MEG system after 18 years of faithful service! And of course we celebrated the occasion with pizza and beer!! But the future of MEG
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
is looking bright as we move to our new OPM-MEG platforms!!
@cercamagnetics.bsky.social
"CamCAN 15 years on" - a new preprint reviewing all findings about the cognitive neuroscience of ageing from sharing CamCAN data, led by @rhens.bsky.social : osf.io/preprints/ps...
In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha).
👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz
👩🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz
Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hurrah!
New paper out doi.org/10.1093/brai...!
We show that sensorimotor network dynamics are altered in Parkinson’s disease and highlight the importance of looking at motor cortical activity within the broader brain network context to better understand pathophysiological changes underlying PD.
A picture of and quote from lead author Dr Mats Van Es, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford: "This is a pivotal finding in our understanding of brain function, showing that the brain’s functional networks are organised into periodic cycles...These cyclical dynamics occur not only at rest but also when replaying memories and during other cognitive tasks, where they predict response speed."
📢 NEW RESEARCH
The brain’s networks activate in structured cycles.
Led by @matsvanes.bsky.social, a team analysed MEG data from 800+ people. The strength & speed of the cycles was influenced by genetics & associated with factors such as age.
www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/brain20... in @nature.com Neuro
New paper using M/EEG to look at attractive and repulsive serial dependence in working memory, led by the excellent Jiangang Shan, with Jasper Hajonides.
Excited to share these proceedings! The OHBM Open Science Room is a unique space to discuss, exchange ideas, and connect with others. Huge thanks to all the amazing people I met through the Open Science Special Interest Group!
Check out our latest paper..
- A simple view of the ageing effect across the full spectrum and the whole head
- Spectra of effect sizes
- Covariates can change effect size
- Replication!
We hope this facilitates synthesis of results across a rich and varied literature of age effects
#neuroskyence
Check out our latest paper..
- A simple view of the ageing effect across the full spectrum and the whole head
- Spectra of effect sizes
- Covariates can change effect size
- Replication!
We hope this facilitates synthesis of results across a rich and varied literature of age effects
#neuroskyence
Hello world! This is the new official Bluesky page for the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.
Follow to see updates on our research, education, and other news.
Drumroll please... 🥁
Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!!
All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/
We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!
OxCIN logo
We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision
join us at @oxexppsy.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk!
Become a Midlands Youth Advisor! This opportunity can make a positive impact on the lives of young people and, we hope, the future of #MentalHealthResearch @unibirmingham.bsky.social @imh-uob.bsky.social
Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
What features are desirable for an (M/EEG) analysis toolbox?
✓ user friendly
✓ documentation
✓ computational efficiency
✓ analytic flexibility
✓ quality assurance
✓ reproducibility
Our osl-ephys toolbox paper is out now. Check it out!
bit.ly/osl-ephys-fr... @ajquinn.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social
HOT OFF THE PRESS - Back in 2019 we started asking ourselves what could you to demonstrate where werable, OPM-MEG technology could fit into naturalistic #neuroskyence.
One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first...
Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Time to follow @ohbmofficial.bsky.social on BlueSky, you brain mappers. 🧠
bsky.app/profile/ohbm...
I really like the idea of interviews on "current status and future challenges in brain imaging". I do NOT like that 14 of 15 interviews are with men. Who is missing from this list? We have lots of amazing neuroimagers who aren't men. #neuroskyence
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Going to try to start posting more on here given the increasingly suffocating toxicity of the other place 👋
Dynamic Network Analysis of Electrophysiological Task Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.12.567026v1
Our paper on periodic & aperiodic neural activity in Alzheimer's dementia is now published!
We find in AD a specifically periodic change, different from aperiodic changes in healthy aging!
w @mkopcanova.bsky.social, Luke Tait, @chrisbenwell.bsky.social & co!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We’re excited about our first paper looking at speech encoding in single neurons across the depth of human cortex. Out today in @nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]
Hello World!
We have now received 500 submissions to Imaging Neuroscience, with 50 of these already published.
direct.mit.edu/imag/issue
Huge thanks for your support in moving our field away from for-profit publishers.
Join our online workshop: Neuro(AI) for Developmental Research (Friday Dec 8 at 2:45 GMT)!!!
www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroai-fo...
Keynote: @JeanRemiKing Speakers: Jianbo Jiao @vayzenberg90 @EvansonLinnea Organizers:@AnaPesquita @B_Pomiechowska @OleJensenCHBH @BBabylab @TheCHBH @UoB_CDS
Welcome @bbabylab.bsky.social - Birmingham Babylab - do follow our updates here while we're working on revamping our website.
Internally-consistent and fully-unbiased multimodal MRI brain template construction from UK Biobank: Oxford-MM https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.30.569378v1
