🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization.
But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture?
We tested this directly.
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We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes
Every participant had a MEQ-30 score of 150: youtu.be/-c9-poC5HGw?...
My first preprint is out! Thank you to my brilliant collaborators & mentors for making this possible @vmarchman.bsky.social @arokem.org @jyeatman.bsky.social, as well as everyone behind the awesome open source software that we use @pennlinc.bsky.social @cieslakmatt.bsky.social (& many not on bsky)
My Neighbour Totoro is I think the only movie I can think of that has a compelling plot for kids that does not involve a villain.
hahahah
Another important one for psychedelics fMRI ppl: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Come join an amazing team where you're guaranteed to set yourself up for future success!
💊 🍸 Risk for substance use disorder (SUD) rises in adolescence. Family history and biological sex play major roles in a person's level of SUD risk. New evidence suggests neural markers of SUD may exist before substance use starts - yet how these markers differ across sexes is not understood.
🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
Strongest data yet suggesting that repeated MDMA use causes deficits in declarative memory (e.g., memory for new information, words, etc). #psychedelicscience #MDMA
10.1093/brain/awaf391
I thought about busting the PS out of the attic recently just for Spyro and Crash Bandicoot
Hot off the press!
🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
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nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
If you agree to review a paper, you should send it in on time. You're holding a spot and slowing up the whole process if you don't.
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
Amazing stuff here from @goliashf.bsky.social and the RBC team! Harmonized and curated imaging and phenotype data from over 6,000 youth easily accessible without any DUA. Check it out.
New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
my linkedin feed has become filled with psychedelic memes and I'm connected with an OG acid kingpin.
I'm near certain sLFOs are big for psychedelics.
Since July 21st, we have a good reason to celebrate the summa cum laude Defense of the newly minted Dr. Hettwer who received her PhD from @hhu.de under the supervision of Prof. Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social with strongest support of Dr. Sofie Valk! Congratulations Meike!!!🥂👏🏻🥁🎊
"Spatiotemporal asymmetries on brain energy landscape uncover system entrapment related to depression severity"
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level
#neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky
Is it possible to manipulate a high-level visual property while holding ~all low-level visual properties constant?
“No!”, you say.
Allow @talboger.bsky.social to show you otherwise! Now
in press @currentbiology.bsky.social
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Thanks Parker!
Just delighted to see this out in the world !! This is the first installment of SYPRES -- our living meta-analysis + open data resource focused on psychedelics. Led by the incomparable @parkersingleton.bsky.social and @bsevchik.bsky.social. Check it out + and give us your feedback!!!
Analiese Lahey, @pimcuijpers.bsky.social, @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @mntj21.bsky.social, Sandeep Nayak, Eric Strain, @vandyatvandy.bsky.social, Bob Dworkin, @jcobbscott.bsky.social. @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social, @pennlinc.bsky.social
All of this and more can be easily accessed through sypres.io
Team effort with co-first author (!!!) @bsevchik.bsky.social and the rest of the SYPRES and Metapsy team who made this happen!
screenshot of the dashboard home page
In partnership with metapsy.org we built an interactive dashboard for exploring the data. Users can:
• Filter studies by characteristics
• Test different analysis parameters
• Test moderators
• Download figures and reports
Dashboard: metapsy.org/sypres/psilo...
