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🔔 Submissions are still open for the Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain”
🔬🧠 Share your research on brain development and aging.

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📌 FIT’NG 2026 will be held right after ICIS (@infantstudies.bsky.social), giving researchers the opportunity to expand networking and collaboration.

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⌛Submission deadline is TOMORROW!
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⏰ Friendly reminder: the submission deadline is 4 weeks away (25 Feb, 2026)!
We are looking forward to your abstract and symposia submissions.

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A self-supervised implicit neural representation framework for estimating Standard Model of white matter parameters improves accuracy under noise conditions, enables spatial upsampling, and allows integrated gradient non-uniformity correction. @maxchamb.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🚨 All abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 FIT'NG Annual Conference taking place July 10–11 in Panama City.

🗓️ Deadline for submissions: 23:59 PST on February 25, 2026

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🌟 Great opportunity for researchers working on lifespan brain development!
🗓️ Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026

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Spatial development of brain networks during the first six postnatal months - Communications Biology Longitudinal rs-fMRI (n = 74) charts rapid spatial maturation of infant brain networks over the first 6 months: greater spatial similarity, tighter voxel engagement, and network-specific gains in stre...

🧠 The brain’s network organization appears in early infancy, marking the start of specialized networks for sensory-motor and cognitive functions.

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Mapping hippocampal-cerebellar functional connectivity across the human adult lifespan - Communications Biology Seed-based connectivity analyses of a large lifespan dataset reveal strong functional connectivity between human hippocampal regions and widespread cerebellar areas, with age-related reductions observ...

🧠 Adult lifespan mapping reveals distinct hippocampal-cerebellar networks and how they reorganize with age.

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The effective connectome over a century of human life - Communications Biology The effective connectome of the human brain is charted from birth to 100 years of age, revealing a critical window of plasticity during early brain development and a sensorimotor-association gradient ...

🔥 New papers dropped in @commsbio.nature.com Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain” www.nature.com/collections/...

🧠 Effective connectivity mapping across the lifespan reveals an inverted U-shaped developmental trajectory.

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Lifespan changes in the human brain This cross-journal collection invites submissions that investigate human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age.

📢 The new cross-journal Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain” with @commsbio.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com, and Scientific Reports is now open for submissions! 📭

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#Neuroscience #Brain #Lifespan #Neuroimaging

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Would you like to participate in the peer review process at Communications Biology? Please fill out this form to express your interest to act as a reviewer📝 We particularly encourage early-career researchers and applicants from underrepresented groups in research. forms.office.com/e/fv22f9aRt5

👩‍🔬 Looking forward to curating this Collection as Guest Editor! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

💡This Collection seeks submissions that investigate human brain changes occurring at all or multiple life stages. Topics of interest include
🧠 structural and/or functional development
🧠 connectomics
📈 identification of critical periods of development
💻 lifespan computational tools

Lifespan changes in the human brain This cross-journal collection invites submissions that investigate human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age.

📢 The new cross-journal Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain” with @commsbio.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com, and Scientific Reports is now open for submissions! 📭

🌍 Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...

#Neuroscience #Brain #Lifespan #Neuroimaging

Harmonizing network-based statistics across different atlases in brain connectome analysis - Communications Biology A neuroimaging tool, TACOS, was developed to transform network-based statistics across brain structural and functional networks from different atlases. Using TACOS, connectomic findings could be easil...

A neuroimaging tool, TACOS, was developed to transform network-based statistics across brain structural and functional networks from different atlases. Using TACOS, connectomic findings could be easily combined or compared without handling raw data

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Frontiers | Editorial: Recent advances in pediatric neuroradiology One of the key challenges in studying neonatal brain architecture is that during early postnatal period, brain tissue contrast and structural morphology (siz...

🔥 New editorial in Frontiers in Radiology spotlights advances in pediatric neuroradiology🧠
🔗 Read here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/rad...
#Neuroradiology #AI #Pediatrics

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🗓️ Deadline is June 12. 💥Get your findings out there!
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Burst of gyrification in the human brain after birth - Communications Biology Modeling cortical gyrification during the perinatal period suggests a potential birth-related increase in brain folding, pointing to a previously underexplored shift in early neurodevelopment.

Modeling cortical gyrification during the perinatal
period suggests a potential birth-related increase
in brain folding, pointing to a previously
underexplored shift in early neurodevelopment.

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⏳ Missed the first submission round? You are not out of luck!
🚨 Late breaking poster submissions open next week (🗓️ May 29).
Your latest findings still have a chance to shine. 🔬✨
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⏰ 5 DAYS LEFT!!!
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🚨 New Research Article 🚨
🧠 “Measuring and interpreting individual differences in fetal, infant, and toddler neurodevelopment" is now available.
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

🥳 🥁 #FITNG2025 submission site is now open!

The deadline to submit abstracts is April 10, 2025.
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Don't miss our next FIT'NG Together Talk on February 25th at 11am EST!

Dr. Niall Bourke and Sharada Balaji will discuss UNITY (Ultra-low-field Neuroimaging In The Young), aimed to make neuroimaging more accessible worldwide.

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