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Giulio Pergola

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Investigator @lieberinstitute.bsky.social/ Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences @johnshopkins.bsky.social + Associate Professor of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience @UNIBA https://shorturl.at/VVhk5. .. more

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Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great time at @css-conference.bsky.social in Siena 🇮🇹!
Spoke on #schizophrenia risk genes in dynamic co-expression networks across brain development.

Thanks to @nicopedre.bsky.social, @marilyngatica.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social for the #CoBrain satellite on complex systems in neuroscience👏

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Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Sep 6

🎉👏 Congratulations to our #UNIBA team member #ChristianValt whose work has been recognized by the #EEG&ClinicalNeuroscienceSociety with the #YoungInvestigatorAward 2025! 🏆

🧠🔬 He demonstrated significant contributions to translational research in #NeuroPsychiatric #Electrophysiology & #Neuroimaging!

Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Jun 13

📢 PhD in AI for Health & Life Sciences in Bari!

We seek curious minds: computational biologists, data scientists, neuroimagers, psychologists interested in human diversity at cell, brain & behavior levels🧠🔬

📅 Call in July, selection in Aug/Sept, start Nov 1st

Info: [email protected]. DM me!

Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Apr 4

🧠🎉 New paper in #AdvancedScience! 👏
Giuseppe Stolfa, from #UNIBA, used a novel #graph-based approach to define meta-ROIs on resting-state #fMRI data from 1,200+ subjects. Prefrontal-striatal #connectivity is associated to executive function and altered in #psychosis, even without cognitive deficits

Altered Brain‐Behavior Association During Resting State is a Potential Psychosis Risk Marker

The study detects a potential multimodal biomarker that can be promising for identifying early markers of psychosis. It shows a consistent brain-behavior association between a circuit of interconnect...

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Mar 30

✨2025 #ResearchExcellenceAward✨ #SIRS

🧠🔬Honored to receive this award, recognizing my team’s impact on #schizophrenia research. It highlights the power of collaboration, uniting basic and clinical sciences. Grateful to learn from brilliant young scientists dedicated to improving patients’ lives.

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Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congrats to Roberta Passiatore @lieberinstitute.bsky.social for another editorial success and to Antonella Lupo (Univ.Bari) for her first publication✍️ in #TheJournalofNeuroscience!
Their work on the #thalamus reveals new insights into thalamocortical connectivity, #memory, and neural individuality🧠🔬

Interindividual Variability In Memory Performance Is Related To Cortico-Thalamic Networks During Memory Encoding And Retrieval

Encoding new memories relies on functional connections between the medial temporal lobe and the frontoparietal cortices. Multi-scan fMRI showed changes in these functional connections before and after...

www.jneurosci.org

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Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Mar 25

Honored to join the annual SIRS conference this weekend as a mentor to Deema Ali, PhD in Neuropsychiatric Genetics at University of Galway🇮🇪

Looking forward to great discussions, supporting young researchers and connecting with colleagues from around the world! 🧠🔬
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Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Mar 24

March 20th, I competed in the Sumo Science Championship – MCS edition, where experts face off in scientific challenges. My match? Astrophysics (Elisabetta Bissaldi, Politecnico of Bari) vs. Neuroscience (me, University of Bari).
With 33 middle schoolers as our audience, Neuroscience won 23-10! 🎉 🧠🏆

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Sidhant Chopra @sidchop.bsky.social · Mar 24

🧩New study: "Network Constraints on 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 Synaptic Alterations in Schizophrenia"

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We map a prominent brain-wide pattern of synaptic defects in people with Schizophrenia using PET, then model the molecular, cellular & connectomic features shaping this pattern 🧵1/3👇

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · Mar 20

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

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Diana Kwon @dianakwon.bsky.social · Mar 19

“There is no schizophrenia. There are schizophrenias."

Researchers are discovering that schizophrenia, which can involve alterations in both the brain and the body—particularly in the immune system—doesn't look the same in everyone with the condition.

My latest feature for @sciam.bsky.social:

Schizophrenia Is More Complex Than We Thought, Which Means New Avenues for Treatment

As a complex picture of schizophrenia emerges, so do new ways to treat the disorder

www.scientificamerican.com

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our latest cross-species 🐭👨 work is out today
▶️ science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We show that
1️⃣ Brain connectivity in carriers of genetic alterations conferring high risk for #autism & #schizophrenia U-turns (hyper▶️ hypo) during adolescence
2️⃣ This switch is driven by synaptic remodeling

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Synaptic-dependent developmental dysconnectivity in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Synaptic dysfunction underlies brain connectivity alterations in 22q11DS, a syndrome linked to neuropsychiatric disorders.

science.org

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Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Feb 22

New PhD in Bari!🔬🧠 Apply by March 24th: lnkd.in/dDQ6R98n

Join us to study biological layers in psychosis—from genomics, transcriptomics, brain systems, up to behavior.

Work in a top team (70+ members, 5 PIs) with research in Bari 🇮🇹 & Baltimore 🇺🇸 (LIBD, Johns Hopkins Medical Campus).

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Giulio Pergola @giuliopergola.bsky.social · Dec 5

Honored to present "AI in Psychiatry" at the CNS Academy 2024 in Rome on Nov 27-28!
This multidisciplinary neuroscience project organized by Lundbeck Italia SpA brought together experts and innovators in the field.
It was fantastic to engage with such a multidisciplinary audience!
www.cnsacademy.it

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