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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Please apply/RT! The Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University (SUNY- Stony Brook) is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in integrative neuroscience. We are in beautiful Long Island. Come work with us! apply.interfolio.com/171691 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @futurepislack.bsky.social

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨If you are in Toronto for #AAIC25, come to room701 at 2pm today (Tuesday)! I’ll present in the developing topic session on tau biomarkers!🩸->🧠

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Jul 18

Apply for the opportunity to serve on JNeurosci’s Early Career Researcher Advisory Board to get more involved in scientific publishing and advocate as an early career researcher.
Learn more and submit your application by July 25, 2025, 5pm ET: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-board-applications

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hi Early Career Researchers (ECR) in neuroscience!🧠 I've had a great time working as an ECR advisory board member in the Journal of Neuroscience @sfnjournals.bsky.social and learned so much from my peers and journal editors! We now invite you to join us! @sfn.org www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Jun 21

With the first blood test for AD approved for clinical use, there may be great use of it to infer regional pathology when PET is not an option. Hasom Moon (the first author of the paper) is now studying the discordant cases to better understand and maximize the use of blood-based biomarkers!

Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Jun 21

With these relationships, we can use p-tau217 to estimate the staging/severity of tau in the brain🧠. The comparison between p-tau217-estimated tau map and actual tau PET shows high similarities(!) for both cross-sectional estimation (top) and longitudinal prediction (bottom)!

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Jun 21

First paper from CHEN lab!🩸->🧠Can we use p-tau217 value to estimate PET-like map of AD pathology?🤔 We say YES!💡In two datasets (A4, ADNI), p-tau217 level can predict concurrent Ab (but NOT Ab change) and future tau accumulation almost everywhere!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Apr 7

Here is a cool study showing functional connectivity changes across the lifespan using 33250 people’s data from 132 global sites!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome - Nature Neuroscience

Sun et al. report human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome in 33,250 individuals, which highlights critical growth milestones and distinct maturation patterns and offers a normative...

www.nature.com

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Jan 14

Come to sunny Puerto Rico ☀️ #HAI2025 and see our poster on the predictive value of plasma pTau217 on tau PET at the regional level! Please check out Poster No.80 on Thursday 16th! 🧠 🩸

a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !!

ALT: a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !!

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Renaud La Joie @relajoie.bsky.social · Nov 21

Working in this paper was a really fun collaboration with folks at AMYPAD, Lyduine Collij, Ariane Bollack, Gill Farrar and many others.
This should be a helpful piece for people who want to understand Centiloids!
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · Oct 30

Our paper finally appeared on modelling the effect of age on the BOLD fMRI response, one implication of which is that many age effects previously reported may be vascular rather than neural… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Evaluating Models of the Ageing BOLD Response

Linear and nonlinear methods for estimating the BOLD response in the sensorimotor task from a large dataset show important effects of adult age on response features and biophysical parameters, some o....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Nov 16

I’d love to be added if possible! Thank you!

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Nov 15

I’d love to be added if possible. Thank you!

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Nov 15

I’d love to be added if possible! Thank you!

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Nov 15

I’d love to be added if possible! Thank you!

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Nov 14

I’d love to be added if possible! Thanks!

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Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Nov 13

I’d love to be added! Thank you for creating it!

Xi Chen @xichen.bsky.social · Nov 11

🤩 would love to be added!