Christian Bénar
@cgbenar.bsky.social
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Researcher in signal processing for brain mapping (epilepsy and cognition), in EEG, MEG and intracerebral EEG (SEEG). Interested in depth/surface relationships. OPMs are coming!!! Check our Anywave software https://meg.univ-amu.fr/wiki/Welcome
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jensfoell.de
Keep an eye on this tech, y’all. I still maintain that this will make fMRI mostly obsolete in the next few years.
neurofractal.bsky.social
OPMs are going social! First two person data looking promising 🤞
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sarangnemo.bsky.social
Svenja Knappe kicks off her lecture in Freiburg. She's been awarded the Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt research prize for her achievements in development of optically pumped magnetometers, particularly for their use in #MEG. Well deserved, herzlichen Glückwunsch Svenja!
#neuroskyence
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bidsstandard.bsky.social
We are very happy and proud to be awarded the The Neuro - Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prize.

To paraphrase Yaroslav Halchenko who was in Montreal to receive the prize on behalf of the whole community.

"Standards are the common language of open science!"
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bagshaap.bsky.social
There will be plenty of opportunities to come and work at the University of Birmingham in the next few years via the Anniversary Fellows and Chairs scheme: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/un...
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hyojinpark.bsky.social
Multiple competition-based PhD fundings are available using OPM-MEG @thechbh.bsky.social, including BBSRC-funded mibtp (link 👇). Please email me with your CV to discuss details! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Optimising Neurocognitive Strategies for Efficient Communication in Young and Older Adults using Lar...
warwick.ac.uk
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rachelahandley.com
An involuntary twitch in my finger is enough for them to see me. I tremble as I look at them. They have no face, no eyes, only a cold silence. They breed quickly. New ones drag at my hands just as I subdue another one.

I call this story, 'I receive a lot of emails during this time of the year'.
cgbenar.bsky.social
This answers another post of mine "how close is classical MEG from being replaced by OPM s" ;)
Please tell us how it goes :)
cgbenar.bsky.social
Or a very very good helium recycler!!!
Our 4D is getting toward the end of its life
We want to explore the OPM alternative... How close are we to replace Squids?!? We shall see....
cgbenar.bsky.social
Thanks Maciek ! We are OPM and MEG too !
meg.univ-amu.fr
;)
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maciekszul.bsky.social
OPM and MEG DORKS (like me) this is my feed about magnetoencephalography, it gathers posts based on keywords too so it can be a little dirty, if you want to, use the 🧠📟 (brain+pager) tag. Picks up the activity of MEGUKI, Biomag and MEGNORD communities.
🧪 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #neuroimaging

bsky.app/profile/did:...
cgbenar.bsky.social
I do not have it myself, I was just attendee, but I will check ! :)
cgbenar.bsky.social
Thanks Daniele, very interesting!
PS is there a MEG feed ??? ;)
cgbenar.bsky.social
Welcome Christian!!! #EEG
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyscience #EEG #MEG #neuroimaging
danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
The impact of ROI extraction method for MEG connectivity estimation: Practical recommendations for the study of resting state data.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A friendly collaboration resulting in nice (and perhaps niche) results. Special thanks to D. Brkic, G. Pellegrino, J. Rasero
We show that ROI-based connectivity maps vary remarkably across strategies in both connectivity magnitude and spatial distribution. Dimensionality reduction procedures conducted after computing connectivity are more similar to each-other, while PCA before approach is the most dissimilar to other approaches. Although differences across methods are consistent across frequency bands, they are influenced by the connectivity metric and ROI size. Greater differences were observed for ciPLV than PLV, and in larger ROIs. Realistic simulations confirmed that after aggregation procedures are generally more accurate but have lower specificity (higher rate of false positive connections). Although computationally demanding, after dimensionality reduction strategies should be preferred when higher sensitivity is desired. Given the remarkable differences across aggregation procedures, caution is warranted in comparing results across studies applying different extraction methods.
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goneill.bsky.social
New paper from Tim Tierney, the third of his trilogy denosing OPM-MEG data.

When you pack sensors this close to the brain, SSS has the potential to be an unstable method. Spheroidal harmonics and a smarter projection method may be the answer.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Left plot shows how a sphere is inadequate to approximate the brain without it intersecting with nearby OPM sensors. Right plot shows how spheroidal harmonics can generalise to a sphere, but some spherical harmonics do not generalise well to a ellipsoid.
cgbenar.bsky.social
Thanks Raquel! I shared it with my team. We had a very nice introduction to MNE decoding in Lyon too ! ;)
cgbenar.bsky.social
Hey Randy! Next time you come to Marseille we have to go to an Italian restaurant 😉