Yuchao Wang
@itsyuchao.bsky.social
PhD-ing @Duke | motor control, cortico-subcortical dynamics, pathophysiology | open science | DPT @MGHInstitute | BA @Haverford
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Yuchao Wang
@itsyuchao.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Somato‐Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia
Background The central pathology causing idiopathic focal dystonia remains unclear. The recently identified somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) has been implicated. Objective We tested whether ...
doi.org
🚨 New paper alert!
Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders:
“Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia”
👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds....
We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below.
#dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro
Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders:
“Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia”
👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds....
We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below.
#dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
Excited to give a Special Lecture at #SfN2025 in San Diego (Nov 15-19)!
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Excited to give a Special Lecture at #SfN2025 in San Diego (Nov 15-19)!
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
Join us as PhD student using noninvasive ultrasound neuromodulation on the project 'Reducing pain reactivity for children in the Emergency Department using non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation'
Find more information at midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/applications...
#ultrasound #neuromodulation #Zenbud
Find more information at midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/applications...
#ultrasound #neuromodulation #Zenbud
2026 Projects - Midlands Mental Health and Neurosciences PhD Programme
midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Join us as PhD student using noninvasive ultrasound neuromodulation on the project 'Reducing pain reactivity for children in the Emergency Department using non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation'
Find more information at midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/applications...
#ultrasound #neuromodulation #Zenbud
Find more information at midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/applications...
#ultrasound #neuromodulation #Zenbud
wow what a location 🇪🇸
Still a bit but save the date!
I am excited to be co-organizing so will certainly be there, as well!
I am excited to be co-organizing so will certainly be there, as well!
September 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
wow what a location 🇪🇸
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
New paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering by @timonmerk.bsky.social !
We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Invasive neurophysiology and whole brain connectomics for neural decoding in patients with brain implants - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A modularized open-source pipeline for invasive brain signal decoding bridges the gap between closed-loop neuromodulation and clinical brain–computer interface approaches in a large patient cohort.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering by @timonmerk.bsky.social !
We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
Check out this paper that unlocked the human brain networks behind tics. The research team recorded signals during tic and tic-free states revealing the rhythms that seem to drive tic generation. What was cool was that all participants had brain leads placed into two different regions.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Check out this paper that unlocked the human brain networks behind tics. The research team recorded signals during tic and tic-free states revealing the rhythms that seem to drive tic generation. What was cool was that all participants had brain leads placed into two different regions.
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
Coming to DC for SNL later this week?
Come check out our posters on speech decoding and verbal working memory using intracranial recordings!
@snlmtg.bsky.social
#SNL2025
Come check out our posters on speech decoding and verbal working memory using intracranial recordings!
@snlmtg.bsky.social
#SNL2025
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Coming to DC for SNL later this week?
Come check out our posters on speech decoding and verbal working memory using intracranial recordings!
@snlmtg.bsky.social
#SNL2025
Come check out our posters on speech decoding and verbal working memory using intracranial recordings!
@snlmtg.bsky.social
#SNL2025
That’s me! See y’all there!
Friday Sept 12 4:30pm-6:00pm, Poster Session B
B70: Yuchao Wang (Rotation CNAP PhD Student) will be presenting his work on auditory pseudoword decoding in the hippocampus.
B70: Yuchao Wang (Rotation CNAP PhD Student) will be presenting his work on auditory pseudoword decoding in the hippocampus.
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
That’s me! See y’all there!
🚨 New paper alert!
Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders:
“Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia”
👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds....
We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below.
#dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro
Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders:
“Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia”
👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds....
We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below.
#dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro
Somato‐Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia
Background The central pathology causing idiopathic focal dystonia remains unclear. The recently identified somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) has been implicated. Objective We tested whether ...
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚨 New paper alert!
Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders:
“Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia”
👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds....
We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below.
#dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro
Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders:
“Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia”
👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds....
We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below.
#dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro
fascinating!
Now out in @natneuro.nature.com
What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
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What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
🧵1/18
August 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
fascinating!
Cool! Really interesting contrast with PD and between cervical vs focal hand dystonia. Task specificity may play a role?
Preprint 🚨 Could ERNA be a potential biomarker to guide pallidal DBS for dystonia? We investigated in a small cohort (N=8 patients) and found ERNA predicted the therapeutic contact with ~90% accuracy, and ERNA frequency may be related to alpha power + cervical dystonia severity. Read more here:
Pallidal evoked resonant neural activity as a biomarker for deep brain stimulation in dystonia
Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeted to the globus pallidus (GP) can effectively alleviate dystonia symptoms. However, identifying optimal therapeutic stimulation parameters is challenging...
www.medrxiv.org
August 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Cool! Really interesting contrast with PD and between cervical vs focal hand dystonia. Task specificity may play a role?
impressive work!
🚨 New Preprint 🚨
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
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Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
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Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
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Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
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August 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
impressive work!
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
🚨New paper🚨
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
August 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🚨New paper🚨
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.
Efficient uniform sampling explains non-uniform memory of narrative stories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667952v1
August 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.
been looking forward to this since the initial paper - seems to nicely cover the CB-thalamo-cortical pathway with fMRI. congrats!
In our newly published article at @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
we now show massive motor plasticity effects in subcortex.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
we now show massive motor plasticity effects in subcortex.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen
Subcortical plasticity has mainly been studied using invasive electrophysiology in animals. Here, we leverage precision functional mapping (PFM) to st…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
been looking forward to this since the initial paper - seems to nicely cover the CB-thalamo-cortical pathway with fMRI. congrats!
this looks so cool 📍
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
this looks so cool 📍
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
Hey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS!
I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!)
(All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...
I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!)
(All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...
March 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS!
I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!)
(All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...
I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!)
(All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
Updated preprint for those who might be interested: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
March 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Updated preprint for those who might be interested: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
📢 LAST WEEK TO APPLY FOR THIS! Don't miss out
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Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.
February 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
📢 LAST WEEK TO APPLY FOR THIS! Don't miss out
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Reposted by Yuchao Wang
If you're a good school applicant who has been impacted by the funding freezes, you can fill out this form to help publicize your story: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you're a good school applicant who has been impacted by the funding freezes, you can fill out this form to help publicize your story: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧠Our preprint is up‼️
We show the relevance of somato-cognitive action network (#SCAN) in two types of focal #dystonia and its potentially pathological asynchronization with the cerebellum. We compared individualized task-based and resting-state cortical networks. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show the relevance of somato-cognitive action network (#SCAN) in two types of focal #dystonia and its potentially pathological asynchronization with the cerebellum. We compared individualized task-based and resting-state cortical networks. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Somato-cognitive action network in laryngeal and focal hand dystonia sensorimotor dysfunction
The central pathology causing idiopathic focal dystonia remains unclear, limiting effective treatment targets. The recently identified somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with its role in coordinat...
www.medrxiv.org
February 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🧠Our preprint is up‼️
We show the relevance of somato-cognitive action network (#SCAN) in two types of focal #dystonia and its potentially pathological asynchronization with the cerebellum. We compared individualized task-based and resting-state cortical networks. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show the relevance of somato-cognitive action network (#SCAN) in two types of focal #dystonia and its potentially pathological asynchronization with the cerebellum. We compared individualized task-based and resting-state cortical networks. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social
Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience
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Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience
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Using precision approaches to improve brain-behavior prediction
Predicting individual behavioral traits from brain idiosyncrasies has broad practical
implications, yet predictions vary widely. This constraint may be driven by a combination
of signal and noise in b...
go.illinois.edu
November 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social
Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience
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Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience
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Reposted by Yuchao Wang
November 16, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by Yuchao Wang
Looks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one!
Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome.
go.bsky.app/NsFhnV
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych
Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome.
go.bsky.app/NsFhnV
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych
November 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Looks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one!
Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome.
go.bsky.app/NsFhnV
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych
Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome.
go.bsky.app/NsFhnV
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych
so far, the sky is bluer on the other side:)
November 16, 2024 at 10:16 PM
so far, the sky is bluer on the other side:)