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Lucina Uddin
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Professor, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior, UCLA (https://profiles.ucla.edu/lucina.uddin)

Director, Brain Connectivity and Cognition Lab (https://teams.semel.ucla.edu/bccl)

Available for academic career advice. I never said *good* advice.
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When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
www.nature.com
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Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below
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November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Friends in all places! Join @lucinauddin.bsky.social and I for a conversation about the next steps for brain and mind research.

Where? Online.
When? December 16 5-6p PT
Who? Sponsored by the UCLA Semel Institute.
How? Free to register; link here.

www.friendsofsemelinstitute.org/events-reser...
Elusive Cures
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November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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In Buzzy Papers we set out to compile some of the most exciting neuroscience papers published in the past two years! A panel of 10 neuroscientists selected the papers from a preliminary list our editorial team assembled by considering publications in top neuroscience journals
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using our interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.

#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.

We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!

Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
fMRI Course
Instructors
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
After all these years, I’m still utterly flummoxed by the procedure for adding an enrollment report to an RPRR in eRA commons.
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article on a new phase of consciousness science ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb
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November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
ICYMI @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2025 keynotes are now online! Here's mine: "Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks" 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9J...
OHBM 2025 | Keynote | Lucina Uddin | Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks
YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping
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November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word!

On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research.

It's free! Register here:
burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New from @haleyrwang.bsky.social: Multivariate Resting-State Functional Connectivity Features Linked to Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Early Psychosis - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
Multivariate Resting-State Functional Connectivity Features Linked to Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Early Psychosis
Early psychosis (EP) is characterized by neurobiological changes, including alterations in resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC). We now understand that symptoms and neural changes may overlap ...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thanks for a fun Halloween visit! Nothing scarier than the current funding situation 🧠👻🎃💀
Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors
@lucinauddin.bsky.social presenting at the University of Maryland
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
www.frontiersin.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Amazing work on interoception and connectomics going on in @micahgallen.com ‘s group. Thanks so much for sharing with us today, excited to see what’s coming up next! 🧠
Thrilled to be giving a talk at @lucinauddin.bsky.social's lab meeting in a few hours! Will cover what we've learned about interoception in recent years, and seek out some ideas for mapping the autonomic connectome!
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Looking forward to this upcoming Maryland visit on Halloween 🎃 bsos.umd.edu/event/dr-wil...
Dr. William Hodos NACS Seminar: Dr. Lucina Uddin
bsos.umd.edu
October 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New from Brandon Taraku 🧠: Modulation of functional network co-activation pattern dynamics following ketamine treatment in major depression url: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Modulation of functional network co-activation pattern dynamics following ketamine treatment in major depression
Abstract. Ketamine produces fast-acting antidepressant effects in treatment resistant depression (TRD). Prior studies have shown altered functional dynamics between brain networks in major depression. We thus sought to determine whether functional brain network dynamics are modulated by ketamine therapy in TRD. Participants with TRD (n=58, mean age=40.7 years, female=48.3%) completed resting-state fMRI scans and clinical assessments (mood and rumination) at baseline and 24 h after receiving four ketamine infusions (0.5mg/kg) over two weeks. Healthy controls (HC) (n=56, mean age=32.8 years, female=57.1%) received the same assessments at baseline and after two weeks in a subsample without treatment. A co-activation pattern (CAP) analysis identified recurring patterns of brain activity across all subjects using k-means clustering. Statistical analyses compared CAP metrics including the fraction of time (FT) spent in a brain state, and the transition probability (TP) from one state to another over time and associations with clinical improvement. Follow-up analyses compared HC and TRD at baseline. Six brain state clusters were identified, including patterns resembling the salience (SN), central executive (CEN), visual (VN), default mode (DMN), and somatomotor (SMN) networks. Following ketamine, TRD patients showed decreased FT for the VN (p=7.4E-04) and increased FT for the CEN state (p=1.9E-03). For TP metrics, SN-CEN increased (p=5.8E-04) and SN-VN decreased (p=3.6E-03). Decreased FT for the SN associated with improved rumination (p=1.9E-03). At baseline, lower FT for CEN (p=5.70E-04) and TP for SN-CEN (p=0.016) and higher TP for SN-VN (p=2.60E-03) distinguished TRD from HCs. CAP metrics remained stable over time in a subsample of HCs (n=18). These findings suggest ketamine modulates brain network dynamics between SN, CEN and VN in TRD, which may normalize dynamic patterns seen in TRD at baseline towards patterns seen in controls. Changes in SN state dynamics may correspond to improvements in ruminative symptoms following ketamine therapy.
direct.mit.edu
October 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Want to learn more about the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study?👀 Check out the ABCD-ReproNim course! The Fall 2025 course is going on NOW✨ Students may have the opportunity to participate in the 2026 hackathon in Miami🏝️ For more info: abcd-repronim.org 🎉
October 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thanks for the figure @bttyeo.bsky.social 🙂🧠🙏🏽!
In this review, @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Hugh Garavan examine how task and resting-state fMRI can reveal brain-behavior relationships in youth, highlighting current controversies and challenges, outlining solutions, and proposing future directions in developmental neuroscience research.
Task and resting state fMRI modelling of brain-behavior relationships in developmental cohorts
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are often used to inform individual differences in cognitive, behavioral, and psychiatric phenotypes. These so-called “brain-behavior” association stu...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Complete this sentence, "The brain is ...".
What's your favorite answer? I'm team cluster 17/18.

Taken from this delightful paper by Taylor Bolt and @lucinauddin.bsky.social; results of text in >4 million peer-reviewed articles + text analytic tools.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798046/
September 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants
A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.
www.latimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In a non trivial way the #climate_crisis is reducible to shortcomings in human intelligence. This idea is behind my new release with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude: "Hot Summer Nights". Please check it out!
Spotify
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September 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court.

So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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International collaborations enable the sharing of resources and expertise, as well as more broadly applicable and reproducible results. But new U.S. federal funding restrictions are putting them in jeopardy, writes @lucinauddin.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/inte...
International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever
These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in...
www.thetransmitter.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM