Maximilian Lueckel
@mlueckel.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher |
brain stimulation | neuroimaging | psychiatry
brain stimulation | neuroimaging | psychiatry
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Stuff your mind before you stuff the turkey! @mlueckel.bsky.social will present at our virtual speaker series Wed, Nov 26, 130pm EST on "From heuristics to precision neuromodulation – and back". If not on our list, DM me your email for the link.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Stuff your mind before you stuff the turkey! @mlueckel.bsky.social will present at our virtual speaker series Wed, Nov 26, 130pm EST on "From heuristics to precision neuromodulation – and back". If not on our list, DM me your email for the link.
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Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
September 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
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Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
September 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀
Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
🎯 Meet 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐓𝐔𝐒: a fast, open-source tool to pick where to place a transducer for transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) on an individual head – before you run heavy simulations.
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Code & instructions: plan-tus.org
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Code & instructions: plan-tus.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🎯 Meet 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐓𝐔𝐒: a fast, open-source tool to pick where to place a transducer for transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) on an individual head – before you run heavy simulations.
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Code & instructions: plan-tus.org
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Code & instructions: plan-tus.org
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🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
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🚨 New preprint out! 🚨
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
August 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
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Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
August 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
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Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression
Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
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Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
1/2
August 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression
Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
1/2
Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
1/2
🤯🤯🤯
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🤯🤯🤯
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🚨 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 3:31 PM
🚨 New Preprint 🚨
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
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What is the best way to advance a challenging-yet-inferentially-powerful combination of neurostimulation and neuroimaging? Come to Cancun to find out! Join us for the 3rd International Concurrent TMS-fMRI Workshop September 15-17 *literally* by the beach: www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What is the best way to advance a challenging-yet-inferentially-powerful combination of neurostimulation and neuroimaging? Come to Cancun to find out! Join us for the 3rd International Concurrent TMS-fMRI Workshop September 15-17 *literally* by the beach: www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
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Are you a TMS/fMRI researcher? Join us this September in Cancun! www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Are you a TMS/fMRI researcher? Join us this September in Cancun! www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
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functional connectivity proximity not associated with clinical response in N>500 MDD patients: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Proximity to an SGC-DLPFC Individualized Functional Target and outcomes in large rTMS clinical trials for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Background Targeting methods for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with depression now include the use of individual functional scans to target specific functional connec...
www.biorxiv.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
functional connectivity proximity not associated with clinical response in N>500 MDD patients: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨 New paper alert from Weise et al.!
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
July 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🚨 New paper alert from Weise et al.!
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
If you're interested in the concurrent use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), check out our consensus guidelines, now officially out in @natprot.nature.com
#TMS #fMRI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TMS #fMRI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience - Nature Protocols
We present best practice guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI, experimental design, technical requirements and data interpretation, illustrated via 12 use cases.
www.nature.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If you're interested in the concurrent use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), check out our consensus guidelines, now officially out in @natprot.nature.com
#TMS #fMRI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TMS #fMRI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🎨🧑🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
May 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🎨🧑🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
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"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
March 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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fMRI network measures are affected by sampling error 🎲, physiological artifacts 💗, arousal 👀, and task state 🎞️. We argue that a major challenge in studies of 🧠 network dynamics is distinguishing between these sources of variability.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM
fMRI network measures are affected by sampling error 🎲, physiological artifacts 💗, arousal 👀, and task state 🎞️. We argue that a major challenge in studies of 🧠 network dynamics is distinguishing between these sources of variability.
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November 23, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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📅 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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