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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · 19d

Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations.
buff.ly/489DYfB
#Parkinsons

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MattBrookesMEG @mattbrookesmeg.bsky.social · 21d

Today we retired our cryogenic MEG system after 18 years of faithful service! And of course we celebrated the occasion with pizza and beer!! But the future of MEG
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
is looking bright as we move to our new OPM-MEG platforms!!
@cercamagnetics.bsky.social

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Cam-CAN @camcan-2010.bsky.social · 22d

"CamCAN 15 years on" - a new preprint reviewing all findings about the cognitive neuroscience of ageing from sharing CamCAN data, led by @rhens.bsky.social : osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 23d

In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha).

👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz
👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz - Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System

Neural rhythms of the infant brain are not well understood. Testing the rhythmic properties of the adult visual system with periodic or broadband visual stimulation elicited neural resonance phenomena...

www.biorxiv.org

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Oliver Kohl @kohliver.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hurrah!
New paper out doi.org/10.1093/brai...!

We show that sensorimotor network dynamics are altered in Parkinson’s disease and highlight the importance of looking at motor cortical activity within the broader brain network context to better understand pathophysiological changes underlying PD.

Changes in sensorimotor network dynamics in resting-state recordings in Parkinson’s disease

Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics extracted from magnetoencephalogram recordings can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from

doi.org

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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 NEW RESEARCH
The brain’s networks activate in structured cycles.

Led by @matsvanes.bsky.social, a team analysed MEG data from 800+ people. The strength & speed of the cycles was influenced by genetics & associated with factors such as age.

www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/brain20... in @nature.com Neuro

A picture of and quote from lead author Dr Mats Van Es, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford:

"This is a pivotal finding in our understanding of brain function, showing that the brain’s functional networks are organised into periodic cycles...These cyclical dynamics occur not only at rest but also when replaying memories and during other cognitive tasks, where they predict response speed."

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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper using M/EEG to look at attractive and repulsive serial dependence in working memory, led by the excellent Jiangang Shan, with Jasper Hajonides.

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 26

In #memories, when does bias towards or away from a stimulus arise? New research shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during #decision-making, while repulsive biases originate during early sensory encoding. 🧪
plos.io/3JSztEg

Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making

Our memory of a stimulus can be biased toward or away from previous stimuli, but when this bias arises is unclear. This study shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during decision-making, su...

plos.io

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Selma Lugtmeijer @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to share these proceedings! The OHBM Open Science Room is a unique space to discuss, exchange ideas, and connect with others. Huge thanks to all the amazing people I met through the Open Science Special Interest Group!

Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Lugtmeijer et al. highlight key events from the Open Science Room at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Seoul, Korea: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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Andrew Quinn @ajquinn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out our latest paper..

- A simple view of the ageing effect across the full spectrum and the whole head
- Spectra of effect sizes
- Covariates can change effect size
- Replication!

We hope this facilitates synthesis of results across a rich and varied literature of age effects

#neuroskyence

Four segments summarising the paper, the first contains an image of a 'full frequency age effect' and leads into the other three which contain images for 'replication across datasets', 'robustness to covariate modelling' and 'framework for future sample planning'

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Andrew Quinn @ajquinn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out our latest paper..

- A simple view of the ageing effect across the full spectrum and the whole head
- Spectra of effect sizes
- Covariates can change effect size
- Replication!

We hope this facilitates synthesis of results across a rich and varied literature of age effects

#neuroskyence

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School of Psychology, University of Birmingham @uob-sop.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hello world! This is the new official Bluesky page for the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

Follow to see updates on our research, education, and other news.

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MEGUKI 2025 @meguki2025.bsky.social · May 6

Drumroll please... 🥁

Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!!
All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/

We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · Apr 28

We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision

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Bernhard Staresina @bstaresina.bsky.social · Apr 7

join us at @oxexppsy.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk!

Katrijn Schruers @katschruers.bsky.social · Apr 7

We're excited to share that our lab is hiring for the position of Lab Manager/Research Assistant. A great opportunity to join our lab!

You can find full details and apply via the link below:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN515/r...

Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!

Research Assistant/Lab Manager at University of Oxford

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Midlands Mental Health Translational Research Centre @mhm-tc.bsky.social · Apr 4

Become a Midlands Youth Advisor! This opportunity can make a positive impact on the lives of young people and, we hope, the future of #MentalHealthResearch @unibirmingham.bsky.social @imh-uob.bsky.social

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Katja Kornysheva @katjakornysheva.bsky.social · Feb 25

Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Dr. Mats W.J. van Es @matsvanes.bsky.social · Feb 24

What features are desirable for an (M/EEG) analysis toolbox?
✓ user friendly
✓ documentation
✓ computational efficiency
✓ analytic flexibility
✓ quality assurance
✓ reproducibility
Our osl-ephys toolbox paper is out now. Check it out!
bit.ly/osl-ephys-fr... @ajquinn.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social

Frontiers | osl-ephys: a Python toolbox for the analysis of electrophysiology data

bit.ly

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Feb 18

HOT OFF THE PRESS - Back in 2019 we started asking ourselves what could you to demonstrate where werable, OPM-MEG technology could fit into naturalistic #neuroskyence.

One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first...

Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Dec 2

Time to follow @ohbmofficial.bsky.social on BlueSky, you brain mappers. 🧠

bsky.app/profile/ohbm...

bsky.app

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Oct 2

I really like the idea of interviews on "current status and future challenges in brain imaging". I do NOT like that 14 of 15 interviews are with men. Who is missing from this list? We have lots of amazing neuroimagers who aren't men. #neuroskyence

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

Current status and future challenges in brain imaging: Insights from leading experts

www.sciencedirect.com

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Aug 7

Going to try to start posting more on here given the increasingly suffocating toxicity of the other place 👋

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jan 13

Dynamic Network Analysis of Electrophysiological Task Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.12.567026v1

An important approach for studying the human brain is to use functional neuroimaging combined with a

www.biorxiv.org

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Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · Jan 11

Our paper on periodic & aperiodic neural activity in Alzheimer's dementia is now published!

We find in AD a specifically periodic change, different from aperiodic changes in healthy aging!

w @mkopcanova.bsky.social, Luke Tait, @chrisbenwell.bsky.social & co!

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

Resting-state EEG signatures of Alzheimer's disease are driven by periodic but not aperiodic changes

Electroencephalography (EEG) has shown potential for identifying early-stage biomarkers of neurocognitive dysfunction associated with dementia due to …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Dec 13

We’re excited about our first paper looking at speech encoding in single neurons across the depth of human cortex. Out today in @nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]

Large-scale single-neuron speech sound encoding across the depth of human cortex - Nature

High-density single-neuron recordings show diverse tuning for acoustic and phonetic features across layers in human auditory speech cortex.

www.nature.com

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Dec 8

Hello World!

We have now received 500 submissions to Imaging Neuroscience, with 50 of these already published.

direct.mit.edu/imag/issue

Huge thanks for your support in moving our field away from for-profit publishers.

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