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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · Apr 10

My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.

Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Apr 9

Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease — a Review by Mara Mather

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Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Neurodegenerative disorders are commonly associated with autonomic dysfunction as well as the more well-known cognitive and motor effects. In this Review, Mather describes how properties of neurons in...

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Lianglong Sun @longonga.bsky.social · Apr 8

Our cover is now live at Nature Neuroscience @natureneuro.bsky.social !

Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Apr 7

Our April issue is now live!

www.nature.com/neuro/volume...

People of various ages on a brain that's also a clock face

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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · Apr 6

Absolutely incredible work by Davide Momi, John Griffiths,and a stellar team of neuroscientists with a multidimensional view of brain dynamics.

This work gives us a WHOLE BRAIN map of excitability.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stimulation mapping and whole-brain modeling reveal gradients of excitability and recurrence in cortical networks - Nature Communications

How brain networks organize and interact based on their hierarchical position remains poorly understood. Momi, Wang et al find that high-order brain networks show stronger responses to stimulation and...

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Lianglong Sun @longonga.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy to share that our article “Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome” is now published online at Nature Neuroscience @natureneuro.bsky.social !

Many thanks to all collaborators & data contributors, and the editor team & reviewers!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome - Nature Neuroscience

Sun et al. report human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome in 33,250 individuals, which highlights critical growth milestones and distinct maturation patterns and offers a normative...

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Apr 3

When we use TMS to treat depression, we think it alters neural activity in a deep brain structure known as the subgenual anterior cingulate (sgACC). But this is hard to test directly, until our preprint with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes (UIowa) 1/

DLPFC Stimulation Suppresses High-Frequency Neural Activity in the Human sgACC

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is hypothesized to relieve symptoms of depression by inhibiting activity in the subgenual anterior cingulate corte...

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · Mar 30

Study human brain structure and function with our new open access 7T MRI dataset

led by superstar scientist @donnagift.bsky.social ↙️

Donna Gift Cabalo @donnagift.bsky.social · Mar 30

Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨We're hiring another tenure-track at McGill University: focus on brain-body science! 👇

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

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Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · Apr 3

SAVE THE DATE

2025 OHBM Oz meeting

November 12, 2025

Melbourne

OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨 We are excited to announce that the next OHBM Australia meeting will be in Melbourne on Wednesday, 12th November, 2025! Stay tuned for more details 👀

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Apr 2

We are hiring! We're looking for a Research Office to help out with recruitment & assessment on a large-scale study looking at the relationship between brain imaging measures and psychopathology. Please forward this link to anyone who might be interested:

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · Jan 20

📢 Exciting news! OHBM is partnering with United Airlines for our upcoming event. Enjoy special rates on flights to Brisbane, Australia, from June 21 to July 1, 2025. For more information, visit the link in comments! #OHBM2025 #TravelwithUnited

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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · Feb 3

June 2025 is an exciting month for Psychological and Brain Sciences in Australia! In addition to our joint meeting between EPC and APCV, the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping meets in Brisbane the following week. See below for a schedule of events linked with OHBM.

Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · Feb 3

Check out the schedule of events linked with OHBM 2025
- Brain connectivity workshop, June 20-22
- Hackathon, June 21-23
- Neurodesk, June 21
- Brain gradients, June 23
- Precision network therapeutics, June 29
Register now!
We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane!
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Lydia Hickman @lydiajhickman.bsky.social · Apr 1

How is the body experienced in mental health conditions? 🧠🫀🫁

Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n

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Lydia Hickman @lydiajhickman.bsky.social · Apr 1

Workshop contributors had a variety of initial thoughts in response to the question: “how are bodily signals related to your mental health?” This was conducted prior to any detailed information about the aims of the workshop, or the field's perceived notions of interoception. 🧵4/n

A figure depicting responses to the question “How are body signals related to your mental health”, including both themes and example quotes. Broad themes included: (1) location of bodily sensations; (2) when sensations occur; (3) psychological symptoms and factors; (4) intensity and frequency of sensations, and (5) lifestyle factors.

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · Apr 2

Myelinated fiber labeling and orientation mapping of the human brain with light-sheet fluorescence microscopy | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · Apr 1

Getting excited about OHBM25. Not far now!
Features an AMAZING schedule of keynotes, educational workshops, symposia, networking events as well as several satellite meetings!

Don't forget to register before April 15 for the EBR!
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · Feb 27

Important point Andy. But volumetric data might not be as close to the real data as we think and is also based on models. E.g. we sample data on a square grid, even though the MRI point spread function is not a square.

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Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · Feb 25

The brain-heart connection:

Shared Pathways of Brain and Cardiovascular Health

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02...

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/8...

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Corey Horien @coreyhorien.bsky.social · Feb 21

We've updated our mouse connectome-based ID paper using simultaneous Ca2+ imaging and fMRI connectivity data--check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Shoutout to all! @francimandi.bsky.social, @toddc.bsky.social, @mallarchak.bsky.social, @richardfbetzel.bsky.social, and many others! 1/2

Multimodal identification of the mouse brain using simultaneous Ca2+ imaging and fMRI

Individual differences in neuroimaging are of interest to clinical and cognitive neuroscientists based on their potential for guiding the personalized treatment of various heterogeneous neurological c...

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David Haydock @davidghaydock.bsky.social · Feb 21

Ever heard of EEG microstates? Usually defined as cluster centres of topography, the dynamics of MS sequences are referred to as "syntaxes". Our new review discusses syntax methods and show how they could be better associated with the underlying EEG signal: 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Feb 20

Nature Physics

Topology shapes dynamics of higher-order networks
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Topology shapes dynamics of higher-order networks - Nature Physics

Higher-order interactions reveal new aspects of the interplay between topology and dynamics in complex systems. This Perspective describes the emerging field of higher-order topological dynamics and d...

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Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · Feb 19

For data defined on top of a graph/network (e.g. annotations on brain graphs), it is efficient to decompose them with filters that adapt to the spectral characteristics of the data at hand | w. @dimitrivdv.bsky.social @rikossenkoppele.bsky.social + C-F Westin

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Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · Feb 15

So much research focusses on using brain connectivity to predict an individual's cognition, IQ, disease status, etc.

BUT what about the inverse problem?

Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome?

YES - with AI:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sina Mansour L. @sinamansourl.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚀 Explore Spectral Normative Modeling in action!

We’ve built an interactive visualization showcasing high-resolution normative reference ranges generated via SNM.

🔗 Try it here: sina-mansour.github.io/normative_br...

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Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · Feb 13

TMS is delivered to the DLPFC in depression to modulate SGC activity

But axons linking DLPFC and SGC are absent.

How then does TMS stimulation delivered to the DLPFC modulate SGC activity?

Check out Caio's work on how stimulation effects propagate in the absence of direct anatomical paths

Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Feb 12

Caio is having a good day. Another preprint on which he's first author -- this time, describing pathways through the connectome for indirectly stimulating subgenual cingulate cortex in the context of depression.

Neuroanatomical pathways of TMS therapy for depression

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Michael Fox @foxmdphd.bsky.social · Feb 13

Can damage to a specific brain circuit cause psychosis? New paper out today by @andrewpines.bsky.social @shansiddiqi.bsky.social says Yes! Hub of the circuit is in the hippocampus - great alignment with NMDA encephalitis. @braincircuits.bsky.social

Andrew Pines @andrewpines.bsky.social · Feb 12

What brain regions are involved in causing psychotic symptoms?

Take a moment away from the existential dread about the future of science, and join me in this summary of some incredibly cool stuff that could help patients!
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