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Benjamin Vidal
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Functional / molecular neuroimaging. Maitre-assistant at UNIGE (Valerio Zerbi's team)
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Was a lot of fun working on this piece with Ben Clayton for @annualreviews.bsky.social
Reactive astrocyte heterogeneity is a thoroughly exciting and complicated problem... lots of exciting discoveries in recent years.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
July 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Our work about glial induction of cerebral vasomotion during neuroinflammation is out in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social !
You can read it here: www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

As pictures are worth a thousand words, here is a movie of the typical inflammatory CBV changes, superimposed on an ULM image
May 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Great article by @thetransmitter.bsky.social on making #neuroimaging tools accessible! As someone working in #fUSI, I strongly believe dedicated #OpenScience solutions are essential for our field to advance. Hope to contribute to these efforts in the future.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
A lack of programming experience can derail experimental aspirations. Andrew Jahn shares how new educational tools that broaden both access and ease of use for neuroimaging are helping researchers fulfill their experimental ambitions.

By Andrew Jahn

www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...
New tools help make neuroimaging accessible to more researchers
Custom software packages, web-based applications and video tutorials make functional MRI concepts easier to grasp.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nice to see the new album from my heavy metal band promoted here on bluesky 🎸
If you like old school stuff with Iron Maiden / Judas Priest vibes, worth to give it a listen!
#heavylution #thecycle
DETH DEKK DOMINIONS:🎧🆕🎧

HEAVYLUTION - The Cycle 🇫🇷💠

2nd album (10 years on) from Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, French Power/Heavy Metal outfit 💠

BC➡️heavylution.bandcamp.com/album/the-cy...💠

#Heavylution #TheCycle #HeavyPowerMetal #DDDApr4 #DethDekk #KMäN
April 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”….

🧪 #AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Looking forward to this!
Join us at fUSbrain #DAYS, a workshop on ultrasound neuroimaging, in 19-20/06/2025 in Paris. Submit your abstract on www.physicsformedicine.espci.fr/fusbrain2025
Organized by PhysMedParis, with the support of Iconeus.
@inserm.fr @espciparispsl.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Happy to share these findings from a previous work in Lyon: #neuroinflammation can enhance vasomotion, resulting in large hemodynamic traveling waves during #fUSi. This was related to the local presence of reactive glial cells. #glia
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to all involved!
Induction of hemodynamic traveling waves by glial-related vasomotion in a rat model of neuroinflammation: implications for functional neuroimaging
Cerebral hemodynamics are crucial for brain homeostasis and serve as a key proxy for brain activity. Although this process involves coordinated interaction between vessels, neurons and glial cells, it...
www.biorxiv.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can persist in the brain—in the skull bone marrow and meninges—to induce neurologic damage
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... open-access
November 29, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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This is a schematic of the first 'neuroimaging' machine, developed by Angelo Mosso in 1882. It was a very carefully calibrated balance, which aimed to measure small changes in the balance due to changes in blood flow. #neuroskyence #psychscisky
November 26, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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🧠 barriers & neurovasculature starter pack - please reply here if you are not on it yet & would like to be added 😊 go.bsky.app/RB6RXKy
November 15, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋
November 26, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Gentle reminder: even if you don't mask regularly, please mask inside airplanes.
November 25, 2024 at 8:33 PM