Isaiah Kletenik
@isaiahneuro.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School / Cognitive Neurologist, BWH / Network neuroimaging of cognition 🧠⚡️ @braincircuits.bsky.social
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Can a brain injury lead someone to commit a crime?

Brain imaging is increasingly introduced as evidence in criminal trials but it remains unclear which structural injuries play a causal role in criminal behavior. @braincircuits.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
White matter disconnection in acquired criminality - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - White matter disconnection in acquired criminality
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Was fun presenting our work on network localization of aphantasia at #ASSC @assc28.bsky.social - I get pretty excited about #consciousness and visual mental imagery
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

There are almost no routine clinical applications of functional MRI for diagnosis and treatment in Neurology
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Scientists and governments aren’t colluding to hide the cure for cancer.
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.
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Other psychiatric conditions and degenerative conditions often have impaired attention. If ADHD is a syndrome with attention as a symptom wouldn’t it be assumed that other psychiatric conditions with impaired attention share brain correlates?
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By analyzing rare cases we show that lesions associated with criminality intersect the right uncinate fasciculus more than other lesions & more than other white matter tracts. Damage to the right uncinate may play a causal role in criminal behavior, especially violent crime. @synapsekid.bsky.social
isaiahneuro.bsky.social
Can a brain injury lead someone to commit a crime?

Brain imaging is increasingly introduced as evidence in criminal trials but it remains unclear which structural injuries play a causal role in criminal behavior. @braincircuits.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
White matter disconnection in acquired criminality - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - White matter disconnection in acquired criminality
www.nature.com
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These results align with prior findings on visual imagination tasks by @alfredospagna.bsky.social & colleagues. Amazing work by Julian Kutsche w/ @calvinwhow.bsky.social @drdrxanderli.bsky.social @matthiasmichel.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social
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Can brain injury cause the loss of visual imagination?

We studied #aphantasia due to brain injury. Lesions were in many different regions but 100% were connected to the fusiform imagery node - a region active during visual mental imagery @braincircuits.bsky.social

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
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How does early life adversity impact white matter brain connections and subsequent cognitive abilities?

Adversity was associated with lower white matter integrity and later difficulty with arithmetic & receptive language yet interpersonal resilience was protective.

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Standing room only for 2 hour symposium on functional neurological disorder (#FND) at the #AAN2025 meeting - with a focus on functional seizures, post concussive syndrome / functional cognitive disorder & pathophysiology. #BarbaraDworetzky @mattburkemd.bsky.social
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What is midrash? Interesting analysis by Ishay Rosen-Zvi @harvarddivinity.bsky.social on unique midrashic terminology (and apparently the Qumran folks thought there was a Sefer haBrit given to Abraham 📜)
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Cool talk by Aaron Boes on clinical applications and cognitive prognosis from network neuroimaging @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
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Does human creativity map to a specific brain circuit? Can damage to this brain circuit increase creativity? New paper by Julian Kutsche @isaiahneuro.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social out today in JAMA Network says answer to both is YES. Paper is open access and great thread below:
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How can a brain disease increase creativity? We derive a brain circuit from creative tasks demonstrating they share reduced activity in the right frontal pole. Then we show that brain lesions & neurodegeneration that increase creativity are connected to this location
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Mapping Neuroimaging Findings of Creativity and Brain Disease
This study using network mapping of meta-analytic data investigates whether creativity maps to a specific brain circuit and whether damage to that circuit aligns with creativity changes observed in pe...
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