Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

@mkflugge.bsky.social

1K followers 470 following 21 posts

Cognitive Neuroscientist | Associate Prof at Uni Oxford @oxexppsy | Mum PI of Motivation, Decision & Neurostimulation Lab Decision making | Ultrasound | Mental health (she/her) Group: modeslab.org Personal: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~xpsy0747

users.ox.ac.uk

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼

Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20

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)

1 8 34

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨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.

2 47 130

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thx to our amazing coauthors and collaborators @efouragnan.bsky.social @mkwittmann.bsky.social @robincleveland.bsky.social @timdenboer.bsky.social, Matthew Rushworth, Will Clarke, Elly Martin, Brad Treeby, and Michael Gray without whom this work would not have been possible!! 🤩

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Aug 20

Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20

1 8 34

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

3 55 61

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · Jul 4

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

Homepage - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging

uobevents.eventsair.com

1 17 25

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Jun 14

I had an absolutely amazing and inspiring time during my first visit to Nijmegen @dondersinst.bsky.social this week! Thanks so much @lennartverhagen.bsky.social for the invite and for all the many great discussions about transcranial ultrasound 🥳🥳🥳

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

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

As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...

6 33

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

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

14 43

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

Roeland Heerema @roelandheerema.bsky.social · Apr 8

I don’t dare to tell you how many years this took, but the project that I started as a MSc intern and kept working on throughout my PhD is now finally published: www.nature.com/articles/s44... [1/9]

Brief inductions of happiness versus sadness bias unrelated economic choices towards more rewarded but more costly options. This choice bias is predicted by a mood proxy reconstructed from physiologic...

www.nature.com

1 12 39

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Mar 13

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

www.nature.com

8 35 130

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Mar 13

Had a really fun time today at our local primary school with 9-10 year-olds as part of Brain Awareness Week. I was pretty impressed with their models showing how learning strengthens synapses 🥳☺️

Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠

Daria Jensen @dariaeajensen.bsky.social · Mar 12

I'm thrilled to share our study, on the longitudinal impact of diet quality and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) on 🧠 brain health in ageing, which has now been published in JAMA Network Open! - supervised by @sanasuri.bsky.social @oxxpat.bsky.social & @mkflugge.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

1 5 15

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Jan 28

Given more and more people are transitioning over to Bluesky these days, I thought it might be worth re-sharing this transcranial focused ultrasound starter pack for those who haven't seen it yet: go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy

I would love to add you if you work in this field! Please let me know 😀

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Jan 16

Sorry, got distracted looking for all the authors here and inadvertently left out Sorcha Hamilton and Luke Priestley - too many brilliant authors 😂 🙈

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Jan 16

Hailey looked at switches between reward- and threat-oriented behaviour using 7T neuroimaging and found a network involving habenula, dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), anterior cingulate cortex, and anterior insula
cortex mediated these transitions. Hope you find it interesting! ☺️

1 2

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Jan 16

New paper out in @pnas.org today with lovely colleagues including Hailey Trier, Nima Khalighinejad, @caro-harbison.bsky.social, @marklaubach.bsky.social, Jacquie Scholl & Matthew Rushworth (most not on BlueSky yet!)   www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

A distributed subcortical circuit linked to instrumental information-seeking about threat

www.pnas.org

1 6 12

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Dec 17

🙋‍♀️

1 2

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks so much to @thepsychologist.bsky.social and Cath Harmer for being amazing examiners.

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks so much and 🙋‍♀️

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 26

Congratulations to @sankalpgarud.bsky.social on our lab for passing your PhD viva today!!! Huge well-done to you 🥳🥳🥳

2 8

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 19

Or just go to this starter pack - I will keep adding to this over the next little while.

go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy

Please spread the word & let me know if you'd like to be added or know of anyone I have forgotten!

3 5

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 19

I really recommend you follow these people, they do awesome work e.g. @jsallet.bsky.social @keith-murphy.bsky.social @efouragnan.bsky.social @lennartverhagen.bsky.social @connectomelab.bsky.social @andrewstrohman.bsky.social @epanlab.bsky.social @noahsphilipmd.bsky.social

1 1 4

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 19

Super excited that lots of ultrasound neuromodulation people are slowly appearing here. I found several key people today. Welcome to those who joined recently 👋

1 1 6

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 19

Yes please! 🙋‍♀️ Thx a lot !

1 1

Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Nov 18

Would love to be added please! 🙋‍♀️