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New approach to preventing #social #isolation 🔎 - Laurenz Lammer and
@veronicawitte.bsky.social show that common #public health strategies that focus only on isolated people might be missing out on a lot of the preventive potential of greater social integration: www.cbs.mpg.de/2403543/2025...

Very happy to announce that I have been awarded the ERC starting grant for my proposal SOCIAL CONNECTIONS (SOCO). Super grateful for the support and feedback from my team, friends, colleagues and institutions @mpicbs.bsky.social and @fz-juelich.de along the way 😍

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Beyond thrilled to share that I've been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the role of the human entorhinal cortex in episodic memory! 🎉🎉 🥳 🥳 🧠 🧠 Many thanks to my friends, colleagues and institutions who supported me along the way! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG

Huge congratulations 🥳 to
@sofievalk.bsky.social
&
@reznikdan.bsky.social
for receiving ERC Starting Grants 2025! We're proud of you!
Learn more about their projects: www.cbs.mpg.de/2397348/2025...

Criminal minds in #dementia: Broad meta-analysis by Matthias Schroeter & Lena Szabo in @nature.com including 236,360 persons. They found that larger atrophy in the brain is linked to criminal behavior in frontotemporal dementia, suggesting a loss of normal behavioral restraints. tinyurl.com/4dt6jd7s

What counts - you or me? #Babies remember what is important to others 👶🏻 Adults remember information better if it relates to themselves. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann & collegues investigated how this self-reference effect develops in infancy @nature.com : www.cbs.mpg.de/2386835/2025...

🧠👩‍🔬🤖🧏‍♀️💬 Come around! Tonight from 6pm on we have a mixed program filled with #neuroscience #brainscience #neurology #memory #strokerehabilitation #neurophysics #language #music - drinks and food! #leipzigscience

#Human capacity to develop a diverse and highly complex repertoire of #action plans is truly remarkable 🏌️‍♀️⛹️‍♀️Irina Barnaveli & team @doellerlab.bsky.social explore in their study
@natcomms.nature.com how the #brain organizes action plans, using #virtualreality: tinyurl.com/55ne858s

Unnoticed lesions in the #brain slow down thinking 👀 Frauke Beyer and Stephanie Debette @institutducerveau.bsky.social investigated in their study where such lesions occur in the brain, which factors favour this and how they are linked to #stroke and #dementia. www.cbs.mpg.de/2350220/2025...

Do you want to work as a #postdoc on #MRI-based in vivo histology with a special focus on risk factors for and disease progression in early-stage #Parkinson’s Disease? 🧠Please send in your application #neuroscience #neurophysics recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/42...?

How #humans perceive materials, that's what Filipp Schmidt &
@martinhebart.bsky.social together with other colleagues from @jlugiessen.bsky.social took a look at in their new paper
@pnas.org 👗Graininess, blueness, viscosity: Only 36 dimensions are needed to capture #materials: tinyurl.com/2e8kknx6

How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health -
@jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447

Eine Studie von 🇩🇪 @unileipzig.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 @mpicbs.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 Universitätsklinik Leipzig und 🇬🇧 @uniofcam.bsky.social zeigt, wie sich das #Gehirn nach einem #Schlaganfall reorganisiert, um das Sprachvermögen wieder zu verbessern. Davon könnten auch künftige Therapien profitieren.

New opinion paper by @ckerren.bsky.social with @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social & Daniel Reznik & Christian Doeller: "Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are currently looking for an IT manager 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 You are a professional in #technical leadership, coordination of central #IT and #database teams? Then please apply until 16th February #computerscience #SoftwareEngineering : www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies/op...

The human 🧠 has two halves that make our behaviors and thoughts more efficient. How the asymmetry of the brain halves contributes to human cognition, examined @wanb.bsky.social & @sofievalk.bsky.social in their study in Nature Communications: www.cbs.mpg.de/2316389/2024...

Nominations and self-nominations sought for the position of Director at MPI CBS! The future Director’s research programme should focus on understanding the neural bases of human cognitive functions, using modern #neuroimaging methods. #science #maxplanck Please share: tinyurl.com/mu43uds6

Coffee or Tea ☕🫖? And which stock to invest in? 📈 How our brain evaluates options for decision making: In their new paper in Nature Communications Alexander Nitsch and Christian Doeller investigated how the brain manages to make good predictions in such situations. www.cbs.mpg.de/2214425/2024...

Enjoy the holiday season 💫 Wishing you all a happy new scientific year ahead! Seasons Greetings to all our partners, friends and Max Planck family ✨