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Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre @acu-hbmrc.bsky.social · 9d

Can brain training improve #meditation? 🧘‍♂️

New study by @saampras.bsky.social featuring AddPro's @vale-addiction.bsky.social suggests that #neurofeedback can boost awareness + reduce emotional distress during meditation in beginners!

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congrats to all authors!

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jul 17

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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

Want to dive deeper? 🧠

Check out the full companion Jupyter Book with walkthroughs, links, and code to explore reproducible research workflows in action.

📘 Read here:
👉 sina-mansour.github.io/ohbm2025-rep...

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

🧠 #OHBM2025 is fast approaching, with a stellar educational session from @ohbmossig.bsky.social & @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social‬

I'll be presenting a semi-hands-on course on reproducible research workflows, from code to visualization.

📖 Slides are now online:
sina-mansour.github.io/ohbm2025-rep...

From Code to Visualization: Reproducible Pipelines for Neuroimaging Research

Presentation Slides for OHBM 2025 Educational Session

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Sina Mansour L. @sinamansourl.bsky.social · Apr 20

Can deep learning help us solve dynamical systems problems, particularly those used in neural mass models? Check out this preprint to read about the perks...

Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Apr 11

While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike artificial neural networks), but the dirty secret ... 1/N

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The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · Feb 27

Join us Mon 3/10 for a roundtable discussion addressing best practices and emerging opportunities in human brain imaging and how they can advance the study of women’s brain health.

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · Feb 27

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

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Holmes Lab @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social · Feb 25

New paper‼️ Interested in the protective impacts of parenthood on brain dynamics? 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🧠 Read Edwina Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social's new paper, out now in PNAS @pnas.org !

With collaborators L. Ooi, P. Chen, L. An @bttyeo.bsky.social, and more!

🔗https://tinyurl.com/parentalbrain

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Sharna Jamadar @sharnajamadar.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congrats to Winnie Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social on their new #ParentalBrain paper, now out in PNAS! They find evidence for the neuroprotective effect of parenthood for women AND men! 👩‍🍼👨‍🍼🧠 It's lovely work, and I'm proud to have played a tiny role in it. Read it here 👇 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging

Holmes Lab @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social · Feb 25

New paper‼️ Interested in the protective impacts of parenthood on brain dynamics? 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🧠 Read Edwina Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social's new paper, out now in PNAS @pnas.org !

With collaborators L. Ooi, P. Chen, L. An @bttyeo.bsky.social, and more!

🔗https://tinyurl.com/parentalbrain

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · Feb 25

SOBP BrainHack is officially open for registration!

The hackathon will be held April 22-23 at Sick Kids Toronto. Beginners and experienced hackers welcome!

Website and registration: www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-042...

Flyer for SOBP BrainHack.

Event website: https://www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-042025/

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Feb 27

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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ALT: a man with glasses is sitting on a couch and saying pretty pretty pretty good .

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Feb 26

If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...

Would recording all neurons reveal their interactions?

For years, I was captivated by the idea that if we could record the activity of every neuron in the brain, we’d eventually crack the code…

medium.com

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Jayson Jeganathan @jaysonjeg.bsky.social · Feb 25

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights!
TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

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Sina Mansour L. @sinamansourl.bsky.social · Feb 23

P.S. For those interested, the slides are available online: 🖥️

sina-mansour.github.io/ISMRM_Diffus...

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Sina Mansour L. @sinamansourl.bsky.social · Feb 23

Had a fantastic time presenting our novel eigenmode-driven normative models at the ISMRM Diffusion Workshop! 🧠📊

Check out our preprint here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Emma Robinson @ICLR2025 @metricsemma.bsky.social · Feb 16

Video tutorials on how to use MSM cortical surface registration: classic, groupwise and anatomical
youtu.be/rQQx0k1Sgdc?...

Multimodal Surface Matching (MSM) tutorials

YouTube video by Emma Robinson

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Sina Mansour L. @sinamansourl.bsky.social · Feb 16

Great talk by Simona Schiavi at the ISMRM workshop on 40 years of diffusion! Interesting to see the DK atlas as the top choice for mapping connectomes—though, as expected, a diverse range of opinions. No single right answer!

@ismrm.bsky.social

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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 14

Useful read to sharpen your "Defence against the dark charts" 🪄

Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · Feb 13

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Feb 12

Connectome architecture favours within-module diffusion and between-module routing.

Really cool multi-species work from Caio Seguin on module-defined communication policies in connectomes!

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

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

Thanks, Elvisha!

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

⚠️ Note: This is an early **prototype**, built from HCP lifespan data. We’d love to hear your thoughts—try it out and let us know what you think!

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

🧠 What can you do?

✨ Get real-time reference thickness charts across the lifespan
✨ Query any location on the cerebral cortex
✨ See how cortical thickness varies over time at different loci

Here’s a sneak peek: 🎥👇

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