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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

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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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Sep 7

New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Parker Singleton @parkersingleton.bsky.social · Aug 18

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · Aug 14

Congrats @audreycluo.bsky.social!! Celebrating a wonderful dissertation defense that shed novel, fundamental, and convincing insights into white matter development.

Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Aug 14

CONGRATS TO DOCTOR @audreycluo.bsky.social !!! Last week, Dr. Luo knocked our collective socks off with a thesis defense for the ages. Her presentation on "Axes of Hierarchical Brain Development" was magnificent -- beautiful science, presented in an incredibly accessible and engaging way. WOO!!!!

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Jul 7

Human thalamocortical connectivity matures along the cortex’s sensorimotor–association axis

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human thalamocortical structural connectivity develops in line with a hierarchical axis of cortical plasticity - Nature Neuroscience

Sydnor et al. developed a new tractography atlas of thalamocortical structural connections and applied it to three youth samples. They uncovered coordinated development between thalamic connectivity a...

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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · Jul 8

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 29

OK, It is not just the HBCD release...
docs.hbcdstudy.org

It’s the ABCD Release time too!
docs.abcdstudy.org
nbdc-datahub.org

That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!!

The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection.

This is going to be fun!!
👇 Let’s dig in.

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 29

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 29

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

#OHBM2025 is here and the champs from @pennlinc.bsky.social have brought their freshest work express from Philly to Brisbane. Thread below . . .please reach out + come say hi -- always looking to talk science + make new friends!!!

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

@stevenmeisler.com is presenting "A quality-rated, analysis-ready release of 26,174 dMRI sessions from the ABCD Study" Friday / Saturday 1810. Wooo!!!!

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Baller Lab @ballerlab.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Baller Lab is thrilled to announce that @elenaccooper.bsky.social just had her first first-author publication! “Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol” is now published on BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e094733! 🧠

Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol

Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated neurological disorder that affects one million people in the USA. Up to 50% of patients with MS experience depression, yet the mechanisms of ...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 20

Two Axes of White Matter Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.19.644049v1

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Audrey Luo @audreycluo.bsky.social · Mar 20

We think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kathryn Manning @kathrynmanning.bsky.social · Mar 17

This paper is a huge one for me, taking years and years to get right. I can’t believe it’s finally out and I am so proud of the way it came together. Thank you to Dr Lebel for her unwavering support!
www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

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PennLINC @pennlinc.bsky.social · Feb 28

We're excited to announce version 1.2.0 of CuBIDS, a Python library for organizing BIDS datasets.

CuBIDS: Curation of BIDS — CuBIDS 1.2.0 documentation

cubids.readthedocs.io

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Parker Singleton @parkersingleton.bsky.social · Jan 10

Psychedelic mental health research is booming—but how do we keep up with rapidly evolving evidence? 🌱 Our team proposes a living evidence synthesis approach to ensure clinicians, policymakers, and the public have access to the latest, most reliable data.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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An initiative for living evidence synthesis in clinical psychedelic research - Nature Mental Health

Renewed interest in psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders has recently emerged, but substantial challenges remain in obtaining evidence from available data to inform clinical decision-making...

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · Dec 18

🚨 Due to an ongoing technical issue with our payment processor, the submissions will be allowed to be finalized with a "Pay Later" option. Your submission will be considered on-time, and the abstract fee will be settled later. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · Dec 17

Is anyone else submitting abstracts for #OHBM2025 getting persistent payment declines? I've tried 4 payment methods and two browsers. Nothing seems to be going through 🫠@ohbmofficial.bsky.social any official guidance? Thanks!

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PennLINC @pennlinc.bsky.social · Nov 22

We're excited to release new versions of our BIDS-Apps for processing and analyzing #dmri data, QSIPrep and QSIRecon! Our team has been working hard to prepare these pipelines to process infant data and bring them in line with the @nipreps.bsky.social ecosystem. #neuroimaging #nipreps #bids 1/10

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · Nov 21

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · Nov 19

Does it count if I used to do that?

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Nov 18

Super excited to share our official ACORN Lab website!! 🍁🧠

appliedcognitionlab.psychology.uconn.edu

We are recruiting new team members at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels - join us!

#Neuroskyence #neuroimaging #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

Home | Applied Cognition and Personalized Neuroscience Lab

Welcome to the Applied Cognition & Personalized Neuroscience Lab! The Applied Cognition and peRsonalized Neuroscience (ACORN) lab is a collabora ...

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PennLINC @pennlinc.bsky.social · Nov 18

Here's a starter pack with the great folks from the PennLINC team!

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · Nov 17

Applying to be the Traeger Endowed Chair of Pellet Smoking

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · Nov 17

Could I be added please? Thanks!

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