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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Thousands of researchers. One shared mission: mapping the human brain. 🌍🧠
Join the OHBM community at OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux, France, from June 14–18, 2026.
Together, we advance the science of the human brain.
#OHBM2026 #OHBMCommunity #HumanBrainMapping

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 7d

Today is my first day as Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre @crchum.bsky.social
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).

Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.

Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 9d

This is a major milestone for @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social & PREVENT-AD. Their vision & dedication have led to a series of impactful studies & high-profile publications, and the future promises insights as this unique dataset continues to grow.

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The PREVENT‐AD cohort: Accelerating Alzheimer's disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond

The PResymptomatic EValuation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older ...

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 12d

A fascinating update about how deep and fast MEG noninvasive imaging can be: differentiation b/w thalamus subnuclei, slow vs fast sleep spindles, and the talent and skills of Emily Coffey & her team. Grateful for being aboard this collaborative work.

doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

Exploring Deep Magnetoencephalography via Thalamo‐Cortical Sleep Spindles

Results from functional connectivity analyses of MEG data (left) show that many thalamic nuclei can be distinguished via functional connectivity (right). However, results depend on the metric and con...

doi.org

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · 13d

Science is self correcting. Finally!

Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method

Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 19d

The multimodal sky's the limit now with Brainstorm.

Now featuring PET data integration with electrophysiology and MRI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/T...

Open source, free, for anyone interested (>50,000 users registered so far, >4,500 studies published.)

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 21d

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 21d

Rejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social.
Merci de partager!
www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 28d

Just published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Alpha oscillations mediate inhibitory control and perceptual transitions during binocular rivalry

Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon that involves alternating percepts despite stable input, providing a window into perceptual processing and ne…

www.sciencedirect.com

Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 28d

New study ✨!
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks Ravi — I find myself in good company indeed ;)

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks Alex! You played a big part in that journey!

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Honoured to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada, Academy of Science.
Grateful to 🇨🇦 for the opportunities, and to all colleagues and trainees McGill University @theneuro.bsky.social for this shared recognition🙏🏼.

rsc-src.ca/en/news/roya...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Aug 22

Grateful from the support we just received from Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada. 🙏

Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to Sylvain Baillet, Boris Bernhardt, Alyson Fournier, Wayne Sossin, Madeleine Sharp, Alain Dagher, and Ronald Postuma, whose research projects were funded by CIHR through its Spring 2025 Project Grant.

www.mcgill.ca/research/cha...

CIHR grants $48.4M to McGill health research

53 McGill research projects were awarded funding through CIHR’s Spring 2025 Project Grant competition, to support high-potential health research across all areas and career stages. The Canadian Institutes...

www.mcgill.ca

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Aug 16

43 years ago, ⁦‪@the‬⁩police played at ⁦‪@mcgillu‬⁩ stadium.

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · Aug 14

Save the Date! 🗓️ Join us in Bordeaux, France, June 14–18, 2026. #OHBM2026 registration opens January 2026.
Visit us here for important dates: https://humanbrainmapping.org/OHBM2026

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Aug 13

@mcgill.ca campus life.

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Aug 9

We have a newly minted ⁦‪@mcgillu‬⁩ ⁦‪@IPNMcGill‬⁩ PhD: congratulations Dr Zaida Martínez Moreno!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 6

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧩🧠New release! OMEGA v3.1.1 is out—now with MEG-MRI co-registration for 480 participants 🎉 Manual alignment using original MRI+digitized head shape & fiducials. Includes BIDS-compliant landmarks+quality scores.

🔗 See “Co-registration” tab: www.mcgill.ca/bic/resource...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Aug 5

🧠🚀 Announcing 𝐬𝐄𝐄𝐆-𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦: open-source pipeline for multimodal intracranial ephys /epilepsy research: CT→MRI coreg, GARDEL contact localization, atlas labelling, seizure fingerprinting, source analysis—all in one GUI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/s...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Aug 5

« the administration’s cuts to science funding in the United States could even drive up the rate of scientific fraud by leaving scientists scrambling for limited resources and dwindling jobs. »

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Atanas G. Atanasov @atanas-g-atanasov.bsky.social · Aug 3

Why do our brains think and feel so differently—even when we're doing nothing at all? This study shows how our resting brain activity is partly written in our genes, especially those tied to emotion and cognition. Nature and nurture, once again, tightly interwoven.

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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · Jul 24

Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability

Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

www.science.org

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Jul 23

function.
🌟 @jasondasilvac.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social | Justine Hansen | Jonathan Poli
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability

Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

www.science.org

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