Great news for those who missed the initial deadline
ABSTRACT DEADLINE for #ISCAN2025 is EXTENDED to 22nd September!

#iSCAN2025 #SpatialCognition#Aging #Neurodegeneration #Dementia #VirtualReality

🚨 Final reminder — iSCAN abstracts due TODAY🚨
Make sure to submit your abstract for a poster or data-blitz talk for #iSCAN2025! We have put together an exciting, interdisciplinary lineup of talks spanning basic neuroscience, clinical research, and methods.

Submit here: shorturl.at/y12tE

Many firsts with this review:
🌟 First first-authored paper from our fantastic lab manager
🌟 My first time as senior co-author (!)
#Neuroscience #VirtualReality #Aging #ClinicalResearch #Intervention

New review from @wolberslab.bsky.social on using immersive virtual reality with older adults — covering key challenges, design tips, and practical solutions for both basic + clinical research.
Great for anyone starting out in #VR + #Aging work!
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.ar...

Pleased to announce that the 5th iSCAN Symposium, an interdisciplinary scientific conference on spatial cognition in aging and neurodegeneration, will be held from Dec 08-10, 2025 in Magdeburg. Please find more information about the meeting on the iSCAN website:
bit.ly/41jFg9j

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Tenured-research position opened here in Paris : A great opportunity to leverage the full potential of the new 11.7T MRI scanner at Neurospin @inserm.fr @cea.fr @unicog.bsky.social

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#AcademicSky

Excellent work led by @green951.bsky.social showing how human retrosplenial cortex integrates landmarks and self-motion cues during spatial navigation!

🚨 New lab paper!🚨

A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social

We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇

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

This work provides a nuanced understanding of PI in aging and early neurodegeneration, using cutting-edge methods to distinguish normal aging from early AD. The results are crucial for both understanding healthy aging and identifying early AD biomarkers. #Aging #AlzheimersResearch #Neuroscience

This study sets the stage for longitudinal work examining how baseline PI performance might predict future cognitive decline in the same cohort. It also paves the way for using immersive VR as a scalable, sensitive tool for early disease detection. 7/n #LongitudinalResearch #VirtualReality

This work offers insights into early AD-related pathology and underscores memory leak as a potential early marker for AD. It also demonstrates how NFL can help us understand broader neurodegenerative effects in aging. 6/n 🌍 #EarlyDetection #Neurodegeneration

Neurofilament light chain (NFL), a biomarker of neurodegeneration, plays a key role in PI variability. NFL is linked to increased reporting noise, showing that age-related neurodegeneration impacts PI performance beyond AD-specific processes. 5/n #NFL #Biomarkers

Our results show that memory leak is a hallmark of PI deficits in SCD. This means individuals with SCD struggle to maintain a stable internal representation of their position, pointing to potential entorhinal cortex dysfunction. Not just movement or perceptual factors at play! 4/n #entrohinalcortex

We show that path integration is impaired in pre-clinical AD (SCD). Then we use a novel Bayesian model to decompose PI errors into distinct components --> 3/n #pathintegration

Path integration, is crucial for understanding cognitive decline. It relies on entorhinal grid cells, which are vulnerable to early Alzheimer's disease pathology. But what happens in SCD? We bridged this gap by examining PI impairments in SCD vs healthy aging. 2/n

Our latest preprint "Path integration impairments reveal early cognitive changes in Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD)" with @zorantiganj.bsky.social @wolberslab.bsky.social @dradamstreck.bsky.social Ehren Newman, Rysul Kabir & Jakub Slavik, is now live! 🎉 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.

The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.

The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.