Bratislav Misic
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Montreal Neurological Institute - McGill University
https://netneurolab.github.io/
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Integrating and interpreting brain maps |
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
6 days ago
Integrating Functional Transdiagnostic Dimensions of Psychopathology with Cortical Organization
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.702560v1
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PLOS Biology
7 days ago
How are energy
#metabolism
pathways distributed across the
#cortex
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@alaindagher.bsky.social
&co map five pathways in the human
#brain
, linking metabolic organization with brain structural & functional properties, as well as developmental dynamics
@plosbiology.org
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Giulia Baracchini
9 days ago
Now in press one of my last PhD projects! We traced the neurobiological profile of fMRI BOLD signal variability, a measure that has been related to age, behaviour, disease status, but had not yet been fully contextualised within the brain's multiscale architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The biological role of local and global fMRI BOLD signal variability in multiscale human brain organization - Nature Communications
Baracchini et al. reveal that temporal variability in fMRI brain signals encodes biologically meaningful information across spatial and temporal scales, highlighting its role in healthy brain function...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68700-0
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Annie G. Bryant
13 days ago
The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Website:
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
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Alex Fornito
14 days ago
Our latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
For a full thread, see:
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Alex Fornito
about 1 month ago
🔥🔥Exciting news!!!🔥🔥 The invited speaker schedule for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop has been finalised! Commuter registrations are still available, but close Feb 1. 3 more weeks to get in!!! Register here:
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Joëlle Bagautdinova
about 1 month ago
Ever wondered how white matter tracts actually map onto the cortical hierarchy and cognition—beyond the usual “projection vs association” labels? Our new preprint tackles exactly that! 🧠✨
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Anatomical White Matter Tracts Span the Cortical Hierarchy to Support Cognitive Diversity
Long-range white matter (WM) tracts support cognition by enabling communication between distant cortical regions, which are organized along a hierarchy defined by the sensorimotor-to-association (S-A)...
https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.20.695692
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience |
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
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Alain Dagher
about 2 months ago
Cortical expansion and genetic risk for PD. Led by Houman Azizi and Nooshin Abbasi. With
@ptenigma.bsky.social
@misicbata.bsky.social
@yasharneuro.bsky.social
@ndrewvo.bsky.social
and many others
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Brain size links neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease
Genetic studies have advanced our understanding of Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis, establishing a role for autophagy and lysosomal dysfunction. However, how genetic risk translates into neurona...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.25341901v1.full.pdf+html
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Alex Fornito
about 2 months ago
Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Job Search
https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/687707/research-officer-psychology
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Andrea Luppi
2 months ago
🧠 Excited to share our latest preprint: Automated Brain Mapping with AI Experts!🤖
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ever wanted to summarise the cognitive/systems neuroscience literature beyond MRI and PET? Ever wished we could do the same for macaque 🐒 and mouse 🐭 ? Read on! 🧵👇
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Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts
The complexity of the brain is increasingly mirrored by the complexity of the neuroscientific literature, yet no individual mind can fully grasp the diversity of scales, methodologies and model organi...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691701v1
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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
2 months ago
Dr Andrea Luppi is one of 25 early-career researchers recognised for their outstanding scientific contributions and commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience.
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social
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Dr Andrea Luppi named ‘Rising Star in Neuroscience 2025’
Dr Andrea Luppi is among 25 researchers worldwide to be recognised by The Transmitter – a US-based publication for the neuroscience community. Rising Stars in Neuroscience 2025 honours early-career re...
https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-andrea-luppi-named-rising-star-neuroscience-2025
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
2 months ago
Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691701v1
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Sylvain Baillet
2 months ago
Please repost: another kind of Black-Friday deal!
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Alex Fornito
2 months ago
🔥🔥The Program for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now Available!!! 🔥🔥 We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers! Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited. Check the website for details:
www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
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Andrea Luppi
3 months ago
Truly honored to be recognized among
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
's Rising Stars of Neuroscience for 2025 next to trailblazers like
@valeriejsydnor.bsky.social
,
@lindenmp.bsky.social
,
@elimuller.bsky.social
& more!🌟🧠Check out everyone's full contributions at
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/early-career-researchers/rising-stars-neuroscience-2025/
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Rick Betzel
3 months ago
Excited to share new (unpublished and collaborative) drosophila connectome work at SfN next week! 🪰
#sfn2025
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Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی
3 months ago
Our lab is hiring! We're lookgin for an MSc trainee and a PhD trainee to investigate the neural underpinnings of pain. If you are interested in pain and brain imaging, please reach out! Informal enquiries are encouraged.
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Ravi Menon
3 months ago
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in
@natmethods.nature.com
. You can read it here
rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student
@renilmathew.bsky.social
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
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Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
https://rdcu.be/ePJo6
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Ted Satterthwaite
3 months ago
Truly heroic work by the stellar
@cieslakmatt.bsky.social
+ the HBCD dMRI working group team. Refactored QSIPrep + QSIRecon is the result of nearly 3y of concerted development + testing. It will be a total workhorse for HBCD -- and almost any other dMRI scan. Check it out for your data!!!
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Avram Holmes
3 months ago
Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social
is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social
@rutgersbhi.bsky.social
@rutgersu.bsky.social
@sobp-org.bsky.social
@hitop-system.bsky.social
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Thomas Yeo
3 months ago
Preprint is now published:
doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
Special thanks to co-authors
@twktan.bsky.social
@kimnganngt.bsky.social
@csabaorban.bsky.social
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Haley Wang
3 months ago
Excited that this is finally out! Appreciate our amazing team and collaborators so much for the support on this project
@zhenqi.bsky.social
@katiekarlsgodt.bsky.social
@carriebearden.bsky.social
@misicbata.bsky.social
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Harry H Behjat
4 months ago
does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease? ✨ preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️
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Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
5 months ago
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new Master's Programme in Brain Health and Disease within the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. Applications are now open!
@camneurodept.bsky.social
www.clinical-neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/education/ta...
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Taught MPhil in Brain Health and Disease | Clinical Neurosciences
Our one-year Master’s programme in Brain Health and Disease: Clinical Neurosciences offers an exceptional opportunity for students to engage with the forefront of clinical neuroscience through a dynam...
https://www.clinical-neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/education/taught-mphil-brain-health-and-disease
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Golia Shafiei
5 months ago
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
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Alex Fornito
5 months ago
Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome? Then check out our new preprint, lead by Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full thread here:
tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73
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Neuromorphic hierarchical modular reservoirs |
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
How does hierarchical modularity shape computational function? ⤵️
5 months ago
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Neuromorphic hierarchical modular reservoirs |
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
How does hierarchical modularity shape computational function? ⤵️
5 months ago
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Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS?
@asafarahani.bsky.social
investigates ⤵️
5 months ago
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Alessandro Gozzi
5 months ago
🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in
#autism
and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of
#autism
? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n
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Vincent Bazinet
5 months ago
Our recent work on spin tests is now published in Imaging Neuroscience🎉 As always, the code to reproduce our results and figures is available on github:
github.com/netneurolab/...
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The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps |
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️
5 months ago
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Ted Satterthwaite
5 months ago
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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Alex Fornito
5 months ago
🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6
Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
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Zhiqiang Sha (X: @sha_zhiqiang)
5 months ago
🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.
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Imaging Neuroscience
6 months ago
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vincent Bazinet, Zhen-Qi Liu and Bratislav Misic: The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Andreas Horn
6 months ago
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 “Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application” 🔗
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Ravi Menon
6 months ago
Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.
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Alex Fornito
6 months ago
Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Ben Fulcher
6 months ago
Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position:
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position:
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)
Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...
https://usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Camperdown-Campus/Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow--Physics-_0133282-1
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Zhiqiang Sha (X: @sha_zhiqiang)
6 months ago
💥🧠🧬Finally out!! Our new paper on the overlapping genetic basis of brain structures and psychiatric disorders has been published in Nature Mental Health. The full list of shared genetic loci is also available online. Thank you so much, Aaron and all co-authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The overlapping genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and cortical brain structure - Nature Mental Health
This study highlights sex differences in major depressive disorder using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Findings suggest hormonal fluctuations influence onset, emphasizing the ne...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00475-7
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Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan |
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
How does blood perfusion map onto canonical features of brain structure and function?
@asafarahani.bsky.social
investigates
@plosbiology.org
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Alex Fornito
6 months ago
Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with
@jchrispang.bsky.social
where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Integrating and interpreting brain maps |
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
6 months ago
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Sylvain Baillet
7 months ago
🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@theneuro.bsky.social
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Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability
Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7544
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Mallar Chakravarty
7 months ago
Really excited to share this new preprint on the dynamics of alpha-synuclein spreading by Dr. Stephanie Tullo in our group. This was a long term labour of love spanning the pandemic, experimental work, and in silico modelling
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In vivo and in silico alpha-synuclein propagation dynamics: The role of genotype, epicentre, and connectivity
Synucleinopathies, like Parkinson's disease (PD) are characterized by progressive accumulation and spread of misfolded alpha-synuclein (aSyn) throughout the brain. To improve understanding of disease ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665565v1
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Alex Fornito
7 months ago
Fab new work from
@kanepav.bsky.social
with
@jchrispang.bsky.social
looking at how different measures of inter-regional FC are resistant to motion-related noise and how they can improve (or not) BWAS effect sizes. Peep the thread!
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Thomas Yeo
7 months ago
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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Ben Fulcher
7 months ago
New paper! We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16. Paper:
doi.org/10.52294/001...
Code (python/Matlab/C):
github.com/DynamicsAndN...
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