The rarely told story of DBS before DBS from an industry perspective. Thank you very much, Keith Mullett, for taking part in this interview! Tune in below:

Very happy this paper I'm part of, led by co-first author Nomiki Koutsoumpari and @efouragnan.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org! It uses transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to show the causal role of aIns and dACC in two kinds of learning biases 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Very excited to share our latest paper led by @nbinish.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com We demonstrate how a communication subspace channels higher-dimensional PFC dynamics into lower-D motor activity to enable efficient behavior using human iEEG. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

It's so funny to see the constant debate on whether these tools "are" conscious or not. As if consciousness would be a yes/no thingy. Think of it more as speed, folks. We'd never say: "This car is speed. This animal is not speed."

The relationship between Canada and Europe is only getting stronger. Canada’s participation to the European Political Community meeting says it all.

The ice loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet is hard to grasp! This is what the 30 million tonnes of ice that Greenland loses every hour looks like, if it were positioned next to the Eiffel tower before melting:

Just boosting this - 5 more days to go till the closing date - please spread the word!

I was honored to be featured on @stimulatingbrains.org's podcast, hosted by @andreashorn.org, so please listen if you're interested in scientific publishing or being an editor at @nature.com stimulatingbrains.org/77-mary-eliz...

Super interesting conversation – tip to listen for anybody interested in scientific publishing 👇👇 Thank you, @meharpist.bsky.social for sharing your wisdom!

The iPhone influencers go really far these days

Which way best defines the optimal deep brain stimulation target in #Parkinsons? x-y-z coordinates? sweet spots? fiber tracts? whole-brain networks? @patriciazvarova.bsky.social has just answered this question: All of them. New study out now in AoN: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

On X earlier today, I mentioned that America does not own the Moon. Which is accurate and true. Nobody does. I received over 500 of the most vicious, vile, stupid and disgusting replies from Americans. Only 3 were civilised. What the hell America! What has happened to your once great country 😔

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Save the date – see you in Seville!

I'm looking forward to speaking at the Orchard OCD Conference in London on 4-5 June. I will be joining the panel "Advances In Neuromodulation and Neurosurgical Strategies for OCD" with Ludvic Zrinzo, Rebecca Prices, and Elsa Fouragnan. …

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I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast.

The Trump administration reached an agreement to pay $1 billion to French energy firm TotalEnergies to stop developing two offshore wind farms off the coast of New York and North Carolina, instead directing the investments to oil and gas projects.

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

Soulless sociopath says what? 🤮 🤬 🖕

Dear neuromodulation enthusiasts! Please join us at OptoDBS 2026, which will take place at the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 10th to 12th: www.optodbs.ch Please Repost for reach – thank you!! 🙏🙏

I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next!

Have you heard about the primacy of movement over sensation? Why is action the ultimate source of knowledge? Check it out in our brand new episode with none less than György Buzsáki here: stimulatingbrains.org/76-gyorgy-bu...

I had a lot of fun – and learned a lot – talking to the one and only György Buzsáki on @stimulatingbrains.org the other day – check it out here 👇👇

The 6x US memory champion – Nelson Dellis – can memorize a deck of cards in 40 seconds and knows the first 10K digits of pi. To figure out how, he let us peak inside his brain. Here is what we learned in our precision brain mapping study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... youtube.com/shorts/MryMq...

Happy to share results ASAP. Still working on the stats.

Game of Electrons.

Please support Lead-DBS by buying our Lego Kit. Its also fun!

Andreas Horn breaks down recent exchanges on the lesion network mapping method.

Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about

Cool initiative by @micahgallen.com to restore what Elon destroyed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

A recent @natneuro.nature.com paper analyzed lesion network mapping and raised concerns about the validity of the method. See below 👇 for our response. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Why stop at More Data when Even More Data exists? moderat.rosecityworks.com/products/eve...

I recently came into possession of a new item for my office, which will undoubtedly become a critical all-purpose fix for our scientific projects. If, in the future, folks at @netstim.org should ever require more data, they can just reach behind the sofa and get it!

Fantastic talk by @barbarahollunder.bsky.social on weaving together findings across studies in the field of connectomic DBS at the Würzburg expert summit!

Netstim on route to the DBS summit in Würzburg! Looking forward to seeing everybody soon!

For the first time, we characterized the Parkinson's Disease Response Network across space and time, simultaneously. Fantastic work led by @bahnebahners.bsky.social out in BRAIN now 👇👇

New @netstim.org publication alert: @bahnebahners.bsky.social in BRAIN out now: academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... A 🧵:

Shining a light onto the subcortex of the human brain 👇👇🔥🔥

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know." We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Some may be saying, “yes, we knew this”, but we don’t really know know until we see data like these. And something we may not have known that this paper shows is that once a person gets into the right wing silo, we’ve lost them. Changing to the chronological feed does not bring them back.

Kölle Alaaf from the @netstim.org!

Two-thirds of Americans believe Trump has "gone too far" with ICE. The cruelty & extremism is out of control. Our new ad features Joe Rogan asking "Are we really going to be the Gestapo?...Is that what we've come to?" Check it out & share.

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

The highlight of my week was the publication of "Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder" in @nature.com. It's a great paper that shows how conceptual changes in fundamental neuroscience - the discovery of SCAN - can improve treatment 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 Die Tiefe Hirnstimulation bei Parkinson zeigt ihre bestmögliche Wirkung, wenn ein präzises Gehirnnetzwerk im Beta-Frequenzbereich (20–35 Hz) stimuliert wird – das zeigt ein Team um @andreashorn.org @bahnebahners.bsky.social jetzt erstmals gleichzeitig räumlich und zeitlich👇 youtu.be/ZrREFuDI-as

🧠 Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease achieves its best results when a precisely defined brain network operating in the high beta frequency range is targeted. This was shown by a team @andreashorn.org @bahnebahners.bsky.social in both space and time for the first time.👇 uni.koeln/5LYV7

…well, should there be a difference? Both is terrible, especially if these are truly "random fishermen".. 🙄