Fentanyl is 100x stronger than morphine and it's reshaping the public health landscape. In a new #LabNotes episode, dive into the neuroscience of addiction and the human stories behind the crisis: alleninstitute.org/news/lab-not... Feat. researchers Christian Luscher and Seattle's Recovery Cafe.

Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy! The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

I might be biased, but I think this is one of the most exciting developments in generalized musculoskeletal control in years ⬇️. Congrats to the team (I’m not involved!) 💪🔥

Can connectomic DBS go beyond where to stimulate to inform who and when? Great discussion @dbsthinktank.bsky.social with @rolstonjohn.bsky.social @julianneumann.bsky.social suggest yes! @braincircuits.bsky.social

What might the future of deep brain stimulation look like? Not just continuous stimulation, but decoding symptoms in real time and directing stimulation to the right brain circuits. Fascinating perspective article by @andreashorn.org & @julianneumann.bsky.social in @natrevneurol.nature.com:

In #DeepBrainStimulation the two major developments across the last decade have been 1. Adaptive DBS and 2. Connectomic DBS In a @natrevneurol.nature.com article with @julianneumann.bsky.social, we ask: Could the two be united into a common framework? www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵

🚨 New paper alert! Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders: “Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia” 👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds.... We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below. #dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 “Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application” 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...  🧵 A short thread:

So great to meet up with the talented @julianneumann.bsky.social today! His work on merging neuro, AI, and clinical applications is very exciting. He was the first to use and extend #CEBRA for human experiments 🚀🧠 #neuroskynce

Starstruck to be in the presence of one of the most disruptive and inspiring AI and neuroscientists. I loved the recent Cell cover story by Mackenzie on decoding the brain, check it out of you haven't: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

When location is everything: Why does brain ‘real estate’ determine the success of focused ultrasound (FUS) and DBS? Ever notice how the difference between success and struggle in FUS and DBS may come down to just a few millimeters? Precise placement is common to be THE deciding factor in outcome.

Is it time to standardize preoperative imaging for deep brain stimulation? Christoph Guettler & Anna Tietze say yes in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social – a thread 🧵 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Reduced function or injury to the frontal pole may increase creativity by disengaging the self-monitoring & cognitive control actions of the frontal pole to allow novelty seeking & creativity to be unleashed. @braincircuits.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social @julianneumann.bsky.social

Probably the most insightful and most important paper on physiomarkers of subthalamic DBS in a long while. Bravo @julianneumann.bsky.social @tsbinns.com and team!! Out at @natcomms.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super honored to be invited by Stephanie Lacour to speak at @neuroxepfl.bsky.social on "Deep Brain Stimulation as a Therapeutic Brain-Computer Interface: From Disease Signatures to AI-Driven Neural Circuit Prosthetics" this Thursday. Open on Zoom, too! Info here: memento.epfl.ch/event/neuro-...

Ever wondered how well your Lead-DBS electrode localizations compare to expert solutions on the same data? Now, with Lead-Tutor, you can self-assess!

Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

Thanks for highlighting this , I Loved the Session.

Really thought-provoking talk by @julianneumann.bsky.social going over many things, including STN DBS but not Sinemet decreases cortical beta, and a super interesting theory about closed-loop timing of stimulation to beta phase

Very excited by this paper led by Savir Madan & @laurenahart.bsky.social, which introduces the first self-train dataset for learning Lead-DBS and a nice tool to self-assess how well localizations compare to expert solutions.

Madan and Hart et al. introduce Lead-Tutor, an open-access educational resource that combines an imaging dataset of anonymized DBS cases with a software tool for self-teaching: doi.org/10.52294/001... @laurenahart.bsky.social @andreashorn.org @jordytasserie.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Great news: Thomas‘ study on shared and distinct mechanisms of PD therapeutics out soon! Thanks for the important work and great collaboration over the last years, @tsbinns.com , @julianneumann.bsky.social .

Excited to have my PhD project paper exploring the network mechanisms of neuromodulation accepted for publication! We show how deep brain stimulation and medication exert a shared modulation of motor network synchrony in Parkinson's disease.

Understanding mechanisms of neuromodulation is a key to advancing Neurotechnology for the treatment of brain disorders!

Preprint 🚨 Invasive #neurotechnology has potential for breakthroughs in the treatment of brain disorders. To unlock this potential we developed a platform that combines MRI connectomics with neurophysiology for circuit discovery and decoding of movement, emotion and epilepsy! bit.ly/invasiveBCI

Thrilled to be invited to the Trailblazer in Neuroscience series by European Journal of Neuroscience! PhD student Alessia Cavallo and I share our view on basal ganglia reinforcement for Parkinsons disease with opportunities arising for neurotechnology. doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... 1/n

Our paper is published in the latest issue of NEURON. We examined the neural mechanisms involved in learning from the gains and losses of symbolic reinforcers in the ventral frontostriatal circuitry. 🧠 www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

EJN's Profiles of #WomeninScience has a new interview with Prof. Laurel Trainor from McMaster University (Canada)! Can a concert🎻hall be used as a #research lab? Do infants #learn music in the same way that they acquire #language? Find out at doi.org/10.1111/ejn....! #EJN #FENS #neuroscience

Looking for inspirational women in neuroscience to follow? We made a starter pack of Stories of WiN interviewees and our team members! 💜 #WomenInNeuro #StoriesOfWiN go.bsky.app/PCteLM8

Fantastic new resource by Eugenio Iglesias (bsky-less) and his great team: NextBrain, a next-gen probabilistic atlas of the human brain with 333 regions github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/NextBrain/#/... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci #neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuroimaging

Didn't see one for Neuroscience yet; allow me to oblige

Upon popular demand I created a started pack for people interested in Deep Brain Stimulation! Lmk if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/B9A9Cho

Since you asked 😉 Cebra: which outperforms tSNE and UMAP (and I think is being taking up quite rapidly with 200+ citations in one year 💜) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🙏🏼

Here's a somewhat sparse Dopamine / Basal Ganglia starter pack. Please self-nominate to add! go.bsky.app/B2kViZY

Super cool paper on the utility of Reinforcement learning models for understanding dopaminergic learning in perceptual decision making.

We wrote a short review on Dopaminergic computations for perceptual decisions with Sam Liebana and Matthias Fritsche. Hope it is useful for some. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... #neuroscience 🧪🧠

Static and dynamic coding in distinct cell types during associative learning in the prefrontal cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Thrilled to be invited to the Trailblazer in Neuroscience series by European Journal of Neuroscience! PhD student Alessia Cavallo and I share our view on basal ganglia reinforcement for Parkinsons disease with opportunities arising for neurotechnology. doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... 1/n

Dorothy Bishop Prize Three £500 prizes for people who have improved research or promoted open research practices Nominate yourself or your pals by 28th January www.ukrn.org/2023/12/11/d...

Structured behavioral data format: An NWB extension standard for task-based behavioral neuroscience experiments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.08.574597v1

One more week to register and/or submit your work and/or apply to the "MBB Young Scientist Award". #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #Interoception #CogSci #compneurosky #AcademicSky

What a year for Neuroscience! Annual fabulous and clever Review by Mark Humphries. Big year for dopamine and cell types. medium.com/the-spike/20...

This move showing the positioning of different white matter tracts in a glass human brain by Jim Stanis is really educational. I knew most of these, but didn't have a good feel for how they would look when placed next to each other in this way Really beautiful too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eql5...

Is machine consciousness just around the corner? In our new paper, we approach this question from the neuroscientific perspective and explain why this is unlikely to be the case out in Trends in Neuroscience w @macshine.bsky.social #neuroskyence #consciousness authors.elsevier.com/a/1hxp2botq0...

Speech induces spatiotemporal and frequency specific subthalamic-cortical spike-phase coupling events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.18.562969v1

Nature Reviews Neuroscience Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome  🧠🟦 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Still time to signup for this webinar tomorrow! "The Effect of Ageing on Power Spectra: A Big-Data Perspective with GLM-Spectrum" marketing.megin.fi/megin-master... Will suit people who enjoy pictures of oscillations and power spectra! might be some animations as well... #neuroscience #eeg #stats

Has anybody figured out how to bridge mastodon and Bluesky yet? How to cross post on twitter and bsk? Thanks!

‼️Deadlines for ERC submission are extended, so it might still be useful to remember the *only* 3 keys to success in the words of the ERC President @mleptin, while addressing the audience at the last meeting of the Association for ERC grantees (AERG) #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci #neuroskyence

Periodic reminder: if journal submission guidelines say to put figure legends and figures at the end of the manuscript, ignore this and place them inline. Your reviewers will thank you and you can put it in their stupid format in the resubmission