Saturday morning well spent at the #neurology meeting for the Hamburg, Kiel and Lübeck sites. Diverse mix of topics, from the oral microbiome @csi-lab.bsky.social and movement disorders to updates from ongoing #Alzheimer’s disease trials.

I surprised myself: I'm saying NO to the Olympics in #Hamburg and I love sports and sport events! but the scale of costs and resources required for only a few weeks feels disproportionate to me. I see greater long-term value in investing in science and research 🧠 #nolympia

The biological sciences make no statement whatsoever about how many genders there are

#VAGUSNERVE - I finally saw it with my own eyes during an iVNS implantation. Seeing it directly provided a much finer sense of its anatomy and the challenges we face (& we have to face) with #taVNS 🧠⚡

Heated debate about lesion network mapping - you should check out @petersenm.bsky.social work! 🧠

Our paper and research on a #taVNS #MRI setup has now been published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @nbkroemer.bsky.social @glassybrain.bsky.social

I am currently at #ESOC2025 with the @csi-lab.bsky.social to present latest findings on #sleep and cerebral small vessel disease ( #CSVD ) ❤️ Big thanks to the whole team for this wonderful dataset including excellent #neuroimaging 🧠

#TaVNS inside the MR scanner IS POSSIBLE! ⚡🧠 I hope that this paper and its guidance on the taVNS MRI set-up will help those planning concurrent #fMRI and #vagusnervstimulation Checkout our new preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... Endless gratitude to @nbkroemer.bsky.social & @glassybrain.bsky.social

Across institutes. One contributing factor is the filling of leadership positions with individuals who lack both leadership knowledge and a genuine interest in this responsible task, focusing instead on their own self-interest and personal ego.

I am very much looking forward to this week with 2 meetings of the Neuromodulatory Subcortical System PIA: 📌 Tiny dots 21.01.25 12.30am CT (USA) - Noradrenergic Axon Loss Drives Hyposmia in AD alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 📌 Year in Review 24.01.25 10am CT (USA) alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The thing is, it’s not like the resistance has failed. They set out to impeach him, to convict him for his many felonies, to vote him out of office. They have achieved all of that. It’s just that it has now turned out that all of those achievements were meaningless. That’s where hopelessness lives.

🚨 STIMULATE TO REMEMBER ? ⚡ Link to publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... ⚡ 3 sec of taVNS (5 mA, 25 Hz, 250 μs) during an emotional memory task ⚡ real (cymba conchae) vs. sham (earlobe) vs. no stimulation trials

🚨Short bursts of taVNS ⚡ & 👁️ pupil dilation - as an indirect measure of #LocusCoeruleus (?!) #vagusnerv #taVNS Link to publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I systematically tested different frequencies (10 & 25 Hz) and intensities (3 & 5 mA) during 3 sec of short bursts of taVNS

Functional #locuscoeruleus imaging, #fmri, to investigate an #ageing noradrenergic system 📑 link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵 see thread below

New work from our postdoc Elouise Koops just got published: #locuscoeruleus metabolism is elevated in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, and provides resilience against cognitive decline! In collaboration with Joyita Dutta (UMass) alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We plan to recruit a new PhD student, who will work on projects testing the effective neuromodulation (tVNS, ghrelin) of gut-brain interactions in Bonn. A good command of German is necessary for this position. Please spread the word. #neuroscience #psychscisky neuromadlab.com/en/research/...

Germany's best show with great scientists and topics - that was a great evening with @evaschulz.bsky.social and @fmriguy.bsky.social 🧠 and the whole maithinkx team - thank you! Sundays on ZDFneo or ZDF Mediathek