Excited to share that our new review, "Depression as a disease of white matter network disruption: Learning from Multiple Sclerosis," is out now in Biological Psychiatry! We propose MS as a powerful model for studying how white matter network changes contribute to depression.

🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:

🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging. 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging

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

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/...

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats @audreycluo.bsky.social!! Celebrating a wonderful dissertation defense that shed novel, fundamental, and convincing insights into white matter development.

@audreycluo.bsky.social has had one of the most impressive graduate careers I've ever seen. Kudos!!!!

So grateful to @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social for being the most wonderful PhD adviser and @pennlinc.bsky.social for being my lab home. My heart is full 🩷🧡💛

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? ⤵️

#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Audrey Luo @audreycluo.bsky.social of the Satterthwaite Lab @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social ! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 8/5. Best of luck, Audrey! #PhAlmostDone 🥳

Such beautiful and careful work from @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social, as always!!

The ABCD Study 6.0 release is finally here! 🧠 Apply for data access here @theabcdstudy.bsky.social www.nbdc-datahub.org

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

@kevin-y-sun.bsky.social‬ will be presenting his work on "Copy Number Variant Risk Scores Are Associated with Personalized Functional Brain Network Topography" Wed, June 25, 13:15 - 15:15 & Thus, June 26, 13:45 - 15:45

#OHBM2025 is here and the champs from @pennlinc.bsky.social have brought their freshest work express from Philly to Brisbane. Thread below . . .please reach out + come say hi -- always looking to talk science + make new friends!!!

@audreycluo.bsky.social will be presenting her fab work on "Two Axes of White Matter Development" on Wed, June 25, 13:15 -15:15 & Thurs, June 26, 13:45 -15:45; Poster #1010.

Thanks @gradientsworkshop.bsky.social for a fantastic day of science and for inviting me to speak!! 🌈🧠

So excited to share that my first paper is out in BMJ Open! Thank you @ballerlab.bsky.social and the amazing team of people that made this possible! 🧠🌟

The Baller Lab is thrilled to announce that @elenaccooper.bsky.social just had her first first-author publication! “Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol” is now published on BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e094733! 🧠

Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Dreaming of a dataset that tracks mood, sleep & activity to better understand affective instability (AI)…AND paired with advanced MRI? 🤯 Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

Excited to share that our paper is now in press at the British Journal of Psychiatry! Looking forward to presenting our work this Friday at #SOBP2025 in our symposium: "Does one size fit all? Subgroup Modeling of Brain-Behavior Relationships in Psychiatry" 🧠 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #psychscisky

Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲 www.nature.com/articles/s41... osf.io/mhq3f/ @borismontreal.bsky.social @jroyer.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @jordandekraker.bsky.social

Study human brain structure and function with our new open access 7T MRI dataset led by superstar scientist @donnagift.bsky.social ↙️

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Tippy top-drawer classic-in-the-making developmental neuroimaging from @audreycluo.bsky.social @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social and team. These are fundamental patterns being unearthed here with wide impact for the field. Congrats y’all !!! 🤩

🤯 WM development is not uniform! 1. there’s a deep-to-superficial axis, superficial tract regions near cortical surface exhibit greater age-related change. 2. this aligns with cortical hierarchy defined by sensorimotor-association axis; tract ends adjacent to sensorimotor cortices mature earlier.

Stunning new work by a rising star in the field! Check out @audreycluo.bsky.social’s great thread below 👇 #neuroimaging #neuroskyence #PsychSciSki

Great thread by @audreycluo.bsky.social, summarizing her excellent preprint on white matter development 👇🧪🧠

This work has really changed the way I think about this data and about brain development. I hope it will make us all think more about these kinds of details and links between different aspects of the brain. I am incredibly proud and grateful for this collaboration with Audrey et al.!

We think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

I've been involved with this project since the very beginning and am very happy with how it ultimately turned out. The curation and processing was absolutely painstaking. Congratulations @goliashf.bsky.social on an excellent paper!!

Beyond thrilled to see the RBC paper out— massive congrats to @goliashf.bsky.social and the whole RBC team at @pennlinc.bsky.social + @childmindinstitute.bsky.social (led with Mike Milham)+ the many many collabs that made RBC possible.

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers? With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out the schedule of events linked with OHBM 2025 - Brain connectivity workshop, June 20-22 - Hackathon, June 21-23 - Neurodesk, June 21 - Brain gradients, June 23 - Precision network therapeutics, June 29 Register now! We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Take a look at some of our latest results, diving into task-fMRI data, autism, and predictive modelling: "What is the best brain state to predict autistic traits?" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/2

We are super excited about this -- the SYPRES initiative for living systematic reviews on clinical trials of psychedelics in psychiatry. All credit to @parkersingleton.bsky.social and the team at #PennLINC + #ACTTION.

Psychedelic mental health research is booming—but how do we keep up with rapidly evolving evidence? 🌱 Our team proposes a living evidence synthesis approach to ensure clinicians, policymakers, and the public have access to the latest, most reliable data. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧪🧵

Mapping neuropeptide signaling in the human brain | doi.org/10.1101/2024... Neuropeptides are among the functionally diverse signaling molecules in the brain and body. @cebric.bsky.social curates an atlas of neuropeptide receptors and relates it brain function 🧩 🧠 ⤵️

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