🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10

fMRI connectivity is dominated by recurring high-amplitude BOLD events (CAPs, QPPs) But what originates these events? Many think neuromodulation is the culprit. Our new work offers a simpler take: cortico-cortical dynamics alone can generate CAP-like events! doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013995 🧵1/n

Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians | Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's important to note that when discussing brain structure-function relationships across scales, that the definition of function changes with scale. Keep it straight! @sbe.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very cool!

I wrote an perspectives piece relevant to the structural atlasing endeavors. Structural atlases are not the end of the story. This perspective calls for models that take into account the flexible functional organization within this fixed architecture. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

This is cool and useful!

Great talk/conversation!

The correct way to settle academic conflicts

The Two Faces of #PTSD: Fear vs. Emotional Pain. Our new research in Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social identifies distinct clinical & neural profiles. AI says no one reads long papers, so we made an infographic!👇 Full Paper (for the insistents😉): doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Excited to attend this!

As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about.. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats on getting this published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control @tifenpan.bsky.social! Here, we showed that signals from frontal EEG channels predicted emotional states while listening to music, but other channels and peripheral physiological sensors did not improve model performance.

Excited to see this paper out in Biological Psychiatry! It highlights that emotional pain and fear represent distinct PTSD dimensions, leading us closer to identifying PTSD subtypes with dissociable biological underpinnings. Congrats on leading the charge on this cool study @zivbenzion.bsky.social

Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats, great choices for Cogneuro research:

Great piece by @natolambert.bsky.social on the current state of human exhaustion in the AI world. Makes this important point:

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new preprint! We conducted a spatial meta-analysis of community violence and mental health, synthesizing 155 articles (k = 769) to test how exposure to community violence is associated with mental health problems, and how state social service investments moderate the link. 💵

Really cool interdisciplinary study! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Excited to share our new paper entitled Multisystem Environmental Factors Elucidate Shared and Distinct Associations With Brain and Behavior in Adolescents. Link: www.jaacap.org/article/S089.... @kavliatyale.bsky.social

thrilled to share our preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection! Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf... w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social thread below 👇

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

Couldn’t agree more. It’s easy to blame the “other” side for not trusting scientists, but to begin to repair these fractures it’s our responsibility to step up and be leaders and engage with the community

Beautiful example of fMRI-based stratification for precision psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Go do more creative stuff! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a fascinating study dissecting the degree to which functional connectivity in EEG is driven by aperiodic activity instead of oscillations -- how robust are connectivity findings in a frequency band (theta, alpha) when oscillations are not omni-present? www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Great to have @timlawn.bsky.social visiting today and presenting some really interesting findings. Cool stuff.

New preprint alert! We used connectome-based predictive modeling in a transdiagnostic sample to identify brain network correlates of wide array of behavioral measures. We also identify where networks supporting cognition overlap with those linked to diagnostically related clinical symptomatology.

Theo Kertesz, a brilliant intern here in the B&C lab, wrote a fantastic piece about my PhD research. Read it on Medium! medium.com/p/listening-...

Started a new postdoc at Yale in @brognition.bsky.social Lab with Kia Nobre! Studying adaptive cognition in humans using brain recordings—both on and in the head. New lab, new city, new chapter!

If you’re at OHBM this year, come check out my poster titled “Brain networks that mediate clinical-cognitive relationships” on Friday and Saturday at location number 1150

Excited to get this collaborative paper out from my rotation with @dscheinost.bsky.social

Had a great time discussing network neuroscience (and skiing) at #whistlerbrain2025! Thanks for organizing @toddc.bsky.social and @anjasamardzija.bsky.social!

Last week to register! (registration closes Jan 26) #whistlerbrain Register here: web.cvent.com/event/34b0c2...

“Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations”, a solo paper by yours truly, making the case that brain activity flow shifts are essential to mental flexibility (and quite interesting too!) Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...