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:

🎓 Congratulations Dr. Jin Yang! Jin successfully defended his PhD thesis, "The Development of Deep-Learning-Based Automatic Multi-Organ Segmentation Models from CT Images and their Clinical Evaluation", as part of the Imaging Science PhD Program at WashU!

Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents? Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!

The brainstem’s red nucleus is an evolutionarily old structure that emerged as animals began to use limbs for walking, but its function in humans reaches beyond motor control, a new study suggests. By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

Had a great time speaking with Sydney about our most recent paper out now in @natcomms.nature.com @macwoodburn.bsky.social . Paper link here: rdcu.be/ehbOy

It turns out the brain🧠is silently🤫working when your arm is in a cast. 🩼 🚧 Plastic changes occur, and revert again when the cast is removed … not just in cortex.

It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy

Happening now! Don’t miss out - Come find me at Poster Session E (#E127) at #CNS2025 to discuss how brain functional connectivity, but not neuroanatomy, captures the interrelationship between sex and gender in preadolescents. @cnsmtg.bsky.social

At #CNS2025? Come visit my poster (#E127) Mon afternoon (2:30-4:30pm) to learn how brain functional connectivity, but not neuroanatomy, captures the interrelationship between sex and gender in preadolescents @cnsmtg.bsky.social @ndosenbach.bsky.social Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing work by Dr. Yin Wang, Jamie Reilly, Haroon Popal, and others. The scale of this work is breathtaking.

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

Vote for WashU Medicine in #STATMadness! Help a publication from Nico Dosenbach, MD, PhD, & colleagues on the effects of psilocybin on the brain make it to the finals! Round 1 ends March 10 at 3 a.m. CT. Read the article: www.statnews.com/wp-content/u... Vote! www.statnews.com/feature/stat...

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️

Is it critical to stimulate @ndosenbach.bsky.social's SCAN and CON networks for clinical improvements of Tourette's patients that undergo DBS? Carlos Baldermann says yes in a cool new paper out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social comms today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out today in PNAS 🎉 demonstrating: 1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth 2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity doi.org/10.1073/pnas...