Is the pain of null data taking up slots in your working memory? Or shifting you over optimum arousal on the Yerkes Dodson curve? Not for me! I've externalized it to this lovely preprint! Plus, read on for why it might not be the pain that causes deficits in your working memory... 🧵

Poppy, Stella and Noelle 100% agree with this writeup

When is a "pathogenic" variant in a classic pain gene (NaV1.7) not pathogenic? When its carried by many thousands of people and has no evidence of a pain phenotype or analgesic prescriptions... We need to reconsider how we assign pathogenicity to these variants. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b

Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @ScienceAdvances: “Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Read the full thread for details!

Why do we remember so many details of our experiences even when it is unclear if we will actually ever need them? In a new preprint, @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I asked whether this property is adaptive, because what will be relevant in the future often (usually?!) isn’t apparent.

***New paper from our lab*** By Jennika Veinot Low working memory underpins the association between aberrant functional properties of pain modulation circuitry and chronic back pain severity. Journal of PAIN, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #pain #neuroscience #cognition

Can you blind taste and guess Sauvignon Blanc from Riesling? If so, congrats—they’re pretty different! But just know… rats can too. 🐀🍾 h/t @cprofaci.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Guilty, as charged #AcademicSky #AcademicWriting

Just a reminder - if you're interested in human decision-making, this is a great set of people to follow (and please let me know if you want to be added!)

Are you feeling stuck in your ways? Less excited about exploring anything new? You may be aging! Read on for insight into why your decision making is changing.