Effectiveness of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Protocols on Drug Craving and Consumption/Relapse in Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of 208 Clinical Trials and 36 Protocols https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.25335559v1

I feel like this should go without saying, but repeated hits to the head can only be bad: A recent @nature.com paper describes the neuron los and inflammation caused by repeated head trauma in young athletes 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How can we improve transcutaneous VNS? This study uses neural bridging to connect a cutaneous sensory nerve with the cervical branch of the vagus nerve, leading to a 3.5x increase in c-Fos in the NTS (vs. sham). #neuroskyence 🩺 Sun et al, Neurotherapeutics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

I created the first statistical framework for using your own data to figure out your own causes and effects—for truly personalized digital health and medicine. All thanks to an NIH T32 grant! tinyurl.com/daza2018

Three rejections for the lab today, so I guess I should close the inbox now 🙈

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Kelly Cobey’s early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment go.nature.com/4gswIWF

A comparison of cervical and auricular VNS in rats shows that only cVNS alters heart rate (likely due to efferent effects). aVNS is not inferior to cVNS in terms of modulated EEG power (peaks in somatosensory cortex). Moon et al, Brain Stimul #neuroskyence 🩺 www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

And another preprint from the lab by @alisaloosen.bsky.social 🥳 In a very exciting collaboration with the Yale OCD clinic, we investigated metacognitive processes during cognitive flexibility using our new www.brainexplorer.net app game. See all details in Alisa's thread 👇🏼

Can one bring together Reinforcement learning and Drift Diffusion models to understand collective foraging ? Congrads to Jonathan Marienhagen , Lisa Blum Moyse and Dominik Deffner on this new study. Very happy that I was part of this collaboration. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share that my 1st paper with @univie.ac.at affiliation is now published!🥳 doi.org/10.1111/aphw... We explored weight-loss & dietary intentions in representative samples from Germany & Austria (N=1,510). Huge thanks to @lauramkoenig.bsky.social for making the data collection possible!🙏

Who knew that one of the most important requirements of faculty life is to soldier through the never-ending editing of ever-changing documents at night 🫠

The gut-brain connection Glia cells mediate cytokine signalling between the gut and the brain, linking sleep to inflammation in the gut.

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

The new {marginaleffects} release for #RStats (0.30.0) comes with two new vignettes: 1. Speed up computation with automatic differentiation (often 10x gains) marginaleffects.com/bonus/perfor... 2. Power analyses with {marginaleffects} and {DeclareDesign}. marginaleffects.com/bonus/power....

Our paper showing treatment-resistant depression is marked by WM loss and rewiring of reward circuits. ⬇️ FA in major tracts & hyperconnectivity b/w insula↔vmPFC and striatum↔vmPFC, & hypoconnectivity b/w striatum↔insula—linked to anhedonia severity. #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final paper of my PhD got published! 🥳 We investigated whether stress increases the desire for immediately available food or alcohol in patients with bulimia nervosa or alcohol use disorder. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10

🚨New pre-print out! 🍂 Using daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we found that reductions in both self- and decision-making confidence precede when people are likely to report experiencing symptoms of OCD. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Awesome new preprint from @jasonleng.bsky.social! Deadlines in decision making often truncate too-slow responses. Failing to account for these omissions can (severely) bias your DDM parameter estimates. They offer a great solution to correct for this issue. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Discovery of a brain center (BNST) that controls consumption (including sweets, fats, salt and other foods) in mice www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

In our new paper 📖🔥, we conducted a pooled analysis (n=443; 5 studies) to test if state affect (momentary mood) or trait dispositions (approach/avoidance) predict cortisol reactivity beyond biological & contextual factors. (1/4) #neuroscience #Neuroskyence #cogpsyc #AffectSci #psychscisky

Our latest work is now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We examined the role of the basal forebrain and its influence on intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... @psychunimelb.bsky.social, @mbciu.bsky.social, #UnimelbMDHS

A Practical Guide to Identifying Robust Clusters in Neuroimaging Data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We recently reported higher variability of reinforcement learning in obesity and BED, but what about neural representations? In our new preprint, we show higher variability in NAcc responses to reward cues in obesity and disinhibited eating www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @nbkroemer.bsky.social

New preprint from the lab! 🧠 Led by Juliana Trach, w/ Sophia Ou Using fMRI, we discovered evidence for time-sensitive reward prediction errors (RPEs) in the human cerebellum. Builds on, and extends, recent work in both rodents and NHPs

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

When we encounter the same reward repeatedly, we show variable responses; is this just noise? In our new preprint, we replicate the association of BMI and disinhibited eating with variability of NAcc signals to reward. #neuroskyence 🩺 W/ @akuehnel.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Amygdala–liver signalling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪 I might be the only author on Blueksy, so here we go. Serotonin in the caudate while doing uniquely human things (a social game) provides information about movement disorder diagnosis. This work started a long time ago with Ken (when he was at Wake Forest) working with Read at VT. rdcu.be/eDDPf

I really love doing translational research in humans, but I had no idea how much time I would spend just working on the entire process. Grant proposals, IRB docs, preregistration, SAPs... Rinse and repeat, and try not to make a stupid mistake you will regret in 2-4 years.

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

If you are interested in using functional neuroimaging and neuromodulation to improve key symptoms of depression, we are still looking for PhD students: Official ad (in German, B2 level or better is required): karriereamukb.de/jobs/doktora...

One of the last projects of my PhD looking into insular functional segregation in depression is finally out as a preprint 🙏👇 Have a look and let us know what you think! #neuroskyence

Nature research paper: Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning go.nature.com/41rFGxa

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is an insanely complex nervous system that controls our gut, interacts with our brain, and is vital to our wellbeing. 🥼 Our lab is interested in how the cells of the ENS are regulated in many aspects of health and disease.

New preprint...and this one is truly EPIC 🚨. Using a large group of patients with depression and healthy controls (N>800), we show differences in the functional segregation of insular subnetworks. And we can use it to classify! Led by @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺 osf.io/preprints/ps...

New findings help to explain why it has been so challenging to predict brain signaling from the connectome alone. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...

What can *genetic insensitivity to opioids* teach us about endogenous opioid function in humans? Fully funded position in Oslo (PhD student or postdoc) Interested in pain, mu/kappa opioids, behavioural genetics, RCTs, or related? Apply here: 2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui... Please RT for reach

Brain area 46 is at the center of a network for emotion regulation in marmosets, a new Science study finds. The results relate directly to motivation and responsiveness to threat, which play important roles in depression and anxiety. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4fTlB8M

This paper in J Neuroscience provides evidence that some of the heterogeneity in dopamine signals in the striatum is related to value decay - interesting idea, I hadn't encountered this before: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Come hear me talk about mice doing mouse stuff, at the birthplace of Beethoven and the gummy bear. Or three days later at the Gutenberg workshop gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/flexibility-...