Your Pupils, Your Mind 👁️🧠 Pupil size isn’t just light reflex: it tracks “pupil-linked arousal” shaped by neuromodulators (NA, ACh, 5-HT, orexin). The piece argues pupils are a 1D readout of multidimensional brain states. #Neuroscience #Arousal #Pupillometry #Orexin www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

A perspective piece questions the #ArealizationParadigm (the idea of neatly bounded brain areas with single functions). Anatomical, genetic, and connectivity maps often disagree, and large-scale recordings suggest cognition is widely distributed. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

I am pleased to share that I have commenced my Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in Neuroscience at @ethz.ch Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich! #ETH #PhD #Neuroscience #DHest

A new Scientific Horizons article by Öykü Nur Kesek and Nicolas Hubacz explores how adolescent stress shapes the brain, alongside new insights into neuronal communication. Emerging links between mental health, neural development, and information processing. www.linkedin.com/pulse/mappin...

Non-invasive temporal interference #stimulation can quiet deep epileptic networks. In MTLE patients, TI targeting the #hippocampus reduced seizure biomarkers and limited spread, with lasting effects beyond stimulation, offering a promising option for drug-resistant #epilepsy without surgery.

A new #Brain study shows cortico-basal oscillations track real-world movement in #Parkinson’s patients with #DBS. These rhythms change predictably during daily actions. Measuring brain signals in natural settings could enable adaptive, personalized stimulation beyond the clinic (Michael S Oku)

A colleague’s new study in #Biomolecules compares β- and γ-synuclein aggregation across vertebrates. It reveals species-specific differences in aggregation propensity and copper sensitivity, offering new insights into #synuclein dynamics and mechanisms. www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/15...

A new #fluorescent sensor, iGluSnFR3, reveals #glutamate release at #synapses in real time 🧠✨ Developed by teams from the Allen Institute, HHMI, and UC San Diego, it makes the brain’s fastest signals visible, enabling deeper insight into how #neurons communicate across networks.

Season’s greetings from the microscopy world! A festive YFP-labeled neuron lights up an enlightened mouse brain from the Noé Rodriguez collection, with creative work by Stanislav Pelekhov (Ksena Longrin) Happy holidays! #microscopy #neuroscience #neuron

I attended “Spremuta di Cervelli” on #education and the future of learning, focusing on how #neuroscience and #AI intersect. The discussion explored how attention, memory, motivation, and emotion shape learning, and how algorithms may transform #teaching without losing sight of #brain complexity.

Over a year of #FluorescenceFriday showcased biology in true 3D, from intact human tissues to neural and immune networks, tumors, and vasculature. Structure, context, and relationships. In biology, context isn’t optional, it’s ground truth (Alpenglow Biosciences)

#Bioinformatics is a fast-growing market: $10.1B in 2022, projected to reach $18.7B by 2027 (13% CAGR) Growth is driven by public and private funding, while high equipment costs remain a barrier. Emerging markets offer major opportunities, and data security will define long-term winners.

Music improvisation rewires the brain in real time. Jazz studies show that creative freedom boosts auditory, motor coupling and salience networks, while structured tasks engage evaluative control systems. Creativity emerges from dynamic shifts. neurosciencenews.com/music-improv...

This Thursday we’re hosting an event on #Education at the intersection of #neuroscience and #AI. We’ll explore how brains and algorithms learn through error, feedback, and adaptation, and what this means for attention, memory, teaching practices, and the future role of educators.

Researchers from the Allen Institute and Japan’s University of Electro-Communications used supercomputer Fugaku to simulate the full mouse cortex, 10M neurons and 26B synapses. Built on open data, this virtual brain lets scientists explore how disorders emerge. alleninstitute.org/news/one-of-...

A new study introduces high-plex spatial RNA imaging in a single round using color-intensity barcodes and standard microscopes, enabling scalable transcript mapping. Open textbook Principles of Light Microscopy, accessed over 44,000 times (Volodymyr Nechyporuk-Zloy). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study shows motor cortex stimulation eases chronic pain not via motor circuits, but through non-motor networks in the precentral gyrus. nTMS mapping can target these regions precisely, enabling more personalized and effective treatments for pain. (Nicolas Hubacz, M.S) #ChronicPain #TMS

I attended “Brain Aging - How time shapes the brain,” exploring how aging alters memory, attention, and connectivity, while plasticity and circuit reorganization support resilience👨‍🦳🧠. #BrainAging

Attended the seminar “What can we learn from stochastic parrots?” at UPF Barcelona, great insights on LLMs and cognition (Jarosław R. Lelonkiewicz). Also visited IMIM’s Neurosciences Department, focused on mental and neurodegenerative disorders and the misuse of psychoactive substances. #neuro

New research finds the brain moves through five wiring epochs, with key shifts at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. The biggest change in the early 30s ends adolescent-like connectivity and begins adult stability, shaping learning, cognition, and vulnerabilities. neurosciencenews.com/brain-aging-...

The inflammatory reflex shows how the brain regulates immunity through the vagus nerve: signals reach the spleen, activate T cells, and release acetylcholine to reduce TNF-α. Inflammation isn’t only chemical, it’s electrical, with the brain telling the immune system when to calm down (James Durham)

Researchers mapped the genetic architecture of the corpus callosum using an AI tool that detects it across MRI types. Studying 50k people, they identified genes shaping its size and links to neuropsychiatric disorders (by Anna Sara Liberati) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New work shows that temporarily silencing the amblyopic #retina can reopen visual pathways in adults. Restoration depends on T-type calcium channel–driven bursting, offering a potential therapy that avoids blocking the stronger eye (by Eveline Ruehlin). neurosciencenews.com/vision-resto...

I attended a talk on how dopamine prediction-error mechanisms mirror the way modern algorithms learn, anticipate, and shape our desires. We explored the links between reward, addiction, daily habits, and AI-from chocolate to notifications and emerging algorithmic “bubbles”. #BrAIns #Dopamine

Stunning work from the Lichtman Lab & Google Connectomics: a true 3D EM reconstruction of a single cortical neuron, with every yellow dot marking a synapse. AI tools trace thousands of spines, revealing the micro-architecture of cortical computation. One cell, an entire universe (Nicolas Hubacz)

Science communication is getting easier. Francois El-Dahe used NotebookLM to generate an infographic from their paper on microglia in zebrafish brain repair, no edits, just minutes of work. For those of us who aren’t designers, AI finally lets ideas take visual form. #SciComm #AItools

Mind and body form one system. As Gabor Maté shows, emotional stress shapes our physiology, from PTSD-linked illness to the systemic burdens that raise autoimmune risk. Trauma lives in the body,and understanding this is key to somatic, science-based healing. #trauma www.instagram.com/p/DO3e75kAZxD/

Joined “Brain Rot, Digital Infodemia Consumes Attention”: a look at how the brain struggles with fragmented info while AI systems exploit attention. A dive into how constant connectivity reshapes creativity, knowledge, and free thought. Attention, dopamine overload and memory effects. #BrainJuice

New research shows your brain doesn’t respond the same way throughout the day. Neural excitability and learning capacity follow daily rhythms shaped by adenosine, creating “windows” when the brain is most primed to adapt. neurosciencenews.com/synaptic-pla... #daily #neuroscience #adapt

#AI is shifting from chatbots to systems that act. Autonomous agents, edge models, multimodal AI, scientific FMs, generative robotics, and new hardware will remake every industry. The question is no longer what AI can say, but what it will build, fix, and discover next (Aaron Lax)

A rare neuron type that dies under chronic stress turns out to control brain blood flow and neural activity. Losing these cells sharply reduces circulation, suggesting stress may play a direct role in dementia-related brain changes. neurosciencenews.com/stress-demen... #dementia #stress #neuro

A 2016 study created #bio-hybrid intelligence by guiding turtles with human EEG via a brain-computer interface, linking thought to instinct without implants. Now applied to pigeons, rats, and robots, it explores co-adaptive human-machine systems and the future of bio-cognitive control (Aaron Lax)

A first-gen Ph.D. student shares how, growing up with parents denied higher education during China’s Cultural Revolution, she discovered research only at 20. Despite initial fears of being behind, she closed the gap, a journey to be proud of. scim.ag/4oVYFsZ #CelebrateFirstGen

MIT researchers developed miBrains, 3D human brain tissue models integrating all major brain cell types. Grown from donors’ stem cells, gene-editable, and scalable, they help study brain biology and diseases like Alzheimer’s in ways previous models couldn’t. #miBrains #Alzheimer’s #Cells

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer. cnn.it/47LZuNU #DNA #JamesWatson #Biology

Today we honor Marie Skłodowska Curie, born #OnThisDay 1867: the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person awarded Nobels in two different scientific fields. A true pioneer in science and a lasting inspiration (TheNobelPrize) #MarieCurie #NobelPrize #WomenInScience

Just attended the second talk in a series on whether a neuroscientist could truly understand a microprocessor 🧠💻 Diving deeper into brain–chip connectomics and how this comparison reveals the limits and biases of our scientific approach. Insightful and thought-provoking. #microprocessor #brain

🌐 What Can Be Built with the Right Network When great minds connect, ideas turn into impact. At #SingularitySystems, building where intellect meets innovation, where the impossible becomes inevitable. The future belongs to those who build it together (Aaron Lax) #Innovation #AI #Leadership

🧠 Your Brain Is Plastic, every thought and action rewires it Change isn’t impossible, it’s biological. 🌱Music, travel, laughter, sleep, and connection all shape new neural pathways,turning growth into a daily habit. Image Credit - tjpower (ig) #Neuroplasticity #BrainHealth #Mindset #MentalWellness

🌍 Data Science - The Silent Engine Behind the Modern World (PikuDataIQ) From your fitness app to Google Maps and Netflix, it’s not magic, it’s data science quietly shaping daily life. 📊 Blending math, ML & human logic, it turns data into decisions that power industries and cities⚙️ #DataScience #AI

🐝 Using a cognitive bias paradigm, researchers in Science reveal positive affective contagion, a key element of empathy, in bumble bees. Even insects can share emotional states, tracing the roots of social cognition deep in evolution. 🌿 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Neuroscience #Behavior

🧠 Cognition as the real competitive edge. A McKinsey article calls for shifting from technical to cognitive governance, embedding human mental models, bias awareness & ethics into #AI adoption (Eveline Ruehlin) www.mckinsey.com/capabilities... #GenAI #Bias #Cognitive #Ethics #FutureOfWork

Mind and body speak the same language: every emotion becomes chemistry and sensation. Chronic stress keeps the body in alarm, fatigue, tension, pain (Jyoti Gupta). The body isn’t failing; it’s communicating. Listening with breath, presence, and compassion restores healing🌿💫 #MindBodyConnection

Does passion drive satisfaction amid precarity? In Italy 82 % of #PhD students report being at least moderately satisfied, but only 68 % feel fulfilled by their work. Common concerns include low pay, mental-health issues, and uncertain career prospects. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For anyone who didn’t click through yesterday’s video link - here is where I am on the really BIG piece - just finished the 12th 10x10 square and hung it in place - digital mockup on the right. For anyone attending SfN in San Diego come by my booth AON2 to see in person 🥰 #NeuroArt #SciArt #FiberArt

🧠🍹 Took part in "Spremuta di Cervelli" on “Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?” 🤖 We discussed how current neuroscience tools, may reveal patterns without fully explaining how complex systems like the brain, or even a processor, truly work. #Neuroscience #AI #ScienceCommunication

Are we ready for closed-loop neuromodulation in psychiatry?🧠 Adaptive brain stimulation that learns from real-time signals could transform treatments for depression, OCD, and PTSD, personalizing therapy while reducing side effects. Smart, dynamic, and data-driven🚀 #Neuroscience #Psychiatry

No tricks, just brains in 3D 🧠🧟‍♂️ This cleared human brain slice (~10×7×0.3 cm) was imaged at 0.17 µm/pixel on the 3Di HOTLS lightsheet microscope. Sharp, transparent, undead-level perfection (Alpenglow Biosciences). #3Dtissueimaging #LightSheet #Halloween

🕷️ Apologies in advance… This fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, turns spiders into zombies, taking over their nervous system and forcing them into the open before they die and spread spores. Found in 2021 in County Down. (National Trust) #ZombieFungus #Mycology #Halloween

🧠 The Neuromorphic Eye Event-based vision redefines how machines see, sensing change, not frames. With microsecond precision and sub-mW power, DVS enables drones, robots, and AI systems to perceive motion, light, and intent like living retinas. #Neuromorphic #AI #Vision #Robotics #DVS