A neuronal basis for mental imagery www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @smfleming.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social; #neuroscience

A short highlight of the beautiful recent work by @varunswadia.bsky.social, Doris Tsao et al., providing single-neuron evidence of the overlap between imagery and perception! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anxiety and depression appear more genetically distinct than previously thought, and much of their apparent genetic overlap may stem from including people who have both conditions in research studies.

I'd love to see this level of detail across monozygotic twins - has anyone done it?

I am not sure how I would feel when people at work or social settings start recording everything using wearable devices.. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Fluctuating internal states mediate neural–behavioral covariations in V1 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

🚨Abstract submission for the @theichr.bsky.social & @echrhallucinations.bsky.social satellite meeting is open! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Dr @kathaschmack.bsky.social , Dr @veithweilnhammer.bsky.social, Prof @mruscalafell.bsky.social & Prof Paul Fletcher! See you in Munich 🥨🧠!

NEW pub from Ralf Haefner published in Neuron: Statistics of natural scenes shape contextual modulation in the visual cortex. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social

Terrific resource in @nature.com for anyone interested in human brain development: White matter micro- and macrostructure brain charts for the human lifespan 🧪🧠📈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From ‘On Being Mad’ by Humphry Osmond in the Saskatchewan Psychiatric Services Journal, 1952. . . . #mad #madstudies #madness #madpride #onbeingmad #humphryosmond

Analysis of VA grant review by study section demographics pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Do longer scans really improve prediction and reduce costs in BWAS? Explore the commentary series: • Breakspear: doi.org/10.52294/001... • Bijsterbosch: doi.org/10.52294/001... • McIntosh: doi.org/10.52294/001... @drbreaky.bsky.social @janinebijsterbosch.bsky.social @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social

our article is now live in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We argue that action monitoring and ultimately our sense of agency involve an effector-independent representation of our movements => Motor equivalence in motor awareness www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Read, share, comment :)

A review of 18 studies found no consistently reproducible subtypes of schizophrenia, suggesting that differences in brain structure across patients may reflect a spectrum rather than discrete biological categories.

“Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Soon your seeds will start to grow.”

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...

“Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken...” David Hume, Scottish empiricist philosopher, whose work influenced cognitive science & economic theory, born #OTD 1711. Portrait by Allan Ramsay 1754, National Galleries of Scotland

#eNeuro | Age-Related Decline in Myelin Markers and Oligodendrocyte Density in Rhesus Macaque Prefrontal Cortex https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0418-25.2026

#JNeurosci: Training to become a birder requires perception, attention, & memory that reorganizes the structure & activity of the brain. As experts age, distinct brain areas show changes relative to novices that may benefit cognition https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1307-25.2025

A really interesting passage from The Dialectical Biologist by Levins and Lewiston:

Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic would have been 89 years old today. Her work in the 1970s showed us on a molecular level how working memory functions through loop firing and local suppression. Sadly, she passed away in 2003 at just 66 years old. tinyurl.com/5n7evkh6 #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠

Ian Waterman was 19 when he caught a virus that robbed him of his proprioception. Over years he willed himself to learn how to deliberately move his body by focusing all his visual attention on it. This 1998 BBC documentary tells Ian's story: www.dailymotion.com/video/x12647t #neuroskyence

Forget tenure or h-index. I have reached the true mark of academic prestige. This academic term I teach in a classroom where I can control the temperature.

The date of when cherry blossoms in Kyoto bloom has been tracked for 1200 years. Certainly one of the most beautiful data points confirming global warming. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/c...

The idea that every social problem needs a technical solution is so myopic. If you're worried about the smarts of the population, why not just fund public education? And if you're worried about Skynet, maybe try regulating the AI industries...

💬 Perspective: Cuts to social welfare, health agencies, and data surveillance are projected to increase mortality rates and escalate the US health disadvantage relative to other nations. ja.ma/3OaPQin

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

something to think about: "... they flatter the present simply by virtue of its not being the past: You consume them and think, Thank God we’re not like that anymore. " www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The History of Psychiatric Hospitalization at Home in the US A story of institutional amnesia Guest post by David Heath www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-histor...

Drumming with friends increases oxytocin levels in children, study finds

World Psychiatry ~ The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom-up review co-designed, co-produced and co-written by experts by experience and academics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A short episode of social interaction reduces reinstatement of cocaine seeking after abstinence This effect depends on a competition between functionally specialized dopaminergic ensembles within the VTA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kaibao Sun, Hesheng Liu, et al: Age-dependent diffusion-relaxation coupling in the basal ganglia: Implications for iron deposition and microstructural dynamics doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

In most vestibular structures, sensory input is suppressed during self-generated movement. Here, postdoc Robyn Mildren shows an exception in the cerebellar nodulus/uvula, which faithfully encodes head motion in space across behavioral contexts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?

We talk a lot about surviving #cancer. We talk far less about what that survival feels like. Dr Lauren Heathcote writes for the @wellcometrust.bsky.social's blog series on her work on the mechanisms of anxiety after cancer. www.linkedin.com/pulse/mental...

Aging reorganizes human large-scale brain networks, with consequences for cognition & dementia risk. We’ve now mapped brain network changes over a wide range of the mouse lifespan. The changes mirror key features of human aging, but not entirely New @pnas.org paper🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

At @IOCDF, I was approached by Mr. Milan, who shared with me his long journey searching for relief from #OCD, and I suggested he share his experiences, which may be of kind benefit to many others. We are both happy to share that his piece is now online: psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10....

What if intelligence comes from interaction rather than reasoning? In his early, provocative 1990 paper, Rodney Brooks argued that intelligence emerges from agents embedded in the world, tightly coupling perception and action instead of relying on abstract symbols. www2.cs.sfu.ca/~vaughan/tea...

I wrote a piece about my late friend and colleague Robert (Bob) Bilder, reflecting on the the impact that he had on my career. russpoldrack.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Out today in PNAS: Young children are surprised when a stranger has “insider knowledge” about them—and even make on-the-fly inferences about how that person could have learned it. So much fun working on this with Aaron Chuey and @julianje.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525150123

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Higher baseline BMI predicts hippocampal atrophy, and greater weight gain significantly exacerbates this atrophy, especially in bipolar disorder. This establishes weight gain as a modifiable risk factor for hippocampal neuroprotection.

How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence. w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk 🧠📈