Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | doi.org/10.1038/s420... How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️

🚨New paper alert! Our study led by @teanijarv.bsky.social investigated why some individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develop hemispheric asymmetry in tau pathology and what drives this phenomenon. Out now in Nature Communications! 🔗Full article: doi.org/10.1038/s414... A thread🧵👇

‼️NEW PREPRINT‼️ What if you could take a normal 3T T1w MRI and make it look like it was acquired from a 7T scanner? That's exactly what we do using AI in our new preprint! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13782 #neuroskyence #neurosky #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology #mrisky #neuroimaging

🎉 Heron is finally out @elife.bsky.social! Led by George Dimitriadis, with Ella Svahn & @macaskillaf.bsky.social 🧪 🧠 🐭 🤖 If you wonder why yet another tool for experimental pipelines, read the 🧵 below: #neuroscience #neuroskyence #OpenSource 1/ elifesciences.org/articles/91915

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience, Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes direct.mit.edu/imag/article... Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps

Can AI reveal risk & co-pathology of multiple neurodegenerative diseases from a single blood sample? We explored AI-based diagnostic power on high rank plasma proteomics (N=17,170). www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #neurosky #Alzheimer #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology

New manuscript alert! Are plasma biomarkers🩸 predictive of Alzheimer’s disease progression in Down Syndrome (DS)? Our new study in collaboration with the ABC-DS consortium has now been published in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis? Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present NPL members @lordgrilo.bsky.social : 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread🧵

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

A Biological-Systems-Based Analyses Using Proteomic and Metabolic Network Inference Reveals Mechanistic Insights into Hepatic Lipid Accumulation: An IMI-DIRECT Study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.02.25328773v1

Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! www.monash.edu/research/eme...

Do you like brain network hubs?🧠🌐✳️Do you like genes?🧬What about neurodevelopment?👶What if I told you the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself combined all of these?🤯🤯🤯 See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does the brain reorganize in the context of age and AD? Are functional changes in age and AD similar? Are these changes dynamic across the age/AD spectrum? We unpack these questions in a sample of N=973 with AD biomarkers Preprint: tinyurl.com/ymv8s7h8 ⬇️🧵 1/

Longitudinal functional connectivity during rest and task is differentially related to Alzheimer's pathology and episodic memory in older adults https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.16.654628v1

🧵Training binary or spiking neural networks is hard. Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle. We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962 Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad @neuro-ai.bsky.social 1/6

Please join us for our upcoming webinar: "Navigating Academia and Parenthood" Hosted by our incoming Chair @drerynnchristensen.bsky.social Register today: forms.gle/BmiznE6bzL3Y... Speakers: @kevinaquino.bsky.social @saadjbabdi.bsky.social Dr. Michele Veldsman Dr. Isabella Breukelaar

⚠️ We are hiring a research assistant in Neuroimaging & Computational Neuroscience 🧠 Come work with me in the vibrant city of Toronto! 🌇 Exciting projects related to Alzheimer’s disease, vascular brain injury, & neuromodulation 👩🏻‍🔬🔬 @sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social Apply: tinyurl.com/Jobsatsri

🧵 (1/7) Excited to share our new work on EEG-based small-world scale-free brain graphs with @aitchbi.bsky.social, @andreasantoro.bsky.social, Vahid Abootalebi, & Hamid Saeedi-Sourck. 📄 Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠 #brainGSP 👇

🧠 networks from EEG —excellent work by David! ✨ Please check out his thread/preprint for details👇 #EEG #neuroskyence

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we've extended the deadline to apply for our Systems and Comp Neuro postdoc position by a week (new deadline: May 25)! 🥳 If you have experience in modelling brain dynamics &/or analysing (s, d, f)MRI, we want you! Please help spread the word 👇

‼️New preprint! We are happy to share our latest work led by @teanijarv.bsky.social investigating why tau pathology in AD often accumulates more in one hemisphere of the brain than the other. Check out 🔗https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.648728v1 or dive into the details below👇

I am so very proud announce my lab's first preprint!! @xiaoyucaly.bsky.social delves into the mechanisms driving tau distribution: * Tau sequence driven by connectivity dynamics * Tau load driven by local factors Check out her thread below

🧠New preprint! What drives tau, the pathological protein in AD, to spread? We found that WHERE tau appears and HOW MUCH accumulates are governed by different mechanisms. Check it out:
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 #MedSky #neuroskyence #neurosky #alzsky #compneuro #MRI #neuroimaging #neurology

Small-world scale-free brain graphs from EEG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649421v1

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Martin Ondrus, Emily Olds, and Ivor Cribben: Factorized binary search: Change point detection in the network structure of multivariate high-dimensional time series doi.org/10.1162/imag...

In Alzheimer's disease, spatial patterns of tau pathology manifest notable heterogeneity, one form of which is hemispheric asymmetry. But what drives this asymmetry? @teanijarv.bsky.social investigates 🔎

An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)! Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city! Please share 🙂 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Study human brain structure and function with our new open access 7T MRI dataset led by superstar scientist @donnagift.bsky.social ↙️

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠

Functional networks learned from short resting-state data are more robust than correlation-based networks & better reveal alternations in connectivity e.g. in tinnitus patients. #neuroscience

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?" A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social

on template meshes but not very much on native meshes. neat work!

Lovely collaboration with Renaud La Joie - our review is finally out! Summarizing the role of tau and TDP-43 in medial temporal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease and exploring different hypotheses regarding their potential timing and synergism. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

a shifting perception of consciousness sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyde...

Another great webinar is in the pipeline: Join us from the @istaart.bsky.social Neuroimaging PIA and our speakers Anne Maass & Graziella Donatelli for insights into "Ultra-High Field MRI in Neurodegenerative Diseases" 📅Date: April 14 - 10:00 am CT 💻Register here: alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thrilled to be back home at BBRC & Fundació Pasqual Maragall as the Lead of the Neuroimaging Group! 🎉 Even better, we have a PhD position open to work with PET & MRI imaging in early stages of #Alzheimer’s. If you know someone passionate about neuroimaging, please share👇 t.co/WPPavUgpjl

So much research focusses on using brain connectivity to predict an individual's cognition, IQ, disease status, etc. BUT what about the inverse problem? Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome? YES - with AI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

P.S. For those interested, the slides are available online: 🖥️ sina-mansour.github.io/ISMRM_Diffus...

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

Big shout out to Filip & Bratislav + co-authors for this very useful & important work! An example (@biofinder.bsky.social data) showing subjects' FC "strength" can to some degree explain pathological tau protein patterns better than group-FC but not their mere "degree". An excellent null model.

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For data defined on top of a graph/network (e.g. annotations on brain graphs), it is efficient to decompose them with filters that adapt to the spectral characteristics of the data at hand | w. @dimitrivdv.bsky.social @rikossenkoppele.bsky.social + C-F Westin

truely deserving his resilience to AD: ”working as a mechanic in a diesel engine in a naval ship for many hours a day, requiring him to be hosed down with water to prevent overheating”

🚀 Explore Spectral Normative Modeling in action! We’ve built an interactive visualization showcasing high-resolution normative reference ranges generated via SNM. 🔗 Try it here: sina-mansour.github.io/normative_br...

Check out the schedule of events linked with OHBM 2025 - Brain connectivity workshop, June 20-22 - Hackathon, June 21-23 - Neurodesk, June 21 - Brain gradients, June 23 - Precision network therapeutics, June 29 Register now! We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

The Google Scholar PDF Reader extension has always shown an outline, makes references clickable/linked to GScholar (screenshot 1). Now it provides an AI summary of each section (screenshot 2). https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-scholar-pdf-reader/dahenjhkoodjbpjheillcadbppiidmhp?hl=en

Out in @natureneuro.bsky.social today 🥂 Cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow of the human default mode network Combining 3D histology, 7T MRI, and connectomics to explore DMN structure-function associations Led by Casey Paquola, @themindwanders.bsky.social & a terrific team of colleagues 🙏