Thank you Ravi!

Guess who's celebrating a 30th anniversary? With massive thanks to years of support from @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social @lhsccanada.bsky.social @braincanada.bsky.social @innovation.ca @brukercorporation.bsky.social Siemens Healthineers, Gov. of Ontario www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...

Heading to Montreal to give the Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar on Monday, May 4th. Honoured and touched, because Bill Feindel and I shared an office at @theneuro.bsky.social during my M.Sc. work at McGill. The work I will present comes from @renilmathew.bsky.social doctoral research.

How does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out today in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Excited to give the Feindel Lecture at The Neuro on Monday 26th Jan in Montreal. Streamed and recorded too. Come hear about our new SASS MRI technique just out in print in @natmethods.nature.com @westernuwin.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social

Our article on using non-steady-state scans for event related fMRI is now out in print (remember print?). www.nature.com/articles/s41... And as a bonus, the journal (Nature Methods), did a News & Views piece www.nature.com/articles/s41... Lead author @renilmathew.bsky.social

News and views article on SASS-fMRI from Nature methods. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great honour to receive Dr Tutis Villis Graduate Award in Neuroscience. 🙏

Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog... Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!

Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data interspaced with acquisition-free periods for stimulus presentation or response reporting. @renilmathew.bsky.social @northernthrux.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#WesternU researchers have unlocked the hidden potential in discarded MRI data, developing a new technique transforming how scientists study the brain. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Researchers at @westernu.ca have unlocked surprising power in the first seconds of a functional MRI scan. Short, deliberate pauses boost the signal that follows – producing sharper, more responsive images of brain activity. Published today in @natmethods.nature.com.

If the community wants, we have XA60 and VE12U versions we can make available as a C2P for Siemens scanners. And we have a Paravision 360 v3.6 available for Bruker. The processing code is equally simple and is posted with the paper.

This article in The Transmitter covering our paper may be one of the best scientific content headlines of all time. www.thetransmitter.org/fmri/timing-...

Super excited about my first first-author paper, now out in @natmethods.nature.com 🥳

Excited to share my first first-author paper in Nature Methods!🤩 A quest to solve fMRI–EEG interference revealed a hidden strength in the usually discarded “dummy” scans. That spark became SASS-fMRI — boosting sensitivity and enabling silent, flexible experiments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On this day in 1920, Dr. Frederick Banting woke at 2 a.m. in #LdnOnt and jotted down a 25-word idea — setting in motion the discovery of insulin. 105 years later, Banting's legacy continues. A heritage plaque at #WesternU now marks the historic moment. Learn more: www.uwo.ca/projects/her...

Thrilled to share that the central work of my PhD will be published soon.😬

A new open source nonsurgical head restraint for awake mouse fMRI from our lab led by Sam Laxer. TL;DR Scanning about 25% longer than with a surgically implanted head post, combined with some training gives good results. Happy mice = happy rsfmri networks. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

ICYMI: Recent technological advances in functional MRI provide a range of new information about brain physiology. Collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists will help maximize these gains, writes Laura Lewis. www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...

We're excited share our perspective on whether you only use 10 bits/s of your brain.

Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked the mesoscale, which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in fMRI technology are changing that, writes Laurentius Huber @layerfmri.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

New revised preprint on the SASS paradigm now with extensive human experiments, showing its broader applicability—check it out!

Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...

If you would like to postdoc in ultra high field MRI (3T+7T human, 9.4T+15.2T marmoset and mouse) in a well funded lab with tons of great neuroscience collaborations, drop me a DM soon.

Since I have a new set of followers here, I thought I'd repost a link to our preprint that describes a new event related fMRI method that allows 2x the SNR of normal fMRI and beautiful single unit and EEG recordings, dead silence to present auditory stimuli etc. 1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...