Unique Amygdala Signatures and Shared Prefrontal Deficits in Autism: Mapping Social Heterogeneity via Naturalistic functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.708280v1

Glad to share our new preprint: Unique Amygdala Signatures and Shared Prefrontal Deficits in Autism: Mapping Social Heterogeneity via Naturalistic functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Human Cerebral Cortex Organization Characterized by Functional PET-FDG “Metabolic Connectivity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join us this Friday for Molecular Connectivity Online Series (MCOS)! Drs. Klauser and Lucchetti will present: "Constructing the human brain metabolic connectome with MR spectroscopic imaging reveals cerebral biochemical organization". Register here: 👉 tinyurl.com/MCOS0018 #Neuroscience #MCOS

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone who celebrates!

Periodic reminder: It’s Spring Festival in mainland China. Many researchers are on holiday while simultaneously working on major NSFC grant applications. Responses to manuscript handling, reviews, or revisions may be delayed over the next two weeks.

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A major investigation reveals that restricted genetic & brain data from over 11,000 children in the federally funded ABCD Study was misused by "race science" researchers to push discredited theories on race & IQ. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Join us this Friday for the first MCOS of this year. Dr. Sarah Genon sarahgenon.bsky.social will talk about Connectivity-based parcellation to map brain organization. #mcwg #mcos #molecularconnectivity #neuroscience

Happy New Year! I am happy to share our latest preprint, using pretrained CNN and fMRI data in the eye ball to predict participants' gaze positions. We also showed that we can use the predicted gaze position to identify eye-movement related brain regions. #neuroscience #neuroimaging

Happy holidays!

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues rdcu.be/eTNp8

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sapna S. Mishra, Tapan K. Gandhi, et al: Multimodal MRI reveals consistent basal ganglia and limbic system alterations in COVID-19 survivors doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Nano Banana is bananas! 🍌 Just made this comic explaining some research using Gemini and the new Thinking with 3 Pro model. I only gave the abstract.

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Blink to the beat! Human movements are known to synchronize with rhythmic patterns in #music. This study reveals that spontaneous #EyeBlinks also align with musical beats, linking this to brain activity, #WhiteMatter structure & dynamic attention @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44gYBMi

We’ll be hosting a special symposium on validating brain connectivity next Friday. All are welcome to join! #MolecularConnectivity #MCWG #MCOS

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vicky He, David F. Abbott, et al: Common pitfalls during model specification in psychophysiological interaction analysis doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Glad to share our new study on how the timing of video features shapes BOLD responses! 🎬🧠 We also show that continuous features can be used to estimate hemodynamic response functions across brain regions. #fMRI #Neuroimaging #neuroskyence

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🧠 The Dark Side of Hyperconnectivity: A Metabolic Prelude to Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease Join us for #MCOS with Dr. Silvia Paola Caminiti (Univ. of Pavia) 📅 Oct 17, 2025 | 🕒 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EDT 🔗 Register: njit-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Do you review papers? Check out Earl's @earlkmiller.bsky.social recommendations. The one that i would emphasize the most: jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

Resting-State fMRI and the Risk of Overinterpretation: Noise, Mechanisms, and a Missing Rosetta Stone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676611v1

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Join us this Friday for Molecular Connectivity Online Series (MCOS). Dr. Jingyuan Chen will talk about "Simultaneous EEG-PET-MRI identifies temporally coupled, spatially structured hemodynamic and metabolic dynamics across wakefulness and NREM sleep." Please register 👇 #molecularconnectivity #mcwg

AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Haven't been able to visit biorxiv website for a while now... Cloudflare not working?

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Pratik Jain, Anil K. Sao, and Bharat Biswal: Single scan, subject-specific component extraction in dynamic functional connectivity using dictionary learning doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Computer crashed on the second day of the semester… great start. How’s your semester going?

Apparently some PI sent NIH 40+ grant applications 🤯 so now there’s a cap: max 6 submissions per PI per year. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Me: sends group email My inbox 0.3 seconds later: [Out of Office, Out of Office, Out of Office…] 📬💥

Interesting fNIRS"NARPS"study. Interesting to see how research experience is correlated to confidence and results agreement.

On the analysis of functional PET (fPET)-FDG: baseline mischaracterization can introduce artifactual metabolic (de)activations direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

I’ll be at poster #1167 today and tomorrow—feel free to stop by and say hi! #OHBM2025

Attending OHBM 2025? Don’t miss these two symposia—join us today! #ohbm2025 #mcwg #molecularconnectivity

Interesting paper on #molecularconnectivity using SPECT data

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Pratik Jain, Bharat Biswal, et al: WhiFuN: A toolbox to map the white matter functional networks of the human brain doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Glucose metabolism in bones also form a network: Innate [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose PET bone networks of lung cancer patients predict survival link.springer.com/article/10.1... #molecularconnectivity

For those working with HCP data, how do you account for the acquisition phase as a factor? In our analysis, we found significant differences in ReHo values between the LR and RL phase acquisitions.

New paper from collaborators: Glucose metabolism in hyper-connected regions predicts neurodegeneration and speed of conversion in Alzheimer’s disease link.springer.com/article/10.1... #brainconnectivity #molecularconnectivity #MCWG

In case you missed it. Here is the recording of the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rji3...

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happening tomorrow. Join us with @sbe.bsky.social to discuss Caveats in neuroimaging analyses and modeling.

🚀 Excited about machine learning and large-scale neuroimaging? Join next Friday's Molecular Connectivity Online Series (MCOS) Dr. Simon Eickhoff will speak on Great Expectations but Bumpy Road: Caveats in Neuroimaging Analyses & Modeling. Registration: tinyurl.com/mcos0013 #MCWG #MCOS #Neuroimaging

Interested in studying functional signals in white matter? Try our new Toolbox: WhiFuN: A Toolbox to Map the White Matter Functional Networks of the Human Brain direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Interesting dataset

They can be life-saving, but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate overuse of CT scans is increasing the U.S. cancer burden.

If you are interested in studying neural transmission and brain connectivity using PET, come and join us tomorrow. 👇 #molecularconnectivity #mcwg