This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Very happy to share our paper on the "summer slide" in kid's cognitive test scores is out now in @pnas.org! We find a replicable dip in performance across multiple domains of cognition in >23,000 kids across 4 datasets! Check out the 🧵 from @ariellekeller.bsky.social below! 👇

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

Loved getting to think deeply about the intersection of meditation research and cognitive neuroscience studies of attention with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social t.bsky.social, @sebastianehmann.bsky.social and team! 🎉🎉 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging #CogSci

So grateful for our amazing ACORN Lab team!! Can’t believe it’s already been a whole year! 😊🐿️🧠 #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cogdev #devsci #neuroimaging

Biopsychosocial and Demographic Predictors of Functional Brain Network Specialization and Segregation Across the Adult Lifespan | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in! tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition *can this be a thing??

Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

Very excited to share a new paper led by my amazing former honors student, @pach-selina.bsky.social, with Silvia Bunge. Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging. 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging

This piece includes a critical perspective we all need to be paying more attention to!

One of the papers I've been most excited about since starting the lab! We adopt a network neuroscience approach to understand how arousal reconfigures large-scale functional network organization to support memory of complex narratives!

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣 The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning? Thread 🧵 ⬇️

Your brain is unique! 🧠 If you're curious to see more individual-level fMRI at #CNS2026, please consider voting for our symposium "Not Your Average Brain" by end of day today! 🍁 #neuroskyence #cogpsyc #cogsci #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Thrilled to team up with @caterinagratton.bsky.social @ariellekeller.bsky.social and Chuck Lynch for a symposium at CNS 2026! Please consider voting for our session!

Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member? Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026: Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/ By: 11:59pm Oct. 1

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

New paper from @annierhcheng.bsky.social using data from IMAGEN and ABCD she identifies distinct signatures of impulsivity and negative affect in youth that uniquely overlap with a neuromarker of risky alcohol use #development #equifinality #abcd #connectome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Amazing first day at #Flux2025 featuring an all-star team discussing the last 10 years (and future 10 years!) of ABCD & an inspiring conversation about bridging the lab and real life 🧠🤩 @lucinauddin.bsky.social @dbarch.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @fluxsociety.bsky.social

If you're headed to #Flux2025 in Dublin, swing by Poster S63 on Saturday to chat with rockstar @heatherarobinson.bsky.social about this work! 🧠 🇮🇪 👩‍🔬 (and of course, catch me all conference long kvelling to any/everyone about how totally amazing my students are 🥰) #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky

✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level #neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

#ThisWeekInNPP This 🔃Review 🔃 discusses how 'exposomics' may advance our understanding of developmental 🧠 health & cognitive outcomes by investigating unique sets of physical/chemical exposures, psychosocial experiences, & sociocultural contexts / @ariellekeller.bsky.social

Don’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models. #Neuroskyence direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Happy to share a (rare) solo preprint: Time-varying co-activity and connectivity of the somato-cognitive-action-network in densely sampled brains 1️⃣ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What is the influence of long-term meditation on attention? How might attentional changes relate to the emergence of advanced meditative states and traits? 🧵

Beautiful work by all-star @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social!! 🧠🎉

🚨New preprint! WHEN should we plan toward a goal? Most research focuses on how and where to plan, but the timing of planning initiation has been overlooked. We show humans leverage a cognitive map - called model-based meta-control - to learn when to deploy a plan. 🧵(1/15) osf.io/preprints/ps...

OK, It is not just the HBCD release... docs.hbcdstudy.org It’s the ABCD Release time too! docs.abcdstudy.org nbdc-datahub.org That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!! The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection. This is going to be fun!! 👇 Let’s dig in.

Way to go @niaberrian.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉🎉

Total superstar lineup all doing incredible work!! The #OHBM2025 FOMO is so real. Go check out these awesome talks and posters if you're in Brisbane! 🧠

Awesome new work by an all-star team! 🧠🎉

so important! 👇

My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers" All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back. (share link): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐ new paper Maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition (EI) in adolescence now in Science Advances 💥 A true tour de force of multimodal MRI, connectomics & GPU-powered 🤖!! biophysical modelling by hiball superheroes 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ @amnsbr.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @sbe.bsky.social

RELEASE THE KRAKEN(CODER)! Ever struggle deciding which connectome pipeline to use or want to map between structure and function? Our multi-modal connectome mapping and fusion tool-the Krakencoder-can help! Brilliant Keith Jamison led this work, code available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Stimulant drugs work great, but how? We found no evidence that they affect the brain’s attention system, instead …👇🏼

See you soon at #APS25DC! 🧠

In this new pub we ask whether a small rewards (cents) might get people to learn the phonetic details of talker more quickly (e.g. a s--sh shift). Answer: probably not. The fact that we got to title the paper "Cents and Shenshibility" was just a bonus. Explainer below!