This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Very interesting findings! Gliomas selectively locate within in the Action-mode Network, using glioma network mapping derived from lesion network mapping @foxmdphd.bsky.social

as well as research articles on how stimulant medications affect arousal and reward rather than attention networks www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Check out these extremely interesting new findings from @benjaminkay.bsky.social. This has very much changed how I think about ADHD medication and stimulants in general.

What if we've misunderstood how ADHD stimulants work? WashU Medicine brain imaging and child neurology teams joined forces to uncover where in the brain these drugs act — knowledge that could improve how attention disorders are treated. medicine.washu.edu/news/stimula...

Common ADHD medications function differently than scientists previously thought

It's about what your brain considers drudgery ... tedium ... boring; not your attention. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Stimulant drugs (Ritalin) wake you up & boost reward anticipation, they don't make you pay attention better. Since they help with ADHD, it begs the question ... is that a misnomer?

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...

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 🧵👇

Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain go.nature.com/4839zaL

Obituary: Chen-Ning Yang (1922-2025) Nobel prizewinner who helped to improve scientific relations between China and the United States go.nature.com/4772cyB

How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.

Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals @carinaheller.bsky.social, @uni-jena.de, @umn-midb.bsky.social, @icsantabarbara.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of "my" recent @nature.com papers showed how delegating tasks to AI/LLMs can increase dishonest behavior... and I'm delighted to say that it was picked up by @sciam.bsky.social. Read more in their story here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

New paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering by @timonmerk.bsky.social ! We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I feel very proud to be part of @nature.com, and to have colleagues who handled this excellent #DeepSeek paper that describes DeepSeek-R1, because it's the first widely used commercial LLM that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What is the update for skin biopsies to differentiate Parkinson's vs. MSA? Spoiler alert: under confocal microscope, skin biopsies look different in PD vs MSA. Donadio and colleagues describe in a new paper in Brain the uses of intraneural phosphorylated α-synuclein. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

I feel like this should go without saying, but repeated hits to the head can only be bad: A recent @nature.com paper describes the neuron los and inflammation caused by repeated head trauma in young athletes 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). 8 yrs ago some told us it wasn't interesting. Now it's helping cure depression as part of PACE (Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation), ... commercialized by @turingmedical.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps... www.cell.com/neuron/comme...

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A man who had severe depression for more than 30 years has "experienced joy" after undergoing bespoke brain stimulation.

Two, please

When powering fMRI studies, sample size is king, but scan duration can also be a powerful tool, improving phenotypic prediction and cost-efficiency, a new analysis shows By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/fmri/longer-...

Great write up of our @nature.com study by @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

🚨 New paper alert! Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders: “Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia” 👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds.... We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below. #dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro

A new study in Movement Disorders highlights the role of the somato-cognitive action network or SCAN in focal dystonia. Today marks the start of the DBS Tank and I will be asking Nico Dosenbach: When you keynoted the DBS Think Tank a few short years ago, did you imagine the impact of SCAN imaging?

People explore unfamiliar options more when deciding how to avoid losses than when seeking gains, shows a recent paper published in @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to know the behind the scenes of the "Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen" paper? discover @ndosenbach.bsky.social and I interview by @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Chronic pain is one of the most under-recognized burdens for folks with Parkinson’s disease. It is time we bring chronic pain in PD out of the shadows and address it as a central part of a care plan. Ogonowski and colleagues tackle this topic head on in a new article in Annals CTN.

Pesticides are drifting above us, and for diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, drifting 'chemical filled clouds' will be bad news for everyone. A new study revealed that pesticides are not just in the soil and water, they are traveling long distances and accumulating in cloud water.

Just dropped in @natcomms.nature.com: we show that re-engaging a thalamic–ventral tegmental circuit with deep brain stimulation can reignite consciousness in patients with severe brain injury. Work led by Aaron Warren, with @andreashorn.org @foxmdphd.bsky.social @ others! tinyurl.com/4kz8j89b

Still not using DeepPrep? It’s been downloaded 15k+ times (7k on DockerHub alone) in just 5 months after launch — helping labs speed through fMRI preprocessing 10x faster than conventional pipelines. see doc: deepprep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Just incredible results from a massive effort— moves the field forward. Bravo!!!

I'm so proud to see this great paper finally published in @nature.com!

Nature research paper: Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies go.nature.com/3IME4aA

This new Yeo Lab tool should immediately and permanently replace sample-size-only power calculations for functional MRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“This is a gamechanger for the field.” A study co-authored by professor of neurology @ndosenbach.bsky.social with The National University of Singapore shows how to optimize brain scans for designing smarter and more cost-effective studies of neurological and psychiatric conditions.

🚨Thrilled to share our latest work just published in @nature.com where we looked into the optimal fMRI scan time for brain-wide association studies (BWAS) 🧠⏱️! Full thread below👇:

Super thankful to @bttyeo.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social and @shaoshiz.bsky.social for pouring in all the effort to make this work possible!

Congratulations to Leon and Thomas for a massively important exploration of the tradeoffs between sample size and scan time. This is really critical for anyone designing an fMRI study. I hope NIH study sections can start incorporating these ideas!

Our Nature paper on the hashtag#scaling hashtag#behavior and economics of hashtag#machine hashtag#learning predictions in high-dimensional brain scans is out ! Congrats to the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud to be part of this exciting @natureportfolio.nature.com study! It's time to embrace longer fMRI scan durations!

In this new study, Liu et al. examine the role of sustained neural activity in the planning and production of speech sequences.

It’s not just tremors in Parkinson's, we need to broaden our rehabilitation lens beyond balance and gait. We need strategies for sleep and autonomic symptoms like constipation, urinary and sexual dysfunction. We’ve long focused on movement, but what about the devastating non-motor symptoms in PD?

Excited to share our News&Views on Kamitani Lab's NatComputSci paper! Their neural code converter enables transformation of brain activity patterns across individuals, and it doesn't need shared stimuli or connectivity information! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I'm celebrating my Friday by reading this recent review published in @nature.com by @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Bharat Biswal on the history and future of rsfMRI. It's a great read for anybody interested! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I was going through my open tabs and realized I forgot to highlight this great News & Views in @nature.com by John List and Andrew Simon discussing @standehaene.bsky.social et al's paper showing that a gender gap in math arises soon after children begin school 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...