@Ohbm Talairach lecture. All about AI and how consortiums are fueling biomarker development. #OHBM2025 @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

Stimulus-specific and adaptive value representations in the basolateral amygdala in male mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As the quarter ends at UCLA 🇲🇽🇺🇸

New “version of record” in @elife.bsky.social! ‬ We recorded neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus of humans and found both sensory- and perception-selective neurons with two distinct latencies! 7-year project with @nfaivre.bsky.social + @foscobernasconi.bsky.social. A short thread 👇

It's been a while since our last laminar MEG paper, but we're back! This time we push beyond deep versus superficial distinctions and go whole hog. Check it out- lots more exciting stuff to come! 🧠📈

My laboratory at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is looking for a postdoc to study how neuromodulatory systems impact cortical processing during foraging behavior. This fully-funded position offers a collaborative environment in a great city. More info👇 can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

Read the full paper ‘Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal’ in @natureportfolio.nature.com @gatsbyucl.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lab photo @canacn.bsky.social Come see posters from these awesome people presenting their latest research! #CANACN2025 #PsychSciSky #neuroscience #PhD

We are having an amazing time learning about the brain circuitry at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting in Toronto. Not a lot of human brain neuroimaging or pain mechanisms, but hey, that can change! #CANACN2025 #neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social

Sheena Josselyn speaking about history of memory research in Toronto. A CAN ACN symposium. #canacn2025

"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more unified and integrated model in which gut-derived and vagus-mediated interoceptive signals are pivotal in intrinsically shaping motivation and reinforcement."

Looking forward to #VSS2025! On the first day, @dotproduct.bsky.social sky.social will be presenting a poster on how predictions embedded in alpha oscillations modulate perception of noisy stimuli. Come one, come all! Poster 16.322, Friday 3-5pm, Banyan Breezeway. #neuroskyence #visionscience

When you successfully anticipate future events, what happens to your ability to encode the present? 🤔 Successful prediction increases the likelihood of successful encoding. We speculate about how switching between distinct encoding & prediction states can produce this effect. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Impressive study in @nature from my colleague Marcus Stephenson-Jones at UCL in the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Indian paper by Arnab Barik lab on chronic pain mechanisms just published in the PAIN journal. journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

a little pick me up lol for the academics in the room

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

Amazing talks by Katie Birnie and Yves Deconninck @canadianpain.bsky.social annual meeting. #canadianpain2025

CANADA!!!

Published today in Nature Medicine. In one of the world’s largest RCTs of its kind (n=3,936), a smartphone app teaching 5 key cognitive-behavioral therapy skills improved subthreshold depression—and the effects lasted 6 months. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spontaneous pain dynamics characterized by stochasticity in neural recordings of awake humans with chronic pain. "during periods of higher pain states, we observed enhanced functional connectivity between the examined hub structures and the prefrontal cortex." journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...

Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

For people interested in the spinal cord, there is now an open postdoc position at UCL working on OP-MEG of the spinal cord, with Prof. Sven Bestmann. Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Distinct Top-down and Bottom-up Brain Connectivity During Visual Perception and Imagery www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

New study finds microglia-like cells in human DRGs that drive neuronal soma enlargement, axon growth, and somatosensation but are absent in mice 🪤🐁🐀 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.

The clinical research dilemma. You can take the active treatment effects out of a sham or placebo, but you can’t take the placebo and contextual effects out of the active treatment.

When the cappuccino, science and samosa are all good. @tridenthalifax.bsky.social

"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform: "Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Really looking forward to discussing these ideas at the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon tomorrow! 😊 You can register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reading a book on “social quantum change” and I just keep thinking that you absolutely don’t need a pseudo scientific interpretation of quantum physics to say that people are interconnected.

“Inside that tiny speck is an entire architecture like an exquisite forest..." 🧠❤️ #neuroskyence www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Research Day kicks off! Huge thanks to: Dr. MacCormick (Facilitation), Dr. Chisholm (Opening Remarks), Dr. Lehmann @chlehmann (Welcome Address), Dr. Bernard (Land Acknowledgement), & Dr. Hashmi @netphys1 (Keynote Intro)! #ANESRD25 @DalAnesthesia @DalhousiePain

We showed that lifespan growth of regional connectivity is organized along a spatiotemporal cortical axis, transitioning from primary sensorimotor regions to higher-order association regions. (4/5)

Excited to share my latest work just out in @pnas.org! This NIH MOSAIC K99-funded project identifies a top-down cortical circuit—from cingulate to auditory cortex—that supports auditory perceptual performance in challenging listening conditions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🌍CCS 2025 - Call for Abstracts! ⌛️1 day left! Deadline: 5 April. Don't miss the opportunity to be part of the CCS25! 🔗Submission portal: ccs25.cssociety.org/abstract-2/

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 34 MILLION! 👏 LETS DO THIS!

When we use TMS to treat depression, we think it alters neural activity in a deep brain structure known as the subgenual anterior cingulate (sgACC). But this is hard to test directly, until our preprint with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes (UIowa) 1/

A cerebrospinal fluid synaptic protein biomarker for prediction of cognitive resilience versus decline in Alzheimer’s disease @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolving neurobiology of early-life stress: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

This is an utterly amazing paper.

At #CNS2025? Come visit my poster (#E127) Mon afternoon (2:30-4:30pm) to learn how brain functional connectivity, but not neuroanatomy, captures the interrelationship between sex and gender in preadolescents @cnsmtg.bsky.social @ndosenbach.bsky.social Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With mechanisms like these, who needs behaviors? My commentary on the latest by Thomas Robiglio, friends, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social physics.aps.org/articles/v18...