Earlier this week, we hosted Dr. Bob Gross from Rutgers as the 2025 Blume-Girvin lecturer speaking on LITT for #epilepsy. A privilege to have Dr. Parrent in attendance whose pioneering work w/ Blume helped motivate the development of LITT. Two great mentors. @westernu.ca @lhsccanada.bsky.social

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

So proud of @alaat.bsky.social for successfully defending his thesis. First PhD grad of the AIMS lab! 🎯 Incredibly fortunate to work with him & @neuroak.bsky.social on AFIDs project. Thanks also to examiners DrEmmaDuerden DrSarahMattonen @angelarobertsphd.bsky.social @emiddlebrooksmd.bsky.social 🙏

Standing room only for @emiddlebrooksmd.bsky.social talk on Clinical Applications of 7T -- a special summer grand rounds @WesternU CNS! Incredible work @mayoclinic.org integrating 7T. Thanks for the visit, and examining @alaat.bsky.social's thesis!

Tuesday July 22, Dr. Erik H. Middlebrooks from the @mayoclinic.org will be giving a seminar entitled "Clinical Applications of 7T MRI in Neuroimaging" at University Hospital.

@cfmm.bsky.social speakers from @westernu.ca at the 7T Translational Alliance of North America meeting in Dallas, hosted by UTSW.

Honoured to give the keynote at the 7T Translational Alliance of North America meeting in Dallas this morning recognizing @cfmm.bsky.social leadership in 7T human imaging. We continue to be the only 🇨🇦 site at this meeting. @westernuresearch.bsky.social @westernu.ca

Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415... What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)? led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️

Incredible story featuring #WIN Executive Committee member @jclauneuro.bsky.social - A Kitchener man is now seizure free following a rare epilepsy treatment at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mohamad Abbass, Jonathan C. Lau, et al: The impact of localization and registration accuracy on estimates of deep brain stimulation electrode position in stereotactic space doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Really proud of MohamadAbbass & team for pushing our preprint through to publication in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! Hopefully the first of many in this journal. doi.org/10.1162/imag... Appreciate all the supportive feedback about our AFIDs project during the review process.🧠🎯

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elodie Germani, Camille Maumet, et al: On the validity of fMRI mega-analyses using data processed with different pipelines doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Amazing work through @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social from leading minds in neuroscience including @lisasaksida.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @maximoprado.bsky.social and Dr. Tom Durcan, also TRIDENT lead researchers! 🙌🌎🔬🐁

At #HBHLSymposium2025, experts from @mcgill.ca & @westernubrainscan.bsky.social shared their breakthroughs in non-invasive neurostimulation, iPSC models and circuit-based approaches for epilepsy, ALS & more, as part of the McGill-Western ITN. 🧠🔬 @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social

If you have an interest in non-human primate systems neuroscience and/or imaging esp. if it relates to development or learning, call me! These are major chair positions that come with at least $4M or $8M over 8 years, depending on career stage.

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...

New: Energy use shapes brain organization and development. We use gene expression maps from the @alleninstitute.bsky.social Human Brain Atlas to map the main energy metabolism pathways in the brain. Led by @moohebatpe.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social @goliashf.bsky.social and Justine Hansen 🧵

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

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.

I am excited to announce that I will be founding an institute for network stimulation at the University Hospital Cologne – already this coming May!

🎉 Lyle Muller, Laura Batterink, and @jclauneuro.bsky.social awarded CIHR funding to study neural traveling waves in sleep spindles as a biological mechanism for memory consolidation. Dreaming big for understanding human memory! 🧠💭 #SleepScience #MemoryConsolidation #CIHR

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

our NIH HEAL initiative funded biomarkers study now out @jama.com JAMA Neurology open access, open data and code w/ @drsmschabrun.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Out in @natureneuro.bsky.social today 🥂 Cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow of the human default mode network Combining 3D histology, 7T MRI, and connectomics to explore DMN structure-function associations Led by Casey Paquola, @themindwanders.bsky.social & a terrific team of colleagues 🙏

🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨 @braincircuits.bsky.social GPi DBS for dystonia is effective. More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative. In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️

2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published. We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal. Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...

The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do different studies of brain atrophy in schizophrenia identify different brain regions? New paper by @braincircuits.bsky.social shows these regions are part of one common network. www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...

How critically or favorably do we cite ourselves? How favorably do we cite collaborators? Do high h-index scholars cite more critically than low h-index scholars? Are some disciplines (or countries) more critical than others? Why? Check out our new manuscript: arxiv.org/abs/2411.09675

Interested in joining the MELD Project or trying out the tools for FCD or HS detection? Come chat to us #aes2024 after the presidential symposium or at the posters! @konradwagstyl.bsky.social

Dr Mathilde Ripart showcasing early work using #AI for multipathology detection in focal epilepsies #AES2024

Thanks to the organizers for a great #AES2024 meeting! Awesome presenting some of our #epilepsy work and catching up with friends and colleagues in LA. Until next year! 🧠⚡🌅

Interested in a Canada Excellence Research Chair ($8M or $4M for 8 years) in the area of ultra-high field MRI development and applications in the neurosciences? Please reach out to me. We have [15.2T, 9.4T] preclinical and [7T, 3T] human MRI scanners. www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...

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Thrilled to meet up with great friends and colleagues at #AES2024 in LA this week + good excuse to engage more w/ BlueSky! Don’t miss our session on Advanced Neuroimaging for Personalized Epilepsy Surgery—designed for clinicians & researchers, including patient testimony @amepilepsysoc.bsky.social

Coming to #AES2024? Why spend the last conference day sleeping in when you could come to the Neuroimaging SIG? See you at 7am Dec 10 if you're curious about applications of brain gradients in TLE to understand cognitive and clinical phenotypes! 🌈 🌅

Just in time for #AES2024, let's grow this list of epilepsy imagers! go.bsky.app/HnaoTqF

🚨 14 DAY REMINDER! 🚨 Only 14 days left to submit your content for #OHBM2025 in Brisbane, Australia! 🗒️ The deadline is December 17, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST. Don’t miss this chance to share your research—follow the link in comments to submit! #Neuroscience #CallforContent

Day 2

Snowy day on campus.

Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!

Just looking at this beautiful work from Ann Graybiel's lab now out in Current Biology. I need this framed 🤩 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Following a week of big emotions, I declare a celebration of a part of your brain that's been on overdrive but you've barely heard of: the Insula! Each day, I'll pass along a fascinating something about the Insula. In 7 days it just might be your new favorite brain region (it's mine). Day 1 ...

Dear everyone, I am closing down my twitter handle today and will be here full time from now on. Also migrated @leaddbs.bsky.social @netstim.bsky.social, @stimbrains.bsky.social and @braincircuits.bsky.social Let's build a better world together!

Great view of #Montreal on our fun run this morning (which ended up more like a fun hike) in support of #epilepsy research, education, advocacy in 🇨🇦. #CLAE2024

Looking forward to the new developments in Harris Park! #ldnont

I started making this brain and mind researchers starter pack before I realised the 150 account limit. So this is the first 150 people I added to it :) go.bsky.app/PaCWjEy