Cerebral vasculature shapes the spatial patterning of brain metastases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.739598v1
Alain Dagher
@alaindagher.bsky.social
Neurology and brain imaging. ORCID: 0000-0002-0945-5779
We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
The erasure of anglo culture form Quebec continues. Sadly, it is turning Montreal into a culturally uninteresting village. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
No English debate during Quebec’s fall election campaign
Second straight campaign where the Coalition Avenir Québec and Parti Québécois have declined to participate in a debate in English.
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Our first Impact Factor is 3.0 — an important milestone for a new journal. As with most new journals, the first IF is affected by the smaller publication volume in the launch year. Latest citation data are encouraging, and the journal’s IF is set to rise in 2027.
Last day presenting our work on energy metabolism and cross species lifespan trajectories at #OHBM2026 Come by if you'd like to chat. Poster #1113 Or check out our paper and the recent preprint here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... doi.org/10.64898/202...
#Aging drives changes in the #brain and #metabolism, but how independent are these effects? This study by @asafarahani.bsky.social, @misicbata.bsky.social &co identifies two axes of brain-body associations, each primarily related to age or metabolic health. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4eoIu3L
Imagine thinking you're allowed to forbid people from speaking a language. montrealgazette.com/news/oqlf-ta...
Quebec's language watchdog targets popular brunch spot over Yiddish word 'nosh'
Montreal brunch favourite Arthurs Nosh Bar is facing scrutiny from Quebec's language watchdog over the Yiddish word "Nosh" on its signage.
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Quebec nationalists all oppose the proposed high speed rail between Montreal and Toronto. Of course, they hate anything that means openness and connection to the world. They are reactionaries who want us to be a village, physically and culturally. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
PQ would block high-speed rail link from Quebec City to Toronto, wants federal money instead
“I have the impression the PQ doesn’t understand how this works,” Premier Christine Fréchette responded.
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So embarassing ... www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
TGV Québec-Toronto | Le PQ rejette le train du « renforcement de l’unité canadienne »
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon est catégorique : si le Parti québécois (PQ) forme le prochain gouvernement, il retirera le Québec du projet de train à grande vitesse (TGV) entre Québec et Toronto, dont « l’...
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Parkinson’s disease may not be just one disease protein. New paper in Movement Disorders shows how Parkinson’s disease frequently includes overlapping pathologies such as tau, beta amyloid, TDP-43, vascular disease and inflammation, in addition to alpha-synuclein.
Using a stochastic dynamical model, Grodem et al show that, before age 60, inter-individual differences in neuroanatomical volumes almost exclusively reflect stable differences between individuals, rather than systematic differences in rate-of-change: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1242
I encourage everyone to show up and make your voice heard at upcoming town halls and via any other channels: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/45096.html • Bilingual session: Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET • English session: Wednesday, June 24 at 1:30 p.m. ET • French session: Thursday, June 25 at 1:30 p.m. ET
Webinars - CIHR
CIHR holds several webinars that allow us to share information, exchange ideas and discuss issues of importance with our stakeholders.
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Andrew Pruszynski@andpru.bsky.social · 3mo agoCIHR has launched a trial ballon that suggests shifting to one competition a year. This is the worst idea I have heard in a long time. The only benefit is making top-line success rates look better than they are. Keep it as is, do in-person reviews, and keep the pain in the open.
A wonderful shop - and as a bonus they also have a beautiful cat! montrealgazette.com/business/sma...
Matriarch of Mile End uproots Dragon Flowers from Bernard St. — but she hasn't gone far
Tamey Lau, owner of the flower shop with its hallmark bird cages, is "an anchor, a person everyone loves here."
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At the MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp exhibit, what all the works on display share “is a disregard for capital and for the way it shapes or encroaches on artistic practice, corrupting the freedom of the mind,” Hilton Als writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yzOn0t
The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp
How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself.
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Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.21.719913v1
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Casey Paquola, Boris C. Bernhardt, et al: Intracortical microstructure profiling: A cross-modal method for indexing cortical lamination doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Training at MSKCC I heard from Jerry Posner, Josep Dalmau, Bob Darnell etc... about autoimmune paraneoplastic syndromes. They observed that the cancers tended to be kept in check. This led to the hope that we could treat cancer with immunotherapy. This promise is now starting to be realized.
Isaac Bogoch@isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 4mo agomRNA vaccines continue to show major promise. In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival. This is why sustained investment in science & research matters. tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk
After two years I finally got an appointment with a Family Physician. An AI would have done a better job. At the risk of generalizing, Quebec Health care may well be the worst in the developed world.
How do #circadian clocks regulate glucose processing? By integrating human metabolite profiling with isotope-tracing in #Drosophila, this study defines daily rhythms in #glucose utilization that are influenced by circadian timing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Olm1M1
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comparative anatomy of brain metabolism in human and macaque (and other species). The dichotomy between glucose as fuel and glucose for tissue building is conserved across species. @moohebatpe.bsky.social and @misicbata.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Wow! CIHR expects me to input every publication resulting from my foundation grant... by hand!
Correlating brain maps across datasets is everywhere in neuroimaging. Here we ask: when you contextualize a brain map against genes, metabolism, or connectivity... What can you really conclude? How can we do better? We explore these questions here: tinyurl.com/2dudkevc
Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Despite rapid exploitation of the opportunities that contextualization of brain maps affords, potential limitations have received little attention. In this Roadmap, Royer et al. provide practical guid...
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Kraepelin was right all along. We may need to think of schizophrenia along a neurodevelopmental - neurodegenerative axis. "This study accords with previous work suggesting that dementia is a common outcome of schizophrenia and may arise from the illness itself."
JAMA Psychiatry@jamapsychiatry.com · 4mo agoAmong individuals with severe, treatment-resistant #Schizophrenia, dementia was common and showed a distinct clinical and genetic profile not explained by Alzheimer disease, cardiovascular risk, or medication effects. ja.ma/4bWZlcz
