Andreas Horn
@andreas-horn.de
Schilling Professor for Computational Neurology at the @netstim.org / University Cologne. Author of @lead-dbs.org & @stimulatingbrains.org
“We have powerful tools: openness, optimism and the spirit of curiosity” - Captain Jean-Luc Picard go.nature.com/4sH9aU3
Patrick Stewart dies: how Captain Picard inspired today’s science leaders
Researchers say his portrayal of the Star Trek character represented curiosity, thoughtfulness and an effort to understand others.
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Our convo was not recorded. But this is a terrific podcast that tells Jon’s story. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Ep154 "Can a Depressed Brain Find Its Way Out?" with Jon Nelson - Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman | iHeart
<p>What if your brain got stuck in sadness and never reset? What does it feel like when joy disappears completely? Can a person love their family deeply and still want to die? What do you do when trea...
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And here’s another terrific one (a bit more science leaning) with @andreas-horn.de. stimulatingbrains.org/37-jon-nelso...
#37: Jon Nelson – DBS for Depression saved my life: Defying Stigma in Mental Health – Stimulating Brains
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Yesterday we held an event with Jon Nelson to learn about his lived experience with depression. It was terrific. Every trainee working on (or adjacent to) a disorder like depression or Alzheimer’s should know the story of at least 1 individual with that condition.
The recent Moderna announcement that their mRNA vaccine almost halves the risk of skin cancer returning is the latest example of why RNA vaccines are such a breakthrough! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Moderna mRNA vaccine almost halves the risk of skin cancer returning
Long-awaited results from phase III trial show huge benefits for treatment-resistant melanoma.
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On October 13, 1994, The Mosaic Communications Corporation launched, under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first one in a series of browsers, called Netscape Navigator.
A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.
Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social · last mo.Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
New publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Scafa et al., they show that real-time decoding of subthalamic nucleus dynamics can steer activity-dependent adaptive deep brain stimulation to improve locomotor deficits (ga... Check out the paper here 👇👇 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04432-4
In two 1926 articles, Edgar Douglas Adrian revealed that neurons communicate through trains of spikes. @carandinilab.net describes the remarkable discovery and how it shifted focus from the medium (the nerve) to the message (the neural code). #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...
The neural code at 100
In two 1926 articles, Edgar Douglas Adrian revealed that neurons communicate through trains of spikes.
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Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last mo.It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
New publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Hanafi et al., the authors tested gait-adaptation kinematics, EEG, and FDG‑PET in Parkinson's patients during virtual obstacle avoidance with active versus paused STN‑DBS and... Check out the paper here 👇👇 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2026.103207
Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)
‘OpenAI has disclosed six more examples of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour by its technology, as it warned the pace of development could not continue at “maximum speed for much longer”.’ So like .. stop?
More data to enable more discoveries in the fight against Parkinson's disease. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @crchum.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social
15 September 1912 | A Czech Jewish woman, Gertruda Steindlerová, was born in Liberec. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 16 October 1944 with her daughter Eva (b. 1936). They were both murdered in a gas chamber.
Aldus was literally the face and the name of PageMaker, the desktop publishing programme that saved the Macintosh - and Apple - and helped change the world as we know it.
Dr Anna Clark@drannaclark.bsky.social · 2mo agoAldus Pius Manutius, Venetian humanist, scholar (1449-1515); founder of Aldine press 1494, produced first printed editions of Greek & Latin classics, with distinctive typeface & imprint of dolphin & anchor; popularised small 8vo portable books. John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
🧠 New in Aperture Neuro: NeuroFLAME Vaults connects public neuroimaging datasets with private data stored locally, enabling decentralized analyses across sites without sharing sensitive raw data. doi.org/10.52294/001...
We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack
If only the people that are able to act upon this would listen to him..
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo agoAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for AI companies to slow the pace of development as concerns mount over risks associated with the technology. In an essay, Amodei said he was worried about the ability to control self-improving AI models.
Their in fact attempting to stop the „brain drain“ to the US. Good for the rest of the world (or, especially, other brain drain attractors) - but hard to understand what would be in it for the US..
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 2mo agoThis will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
New publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Kist et al., patients with OCD treated with subthalamic deep brain stimulation performed visual detection and confidence judgments with EEG, showing intact detection but poor... Check out the paper here 👇👇 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-026-04423-6
From architecture to political power, hallucinogens and other psychoactive substances influenced everything in ancient Andean civilization. https://scim.ag/4inBfNg
Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization
Hallucinogens and other psychoactive substances influenced everything from architecture to political power
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New publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Singh et al., a three‑center retrospective study of 22 patients with drug‑resistant insular epilepsy treated with responsive neurostimulation or chronic subthreshold stimulation repor... Check out the paper here 👇👇 https://doi.org/10.1002/epi.70479
Depends a lot how AI is used. Clearly written in the report. We need to educate young people how to use these new tools. Prohibiting them is not a practical option.
Pause AI in BC Schools@aicaution.ca · 2mo agoThe data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
New publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Huang et al., the authors mapped pain-related networks using rapid stereo-EEG to enable personalized multinodal stimulation for refractory facial pain. Check out the paper here 👇👇 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2026.103176
The 2026 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award honors Michael J. Fox (Michael J. Fox Foundation for #Parkinsons Research) for empowering patients’ voices & accelerating research to find improved therapies & a cure for PD laskerfoundation.org/winners/park...
New publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Meyer et al., the authors tested in 19 Parkinson’s patients whether subthalamic deep brain stimulation modulates automatic response inhibition and showed that stimulation spe... Check out the paper here 👇👇 https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcag325
