Dr. Tianye Zhai’s careful and exhaustive new paper evaluating the effects of numerous fMRI denoising pipeline components, alone and in combination, just came out in HBM - check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Benchmarking fMRI Denoising Pipelines

This paper benchmarked fMRI denoising pipelines on task- and resting-state, single- and multi-echo fMRI datasets, in a modern 1-step regression framework, with pre-whitening and time-shifted physiolo...

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Check out this tour de force paper by @tsbolt.bsky.social showing the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and the global signal in fMRI!

Taylor Bolt@tsbolt.bsky.social · last yr.

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

I'm happy to announce that rapidtide 3.0 has finally escaped from its development dungeon and has been released! rapidtide.readthedocs.io/en/stable/wh...

If anybody hasn't seen this - this is a really cool method for looking at dopamine physiology using fMRI!

Ian Ballard@iancballard.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b

I think the average person doesn’t have any idea about this, which is why they aren’t more freaked out.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · last yr.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

I'm happy to share our paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social on rsFC, cue-reactivity, and craving in nicotine smoking AND vaping! Thanks to coauthors, @amy.janeslab.org @blaisefrederick.bsky.social @ckorponay.bsky.social @mariascavnicky.bsky.social Here's what we found 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain reactivity to nicotine cues mediates the link between resting-state connectivity and cue-induced craving in individuals who smoke or vape nicotine - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain reactivity to nicotine cues mediates the link between resting-state connectivity and cue-induced craving in individuals who smoke or vape nicotine

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This needs more visibility! While the general public is belatedly getting some sense of the catastrophe caused by not reviewing or funding external grants, DOGE is also completely wiping out the NIH intramural programs, which is just as bad, but is flying under the radar because NIH is gagged.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2

Vermont understood the assignment. Take notes, America.

Kinda baffled too. Given the apparent zeal for whacking science, why hasn't Big Pharma been putting the squeeze on Senators to protect their turf (RFK, NIH, NSF, etc.)? Are execs in denial? Too focused on short-term results? Or do they not understand their own scientific pipelines?

Gaius (from Tribunate)@gaius.bsky.social · last yr.

Did big pharma just forget that it has lobbyists? If a similar figure existed on the left that threatened pharma profits at even half the amount RFK will cause, then there would be a full court press against them

Corporate America just had to sit at the end of the scientific pipeline, plucking off the most promising results via the magic of "technology transfer", + then develop more advanced products to sell All the risks of basic research were socialized, + the gains privatized Capitalist utopia!

The totality of this article seems to support the worst case reading of the memo. As far as I can tell, nearly all scientific research in the country is suspended.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y ago

The @washingtonpost.com now confirms my earlier reporting:

Does anybody know if any if the professional organizations in neuroscience/imaging like #ISMRM, #OHBM, #ACNP, or #SfN, etc. have any sort of organized effort to raise awareness of this? I’m not sure the general public has any idea this is going on.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

OpenNeuro.org is now on Bluesky! Follow us for project updates and exciting new datasets.

@ariellekeller.bsky.social - could you add me to the Human Neuroimaging starter pack? Thanks.

Our (Dr. Cole Korponay, Dr. Amy Janes, and myself) functional connectivity inflation paper made the cover of Nature Human Behaviour! /1