Canada is taking important steps to legalize #psychedelic #drugs for broader treatment of mental health.
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Research director | @McGillU @Mila_Quebec @IVADO_Qc | My team designs machine learning frameworks to understand biological systems from new angles of attack
In this Neuron interview, I share my latest thoughts on #AI in #neuroscience. Let me know what you think.
In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N
A paper in Nature Medicine reports insights into how the human brain reacts to different types of psychedelic drugs. These psychedelics appear to change how key networks in the brain connect, including those involved in higher-level thinking, sight and movement. go.nature.com/4mhgse6 #medsky 🧪
How do psychedelics alter brain activity? 🍄✨ A landmark study published this week in @NatureMedicine by CPCR researchers @FredBarrettPhD, @winstonian3 and a global team of collaborators analyzes the largest human psychedelic fMRI dataset to-date.
How do psychedelics work? AI gives us a glimpse. @danilobzdok.bsky.social and his international team just published the world’s largest study on psychedelics in Nature Medicine, using AI algorithms to analyze 500 brain scans (10 times more than previous efforts).
Mila’s AI drives world’s largest study on psychedelics | Mila
Mila researcher, Danilo Bzdok, published a paper in Nature Medecine, found that psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT and ayahuasca all act in a similar way: they flatten functional hierarchies and allow is...
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Chronotypes of people - natural early risers versus born night owls - could be as big as personality types: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looks like people love to talk about #chronotype! 2000+ likes and close to 100 comments in <24 hours. www.reddit.com/r/science/co...
From the science community on Reddit: Night owl or early bird: Study finds sleep categories aren’t that simple. Scientists identify 5 biological sleep-wake profiles (2 early birds, 3 night owl groups)...
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Chronotypes of people - natural early risers versus born night owls - could be as big as personality types: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 job opening: software developer at Mila Quebec AI Institute & McGill As of now, my team is looking to hire a new technical staff member with abackground in a STEM area for running and curating existing AI analysis pipelines, as well as designing GUIs around them. Please DM or email me, with CV
1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Our Nature paper on the hashtag#scaling hashtag#behavior and economics of hashtag#machine hashtag#learning predictions in high-dimensional brain scans is out ! Congrats to the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am impressed by this book I am currently reading: Kissinger's posthumous work on: -strong anthropological views on the current AI evolution -modes in which #AI could take space as a physical and intellectual actor -how modes of decision making of humans and machines can coalesce and completment
Great opportunity to get generous postdoc funding to work at a Canadian university
Big congrats to our former postdoc Andrea @andrealuppi.bsky.social for earning the Brain Star Award for his work ! can-acn.org/brain-star-a...
Using multi-modal data from the UK Biobank, Zhou et al. delineate the phenotyping and brain basis of early risers and night owls at a population scale, showing links to habit formation and emotional regulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multimodal population study reveals the neurobiological underpinnings of chronotype - Nature Human Behaviour
Capitalizing on multimodel data from the UK Biobank, Bzdok and colleagues delineate the deep phenotyping and brain basis of early risers and night owls at a population scale, showing links to habit fo...
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Everything you always wanted to know about how #night #owls and #early #risers are different. Out today ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eh8ix @pessoabrain.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @sfn.org @nature.com @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social
Multimodal population study reveals the neurobiological underpinnings of chronotype - Nature Human Behaviour
Capitalizing on multimodel data from the UK Biobank, Bzdok and colleagues delineate the deep phenotyping and brain basis of early risers and night owls at a population scale, showing links to habit fo...
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Just finished my slides for World AI Summit Headliner talk this week.
FYI, if you want to be prepared to apply for the next ABCD Study data release, prepare for these new NIST security requirements 🧠: @ohbmofficial.bsky.social abcdstudy.org/scientists/d...
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#AUTISM “A data-driven revision of criteria ... grounded on clinical certainty, would complement what has historically been done by expert panels and ... humans, who can be wrong." @danilobzdok.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social #AI nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
Using LLMs to understand how autism gets diagnosed
In a study that used large language models to analyze healthcare records of Quebec francophone children, scientists argue that current criteria for diagnosing autism are in need of revision.
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Jack Stanley shows how to tailor #LLMs for single-sentence prediction in #autism: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Great collabo with Eugene Belilovsky + Siva Reddy from @mila-quebec.bsky.social, and Laurent Mottron + Emmett Rabot
Trained language model finds repetitive behaviors and special interests are more indicative of an autism diagnosis than a lack of social skills. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00213-2 @mila-quebec.bsky.social @Danilo Bzdo
Mila researchers Jack Stanley and Danilo Bzdok published a paper in the journal @cellpress.bsky.social. Their work uses LLMs to analyse data from written reports by medical professionals in order to better understand and improve how autism diagnosis is performed. mila.quebec/en/article/u...
Using LLMs to better understand autism diagnosis
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Cell Press@cellpress.bsky.social · last yr.Trained language model finds repetitive behaviors and special interests are more indicative of an autism diagnosis than a lack of social skills. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00213-2 @mila-quebec.bsky.social @Danilo Bzdo
Understanding #Parkinsons subtypes is key to more targeted RCTs & better therapeutics! 🧠 Our new study finds that LRRK2 PD patients show milder cortical atrophy, with preserved temporal & occipital regions compared to sporadic PD. #LRRK2 #dataviz www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jakub Kopal@jakubkopal.bsky.social · last yr.Understanding #Parkinsons subtypes is key to more targeted RCTs & better therapeutics! 🧠 Our new study finds that LRRK2 PD patients show milder cortical atrophy, with preserved temporal & occipital regions compared to sporadic PD. #LRRK2 #dataviz www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
@oprah-winfrey.bsky.social and @michaelpollan.bsky.social make unmistakably clear: there is widespread interest in #psychedelics >1M views in less than a week, bravo !
