The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

Related memories are sometimes encoded in overlapping neurons. The authors show that the prefrontal cortex controls this type of memory organization in the hippocampus through direct projections to th...

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New paper out in J. Neuro! We used MEG and pattern classifiers to ask: if a memory is reactivated in the brain, does that mean you'll recall it? Short answer: no. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... Read on for the details! [1/7] #neuroscience #memory

Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness

By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experi...

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Europe’s foremost public intellectual died on March 14th, aged 96

Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world

Jürgen Habermas, Germany's most prominent intellectual, championed rational discourse and democracy while overcoming a cleft palate that affected his speech.

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Happy International Day of Women in Science! #WomenInScience #11February

The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠 For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains. #rstats #neuroimaging #openscience

🧠✨ New Publication in Neuropsychologia! ✨🧠 I’m excited to share that my paper, “Source reconstruction of clinical resting-state EEG reveals differences in power and functional connectivity in children with developmental dyslexia” has been recently published! 🔗 Read it at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Axolotls are famous for regenerating limbs. Turns out they can also regenerate their thymus—and that may show us how to someday to the same. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

a close up of a white axolotl with pink ears standing on a rock .

ALT: a close up of a white axolotl with pink ears standing on a rock .

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In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

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If you're looking for an evidence-based vaccine schedule for your child, please consider this one since the CDC is not a reliable source in 2025 anymore:

Alyson Smith@pedsaly.bsky.social · 11mo ago

American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.

Donald Trump was one of mRNA’s many supporters during the covid-19 pandemic. But now in his second term, disinformation and funding cuts to research will make the world a more dangerous place

RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world

His cuts will not just hurt vaccines

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News from ENIGMA-Epilepsy! 🧠 Our latest study links polygenic risk for TLE-HS to cortical thinning in kids—mirroring patterns in adult patients. Early imaging-genetics insights could reveal interplay of epilepsy risk and phenotypes before symptoms emerge. Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Quetzalcoatlite: - Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour - Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals - This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

Can we run a child version of the Midnight Scan Club? Not at midnight, of course, but turns out we can! We collected large amounts of resting-state fMRI data from individual kids, and show high reliability with increasing amounts of data and individual variability. Check it out!

You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD@iamdamion.bsky.social · last yr.

1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The balance between neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I) shapes cognition, development and brain-based disorders. Electroencephalography and magnetic resonance spectroscopy allow non-invasive quan...

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How deep are humanity’s roots in African rainforests? Eleanor Scerri details her team’s research published in Nature about the discovery of tools in Côte d’Ivoire dating back to 150,000 years ago, which places ecosystem diversity at the roots of our species. #Academicsky 🏺 🧪

Unlocking Our Ecological History

New discoveries from Côte D'Ivoire place ecosystem diversity at the roots of our species.

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I am so excited that this is now out. An absolutely **mammoth** amount of work, please give this thread a read ⬇️💪💪

Luisa Fassi@fassiluisa.bsky.social · last yr.

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors www.cell.com/cell-reports... #neuroscience

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors

Hockley et al. investigate how the brain processes auditory stimuli based on predictability. The results show that predictions in the medial prefrontal cortex govern sensory information flow and modul...

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A saliva test that analyses DNA to identify men born with the greatest risk of developing prostate cancer may help "turn the tide" on the disease. Targeting those men for biopsies & MRI scans discovered aggressive cancers that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. 🧪🧬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Saliva test may turn tide on prostate cancer claim scientists

Analysing DNA in saliva can identify men at the greatest risk of prostate cancer

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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

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Happy presenting our work at the CNS 2025 in Boston! With Prof. Aysenil Belger @aysenil.bsky.social FC between the subgenual ACC and the left anterior insula is significantly increased in teenagers with increased anxiety and when they observe threat stimuli in an fMRI task #neuroimaging #CNS2025

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elio Balestrieri, Joachim Gross, et al: Beyond oscillations—Toward a richer characterization of brain states doi.org/10.1162/imag...

At the Boston StandUpForScience rally today. We had at least 1500 people, probably more.

Extremely sad

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not being anti-fascist at this moment in history is anti-science. Probably always was. But cannot be clearer than these last few weeks.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Nature Methods DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning - Nature Methods

DeepPrep is a preprocessing pipeline for functional and structural MRI data from humans. Deep learning-based modules and an efficient workflow allow DeepPrep to handle large datasets.

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The ACNP has joined forces with other brain and behavior organizations in opposition of the NIH imposed standard indirect cost rate. acnp.org/about-us/st...

Neuron Slow cortical dynamics generate context processing and novelty detection www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Slow cortical dynamics generate context processing and novelty detection

The brain efficiently processes sensory information by selecting novelty and discarding redundancies. In this work, Shymkiv et al. demonstrate that through a high-dimensional ensemble representation, ...

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📢 Publication Alert! 🧠 I'm excited to share that my latest research on EEG in children with Self-Limited Epilepsy of Childhood with Centrotemporal Spikes (SeLECTS) is now published in Clinical Neurophysiology! 📖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EEG #SeLECTS #ChildNeurology #BrainResearch

Increase in EEG functional connectivity and power during wakefulness in self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes

Examine power and functional connectivity (FC) in children with Self-limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (SeLECTS) during resting-state.We ret…

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