Deanna Greene
@deannajgreene.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at UCSD ☀️🏖️ (she/her); developmental cognitive neuroscientist studying 🧠 network development, functional connectivity, individual differences, Tourette syndrome; acamama 👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻
Remarkable stability in functional brain networks over time!
Caterina Gratton@caterinagratton.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow can we acquire new knowledge and skills on a daily basis while remaining the same person? I'm excited to share our new preprint led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Ally Dworetsky tackling this question, just in time for #OHBM2026: doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Check out Eric's new paper! Eran Zaidel would have loved it. A causal role for the posterior corpus callosum in bimanual coordination | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A causal role for the posterior corpus callosum in bimanual coordination | PNAS
Interareal communication is crucial for coordinated brain function. Given the largely contralateral organization of the brain, bimanual coordinatio...
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I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So if you ever run into a nursing mom at a conference. Get her something nice: A coffee A water A glass of wine A cookie with lots of chocolate Tell her her hair looks nice and her outfit looks fire Thank you
Thrilled to announce our new paper in @natneuro.nature.com! We managed the impossible: precision functional mapping during #DBS, with 11.7h fMRI/patient. Selective DBS-induced deactivations in the SCAN, building on our recent @nature.com paper. nature.com/articles/s41... @ndosenbach.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint: Objective Quality Assessment for Precision fMRI Precision functional mapping (PFM) enables individual-level brain network studies — but demands more, and better, data. We introduce an objective framework to determine when a dataset truly supports interpretable, replicable PFM.
I’m very excited about this new work describing the specific cortical-striatal circuits that are altered in Parkinson’s Disease and that should be targeted for optimal PD treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
This is cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41... And featured here: interestingengineering.com/innovation/t... #neuroskyence #compneuro
Artificial transneurons emulate neuronal activity in different areas of brain cortex - Nature Communications
The noisy dynamics of biological neurons is vital for cognition, but artificial neurons failed to replicate it. Here, the authors show that neurons built with diffusive memristors can emulate the bala...
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Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇
Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI
The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...
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Very happy to have gotten to work with @deannajgreene.bsky.social and Steve Petersen on this article in Neuropsychopharmacology: "Considerations for conducting dev neuroimaging research on mental health topics". Hopefully trainees and clinicians will find it useful! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Considerations for conducting developmental neuroimaging research on mental health topics - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Considerations for conducting developmental neuroimaging research on mental health topics
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The APC at @imagingneurosci.bsky.social is now only $1400! Keep the great submissions coming 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 11mo agoLaunched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social
Eveline Crone gives thoughtful opening remarks at @fluxsociety.bsky.social - thanking all the organizers and also acknowledging our challenging times. Very excited for the next 3 days of developmental cognitive neuroscience in Dublin! #flux2025
α-Synuclein driven cell susceptibility in Parkinson's disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.670819v1
I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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...
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...
More on the Action Mode Network!
Evan Gordon@gordonneuro.bsky.social · last yr.We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
My lab is hiring a research coordinator/assistant! If you or someone you know is interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging (MRI, EEG), clinical populations (specifically children with Tourette syndrome), and brain networks, check it out: employment.ucsd.edu/staff-resear...
Staff Research Associate I - 135608
Apply for Staff Research Associate I - 135608 position at UC San Diego in La Jolla, California on https://employment.ucsd.edu/
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For Tourette syndrome awareness month, think about your understanding of Tourette and tic disorders. Most people don't know much about these disorders even though they are quite prevalent. Learn more at tourette.org/about-touret... and tics.wustl.edu
It turns out the brain🧠is silently🤫working when your arm is in a cast. 🩼 🚧 Plastic changes occur, and revert again when the cast is removed … not just in cortex.
@samkrimmelneuro.bsky.social shows the utility of Precision Functional Mapping deep into the brainstem! The red nucleus turns out to be much more potentially interesting for cognitive neuroscience than anyone thought, including connectivity to the Somato-Cognitive Action Network.
Sam Krimmel@samkrimmelneuro.bsky.social · last yr.It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy
I think this hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. Please look at this Executive Order, read what it says about grants, and think about what this means for scientific grants. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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It continues to get worse. We can’t breathe a sigh of relief because it isn’t MY grant. We all risk being on the chopping block. Not even to mention the severe detriment to science, society, etc. 😢 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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