Great work, led by Chuck Lynch @cjl2007.bsky.social , introducing a new fMRI quality metric that helps to evaluate whether your data is suitable for Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). More detailed information and link to preprint in Chuck's fantastic thread 👇

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🚨 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.

Preprint📄| TMS targeting in depression 🧠⚡️ We introduce the F5-AF7 method: a standardized, scalp-based TMS coil placement that more selectively targets the frontoparietal network (FPN) – a network strongly (even causally!) implicated in depression. ➡️ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Stuff your mind before you stuff the turkey! @mlueckel.bsky.social will present at our virtual speaker series Wed, Nov 26, 130pm EST on "From heuristics to precision neuromodulation – and back". If not on our list, DM me your email for the link.

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Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation 🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.). 🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀 Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation 🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.). 🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀 Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...

🎯 Meet 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐓𝐔𝐒: a fast, open-source tool to pick where to place a transducer for transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) on an individual head – before you run heavy simulations. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Code & instructions: plan-tus.org

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Causal necessity of human hippocampus for structure-based inference in learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.664920v1

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 “Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application” 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...  🧵 A short thread:

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works. *Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of. Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial. 1/2

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Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects By Cyr et al. *** Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES? A: Yes! 🧵:

What is the best way to advance a challenging-yet-inferentially-powerful combination of neurostimulation and neuroimaging? Come to Cancun to find out! Join us for the 3rd International Concurrent TMS-fMRI Workshop September 15-17 *literally* by the beach: www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

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Are you a TMS/fMRI researcher? Join us this September in Cancun! www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

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functional connectivity proximity not associated with clinical response in N>500 MDD patients: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Proximity to an SGC-DLPFC Individualized Functional Target and outcomes in large rTMS clinical trials for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Background Targeting methods for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with depression now include the use of individual functional scans to target specific functional connec...

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🚨 New paper alert from Weise et al.! "A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents" 🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields 🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy 💻 Now available in SimNIBS! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

If you're interested in the concurrent use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), check out our consensus guidelines, now officially out in @natprot.nature.com #TMS #fMRI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience - Nature Protocols

We present best practice guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI, experimental design, technical requirements and data interpretation, illustrated via 12 use cases.

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🎨🧑‍🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊 anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

fMRI network measures are affected by sampling error 🎲, physiological artifacts 💗, arousal 👀, and task state 🎞️. We argue that a major challenge in studies of 🧠 network dynamics is distinguishing between these sources of variability. A 🧵 …

Happy to announce that our paper is now published in Science Advances! science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The human social cognitive network contains multiple regions within the amygdala

Social association areas are connected to amygdala nuclei involved in social behavior, including basolateral and medial nuclei.

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Rodrigo Braga@rodbraga.bsky.social · 3y ago

NEW PREPRINT! Social cognitive regions of human association cortex are selectively connected to the amygdala www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We studied two parallel distributed networks within the canonical default network (DN) in individuals using 7T fMRI.

📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience 🧵below...

Using precision approaches to improve brain-behavior prediction

Predicting individual behavioral traits from brain idiosyncrasies has broad practical implications, yet predictions vary widely. This constraint may be driven by a combination of signal and noise in b...

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