very cool. this nucleus has a role in nociception and pain

Violet Liu@vmliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ A deep brain region known as the A13 plays a central role across a diverse range of behavioural functions (in rodents). To our knowledge, no human homologue has been identified to date. In this #preprint, we map the human A13!🎯 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing job by @vmliu.bsky.social mapping the human A13, a dopaminergic cluster within the zona incerta. We would welcome comments and suggestions on this #preprint.

Violet Liu@vmliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ A deep brain region known as the A13 plays a central role across a diverse range of behavioural functions (in rodents). To our knowledge, no human homologue has been identified to date. In this #preprint, we map the human A13!🎯 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/ A deep brain region known as the A13 plays a central role across a diverse range of behavioural functions (in rodents). To our knowledge, no human homologue has been identified to date. In this #preprint, we map the human A13!🎯 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Earlier this week, we hosted Dr. Bob Gross from Rutgers as the 2025 Blume-Girvin lecturer speaking on LITT for #epilepsy. A privilege to have Dr. Parrent in attendance whose pioneering work w/ Blume helped motivate the development of LITT. Two great mentors. @westernu.ca @lhsccanada.bsky.social

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods

HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.

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So proud of @alaat.bsky.social for successfully defending his thesis. First PhD grad of the AIMS lab! 🎯 Incredibly fortunate to work with him & @neuroak.bsky.social on AFIDs project. Thanks also to examiners DrEmmaDuerden DrSarahMattonen @angelarobertsphd.bsky.social @emiddlebrooksmd.bsky.social 🙏

Standing room only for @emiddlebrooksmd.bsky.social talk on Clinical Applications of 7T -- a special summer grand rounds @WesternU CNS! Incredible work @mayoclinic.org integrating 7T. Thanks for the visit, and examining @alaat.bsky.social's thesis!

Tuesday July 22, Dr. Erik H. Middlebrooks from the @mayoclinic.org will be giving a seminar entitled "Clinical Applications of 7T MRI in Neuroimaging" at University Hospital.

@cfmm.bsky.social speakers from @westernu.ca at the 7T Translational Alliance of North America meeting in Dallas, hosted by UTSW.

Ravi Menon@northernthrux.bsky.social · last yr.

When in Texas…

Honoured to give the keynote at the 7T Translational Alliance of North America meeting in Dallas this morning recognizing @cfmm.bsky.social leadership in 7T human imaging. We continue to be the only 🇨🇦 site at this meeting. @westernuresearch.bsky.social @westernu.ca

Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415... What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)? led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️

Incredible story featuring #WIN Executive Committee member @jclauneuro.bsky.social - A Kitchener man is now seizure free following a rare epilepsy treatment at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

A Kitchener man is now seizure free following a rare epilepsy treatment at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC)

Neurosurgeon Dr. Jonathan Lau reviews medical scans with his patient Steven Kieffer, who underwent a rare epilepsy procedure called a laser ablation last year.

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mohamad Abbass, Jonathan C. Lau, et al: The impact of localization and registration accuracy on estimates of deep brain stimulation electrode position in stereotactic space doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Really proud of MohamadAbbass & team for pushing our preprint through to publication in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! Hopefully the first of many in this journal. doi.org/10.1162/imag... Appreciate all the supportive feedback about our AFIDs project during the review process.🧠🎯

The impact of localization and registration accuracy on estimates of deep brain stimulation electrode position in stereotactic space

Abstract. Effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) depend on millimetric accuracy and are commonly studied across populations by registering patient scans to a stereotactic space. Multiple factors cont...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elodie Germani, Camille Maumet, et al: On the validity of fMRI mega-analyses using data processed with different pipelines doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Amazing work through @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social from leading minds in neuroscience including @lisasaksida.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @maximoprado.bsky.social and Dr. Tom Durcan, also TRIDENT lead researchers! 🙌🌎🔬🐁

Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives@hbhlmcgill.bsky.social · last yr.

At #HBHLSymposium2025, experts from @mcgill.ca & @westernubrainscan.bsky.social shared their breakthroughs in non-invasive neurostimulation, iPSC models and circuit-based approaches for epilepsy, ALS & more, as part of the McGill-Western ITN. 🧠🔬 @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social

At #HBHLSymposium2025, experts from @mcgill.ca & @westernubrainscan.bsky.social shared their breakthroughs in non-invasive neurostimulation, iPSC models and circuit-based approaches for epilepsy, ALS & more, as part of the McGill-Western ITN. 🧠🔬 @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social

If you have an interest in non-human primate systems neuroscience and/or imaging esp. if it relates to development or learning, call me! These are major chair positions that come with at least $4M or $8M over 8 years, depending on career stage.

Jibran Khokhar@drjkhokhar.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...

New: Energy use shapes brain organization and development. We use gene expression maps from the @alleninstitute.bsky.social Human Brain Atlas to map the main energy metabolism pathways in the brain. Led by @moohebatpe.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social @goliashf.bsky.social and Justine Hansen 🧵

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

If you would like to postdoc in ultra high field MRI (3T+7T human, 9.4T+15.2T marmoset and mouse) in a well funded lab with tons of great neuroscience collaborations, drop me a DM soon.

Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

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I am excited to announce that I will be founding an institute for network stimulation at the University Hospital Cologne – already this coming May!

🎉 Lyle Muller, Laura Batterink, and @jclauneuro.bsky.social awarded CIHR funding to study neural traveling waves in sleep spindles as a biological mechanism for memory consolidation. Dreaming big for understanding human memory! 🧠💭 #SleepScience #MemoryConsolidation #CIHR

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

our NIH HEAL initiative funded biomarkers study now out @jama.com JAMA Neurology open access, open data and code w/ @drsmschabrun.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Predicting Individual Pain Sensitivity Using a Novel Cortical Biomarker Signature

This cohort study analyzes electroencephalography data from healthy participants to analyze and validate a cortical biomarker signature for pain, which comprised the measures sensorimotor peak alpha f...

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Out in @natureneuro.bsky.social today 🥂 Cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow of the human default mode network Combining 3D histology, 7T MRI, and connectomics to explore DMN structure-function associations Led by Casey Paquola, @themindwanders.bsky.social & a terrific team of colleagues 🙏

The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow - Nature Neuroscience

The default mode network (DMN) is implicated in cognition and behavior. Here, the authors show that the DMN is cytoarchitecturally heterogeneous, it contains regions receptive to input from the sensory cortex and a core relatively insulated from environmental input, and it uniquely balances its output across sensory hierarchies.

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🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨 @braincircuits.bsky.social GPi DBS for dystonia is effective. More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative. In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...