Damien Fair
@drdamienfair.bsky.social
Redleaf Endowed Director, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB) Professor, University of Minnesota Co-Founder Turing Medical MacArthur Fellow Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Mental Health, Data Science
Lack of NIST compliance got you down, unsure of how best to analyze ABCD/HBCD? Check this out👇👇👇
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · last wk.Check it out all!! the NBDC Sandbox lets researchers securely analyze ABCD/HBCD brain data (tabular + file-based) in the cloud, no downloads needed. Free to use!! Story: aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...
Check it out all!! the NBDC Sandbox lets researchers securely analyze ABCD/HBCD brain data (tabular + file-based) in the cloud, no downloads needed. Free to use!! Story: aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...
The NBDC sandbox: How the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain built a secure cloud environment to accelerate brain development research with AWS | Amazon Web Services
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) and HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) studies, the largest longitudinal brain development studies in U.S. history, are producing transformati...
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I want to start by saying thank you, truly, to my friends, family, and so many good people who have reached out to check on me during this hard moment in Minnesota. I love you all. I am okay. See thread....
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Benjamin Kay@benjaminkay.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis 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...
Many thanks to @evgoldfarb.bsky.social for a great preview in Cell, be sure to check it out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Thanks also to @ndosenbach.bsky.social, @drdamienfair.bsky.social, @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social, and many other outstanding scientists, I enjoyed working with you on this paper!
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What did BD² achieve in 2025? New data. Deeper partnerships. Global collaboration 🧪 Dive into our 2025 Milestone Report today! 🔗 bit.ly/496yqL7 #BipolarDisorder #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Research
Amazing collab w/@bart-larsen.bsky.social & team! A. Shetty, R. Barzilay, M.E. Calkins, Y.-S. Chong, N. Dave, @drdamienfair.bsky.social, P. Gluckman, R.E. Gur, R.C. Gur, @apmackey.bsky.social, M.J. Meaney, L.A. Moore, T.M. Moore, @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social, A.P. Tan, @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social
Very shortly NBDC users for #ABCD and #HBCD data can have officials sign off on a DUC for safe sandbox only. They won’t have to attest to their own systems having the security requirements which will help!
Lucía Magis-Weinberg@luciamawe.bsky.social · 8mo agoCurious if anyone has gotten a DUC for the sandbox approved by your university’s signing officials? We could definitely use some guidance :)
Hello all of you #ABCD and #HBCD data users! Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox? Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment. Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment. Go check it out! nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox
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Lasso is designed to streamline secure access, querying, and responsible use of the ABCD and HBCD datasets.
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What an amazing feat! We did it! It’s absolutely amazing how much older the babies look, the better our methods get 🤣😂 Check it out! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Julia Moser@drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 9mo ago🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
A particular shoutout to Essa Yacoub, @drdamienfair.bsky.social, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Jed Elison, @benediktramirez.bsky.social, @smnelson.bsky.social and many more for their important contributions!!
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Matt Cieslak@cieslakmatt.bsky.social · 9mo agoAfter years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
Check it out all! Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) for depression (osf.io/preprints/psya…) … ….is now coming to Bipolar Disorder thanks to @BD2Discoveries !!! So happy to keep the work of moving forward in this capacity! Onward!!!
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BD²@bipolardiscoveries.org · 9mo agoWe are proud to award $18M to four new Discovery Research teams exploring neuromodulation and brain circuits in #Bipolar 🧠📈 🔗bit.ly/48M1TKP 🎙️ Hear from Daniel Pham, PhD, and the teams about their innovative projects 👇
super cool (& inspiring)! Finally read this and was wondering, for chronic stimulation (beyond initial 3-day electrode mappings), were all 4 electrode panels stimulated simultaneously? or were they isolated and that could vary with optimization? (didn't catch in paper, curious about PFC specificity)
Science of Learning symposium #flux2025 - sponsored by the Jacobs Foundation. First up: the LEVANTE research network which embraces open science principles to studying learning variability in children around the world. @fluxsociety.bsky.social
Welcome to Dublin! From winding cobblestone lanes to literary pubs and centuries of innovation, Dublin blends rich history with vibrant culture. We can’t wait for you to experience it all during Flux 2025 – excellent lineup of speakers, and our 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops, and more! #Flux2025
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Carina Heller, Ph.D.@carinaheller.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠 Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience. Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hello all, see below! Let’s support Russell support our kids and @umn-midb.bsky.social…take a read! 👇🏾👇🏾
Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain@umn-midb.bsky.social · 12mo agoInspired by a personal health journey, our teammate Russell is competing in the Madison Ironman on Sept. 7 to raise funds for the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain. Join him in supporting brain health ➡️ z.umn.edu/RussellIronmanMIDB
@drjuliamoser.bsky.social keeps killing it with these papers! Check this one out! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Julia Moser@drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 11mo agoIs precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠
FYI all. Anyone having issues with downloading our preprints I believe can still get to them when logged in. We also have some alternative links. Please reach out if you are having any issues.
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 12mo agoDue to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky
A truly spectacular demonstration of the medical potential of precision mapping an individual patient's brain. I am so excited to be part of this work!
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo agoI 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...
Qué bien
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo agoI 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...
From 20+ failed treatments to lasting remission. After decades with treatment-resistant depression and two near-fatal suicide attempts, “Mike” found relief through Precision Functional Mapping and adaptive cortical stimulation developed at the University of Minnesota
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo agoI 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...
Treatment resistant depression is incredibly cruel. This is beautiful
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo agoI 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...
Cool work here
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo agoI 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...
Oh do I understand. So full of happiness to see that Mike is doing better and has relief from the nightmare of treatment-resistant severe depression. Joy is bliss!
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo agoI 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...
