Can a brain injury make someone lose their imagination? We describe rare cases of acquired aphantasia, people who lost the ability to visually imagine after a stroke or other brain injury. Now published in Cortex 🧠 @braincircuits.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lesions Causing Aphantasia are Connected to the Fusiform Imagery Node

The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, occurs congenitally in up to 3% of the general population, but the brain regions responsible …

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I don't post often, but this is special. I'm running the Boston Marathon for my patients at Boston Children's Hospital. 🦄🏃‍♂️ Help me hit my $20k goal for research & family support this Giving Tuesday! ⬇️ secure.childrenshospital.org/goto/alexcohen #MedSky #BostonMarathon @bostonchildrens.bsky.social

MFM - Boston Marathon 2026: Support me fundraising for Boston Children's Hospital

I've joined the Miles for Miracles team because I am passionate about helping kids at Boston Children’s Hospital find lifesaving care, and give families hope. Will you help me reach my fundraising goal with a donation today?

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Thrilled our ADHD network mapping work is now out in Annals of the Child Neurology Society, and honored to be featured on the cover! 🔗 Full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @childneurosoc.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @simonwarfield.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social

Coordinate Network Mapping of Focal Brain Volume Differences in ADHD Reveals Common Patterns That Lack Specificity: A Systematic Review

Objective Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been associated with decreased regional brain volume, yet no consistent localization has emerged across studies. This discrepancy has be...

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🗣️Non-federal funding alert!!! Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) has a new RFA to join their IMPACT Network, a clinical-translational research effort to accelerate care for people across the spectrum by enabling rapid therapeutic development. Up to $15 million over 5 years. bit.ly/3YRYMv3

Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) aims to speed up the route from basic research to treatments for profound autism. Scientific director Matthew State shared more about the initiative’s goals and upcoming RFAs in a Q&A with @lauschenk.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exp...

Expediting clinical trials for profound autism: Q&A with Matthew State

Aligning Research to Impact Autism, a new initiative funded by the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, wants to bring basic science discoveries to the clinic faster.

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We are looking to hire a Senior Data Manager for a new initiative focused on neurodevelopmental conditions for which @bostonchildrens.bsky.social will serve as the admin hub. Please feel free to share! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/21859461...

Computational Health Informatics Data Manager II-Neuro

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

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The Cohen Lab of Translational Neuroimaging is looking to hire a bioinformatics and research data scientist to help accelerate our research and develop new analysis tools! @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social Please consider applying or sharing! jobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Amazing work by Julian Kutsche and the many other collaborators. @drdrxanderli.bsky.social @andreashorn.org @harvardmed.bsky.social

Reduced function or injury to the frontal pole may increase creativity by disengaging the self-monitoring & cognitive control actions of the frontal pole to allow novelty seeking & creativity to be unleashed. @braincircuits.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social @julianneumann.bsky.social

How can a brain disease increase creativity? We derive a brain circuit from creative tasks demonstrating they share reduced activity in the right frontal pole. Then we show that brain lesions & neurodegeneration that increase creativity are connected to this location jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent resource!!!

Only In Boston@onlyinbos.bsky.social · 2y ago

MIT's Career Advising and Professional Development Office has created a Career Handbook, a guide for developing the knowledge and skills you’ll need throughout your career. Download the handbook in the link below. capd.mit.edu/resources/ca...

I would have titled this: “Shining a light on the black hole: Look you can see activations in orbitofrontal cortex now!”

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ludwig Sichen Zhao, Jay A. Gottfried, et al: Leveraging multi-echo EPI to enhance BOLD sensitivity in task-based olfactory fMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Completely agree.

Micah G. Allen@micahgallen.com · 2y ago

It’s really heart breaking to realize just how much our short horizon, outcome focused funding cycles hurt science. We could do so much more if we could invest in people long term. Staff scientist positions and an ecosystem to support them are direly needed.

This is wild! What a cool idea and set of approaches. #neuroimaging #neuroskyence

Matthias Nau@matthiasnau.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

I think there is a way to do exploratory research very rigorously. Just use full transparency. Publish the entire github history for the analysis chain, nits, zits, and all. And of course, focus more on the strength of evidence than posthoc narrative building.

Mary Elizabeth Sutherland@meharpist.bsky.social · 2y ago

I really enjoyed reading this world view in Nature about the importance of exploratory research in the social sciences by @balazsaczel.bsky.social and am wondering what people think. Do you generally agree with his point? 🧪@natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The work incorporating optimisation to guide experiment design/analysis is also a way to do rigorous exploratory research. E.g., www.cell.com/trends/cogni... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Neuroadaptive Bayesian Optimization and Hypothesis Testing

Cognitive neuroscientists are often interested in broad research questions, yet use overly narrow experimental designs by considering only a small subset of possible experimental conditions. This limi...

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Micah G. Allen@micahgallen.com · 2y ago

I think there is a way to do exploratory research very rigorously. Just use full transparency. Publish the entire github history for the analysis chain, nits, zits, and all. And of course, focus more on the strength of evidence than posthoc narrative building.

Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning.

Great book!

Ashley Juavinett, PhD@ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bookshop has a bunch of Black Friday deals — is it time to convince more people in your life that they can become neuroscientists? ☺️ bookshop.org/p/books/so-y...

Recruiting diverse talent is insufficient; we need retention. And we can do better. Here’s hoping this highly practical paper is helping guide change in academia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/a...

@nilearn.bsky.social + JupyterLab + [insert cluster/cloud of your choice] is my happy place…

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org · 2y ago

Welcome @nilearn.bsky.social to Bluesky! Nilearn is an amazing package for neuroimaging analysis in Python - certainly one of the most heavily used packages in our lab.

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

Special thanks: @earlkmiller.bsky.social @jeromelecoq.bsky.social @apeyrache.bsky.social @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social @lmprida.bsky.social Lisa Giacomo, Luca Mazzocato, Stephanie Palmer, Andre Fenton, Satrajit Ghosh, Christophe Bernard, Zhe Chen, Anna Devor, Soledad Gonzalo

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Should neuroscientists keep all raw data or focus on processed datasets? Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social asks experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts on neurophysiology’s data dilemma: www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict... Check out some opinions in the thread below:

🚨📣Job ad 📣🚨 Interested in a post-doc creating machine learning tools for neurodevelopmental disorders? Come work with us at the IMAGINE lab! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/100005-... imaginelab.github.io

Combining some interests: here’s a NYC transit map of the brachial plexus that I made. #MedEd

My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/

1 of 4 linked commentaries on dynamic connectivity in Imaging Neuroscience, by Diego Vidaurre: Dynamic functional connectivity: Why the controversy? doi.org/10.1162/imag...

2 of 4 linked commentaries on dynamic connectivity in Imaging Neuroscience, by Dimitri Van De Ville and Raphaël Liégeois: Dynamic functional connectivity to tile the spatiotemporal mosaic of brain states doi.org/10.1162/imag...

3 of 4 linked commentaries on dynamic connectivity in Imaging Neuroscience, by Enzo Tagliazucchi: Rest assured: Dynamic functional connectivity and the baseline state of the human brain doi.org/10.1162/imag...

The last of 4 linked commentaries on dynamic connectivity in Imaging Neuroscience, by Timothy O. Laumann, Abraham Z. Snyder, and Caterina Gratton: Challenges in the measurement and interpretation of dynamic functional connectivity doi.org/10.1162/imag...