Emily Dennis
@dremily-d.bsky.social
Neuroscientist & neuroimager focused on traumatic brain injury. Associate Prof at Univ of Utah, PI of the ENIGMA TBI working group, and director of ENIGMA-U
🚨New preprint! Does diffusion MRI detect neuroinflammation after mTBI? Yes — but it's complicated. Different dMRI metrics map onto distinct inflammatory pathways: some track vascular immune processes, others cellular remodeling, others resolution. medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.26358354v1
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New preprint: 3+ years, 5,000+ initial sources -> 219 studies, 277 refs later our systematic review of rsfMRI after TBI is live. Turns out many of the "inconsistent" findings in this literature aren't noise, signal emerges when organized by population and acuity. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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I love using Claude to make tools that make life easier, here's one I'm happy with - a CV tracking system: github.com/EmilyLars/en... My fave piece is email integration - forward emails from journals confirming submission/publication and it's automatically added! Sharing for anyone who needs this!
GitHub - EmilyLars/enigma-cv-tools: PubMed-powered CV automation for academic researchers
PubMed-powered CV automation for academic researchers - EmilyLars/enigma-cv-tools
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The MICCAI 2026 AIMS-TBI challenge is now live! aims-tbi26.grand-challenge.org
Automated Identification of Mod-Sev TBI Lesions 2026 - Grand Challenge
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🚨Hot off the press🚨 Transcranial Photobiomodulation Promotes Neurological Resilience in Current Collegiate American Football Players Exposed to Repetitive Head Acceleration Events journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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🧠Update from ENIGMA-U! To manage costs I have migrated the entire course to Google Classroom. All videos are still on YouTube, but new course sign ups should use this form: forms.gle/AyzNsPLfXNss... Benefit is there's no enrollment cap and account creation is automatic!
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Excited to present these trophies at the AIMS-TBI challenge next month at #MICCAI2025! @spyridonbakas.bsky.social @enigmabrains.bsky.social @womeninmiccai.bsky.social
🆘 Request for help with ENIGMA-U videos! The course is nearly complete but 2 topics aren't covered yet - stress & the brain and making effective figures & tables. If you can help with either please DM me. Lectures should be short (10-20 min) and accessible to entry-level Uni student. Thx!!
🚨Multilingual neuroscientists!🚨We're translating all ENIGMA-U captions to 7 languages and could use help validating them. I know this process will take a lot of time but if you can help out even on just a few files please let me know!
Fascinating figure about heterogeneity but notice anything missing? TBI. The heterogeneity of TBI blows the rest of these out of the water. Brain injury is underrepresented at #OHBM2025 as it has been in years past.
Looking forward to this session on normative modeling chaired by Dr. Laura Han @enigmabrains.bsky.social
Your politics or marital status should never determine whether you get care. But at VA hospitals, that’s now allowed — thanks to Trump’s rollback of anti-discrimination rules. A gross betrayal of the very veterans who served this country. zurl.co/ljZDI #veterans #VA #StandUpForScience
VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination
Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’
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Med. imaging experts - year 2 of the AIMS-TBI MICCAI challenge is live! Goal is better tools TBI lesion segmentation. We've got ~550 hand-traced (mostly 😅) training datasets. Deadline is 8.15.25, conf in Sept aims-tbi25.grand-challenge.org @enigmabrains.bsky.social @spyridonbakas.bsky.social
Automated Identification of Mod-Sev TBI Lesions 2025 - Grand Challenge
aims-tbi25.grand-challenge.org
Fascinating work from @lsalminen.bsky.social and @enigmabrains.bsky.social colleagues at #SOBP2025 showing shifting associations between pollution and brain structure
The AIMS-TBI challenge will return to MICCAI this year! Now open to participants here: aims-tbi25.grand-challenge.org @enigmabrains.bsky.social @ptenigma.bsky.social
Automated Identification of Mod-Sev TBI Lesions 2025 - Grand Challenge
aims-tbi25.grand-challenge.org
Excited to report our symptom harmonization paper is now published in J Neurotrauma! We used semantic textual similarity to calculate item similarity across 4 scales used for post-TBI symptoms. Code and conversion tool available online @enigmabrains.bsky.social www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
Linking Symptom Inventories Using Semantic Textual Similarity | Journal of Neurotrauma
An extensive library of symptom inventories has been developed over time to measure clinical symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but this variety has led to several long-standing issues. Most no...
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Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬 🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund: • Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs • Pandemic preparedness • Children’s health • Medical tech innovation • Mental health science & more NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
Tax Day next up: NSF! 🛰️ $40 a year. That’s what the average U.S. taxpayer pays annually to fund the National Science Foundation. 💡 Science isn’t luxury - it’s infrastructure. From disaster prediction to cybersecurity to the tech in your phone, NSF powers the systems that keep society running.
HAPPY TAX DAY! How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits. 🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS. Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay
Final 3 days! Giving “day” ends April 11th. Thank you to everyone who has donated!
Emily Dennis@dremily-d.bsky.social · last yr.It's Giving Day at U U Health and we have link to donate to ENIGMA-U! Our amazing donors have kept this alive for 2 years now ❤️, but $$ for student fees ($259/month total) is low again so if you are able to give, even a small amount, we would greatly appreciate it www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...
It's Giving Day at U U Health and we have link to donate to ENIGMA-U! Our amazing donors have kept this alive for 2 years now ❤️, but $$ for student fees ($259/month total) is low again so if you are able to give, even a small amount, we would greatly appreciate it www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...
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Support ENIGMA-U on U of U Giving Day 2025!
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Closing out #IBIA2025 with an excellent presentation from Dr. Divya Jain on the interactions between early childhood adversity, PTSD, and post-TBI symptoms
Higher odds of death by violence in individuals with greater blast exposure as measured by military occupation #IBIA2025 from MJ Pugh
40 videos for a total of 12.5 hrs of material are now live on YouTube! @enigmabrains.bsky.social @ptenigma.bsky.social
Emily Dennis@dremily-d.bsky.social · last yr.At long (long) last, the ENIGMA-U Neuroimaging module is launched!! My deepest gratitude to the lecturers - Luis Concha, Frank Hillary, Philipp Sämann, Hannah Lindsey, Ivan Kirov, Zhichao Xia, and Andrew Jahn for allowing us to repurpose his amazing content @enigmabrains.bsky.social
At long (long) last, the ENIGMA-U Neuroimaging module is launched!! My deepest gratitude to the lecturers - Luis Concha, Frank Hillary, Philipp Sämann, Hannah Lindsey, Ivan Kirov, Zhichao Xia, and Andrew Jahn for allowing us to repurpose his amazing content @enigmabrains.bsky.social
I guess that 400+ page grant isn’t actually going in on Friday (1/3)
