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Emily G. Jacobs

@emilyjacobs.bsky.social

Director Ann S. Bowers WBHI | Prof @UCSantaBarbara | Using neuroscience tools to shine a floodlight on women’s brain health https://wbhi.ucsb.edu

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Hannah Grotzinger@grotzinger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🤰 🧠 Thrilled to share that our review on the systemic physiological adaptations to pregnancy and their potential impact on maternal brain health is out now in @annualreviews.bsky.social! ✨ Check it out here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Maternal Brain in Context: Systemic Physiological Changes Across Pregnancy

During pregnancy, the maternal body undergoes profound, coordinated physiological adaptations to support the developing fetus, including major shifts in immune regulation and dramatic changes in the vascular system. Accompanying these peripheral adaptations, recent longitudinal studies in humans point to significant remodeling of the nervous system, occurring in lockstep with increases in gonadal hormone production. To understand the neural adaptations tied to pregnancy and the postpartum period, a holistic approach is essential—one that accounts for changes across multiple peripheral systems. In this review, we consider the impact of the endocrine, cardiovascular, microbiome, and immune systems on the maternal brain. By adopting this integrative approach, we aim to better understand the biological pathways that shape the maternal brain during normative pregnancies and those marked by adverse events.

annualreviews.org

Amy Kuceyeski@amykooz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My perspective in The Transmitter on the role of AI and neuroimaging in advancing women’s brain health. “To put it bluntly, we need to recruit more AI researchers to be interested in women’s brain health, and we need to make women’s brain health researchers more fluent in AI.” tinyurl.com/4mvytsdu

Large-scale neuroimaging datasets often lack information specific to women’s health, constraining AI’s analysis potential

Addressing this gap will require collecting widespread data on pregnancy, menopause and other life events women experience—and could bring us closer to the “holy grail” of linking brain and behavior.

thetransmitter.org

Emily G. Jacobs@emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social AI Core co-director @amykooz.bsky.social on the application of AI to advance women’s health in neuroscience

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Addressing the gap in women’s health data will require collecting widespread data on pregnancy, menopause and other life events that women experience, writes @amykooz.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

@cjl2007.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 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.

Francisco Rivera Rosario@franciscorr25.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In Buzzy Papers we set out to compile some of the most exciting neuroscience papers published in the past two years! A panel of 10 neuroscientists selected the papers from a preliminary list our editorial team assembled by considering publications in top neuroscience journals

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The field is buzzing about work on brain-computer interfaces for speech, the mechanism of psychedelics, a broader definition of hippocampal representations and more. www.thetransmitter.org/community/th... #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

Stories of WiN@storiesofwin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We've added even more to our Applying to Faculty Jobs 101! Follow the link below to find tips from @drnancypadilla.bsky.social and @moeneuro.bsky.social on everything from where to find job ads, how to advocate for yourself, what goes into a research statement, and more!

Stories of WiN@storiesofwin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Applying for faculty jobs this cycle? Check out our latest special episode! @moeneuro.bsky.social and @drnancypadilla.bsky.social discuss when to apply, important considerations when preparing applications, and more! Listen below! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #AcademicBluesky #NeuroJobs

Emily G. Jacobs@emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

One to watch! 👇🏼🔥 Be sure to tune in Monday for the live event or check out the recording on youtube, along with all our WBHI lectures. Register for the full series at wbhi.ucsb.edu/about/events We’ve got an amazing 25-26 lineup.

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The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative@bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us this Monday, September 8, 2025 at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data” #BowersWBHI #Neuroendocrinology

This is a poster that shows a woman in a blue dress with shoulder-length brown hair speaking at a podium. Her name is Winnie Orchard, PhD and she's the Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative. The poster advertises a virtual seminar she's speaking for on Monday September 8th at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT: “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data.”
Emily G. Jacobs@emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

One to watch! 👇🏼🔥 Be sure to tune in Monday for the live event or check out the recording on youtube, along with all our WBHI lectures. Register for the full series at wbhi.ucsb.edu/about/events We’ve got an amazing 25-26 lineup.

Events

wbhi.ucsb.edu

The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative@bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us this Monday, September 8, 2025 at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data” #BowersWBHI #Neuroendocrinology

This is a poster that shows a woman in a blue dress with shoulder-length brown hair speaking at a podium. Her name is Winnie Orchard, PhD and she's the Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative. The poster advertises a virtual seminar she's speaking for on Monday September 8th at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT: “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data.”