👁️🧠🧪 Vision takes time. But how does visual information flow through the human brain? Our new PLOS Computational Biology paper uses population receptive field (pRF) modelling to bring the spatial precision of fMRI to MEG, revealing the temporal dynamics of visual areas. 📖 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex

Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information ove...

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🧠 New work showing prominent and widespread 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 pre-synaptic terminal reductions in people with schizophrenia.🧠 nature.com/articles/s41... Strongest effects in left hemisphere, but synaptic loss didn't track with MRI grey matter alterations, but did align with..👇1/4

Widespread synaptic density loss in schizophrenia follows molecular and network architecture - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Widespread synaptic density loss in schizophrenia follows molecular and network architecture

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🚨 New paper 🚨 Did you ever wonder if the spatial similarity of receptor PET maps matters for their use in molecular-informed fMRI analyses? Here we systematically investigate this. 🧵

Doing a lit search and finding many recent papers still using the jet colormap 😭😭😭 Please don't use this colormap for anything because it's not perceptually uniform (changes of equal size don't look equal) and not friendly to people with variant colour vision. Some alternatives below... <thread>

a man singing into a microphone with the words " maybe it 's time to let the old ways die " above him

Alt: a man singing into a microphone with the words " maybe it 's time to let the old ways die " above him

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Really interesting paper here. Adding to increasing literature showing that interpretation of the sign of the BOLD response during task is tricky and varies across the brain - including possible reversal of neurovascular coupling in DMN regions.

Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A study in Nature Neuroscience finds psychedelics disrupt the relationship between neuronal activity and blood flow in humans and mice. This suggests fMRI results under psychedelics may reflect vascular effects as much as neural ones and should be interpreted with caution. go.nature.com/47hqVPH 🧪

Really looking forward to this. See you all there!!

Christian Keitel@ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are thrilled to announce talks from Caroline Witton (Aston U), Svenja Knappe (U of Boulder, Colorado), Tim Tierney (UCL), Mark Woolrich (Oxford), @magnetokrishio.bsky.social (Cardiff) and Olaf Hauk (Cambridge). /3

If you're doing #neuroscience out there, you don't have to be peer pressured to switch from #matlab to python. You do you. ❤️ scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...

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 ⤵️

Niceeeee www.nature.com/articles/s42... Leveraging multivariate information for community detection in functional brain networks | Communications Biology

Leveraging multivariate information for community detection in functional brain networks - Communications Biology

Modeling brain modular structure by accounting for higher-order interactions reveals a novel organization of the transmodal cortex and highlights brain areas with high and low topological specializati...

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Deadline approaching, only 6 days left! Follow the link below to submit your abstract: meguk.ac.uk/abstract-sub...

Drumroll please... 🥁 Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!! All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/ We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!

Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂

Matthias Gruber@mjgruber.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Super excited to see this published by the fabulous Natalie Rhodes. Awesome collaboration with @sickkidsto.bsky.social and @magnetokrishio.bsky.social allowed us to measure and model gamma oscillations in 100 people using OPM-MEG direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Measuring the neurodevelopmental trajectory of excitatory-inhibitory balance via visual gamma oscillations

Abstract. Disruption of the balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission (E-I balance) is thought to underlie many neurodevelopmental disorders; however, its study is typically restrict...

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[...] age-related differences in aperiodic EEG/MEG signals can be driven by cardiac rather than brain activity [...] important implications for all future research [into] aperiodic neural activity [...] control for the influence of cardiac signals is essential. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Our latest cross-species 🐭👨 work is out today ▶️ science.org/doi/10.1126/... We show that 1️⃣ Brain connectivity in carriers of genetic alterations conferring high risk for #autism & #schizophrenia U-turns (hyper▶️ hypo) during adolescence 2️⃣ This switch is driven by synaptic remodeling Thread 🧵👇 1/n

Synaptic-dependent developmental dysconnectivity in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Synaptic dysfunction underlies brain connectivity alterations in 22q11DS, a syndrome linked to neuropsychiatric disorders.

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Excited to share the first preprint of my postdoc! We explored a novel features space to describe M-EEG timeseries. These features are highly informative in differentiating brain states, even more than canonical features like power in predefined frequency bands! :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New results from study of cortical thickness in 1211 psychosis cases and 734 controls demonstrates that "visual cortex is among the most profoundly affected brain regions", with effect sizes larger than prefrontal regions. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Count me in…

Maciek Szul@maciekszul.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another appeal to OPM-, SQUID- MEG researchers. I try to find all people interested in brain magnetism on bluesky. Please respond if you identify as such or tag people who are. It's not a starter pack so there's no limit. Please repost and engage♥️ #psychscisky 🧪 🧠🟦 🤖🧠 🧠📟 🧠📈 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Well done, Tiana! douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/hsi-wei.... Thanks to @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social & @magnetokrishio.bsky.social 's awesome groups - we are getting full-time into the oscillatory dynamics of psychosis.

Postdoctoral student Hsi Wei receives Mitacs Elevate scholarship - The Douglas Research Centre

Postdoctoral student Hsi Wei has been awarded a Mitacs Elevate grant to support her research project entitled: « Speech markers reveal brain oscillatory patterns reflecting thought disorder inPsychosi...

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I've been working with the Wilson-Cowan neural mass model for a while now and, over time, I've accumulated a bunch of tools to explore/visualize it. I recently decided to collect it all into a github repository available here if anyone is interested: github.com/NeuroLife77/...

GitHub - NeuroLife77/Wilson_Cowan_analysis: Analytical derivations and numerical analyses associated with the Wilson-Cowan model

Analytical derivations and numerical analyses associated with the Wilson-Cowan model - NeuroLife77/Wilson_Cowan_analysis

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Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to @braintumourrsch.bsky.social 20% discount from Routledge in January. routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving

Memory and the Brain explores the fascinating psychology and neuroscience of human memory. Written by a world expert in the field, John P. Aggleton, this book covers learning and memory from the very ...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling: Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

a belated tribute to one of my inspirations in #mentalhealth #psychosis #schizophrenia research nimygroup.org/goodbye-tim-...

How do neurophysiological traits that characterize individuals evolve across the lifespan? Check it out: 👶🧒🧑🧓🧠 with the amazing @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @alexwiesman.bsky.social & Margot Taylor www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵(1/3)

The Lifespan Evolution of Individualized Neurophysiological Traits

How do neurophysiological traits that characterize individuals evolve across the lifespan? To address this question, we analyzed brief, task-free magnetoencephalographic recordings from over 1,000 ind...

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I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start. go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE

Amazing stuff, Sylvain. Need to find out more about how you did this.

Sylvain Baillet@sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 2y ago

How we’re saving thousands of litres of liquid helium per year (and $100,000’s). Because it just makes sense. www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org/news/l2ie8wg...

Our paper finally appeared on modelling the effect of age on the BOLD fMRI response, one implication of which is that many age effects previously reported may be vascular rather than neural… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Evaluating Models of the Ageing BOLD Response

Linear and nonlinear methods for estimating the BOLD response in the sensorimotor task from a large dataset show important effects of adult age on response features and biophysical parameters, some o....

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Challenge: does FMRI have a future (apart from studies of development and ageing)? We want to know HOW the brain works and for that we need millisecond temporal resolution neuropixels, MEG, OPMs. After nearly 30 years of FMRI we know basically WHERE things happen.