PennLINC

@pennlinc.bsky.social

The Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center at the University of Pennylvannia, headed by @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social. This account is mostly for announcing new papers, lab members, etc.

Given these scanner differences, harmonization is essential! In unharmonized data, acquisition batch explained up to 70% of microstructural variance. We used cutting-edge longitudinal nonlinear harmonization, which eliminated these effects while preserving developmental effects.

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A systematic meta-analysis is hard work—and curation is often the hardest part. Y'all know this better than anyone, and we want to make it easier. What’s one specific piece of information you consistently had to find or extract from every paper? Tell us about it: tally.so/r/QKVbQG #neuroscience

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Alt: Tom Cruise is standing in a kitchen with his hands on his chest and asking for help, saying "Help me, Help you"

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Refreshing this -- we are still reviewing applications for a spring/summer 2026 start date!!!

Ted Satterthwaite@ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

Excited to share that our new review, "Depression as a disease of white matter network disruption: Learning from Multiple Sclerosis," is out now in Biological Psychiatry! We propose MS as a powerful model for studying how white matter network changes contribute to depression.

Depression as a disease of white matter network disruption: Learning from Multiple Sclerosis

Depression is a common and debilitating psychiatric disorder that is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. For nearly 40 years, scientists have attempted to localize depression in the b...

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Truly heroic work by the stellar @cieslakmatt.bsky.social + the HBCD dMRI working group team. Refactored QSIPrep + QSIRecon is the result of nearly 3y of concerted development + testing. It will be a total workhorse for HBCD -- and almost any other dMRI scan. Check it out for your data!!!

Matt Cieslak@cieslakmatt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

After 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:

We made numerous updates to the QSIPrep and QSIRecon software packages to better perform on HBCD’s infant/pediatric diffusion MRI. New preprocessing includes partial-Fourier Gibbs unringing, MP-PCA, 2-stage susceptibility distortion correction, SynthStrip/Synthseg and MNIInfant atlases.

A flow diagram describes the preprocessing workflow and additions specifically added for HBCD. Critical additions are Gibbs Unringing, a second stage of distortion correction, MNI Infant support and Synthstrip and Synthseg.