Do you censor high motion frames in fMRI? In two preprints by @twktan.bsky.social @mandymejia.bsky.social, we find that we may be censoring too much! doi.org/10.64898/202... arxiv.org/html/2603.07... Strict censoring leads to worse personalized TMS targets than no censoring, even with high motion!

Can brain training improve #meditation? 🧘‍♂️ New study by @saampras.bsky.social featuring AddPro's @vale-addiction.bsky.social suggests that #neurofeedback can boost awareness + reduce emotional distress during meditation in beginners! 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congrats to all authors!

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🧠 #OHBM2025 is fast approaching, with a stellar educational session from @ohbmossig.bsky.social & @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social‬ I'll be presenting a semi-hands-on course on reproducible research workflows, from code to visualization. 📖 Slides are now online: sina-mansour.github.io/ohbm2025-rep...

From Code to Visualization: Reproducible Pipelines for Neuroimaging Research

Presentation Slides for OHBM 2025 Educational Session

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Can deep learning help us solve dynamical systems problems, particularly those used in neural mass models? Check out this preprint to read about the perks...

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · last yr.

While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025... Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike artificial neural networks), but the dirty secret ... 1/N

Join us Mon 3/10 for a roundtable discussion addressing best practices and emerging opportunities in human brain imaging and how they can advance the study of women’s brain health.

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

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New paper‼️ Interested in the protective impacts of parenthood on brain dynamics? 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🧠 Read Edwina Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social's new paper, out now in PNAS @pnas.org ! With collaborators L. Ooi, P. Chen, L. An @bttyeo.bsky.social, and more! 🔗https://tinyurl.com/parentalbrain

Congrats to Winnie Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social on their new #ParentalBrain paper, now out in PNAS! They find evidence for the neuroprotective effect of parenthood for women AND men! 👩‍🍼👨‍🍼🧠 It's lovely work, and I'm proud to have played a tiny role in it. Read it here 👇 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging

Holmes Lab@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper‼️ Interested in the protective impacts of parenthood on brain dynamics? 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🧠 Read Edwina Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social's new paper, out now in PNAS @pnas.org ! With collaborators L. Ooi, P. Chen, L. An @bttyeo.bsky.social, and more! 🔗https://tinyurl.com/parentalbrain

SOBP BrainHack is officially open for registration! The hackathon will be held April 22-23 at Sick Kids Toronto. Beginners and experienced hackers welcome! Website and registration: www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-042...

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...

Would recording all neurons reveal their interactions?

For years, I was captivated by the idea that if we could record the activity of every neuron in the brain, we’d eventually crack the code…

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Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

Had a fantastic time presenting our novel eigenmode-driven normative models at the ISMRM Diffusion Workshop! 🧠📊 Check out our preprint here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Video tutorials on how to use MSM cortical surface registration: classic, groupwise and anatomical youtu.be/rQQx0k1Sgdc?...

Multimodal Surface Matching (MSM) tutorials

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Great talk by Simona Schiavi at the ISMRM workshop on 40 years of diffusion! Interesting to see the DK atlas as the top choice for mapping connectomes—though, as expected, a diverse range of opinions. No single right answer! @ismrm.bsky.social

So much research focusses on using brain connectivity to predict an individual's cognition, IQ, disease status, etc. BUT what about the inverse problem? Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome? YES - with AI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Useful read to sharpen your "Defence against the dark charts" 🪄

Nathan Yau@flowingdata.com · last yr.

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Connectome architecture favours within-module diffusion and between-module routing. Really cool multi-species work from Caio Seguin on module-defined communication policies in connectomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Caio is having a good day. Another preprint on which he's first author -- this time, describing pathways through the connectome for indirectly stimulating subgenual cingulate cortex in the context of depression. Neuroanatomical pathways of TMS therapy for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

TMS is delivered to the DLPFC in depression to modulate SGC activity But axons linking DLPFC and SGC are absent. How then does TMS stimulation delivered to the DLPFC modulate SGC activity? Check out Caio's work on how stimulation effects propagate in the absence of direct anatomical paths

Rick Betzel@richardfbetzel.bsky.social · last yr.

Caio is having a good day. Another preprint on which he's first author -- this time, describing pathways through the connectome for indirectly stimulating subgenual cingulate cortex in the context of depression. Neuroanatomical pathways of TMS therapy for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀 Explore Spectral Normative Modeling in action! We’ve built an interactive visualization showcasing high-resolution normative reference ranges generated via SNM. 🔗 Try it here: sina-mansour.github.io/normative_br...

Sina Mansour L.@sinamansourl.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Excited to share our latest preprint! 🚀 We introduce Spectral Normative Modeling (SNM)—a novel approach leveraging graph spectral methods to advance brain charting towards personalized precision medicine. 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

💥 special issue on open datasets: deadline extended 💥

Aperture Neuro@apertureohbm.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨 🗓️ Good news! The submission deadline for the Special Issue on Open Datasets has been extended to April 30th, 2025. Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to critical discussions on data governance, ethics, infrastructure, and more! 🔗 Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5n7xruwz

1/ Excited to share our latest preprint! 🚀 We introduce Spectral Normative Modeling (SNM)—a novel approach leveraging graph spectral methods to advance brain charting towards personalized precision medicine. 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spectral normative modeling of brain structure

Normative modeling in neuroscience aims to characterize interindividual variation in brain phenotypes and thus establish reference ranges, or brain charts, against which individual brains can be compa...

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SPM goes Python for its 30 year anniversary! Great news for #neuroimaging! 👍

Department of Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

Just published🔈 "Structurally informed models of directed brain connectivity" Read: rdcu.be/d3dC4 We review how structural connectivity constrains directed connectivity models 🧠 Lead by @matthewdgreaves.bsky.social w/ @novelli-leo.bsky.social, @sinamansourl.bsky.social and Andrew Zalesky