Excited to share the preprint of a pilot study on the impact of long water fasting on the body. As part of the annual Chaturmas fasting period, 17 Jain practitioners undertook unsupplemented water-only fasting, some for 8 days and six continued for 30 days!! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Real-Time Glycaemic and Metabolic Adaptation During Unsupplemented Spiritual Fasting up to 30 Days: A Self-Controlled Observational Study

Background: Prolonged unsupplemented spiritual fasting (USF), complete caloric abstinence motivated by spiritual practice, is undertaken by many communities worldwide, yet its physiological consequenc...

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I’m visiting Frankfurt, Germany, at the Max Planck Society’s Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) as part of the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Indo-German exchange fellowship, where I’m working with @rademaker.bsky.social's group to investigate sensory and mnemonic codes during working memory

Had a great time with the batch of graduating Master's students from Integrative Neuroscience & Technology Lab at IIT Gandhinagar at their farewell dinner and bowling. It was a pleasure having them in the group and working on the various aspects of human cognition and neurobiology.

Current status.

It was exciting to host an online Cognitive and Brain Sciences seminar at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar by @lucinauddin.bsky.social where she talked about her recent efforts to create a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks.

My first first co-author paper! Big thank you to @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social, Joe McGuire, and @profsomers.bsky.social. Cool to take a deeper look at how different WM networks interact at resting state and during WM tasks, and learned a lot of new analysis techniques along the way.

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 5mo ago

🧠🔊👁️ Visual and auditory working memories (WM) utilize a shared supramodal brain network. rs-fMRI reveals stronger supramodal connectivity with visual than auditory networks at rest. Auditory WM overcomes this asymmetry, strongly altering task connectivity. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Or maybe just like patents, we renew papers if they still hold valid after every x years.

Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃@mzloteanu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I really like this as a concept! Maybe similar to the "auto replication of a study after x citations" we should have journals invite authors once they reach x citations or x years since publication to write a statement on their position on the main effect.

It was great listening to @macshine.bsky.social for our online Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminar @cogsiitgn.bsky.social. Mac talked about the "Thalamic Contributions to the State and Contents of Consciousness". He talked about the integral role thalamus plays in defining the brain states and

So glad to see this paper come out. Amazingly led by @tom-poss.bsky.social. Auditory working memory reconfigures task connectivity utilizing more supramodal and visual regions. Had a great time working on this data collection, the task design was challenging but learnt so many things in the process.

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 5mo ago

🧠🔊👁️ Visual and auditory working memories (WM) utilize a shared supramodal brain network. rs-fMRI reveals stronger supramodal connectivity with visual than auditory networks at rest. Auditory WM overcomes this asymmetry, strongly altering task connectivity. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

It was a pleasure hosting @kosakowski.bsky.social for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminar at IIT Gandhinagar. Heather talked about her pioneering work on studying perception and development in infants using fMRI.

We had the privilege of hosting @maxwellelliott.bsky.social for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminar yesterday. Max is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, and we worked together as Postdocs at Harvard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_D7...

DunedinPACNI: A Next Generation Brain Clock to Assess Brain Aging

YouTube video by Integrative Neuroscience & Technology Lab

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So glad to see the activity around NeuroAI happening in Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar area. First, I had a lovely discussion at Ahmedabad University's NeuroAI symposium. Thanks Rupesh Chillale for inviting me. It was lovely meeting Shihab Shamma after about 10 years.

Had a great experience at some of the lovely conferences in the last couple of months Tibet House conference: I gave a talk at the Conference on Neuroscience and Psychology, organized by Tibet House in Delhi in November.

As the current semester comes to a close, I had the pleasure of teaching the NeuroAI: Neuroscience & Artificial Intelligence course at the IIT Gandhinagar, possibly one of the first time it was offered in India. The course aims to create an understanding of how the brain can inspire newer AI models

Second-year M.Sc. Cognitive and Brain Sciences students showcased their summer internship research through posters in mid-September, featuring diverse projects from top institutions in India and abroad. Proud of their dedication and curiosity! 🧠✨ #CognitiveScience #IITGandhinagar

#HappyDiwali to everyone who celebrates 🪔🎆🪔

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.

Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...

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This finding suggests a novel and efficient strategy of using only task-based data to estimate networks within an individual’s own anatomy as well as estimate the task response within those networks. (9/13)

By pooling extensive resting-state and task data, we were able to triple the amount of data available for analysis within each individual, enabling precise mapping of five higher-order association networks within the thalamus. (6/13)

Amazing work led by Jingnan! Pooling in task and rest data can give us a lot of discovery potential like discovering hard to find networks in the thalamus (bulk of my postdoc work with Randy). Task data can be used to define networks and activations from left out runs can be investigated. Cool work!

Jingnan Du@jingnandu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A week full of gratitude and cheer at the Integrative Neusocience & Technology (INT) Lab, IIT Gandhinagar — celebrating Rhilee’s birthday 🎂 and Teacher’s Day 🙏💫

So true. It's my fourth week of teaching here, I am still struggling before every class.

Jonathan Peelle@jpeelle.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm playing a game with myself called "let's see how long I can live in denial about the new semester starting". My first teaching day is next Thursday. Perhaps I should work on my syllabus...

Glad to share that our study on the brain dynamics during rhythmic breath-based meditation is finally published in npj Mental Health Research. Here, we studied EEG on Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) practice on 43 subjects. Paper Link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Unlocking deep relaxation: the power of rhythmic breathing on brain rhythms - npj Mental Health Research

npj Mental Health Research - Unlocking deep relaxation: the power of rhythmic breathing on brain rhythms

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🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects By Cyr et al. *** Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES? A: Yes! 🧵:

My 1st first (co)author paper is up on BioRxiv! How does functional connectivity in the human cortex differ during visual and auditory working memory (WM) tasks? Do those changes correlate with behavior? We take a stab at some answers: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Dynamic task-based reorganization of sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks in the human cerebral cortex

Sensory working memory is supported by a distributed set of brain regions. Visual working memory and auditory working memory recruit different networks, which include posterior sensory cortices and mu...

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I usually don't get time to read books as much as I would like. Had the opportunity the read one while traveling last few days "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", a fascinating read about one of the most productive and collaborative mathematicians ever, Paul Erdos!

Join the vibrant set of Neuroscience researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Great facilities, smart students, colleagues, and a peaceful campus! We are expanding to all areas of Neuroscience. Please apply if interested, share, and reach out if you need more information.

Lego art 🍳 😄

"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."

We're hiring 2 Postdoctoral Fellows at IIT Gandhinagar's INT Lab! Join us to advance research in NeuroAI or Precision Imaging. Apply by May 30, 2025. Details: tiny.cc/NeuroAI | tiny.cc/PrecisionIma... Apply: tiny.cc/pdf-2