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Alain Dagher

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Neurology and brain imaging. ORCID: 0000-0002-0945-5779

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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 4h
@aircanada.bsky.social once again confirming that once you've purchased the ticket they just do not care about you.
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alquierthierry.bsky.social @alquierthierry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1-Lipid droplet (LD) lipolysis in neurons exerts cell type-specific effects within the arcuate nucleus. New pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you want to prolong the life of this account, please support it. Consider what it went through, how it is being deboosted, and help it stay alive. Subscribe or, in case you don't want to subscribe, make a donation at the link below and in the profile 🙏 Original post
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Louis-Eric Trudeau @louistrudeau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do you have some exciting work on dopamine and related topics ready for submission? Please consider this special issue on dopamine in the European Journal of Neuroscience. This is related to the Dopamine 2026 meeting that was held last May. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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European Journal of Neuroscience Call for Papers DOPAMINE: From Molecules to Behavior and Therapeutics
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️
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Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain
Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels support the glymphatic system, a brain-wide pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Here, we use AQP4 gene expression to reconstruct a whole-brain glymphatic-rel...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In his book Ametora, David Marx wrote about how Japan saved classic American style in the postwar period. Just as Americans started to abandon Ivy Style tweeds, raw denim jeans, and 1970s hiking jackets, Japanese people started picking them up — and being quite infatuated with the aesthetic.
The cover of the book Ametora. David Marx wearing a patchwork gray tweed overcoat from Beams.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I shared some photos this morning of the new Barbour x Norbit collection. Some people really liked the jackets, but expressed concern over the prices. These jackets are, admittedly, expensive. So here are some tips on how to get something similar for less. 🧵
A model wearing a mid-thigh waxed cotton jacket from the new Barbour x Norbit collection. A model wearing a waxed cotton field coat from the new Barbour x Norbit collection. A model wearing an olive tweed field jacket from the new Barbour x Norbit collection. A model wearing a waxed cotton coat from the new Barbour x Norbit collection.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Denis Le Bihan: 40 Years of diffusion MRI in the brain: From history to emerging frontier doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A preprocessed multimodal neuroimaging dataset from Quebec Parkinson Network for biomarker discovery - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A preprocessed multimodal neuroimaging dataset from Quebec Parkinson Network for biomarker discovery
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Grant Hartung, Jonathan R. Polimeni, et al: Biophysical simulations of fMRI responses using realistic microvascular models: Insights into distinct hemodynamics in humans and mice doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is so good. music.apple.com/ca/album/%C3...
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Éthiopiques, Vol. 21: Piano Solo by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru on Apple Music
Album · 2005 · 16 Songs
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Defector Has A New NFL Podcast, And It Won’t Have Any Gambling Shit In It - defector.com/defector-has...
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Defector Has A New NFL Podcast, And It Won’t Have Any Gambling Shit In It | Defector
If you’re as horny for football as I am, you’ve probably noticed that a vast, vast majority of NFL podcasts have some unwelcome amount of gambling/fantasy chatter in them. Corporate pods are often dir...
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Leaving anglos behind is the whole point. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
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Thousands of Quebec anglos risk ‘being left behind’ as election mailouts go French-only for first time
Voters will be provided with a QR code to access English translations.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Two fully funded researchers who want to come and study with me are having all kinds of trouble getting their visas. Problem is Quebec. Wouldn't want foreigners "diluting our culture". Can't wait to leave this place.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I just discovered this last week. Beautiful, strange, amazing. open.spotify.com/album/7y6gHi...
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The Seduction Of Claude Debussy - Album by The Art Of Noise | Spotify
The Art Of Noise · album · 1999 · 13 songs
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Joni Coleman @jonicoleman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Super excited to see this out! If you want to savour the full paper for later, the excellent @helenadavies.bsky.social and I wrote an accompanying Briefing to this paper, which you can find here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Binge-eating behavior and anorexia nervosa have shared and distinct genetic components - Nature Mental Health
Genome-wide association studies of individuals with binge-eating behavior, anorexia nervosa or neither identify distinct genetic associations with each phenotype. Although both eating disorder phenoty...
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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵
The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.
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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Pleased to share a new Addiction Neuroscience Special Issue "The ventral pallidum as an orchestrator of reward seeking behavior" edited by Meaghan Creed with contributions from her, Anushree Karkhanis, @bensaunders.bsky.social, Asheeta Prasad, and Yvan Vachez www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Addiction Neuroscience | The ventral pallidum as an orchestrator of reward seeking behavior | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Addiction Neuroscience at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Cerebral vasculature shapes the spatial patterning of brain metastases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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United Nations called on to investigate CAQ's Quebec constitution plan
Quebec's Bill 1 violates the rights of minorities and infringes on the rights of Indigenous peoples, group charges.
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The erasure of anglo culture form Quebec continues. Sadly, it is turning Montreal into a culturally uninteresting village. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
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No English debate during Quebec’s fall election campaign
Second straight campaign where the Coalition Avenir Québec and Parti Québécois have declined to participate in a debate in English.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our first Impact Factor is 3.0 — an important milestone for a new journal. As with most new journals, the first IF is affected by the smaller publication volume in the launch year. Latest citation data are encouraging, and the journal’s IF is set to rise in 2027.
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Moohebat Pourmajidian @moohebatpe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Last day presenting our work on energy metabolism and cross species lifespan trajectories at #OHBM2026 Come by if you'd like to chat. Poster #1113 Or check out our paper and the recent preprint here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... doi.org/10.64898/202...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 16/06/2026
#Aging drives changes in the #brain and #metabolism, but how independent are these effects? This study by @asafarahani.bsky.social, @misicbata.bsky.social &co identifies two axes of brain-body associations, each primarily related to age or metabolic health. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4eoIu3L
A series of brain maps, showing the association between one of the identified biomarkers relating sub-regional brain features to physiological, functional, and structural factors.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Imagine thinking you're allowed to forbid people from speaking a language. montrealgazette.com/news/oqlf-ta...
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Quebec's language watchdog targets popular brunch spot over Yiddish word 'nosh'
Montreal brunch favourite Arthurs Nosh Bar is facing scrutiny from Quebec's language watchdog over the Yiddish word "Nosh" on its signage.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Quebec nationalists all oppose the proposed high speed rail between Montreal and Toronto. Of course, they hate anything that means openness and connection to the world. They are reactionaries who want us to be a village, physically and culturally. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
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PQ would block high-speed rail link from Quebec City to Toronto, wants federal money instead
“I have the impression the PQ doesn’t understand how this works,” Premier Christine Fréchette responded.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
So embarassing ... www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
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TGV Québec-Toronto | Le PQ rejette le train du « renforcement de l’unité canadienne »
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon est catégorique : si le Parti québécois (PQ) forme le prochain gouvernement, il retirera le Québec du projet de train à grande vitesse (TGV) entre Québec et Toronto, dont « l’...
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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Parkinson’s disease may not be just one disease protein. New paper in Movement Disorders shows how Parkinson’s disease frequently includes overlapping pathologies such as tau, beta amyloid, TDP-43, vascular disease and inflammation, in addition to alpha-synuclein.
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Using a stochastic dynamical model, Grodem et al show that, before age 60, inter-individual differences in neuroanatomical volumes almost exclusively reflect stable differences between individuals, rather than systematic differences in rate-of-change: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1242
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Causation, correlation etc ….
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I encourage everyone to show up and make your voice heard at upcoming town halls and via any other channels: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/45096.html • Bilingual session: Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET • English session: Wednesday, June 24 at 1:30 p.m. ET • French session: Thursday, June 25 at 1:30 p.m. ET
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Webinars - CIHR
CIHR holds several webinars that allow us to share information, exchange ideas and discuss issues of importance with our stakeholders.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A wonderful shop - and as a bonus they also have a beautiful cat! montrealgazette.com/business/sma...
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Matriarch of Mile End uproots Dragon Flowers from Bernard St. — but she hasn't gone far
Tamey Lau, owner of the flower shop with its hallmark bird cages, is "an anchor, a person everyone loves here."
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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From Double's to Dobes’s: Montreal bar renames itself after Canadiens goalie
“Vítejte u Dobeše,” the bar wrote in a post on Instagram
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/05/2026
At the MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp exhibit, what all the works on display share “is a disregard for capital and for the way it shapes or encroaches on artistic practice, corrupting the freedom of the mind,” Hilton Als writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yzOn0t
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The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp
How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Is there a more incompetent profession than NHL refs?
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Venice Biennale jury resigns days before start of top art exhibition
It follows growing tensions over the return of Russia for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
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Hanes: Quebec has more unfilled medical residencies than ever. That's not a surprise
There are worrying albeit predictable signs that efforts to attract the next generation of doctors are falling short.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Casey Paquola, Boris C. Bernhardt, et al: Intracortical microstructure profiling: A cross-modal method for indexing cortical lamination doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Training at MSKCC I heard from Jerry Posner, Josep Dalmau, Bob Darnell etc... about autoimmune paraneoplastic syndromes. They observed that the cancers tended to be kept in check. This led to the hope that we could treat cancer with immunotherapy. This promise is now starting to be realized.
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
After two years I finally got an appointment with a Family Physician. An AI would have done a better job. At the risk of generalizing, Quebec Health care may well be the worst in the developed world.
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 20/04/2026
How do #circadian clocks regulate glucose processing? By integrating human metabolite profiling with isotope-tracing in #Drosophila, this study defines daily rhythms in #glucose utilization that are influenced by circadian timing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Olm1M1
The Rush hour (Rush hour of glucose utilization early in the light phase when glucose if funneled into multiple biosynthetic pathways). Human (left) and fly (right), either side of a schematic showing 13C-Glucose feeding into glycolysis, pentose phosphate pathwat or TCA cycle, over a watercolour wash. Image credit Pinky Kain.
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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · 19/04/2026
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Comparative anatomy of brain metabolism in human and macaque (and other species). The dichotomy between glucose as fuel and glucose for tissue building is conserved across species. @moohebatpe.bsky.social and @misicbata.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Wow! CIHR expects me to input every publication resulting from my foundation grant... by hand!
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Correlating brain maps across datasets is everywhere in neuroimaging. Here we ask: when you contextualize a brain map against genes, metabolism, or connectivity... What can you really conclude? How can we do better? We explore these questions here: tinyurl.com/2dudkevc
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Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Despite rapid exploitation of the opportunities that contextualization of brain maps affords, potential limitations have received little attention. In this Roadmap, Royer et al. provide practical guid...
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