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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her)

@carrisacocuzza.bsky.social
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Postdoc computational, clinical, network neuroscience and all things cognitive control || holmeslab.rutgers.edu/ sites.rutgers.edu/cahbir/ formerly Yale Psychology || PhD: colelab.org/ || carrisacocuzza.wixsite.com/neuro

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Ahmad Beyh @ahmadbeyh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
⚠️ Preprint alert ⚠️ How does the brain's fixed anatomy support flexible function? We explore this using recurrent neural networks with increasing levels of brain-like constraints, comparing them to empirical fMRI activity. (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Geometric constraints and cognitive inputs jointly shape emergent brain dynamics and topology
How the brain's physical geometry gives rise to its flexible functional repertoire remains a central question in neuroscience. Here, we trained three classes of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) on a w...
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thank you to Racheal Ede at @medcentral.bsky.social for the nuanced write up on our recent publication! We're happy to see that you share our enthusiasm for the potential translational impact of research into human brain networks! 🧠 🙌 www.medcentral.com/psychiatry/s...
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Reduced Brain Network Flexibility Linked to Psychiatric Illness
Study reveals individuals with psychiatric disorders exhibit less flexible brain network dynamics, impacting cognitive state shifts.
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So excited to share that our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧠🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big shout out to coauthors @sidchop.bsky.social @ashleasegal.bsky.social @loiclabache.bsky.social Rowena Chin Kaley Joss & @avramholmes.bsky.social
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Brain network dynamics reflect psychiatric illness status and transdiagnostic symptom profiles across health and disease - Nature Communications
Cocuzza et al. show that brain network dynamics are less flexible in psychiatric illness, and these patterns predict individual symptom profiles better than diagnoses, highlighting brain dynamics as a...
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Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Led by Dr. Avram Holmes and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carrisa Cocuzza, the research shows dynamic brain function better explains individual mental health experiences than conventional diagnostic labels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @avramholmes.bsky.social @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social
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Brain network dynamics reflect psychiatric illness status and transdiagnostic symptom profiles across health and disease - Nature Communications
Cocuzza et al. show that brain network dynamics are less flexible in psychiatric illness, and these patterns predict individual symptom profiles better than diagnoses, highlighting brain dynamics as a...
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank you so much @rutgersbhi.bsky.social for the thoughtful write up of our study that's out now in @natcomms.nature.com!! 🧠
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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nice write up of @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social's latest work using brain dynamics to study transdiagnostic symptom profiles. @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social, @rutgersbhi.bsky.social, and @rutgersu.bsky.social. Likely of interest to @hitop-system.bsky.social oriented folks.
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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Thanks to first author Alexandros Tzalavras (@alextzalav.bsky.social) and coauthors! @osherlab.bsky.social @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social Lakshman Chakravarthula, @ravimill.bsky.social and Kirsten Peterson The paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 15/n
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Working with this group of talented, kind, and inspiring folks has been truly amazing! Highly recommend applying and/or sharing this posting! 🧠🥼🤘🏽
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Holmes Lab @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Great write up of the @nature.com study on MRI economics by @bttyeo.bsky.social's research group! With @avramholmes.bsky.social @sidchop.bsky.social @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Check out my newest preprint to see the TCP dataset in action! 🤘🧠 Brain network dynamics reflect psychiatric illness status and transdiagnostic symptom profiles across health and disease: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Brain network dynamics reflect psychiatric illness status and transdiagnostic symptom profiles across health and disease
The network organization of the human brain dynamically reconfigures in response to changing environmental demands, an adaptive process that may be disrupted in a symptom-relevant manner across psychi...
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🚨 Dataset & Manuscript alert! 🚨 The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project (TCP) manuscript is now available @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1👇
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The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project: an open dataset for studying brain-behavior relationships in psychiatry - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project: an open dataset for studying brain-behavior relationships in psychiatry
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🚨Preprint!🚨 So excited to share my 1st major study as a postdoc at @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social!🤘 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Using a transdiagnostic framework, we found that brain network dynamics were able to discriminate individualized psychiatric symptom profiles with high accuracy 🧵1/9👇
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Loïc Labache @loiclabache.cpesr.fr · 12/04/2025
🚨 New #preprint: The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇 #neuroskyence
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The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization
Hemispheric specialization is a fundamental characteristic of human brain organization, where most individuals exhibit left-hemisphere dominance for language and right-hemisphere dominance for visuosp...
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Linden Parkes @lindenmp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Excited to share the first major piece of work and preprint from my lab! Led by Jason Kim! 🥳🎉🤘 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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a man applauds with the words so proud of my team above him
ALT: a man applauds with the words so proud of my team above him
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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Concerned about the neurobiological impacts of long COVID? Interested in brain dynamics? Please do join us for @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social's talk on the 31st (see below).
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It’s 11:30 pm and I just completed and submitted a grant due at midnight - this is the closest I get to an adrenaline rush as an academic 😅 … 🤘🏽
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Yueyue Lydia Qu @lydiaquq.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I'm thrilled to share that my graduate school project was just published in Nature Mental Health! We found that resting-state functional network predictors are more similar within vs between categories of internalizing and externalizing behavior in children (ABCD), adolescents (HBN) and adults (HCP)
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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social paper by Lydia Qu. Here, we map shared and unique brain features for individual variation in internalizing and externalizing across development. w/@bttyeo.bsky.social, @elvisha.bsky.social, @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social, and many others. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Distinct brain network features predict internalizing and externalizing traits in children, adolescents and adults - Nature Mental Health
In this study, the authors present work showing shared and distinct predictive network features associated with internalizing and externalizing behaviors in children, adolescents and adults.
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Brian P. Keane @briankeanelab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This journalistic piece nicely summarizes some advantages of our functional connectivity biomarker for psychosis. Special thanks to my co-authors in making this work possible (Yonatan Abrham, @mwcole.bsky.social @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social, Boyang Hu, Brent Johnson).
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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations”, a solo paper by yours truly, making the case that brain activity flow shifts are essential to mental flexibility (and quite interesting too!) Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Latest work led by Xihan Zhang looking at the cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome is out now in Nature Neuro! 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome - Nature Neuroscience
Here Zhang et al. establish multiscale relationships that link postmortem cell-type distributions with the in vivo functional organization of the human cerebral cortex, as assessed through functional ...
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Dr Matthew Nour @mattnour.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm happy to share our Review article, "Cognitive Maps and Schizophrenia", synthesising evidence for representation-level abnormalities in the condition, and proposing directions for future work. Out now in Trends in Cognitive Science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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AJ Ferguson @pantsdancetrance.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Psych and Neuro starter packs! 🧠 Black in Neuro go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe LGBTQ+ Psych go.bsky.app/LsshH49 Personality Psych go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi Women Clinical Psych go.bsky.app/SsNPcGP Network Neuro go.bsky.app/PR8rVkF Clinical Neuropsych go.bsky.app/8fgyJiS Develop Cog Psych go.bsky.app/MdqXgMy
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Not sure if I’m doing this right, but I’ve had a go at starting a ‘Reconceptualising psychopathology’ starter pack (e.g., HiTOP, RDoC, dynamic systems, clinical staging). Please do send me suggestions or requests to be added! go.bsky.app/Pek9ycQ
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thought I'd make a starter pack for what I'm currently obsessing over - everything brain dynamics: dFC, network dynamics, attractors, state shifts, info flow, etc! Please comment to be added, plenty of room! Esp. #EarlyCareerResearchers 🧠 go.bsky.app/HfAkczr #CompNeuroSky #Neuroskyence
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Haven’t seen one of these yet. Let me know who I missed!https://go.bsky.app/PR8rVkF
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 13/11/2024
I have now created a second cognitive neuroscience start pack, for the many people who asked to be added! go.bsky.app/HQeoP7D
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Anyone else want to pronounce this lovely app “blue-ski”? Or is this a millennial urge from watching Clerks too many times 😭 🦋
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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Now's a good time to try out alts to X, so I'm new here & I'll introduce myself! I'm a postdoc neuroscientist w/ background in #network & #computational_neuro #neuroimaging & #cognitive_science & I'm most excited by #cognitive_control! Now extending my research to #psychiatry & #neurostimulation 🧠
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆? Check out paper by Carrisa Cocuzza et al. #neuroscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by Carrisa Cocuzza: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex
Author summary A fundamental question in neuroscience has persisted for over a century: to what extent do distributed processes drive brain function? The existence of category-selective regions within...
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