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Christina Stier

@cstier.bsky.social
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PostDoc Systems Neuroscience | Studying M/EEG's across the lifespan at IBB Münster | 🧠 Imaging Genetic Epilepsies at UniMedGöttingen & UKTübingen | 🧬⚡️

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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Stier et al. report that low-density EEG recordings reliably detect global theta-band power and connectivity alterations in idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Read about it 👉 buff.ly/DNZ8SJI #epilepsy #braincommunications @cstier.bsky.social
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Very excited to share our latest paper led by @nbinish.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com We demonstrate how a communication subspace channels higher-dimensional PFC dynamics into lower-D motor activity to enable efficient behavior using human iEEG. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
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A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Context-dependent behavior selects actions according to task demands. Using direct brain recordings in humans, Binish et al. uncover how coordinated population activity efficiently channels informatio...
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Alex Wiesman @alexwiesman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How does chemoarchitecture influence brain signaling as we age? 🧠⚛️🧓 Our new study suggests that high-frequency connectivity is orchestrated by neurochemical similarity with a ++ role of slow neuromodulators which 📈 and preserves cognition as we age doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroskyence
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Naturalistic Neuroscience @natneuro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION! 🚨 We are extending the abstract submission deadline for #NN2026 to April 12, 2026! Information on how to submit your abstract: 🔗 nn2026.uni-bonn.de/en/abstracts #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #UniBonn #CognitiveScience
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Christina Stier @cstier.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brain anatomy and molecular signaling predict neurophysiological dynamics across the lifespan www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Happy to share work dissecting the contribution & relative importance of cortical features explaining regional variation in MEG markers using multiv prediction #neuroskyence
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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Come work with us, answering interesting questions in new ways
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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
G'day connection makers. On **April 16th**, we're hosting Georg Northoff telling us about intrinsic timescales. If it sounds interesting, here's the link to register: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
***Please forward to interested colleagues*** The call for symposia (deadline 15 April) and abstracts (deadline 1 May) for Biomag 2026 in Beijing (23-25 Aug) is now open: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn
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Carlotta Barkhau @carlottabarkhau.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New preprint 🚀 Can we use hierarchical RNNs to model individual brain dynamics from short and noisy rs-fMRI time series? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ke Xie @kexie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢 Publication Alter! 🎉 Excited to share that our work, “Personalized biomarkers of multiscale functional alterations in temporal lobe epilepsy”, is now out in Nature Communications #TLE #MRI #biomarker 🔗 Full paper: rdcu.be/eQKLX 📣 Full post (credit to @borismontreal.bsky.social): bit.ly/48uJL7r
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Personalized biomarkers of multiscale functional alterations in temporal lobe epilepsy
Nature Communications - Xie and colleagues show that MRI-based brain function maps can identify patient-specific abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy, track how they spread along brain networks,...
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Organization of neuropeptide systems in the human brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415... Neuropeptides are functionally diverse signaling molecules in the brain and body. @cebric.bsky.social curates an atlas of neuropeptide receptors and relates it to brain function @natneuro.nature.com 🧩 🧠 ⤵️
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Teresa Berther @teresaberther.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Incredibly excited to finally share this project! Most heartfelt thanks to everyone involved for their support 🫶🏻 Looking forward to much more gut-brain research to come!
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Anne Keitel @annekeitel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Very happy and proud about two recent preprints by talented PhD students Sümeyye Sen Alpay and Sarah Allen. 👀Pupil- and gaze dynamics track emotion content in natural speech doi.org/10.64898/202... 📖Cortical Tracking of Speech and Music Predicts Reading Ability in Adults doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Cam-CAN @camcan-2010.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Nice review by @rhens.bsky.social of the >300 papers using CamCAN data to study the cognitive neuroscience of aging rdcu.be/e73yS - thanks to the authors of all those papers!
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Fifteen years on: a review of the Cam-CAN study of the cognitive neuroscience of ageing
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Ivan Alekseichuk @alekseichuk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Are you looking for a postdoc position or research assistant experience in the bleeding-edge closed-loop, robotic TMS-EEG? Email me or check out my lab's website for more details. #TMS #Neuromodulation
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Conjunctive population coding integrates sensory evidence to guide adaptive human behavior. New work led by @jonasterlau.bsky.social in @pnas.org. We used human intracranial EEG to understand how coordinated population activity supports context-dependent behavior. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... (1/4)
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
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Aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in humans - Nature Communications
How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 22/01/2026
Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
Median time under review (time intervened from submission to acceptance) of articles indexed in PubMed with a female first author (n = 2,562,262), a male first author (n = 3,405,821), a female corresponding author (n = 975,010), a male corresponding author (n = 1,946,469), a female first author and a female corresponding author (n = 757,878), a male first author and a male corresponding author (n = 1,357,835), all-female authors (n = 650,280), and all-male authors (n = 2,146,799)
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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🎉 The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are now accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social. This is a unique longitudinal data set with great potential – also for young scientists. 👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/base-data-av...
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Treasure trove of data on aging accessible
One of the most important gerontological data sets has been opened to the research community. The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Insti...
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Aperiodic activity reflects pathological waveforms in epilepsy (and not necessarily hyper-excitability or altered E/I-balance). The 1/f slope goes up *or* down as function of waveforms during seizures. New work by Laura Heidiri and Frank van Schalkwijk from the lab: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/5...
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Aperiodic Activity Reflects Pathologic Waveform Shapes in Focal Epilepsy
Epilepsy constitutes a clinically manifest excitability disorder that is characterized by aberrant electrophysiological activity in the electroencephalogram (EEG). The correct identification of the se...
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Kristin Kaduk @kristinkaduk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🥳 The interoception accuracy part is still my favorite 🤩 Have a look: www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨. Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...
A graphical abstract showing the research question and the operationalization of the study.
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Thomas Hinault @thinault.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A multilayer of time Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years! A great collaborative work ! doi.org/10.1007/s113...
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Diurnal dynamics of multilayer brain networks predict cognitive trajectories in aging - GeroScience
Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) is a highly dynamic process that varies across different times of the day within each individual. Although this variability was long considered to be noise...
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Torge Dellert @torgedellert.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de! Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster
The University of Münster (main building)
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Carlotta Barkhau @carlottabarkhau.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
New paper out! 🚀 Using a differentiable implementation of the reduced Wong–Wang model, we optimized whole-brain simulations for 1444 subjects. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)
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Structure in noise: Recurrent connectivity shapes neural variability to balance perceptual and cognitive demands in the human brain
Does neural variability reflect random noise or a feature that benefits adaptive behavior? Using intracranial recordings in humans, Terlau et al. demonstrate that neural variability results from the r...
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues
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Philippe Jawinski @pjawinski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🧠 Why do some brains age faster than others? 🧬 Our new Nature Aging study of over 56,000 participants explores the genetics of the “brain age gap” — the difference between your brain’s biological and chronological age. nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00962-7 Thread below 👇
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Genome-wide analysis of brain age identifies 59 associated loci and unveils relationships with mental and physical health - Nature Aging
This genomic study of magnetic resonance imaging-based brain age in 56,348 people identifies 59 genetic loci, links brain aging to mental and physical health, and suggests high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes as causal factors of brain aging.
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Torge Dellert @torgedellert.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
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Neural correlates of consciousness in an auditory no-report fMRI study
Dellert et al. use functional magnetic resonance imaging and inattentional deafness to identify the neural basis of conscious auditory perception in humans. Their results reveal a dominant role of sti...
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OBU Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience @obu-cogneuropsych.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Max Planck Institute seeks Postdoc in MEG & Cognition of Interaction to build dyadic OPM-MEG in Göttingen; deadline 23 Nov, 2025. www.nature.com/naturecareer... #Hiring #Postdoc #MEG #Cognition #Göttingen @maxplanckpress.de
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Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/x) - MEG and Cognition of Interaction – - Göttingen (Stadt), Niedersachsen (DE) job with Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization | 12846778
Postdoc in dyadic OPM-MEG at MPI Göttingen: develop dual-MEG platform to study neural bases of human interaction. Apply by Nov 23, 2025.
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Gordon Feld @gordonfeld.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up. pug2026.org @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
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PUG2026 – PUG 2026: June 4–6, 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond. Check out this review by @ocklenburg.bsky.social published in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social dlvr.it/TNjZCR #ASHG25
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
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Martina Saltafossi @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
Our findings deepen growing interest in how exteroception and interoception interact. We show that respiration modulates speeded responses and multisensory integration, with peak effects during trans....
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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Open postdoc position👈 We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Quantifying rhythmic and arrhythmic brain activity is a hot 🥵 topic. But how independent are the two components from one another? 🤔 In my latest work with @smfleming.bsky.social & @matlandry.bsky.social, I explore the relationship between the two. (1/4)
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Quantifying Rhythmic and Arrhythmic Components of Brain Activity
Brain activity comprises both rhythmic (periodic) and arrhythmic (aperiodic) components. These signal elements vary across healthy aging, and disease, and may make distinct contributions to conscious ...
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bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍 📅 October 21–24, 2025 👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form) If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟 ⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists (more below)
Poster with key data for the Young Scientist Retreat 2025. Dates: October 21–24, 2025, in Hamburg, Germany. Costs: €100 for members of DGPA and bioDGPS, €150 for members of DGPA or bioDGPS, €200 for non-members. Includes: 3 nights with meals and coffee breaks at a&o Hamburg City in a 2-bed room (Spaldingstr. 160, 20097 Hamburg). Eligibility: Doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors (up to 8 years after PhD). Registration deadline: September 29, 2025, 16:00 CET. Note: Membership can be obtained with the YSR application to benefit from discounts."
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Carlotta Barkhau @carlottabarkhau.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Presented my poster „Towards Personalized Neuroscience: Evaluating Individual-Level Information in Neural Mass Models“ at ICON2025! Grateful for the feedback and conversations about whole-brain modeling. Paper (hopefully) out soon! #ICON2025 #CognitiveNeuroscience
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
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Janik Goltermann @janikgoltermann.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com ! Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Very interesting research management position at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH) in Tübingen 👇
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
News from ENIGMA-Epilepsy! 🧠 Our latest study links polygenic risk for TLE-HS to cortical thinning in kids—mirroring patterns in adult patients. Early imaging-genetics insights could reveal interplay of epilepsy risk and phenotypes before symptoms emerge. Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai...
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Jonathan Wirsich @jwirsich.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Interested in Epileptic Discharges? In need of a data set to validate your source reconstruction models based on clinical outcome? Check out our newest: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thanks to B. Vorderwülbecke, S. Vuillémoz et al. ! - @seeber.bsky.social @cibm.bsky.social
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High-Density EEG Source Localisation of averaged interictal epileptic Discharges validated by surgical Outcome - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - High-Density EEG Source Localisation of averaged interictal epileptic Discharges validated by surgical Outcome
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Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6
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Davide Sometti @zds7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🧠⏱️ New preprint! We found that temporal prediction errors are more strongly encoded when an overt response is required, and this encoding occurs in motor rather than sensory space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
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Siegellab @siegellab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
📢 Exciting News! Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉 Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠 registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025 See you there! 👋
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Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025
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Daniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social: How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :) #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling
Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...
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