Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Thank you! Not only rats like it, also scientists 010
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Our paper is now out, opioid use in rats increases microglia density, affects morphology, and it's related to brain volume changes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comEffects of morphine self-administration on brain structure and microglial phenotypic diversity in the absence of neuronal loss in male Wistar rats - PsychopharmacologyRationale Opioid addiction, including morphine use, is a major public health crisis in the U.S. It has been associated with brain volume changes in reward-related regions, neuronal loss, and neuroinfl... 044
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Carne asada (y vegetales) del laboratorio 010
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Very happy to host Dr. Flavia Venetucci from @sickkidsto.bsky.social last month and to the start of a great collaboration. 000
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 15/07/2025La investigación de mi alumna @aleloc.bsky.social y del laboratorio: www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...jornada.com.mxCientíficos de UNAM usan estimulación magnética transcraneal contra las adiccionesA través de una bobina que se coloca sobre el cuero cabelludo se generan campos magnéticos que incentivan regiones cerebrales. 010
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealCarrisa 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👇 23419
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealLucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - NatureThis Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f... 117177
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealPaul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025**FMRI/neuroimaging folks** Quick reminder @ the next AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025. Learn through interactive data analysis! Day 1-2: data viz, single subject analysis and QC. Day 3: statistics, results reporting and group analysis. Details, registration and schedule: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp 095
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Registrations are open for the 2nd International Symposium on Addiction Research (ISAR) 2025 in Querétaro, Mexico, from August 25-27. Come visit us and show your work! addictions.inb.unam.mx 021
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 23/04/2025We found a more strongly connected network in recurrent MDD when combining symptoms and brain characteristics. We also found that insomnia and somatic symptoms seem to be central to recurrent MDD, suggesting these symptoms could serve as possible clinical targets. 000
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 23/04/2025He used the REST MDD Dataset from Chaogan Yan and colleagues in China, and a multimodal network analysis: 100
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 23/04/2025PhD student from my lab, @dangeles.bsky.social just released our collaboration with @mariejosevantol.bsky.social . "First vs recurrent episode symptomatology in Major Depressive Disorder and its relation to brain function and structure: a network approach" 141
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Awesome @afni-pt.bsky.social invited me to this and I think it's a great concept. 100
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealThomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠nature.comA network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature CommunicationsHere, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases. 1118185
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealMichael P. Grosz @mp-grosz.bsky.social · 15/03/20257 years ago, I received funding for a project on personality, incentivized prosocial behavior & social status in groups. Today, we've made the anonymized data publicly available. Researchers can now use it by citing the preprint/paper (no need to add anyone as a coauthor): doi.org/10.31234/osf... 04012
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 15/03/2025People from my lab did a wonderful job on Brain Week teaching about the problems with substance use. A major effort on their part. 061
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊onlinelibrary.wiley.comBeyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in NeuroscienceThe search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c... 1521173
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025We also found higher microglia count and region-specific phenotypes. More info in the preprint. 011
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Using deformation-based morphometry, we found that morphine self-administration was related to volume changes in regions like cerebellum, basal ganglia and insula, among others. 100
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025For this we measured in vivo structural MRI before and after morphine self-administration using FR-1 in adolescent rats. Then, we did microscopy analysis of microglia cell count and phenotype using immunofluorescence. 100
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025New preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This was led by former Bachelor student Débora Elizarrarás and postdoc César Carranza. Here we wanted to study structural brain changes in opiod self-administration. Specifically if there was a link between MRI volume and neuroinflamation.biorxiv.orgMorphine self-administration induces region-specific brain volume changes and microglial phenotypic alterations without affecting neuronal density in male Wistar ratsAddiction to opioids, including morphine, is a major public health crisis in the U.S. It has been associated with brain volume changes in reward-related regions, neuronal death, and neuroinflammation.... 195
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealHolden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Scientists are called on more and more to respond to questions about their results. We tried to put down some ideas for the best ways to do that based on our years of observing these interactions. Engaging is better than not, especially when science is under attack. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgBreaking the silenceResearch on science communication has largely focused on teaching scientists how to describe their studies in ways that interest the public while deepening their understanding of scientific exploratio... 316177
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealWomen in Network Science (WiNS) Society @wins-society.bsky.social · 16/02/2025🚀 We’re officially on Bluesky! 💙 The Women in Network Science (WiNS) Society connects and supports network scientists who identify as underrepresented genders in the field. Follow us for updates on events, opportunities, and exciting research from our community! #NetworkScience #WiNS 22817
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealAngie Voyles Askham @avaskham.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Hey neuroscientists: were you, your lab or any of your ongoing projects caught up in any of the latest NIH firings? You can find me on Signal at avaskham.54 if you want to chat. 🧪 #neuroskyence 14636
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealMallar Chakravarty @mallarchak.bsky.social · 16/02/2025New paper led by Aurelie Bussy now out in Neurobiology of Ageing Here we use non-negative matrix decomposition using morphological and qMRI measures (T1, T2*) to understand the relationship between GM and microstructure across the Alzheimer's spectrum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comExploring morphological and microstructural signatures across the Alzheimer's spectrum and risk factorsNeural alterations, including myelin degeneration and inflammation-related iron burden, may accompany early Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. … 2226
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 14/02/2025We found that chronic stress did not increase ethanol drinking. We also found that chronic stress and ethanol intake distinctly and in combination affected several networks in development, where males were more affected in brain structure and females in functional connectivity: 100
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 14/02/2025To answer this we used an animal model with chronic physical stress + ethanol drinking and did longitudinal ethanol intake and neuroimaging measures, as well as multivariate analysis. 110
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 14/02/2025New work let by PhD student at the lab @jalilrt.bsky.social . Does chronic stress increases alcohol drinking in adolescent rats and how does that affect their behavior, brain structure and functional connectivity, and is there an effect of sex? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 162
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealJibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025This is so cool! 011
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealAndrew Pines @andrewpines.bsky.social · 12/02/2025jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Thread below👇jamanetwork.comMapping Lesions That Cause PsychosisThis case-control study analyzes published cases of lesion-induced psychosisTo assess whether lesions that cause secondary psychosis have functional connections to a common brain circuit 04320
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 03/02/2025We are organizing a Neuroimaging Summer School with the @cervo-ulaval.bsky.social in Quebec and @ibroorg.bsky.social. LATAM graduate students will have all expenses paid. More info at the site and here q2summerschool@inb.unam.mx Calls will close April 20. q2summerschool.com ibro.org/training-opp...q2summerschool.comQ2 SUMMER SCHOOL – Microscopy TopicsAdvanced Topics 0117
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealAliza Brzezinski-Rittner @albrzez.bsky.social · 21/01/2025It’s out! 🎉 Check our paper “Disentangling the effect of sex from brain size on brain organization and cognitive functioning” 🧠, where we explored sex differences in the brain while removing the effect of brain size differences. 1/10 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comDisentangling the effect of sex from brain size on brain organization and cognitive functioning - GeroScienceNeuroanatomical sex differences estimated in neuroimaging studies are confounded by total intracranial volume (TIV) as a major biological factor. Employing a matching approach widely used for causal m... 194
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealElvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 22/01/2025In biomedical sciences, there is a gap in understanding how sociodemographic factors affect biological and behavioral processes, in part due to inconsistent data collection. To address this, we're surveying researchers about their sociodemographic questionnaires: forms.gle/T8EiWHNJ4UoS...forms.gleGoogle Forms: Sign-inAccess Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use). 12312
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealShan Siddiqi @shansiddiqi.bsky.social · 12/01/2025ECT, TMS, and ketamine outperform other options for treatment resistant depression. Should we be offering these options to patients earlier in the course of illness? www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comRelative effectiveness of antidepressant treatments in treatment-resistant depression: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials - NeuropsychopharmacologyNeuropsychopharmacology - Relative effectiveness of antidepressant treatments in treatment-resistant depression: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials 1164
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealPessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 28/12/2024I was today years old when I found out that famous labs average multiple trials/blocks of fMRI data before running multiple linear regression/GLM 🤯 This breaks so many principles of statistics that one could write an entire book... 15465
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Not surprised. There seem to be a lot of shady practices in big labs. 000
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealPaul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Maybe slightly odd timing, but we'd like to announce: A new AFNI Bootcamp for FMRI/MRI, Jan 29-31, 2025. This part will focus on group analysis, statistics, surface analyses, results reporting and more. This event will be virtual. Please see here: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/afni-bootc...discuss.afni.nimh.nih.govAFNI Bootcamp, Part 2: Jan 29-31, 2025 (Virtual)We are pleased to announce a new AFNI Bootcamp, taking place Jan 29-31, 2025. Registration is free and open to both NIH and non-NIH researchers. The course is aimed at people who have some familiarit... 0108
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Agree. There are many assumptions been made too as a "one size fits all". 010
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 12/12/2024New collab paper with my former PhD student Said Jimenez. in BPD, we found a remarkable interrelationship between three of the core nodes of the disorder: 1) feelings of emptiness, 2) identity instability (identity diffusion), and 3) anger dysregulation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comLongitudinal dynamics between the central nodes in the symptoms network of borderline personality disorder: An intraindividual network analysisBorderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe and heterogeneous psychiatric condition. Current research has some limitations: (1) findings from gr… 052
Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Lab Posada 2024, with piñata and everything. 030
Reposted by Eduardo Garza-VillarrealJon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov 441197491