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Alessandro Gozzi

@gozziale.bsky.social
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Senior scientist at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Rovereto, Italy) 🧠 🐁 Functional Neuroimaging, Brain (dys)connectivity and Autism ERC Grantee www.gozzilab.it

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most studies ask what #oxytocin does by giving it from the outside. But what happens when the brain releases its own? The answer: not a single "oxytocin circuit" but a profound reorganization of brain network dynamics (fMRI + ePhys) favoring salience-related states! 👉 tinyurl.com/mryc8rp6
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most studies ask what #oxytocin does by giving it from the outside. But what happens when the brain releases its own? The answer: not a single "oxytocin circuit" but a profound reorganization of brain network dynamics (fMRI + ePhys) favoring salience-related states! 👉 tinyurl.com/mryc8rp6
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1038/s415... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging @natprot.nature.com ⤵️
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience - Nature Protocols
This is a Perspective covering a Python toolbox for neuroscience research that enables users to fetch datasets, construct networks and null models, estimate graph metrics, fit statistical models and v...
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👉 Tenure-track opening in neuroscience @crchum.bsky.social @umontreal.ca crchum.carrieresante.gouv.qc.ca/poste/profes...
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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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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Check Our latest led by @sidchop.bsky.social - a blinded RCT separating effects of illness and antipsychotics on longitudinal cortical thickness changes in first episode psychosis
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New preprint from Kieran: We introduce a new data-driven method, feature-based slow feature analysis (f-SFA), to track non-stationarity from time-series data (with no generative model). It beats benchmarks on chaotic systems and tracks sleep depth continuously from EEG. arxiv.org/abs/2609.01651
Schematic of f-SFA method
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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am oh so happy to share that my K99/R00 "Linking Adolescent Environmental Enrichment to Association Cortex Plasticity and Psychiatric Resiliency" was awarded by the NIMH! And with that, I am on the job market! I can't wait to find the home of my future lab.
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Heads-up: Doris Tsao is hiring 15 scientists/engineers to work on the neuroscience of consciousness at her new venture (Astera). astera.org/careers/#box...
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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 8 months after, this paper found its home at Science Advances. We came up with a generative brain network model based on game theory and found that the human brain is suboptimal both in terms of wiring cost and communication efficiency. Here's why: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Jean-Paul Noel @jpnoel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
First Noel Lab Pre-print! If you are into "peri-personal space" and feel like we need more single cell recordings, this one is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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An egocentric map prioritizing peri-personal space in the mouse rostro-lateral visual area
All physical interactions between an organism and its environment occur within the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding its body, its peripersonal space (PPS). This space has been extensively...
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Niceeee www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Polysynaptic signal propagation in networked neural masses
The routing of information across the brain's structural network is central to its wide range of functional capabilities. However, the mechanisms underlying information routing in complex brain networ...
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Anna Weinberg @annaweinberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📣 *Two* tenure-track Assistant Prof jobs in @mcgillpsych.bsky.social! 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🧩 Child Clinical Psychology Great colleagues/department, strong interdisciplinary ties (MUHC, The Neuro), in a city worth moving for. Apply within 40 days—please spread the word! Links in thread:
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 30/07/2026
Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science — a Comment article by Andrea I. Luppi, Helena M. Gellersen, Lorina Naci, Alessandro Gozzi & Daniel Bor #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the traditional Herculean pillars of constra...
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Bene Ramirez @benediktramirez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Excited to share our new preprint introducing Precision Confidence Mapping (PCM), a framework for estimating how confident we should be in individualized functional network assignments from resting-state fMRI. Why does this matter for precision neuromodulation? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 08/07/2026
Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not sure how to visualise your connectome data? Check our latest led by @m-gajwani.bsky.social & C Adamson on NeuroMarvl: an open source web-based platform for visualising and sharing connectomes! Paper: tinyurl.com/2t7ftu9d Software: tinyurl.com/yrv3xja3 @nsb-lab.bsky.social
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The HBCD Study Data Release 2.1 is here 👇🏾 3,500+ children followed from pregnancy through early childhood: MRI, dMRI, resting-state fMRI, EEG, biospecimens incl. genetics, wearables, and rich behavioral + environmental data. New in 2.1: Olink inflammation markers + the ERICA assessment.
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
💡Alzheimer’s disease does not unfold on a single clock. 👉Our new study is out today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Prediction of mild cognitive impairment progression using time-sensitive multimodal biomarkers
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develops silently for years before symptoms emerge, making early identification of at-risk individuals essential for prevention trials and early intervention. We tested whethe...
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Anyi Liu @anyiliu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Pyramidal cells in the cortex send a long apical dendrite to layer 1. What is its role? What happens when it's gone? ✂️ A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex Out today with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net and @fedrossi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex
Cortical pyramidal neurons project a long apical dendrite to layer 1 (L1), to receive synaptic inputs that are thought to provide contextual and possibly suppressive modulation. In visual cortex, thes...
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Flux Society @fluxsociety.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Congratulations to Theodore D. Satterthwaite, recipient of the Flux Society 2026 Linda Spear Mid-Career Award! Ted’s work advances multimodal neuroimaging to understand brain development, psychiatric illness, and reproducible neuroscience. Read more: buff.ly/QQeZUM5 #Flux2026 #DCN
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids
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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
5/ Very grateful to my inspiring co-authors from across the spectrum of cognitive, clinical, and translational neuroscience: @helenagellersen.bsky.social @lorinanaci.bsky.social @gozziale.bsky.social @daniel-bor.bsky.social Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the traditional Herculean pillars of constra...
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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1/ What can resting-state neuroimaging offer cognitive and translational neuroscience🧠? Turns out: a lot! 🧵 Long in the making, short in the reading: “Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science" is out now in @natrevneuro.nature.com rdcu.be/ftWBh
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Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the...
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Daniel Bor @daniel-bor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We've just published a small opinion piece in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, arguing for the under-estimated utility of resting state neuroimaging data, given exciting new methods to analyse it. Work led by @loopyluppi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the traditional Herculean pillars of constra...
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'At elite journals, editors play a central role, rejecting a large majority of submissions without formal peer review, recruiting specific outside experts as reviewers, and guiding authors in how to respond to them.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Over the same period (2018-2025), biomedical papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were."
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Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
In-scanner thoughts contribute to resting-state functional connectivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42365014/ I've long thought that this is the "elephant in the room" of resting state #fMRI esp. for comparing groups. If two groups think & feel differently in the scanner, of course rsfMRI will differ!
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...
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cjl2007.bsky.social @cjl2007.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Happy to share that our paper on objective quality assessment for "precision" fMRI is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social A recap of what it does, what's new since the preprint, and code you can run on your own data. cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 18/06/2026
Evidence is mounting that there are distinct subtypes of autism, and now, scientists have found that the condition can vary according to the strength of people's brain connections
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Autism may have two distinct subtypes that vary by brain activity
Evidence is mounting that there are distinct subtypes of autism, and now, scientists have found that the condition can vary according to the strength of people's brain connections
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that Shella Keilholz will shortly become the Editor-in-Chief of Imaging Neuroscience, following the selection process described in our Author Guide. Steve Smith is stepping down as EiC after serving for three years, following the transition from NeuroImage.
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Silvia Gini @silviagini.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
With OHBM 2026 starting tomorrow, I’m excited to share this perspective piece @gozziale.bsky.social and I contributed to @apertureohbm.bsky.social State of the Brain 2025 collection! 🧠 doi.org/10.52294/001...
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Expanding the cross-species lens: Rodents in focus | Published in Aperture Neuro
By Silvia Gini, Alessandro Gozzi. Cross-species functional neuroimaging is evolving from a niche pursuit to an emerging theme in systems neuroscience, with the potential to broaden the questions we ca...
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🎧 OHBM Podcast Neurosalience is back with the inside scoop on OHBM 2026! We sit down with the organizers to chat keynotes, sessions, Bordeaux tips, and the new meeting app. Tune in now! 🧠 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/63E0... YouTube: youtu.be/z6jr13zNSeU
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Our latest, led by @ivaili.bsky.social out now in Nature Mental Health using normative modelling to understand the heterogeneity of atypical FC in autism. Peep the thread...
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
✨ The State of the Brain 2025 features leading voices from last year's Annual Meeting, highlighting major advances in brain imaging research 🔗 apertureneuro.org/issue/13963-... @lucinauddin.bsky.social @elvisha.bsky.social @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @gozziale.bsky.social @adeelrazi.bsky.social
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Very grateful to @shihyyi.bsky.social and colleagues for this thoughtful News & Views on our study www.nature.com/articles/s41... Especially meaningful coming from one of the leading voices in translational fMRI : ) 👇
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our preprint has grown up, and it is now out in @natneuro.nature.com Bottom line: variable patterns of brain connectivity in #autism can reflect distinct underlying biological mechanisms 🧠🐭 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Mouse fMRI datasets: tinyurl.com/44dwe6dz Detailed explainer below👇
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Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses - Nature Neuroscience
Pagani et al. used cross-species fMRI to reveal two autism subtypes, characterized by lower and higher brain connectivity and linked to synaptic and immune-related pathways, respectively.
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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🚨 The actual paper is now out on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In this opinion piece, @duncanastle.bsky.social and I explore the human brain through the lens of optimality and Pareto-optimality theory.
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Embracing the suboptimal organization of the human brain
Human brain architecture is guiding brain-inspired artificial intelligence (AI) and has been treated as an optimal template, whose deviations could ma…
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Very excited about this project, led by @zachladwig.bsky.social We show that an individual’s lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches. Full🧵 coming soon!
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our preprint has grown up, and it is now out in @natneuro.nature.com Bottom line: variable patterns of brain connectivity in #autism can reflect distinct underlying biological mechanisms 🧠🐭 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Mouse fMRI datasets: tinyurl.com/44dwe6dz Detailed explainer below👇
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Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses - Nature Neuroscience
Pagani et al. used cross-species fMRI to reveal two autism subtypes, characterized by lower and higher brain connectivity and linked to synaptic and immune-related pathways, respectively.
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 17/05/2026
Let us help you with your research! All of our neural dynamics tools, software, protocols, datasets, and even hardware plans are available in one convenient place. Check it out and let us know what you'd like to see next: www.allenneuraldynamics.org/tools
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses” Excellent work by @gozziale.bsky.social and colleagues, now out in @natneuro.nature.com 🧪🧠🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses - Nature Neuroscience
Pagani et al. used cross-species fMRI to reveal two autism subtypes, characterized by lower and higher brain connectivity and linked to synaptic and immune-related pathways, respectively.
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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fMRI Imaging Revealed 2 Distinct Autism Subtypes Involving Under- and Over-Connectivity Patterns, with Potential Implications for Therapeutic Targeting | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Connecting autism’s many human faces with invisible biological factors underlying its diversity of symptoms is a grand challenge facing the research community. As noted by a team of investigators led ...
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Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...
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The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal
The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal in real time.
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