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Jonathan C. Lau

@jclauneuro.bsky.social
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Neurosurgeon. Anatomy • Informatics • Modulation • Surgery. AIMS Lab.🧠🎯 Collaborative Medicine. Collaborative Science. Multisport.🏊🚴🏃 jclauneurolab.io

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David Seminowicz @daspainbrain.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
very cool. this nucleus has a role in nociception and pain
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Amazing job by @vmliu.bsky.social mapping the human A13, a dopaminergic cluster within the zona incerta. We would welcome comments and suggestions on this #preprint.
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Violet Liu @vmliu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
1/ A deep brain region known as the A13 plays a central role across a diverse range of behavioural functions (in rodents). To our knowledge, no human homologue has been identified to date. In this #preprint, we map the human A13!🎯 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Earlier this week, we hosted Dr. Bob Gross from Rutgers as the 2025 Blume-Girvin lecturer speaking on LITT for #epilepsy. A privilege to have Dr. Parrent in attendance whose pioneering work w/ Blume helped motivate the development of LITT. Two great mentors. @westernu.ca @lhsccanada.bsky.social
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 03/10/2025
HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social
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HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods
HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So proud of @alaat.bsky.social for successfully defending his thesis. First PhD grad of the AIMS lab! 🎯 Incredibly fortunate to work with him & @neuroak.bsky.social on AFIDs project. Thanks also to examiners DrEmmaDuerden DrSarahMattonen @angelarobertsphd.bsky.social @emiddlebrooksmd.bsky.social 🙏
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Standing room only for @emiddlebrooksmd.bsky.social talk on Clinical Applications of 7T -- a special summer grand rounds @WesternU CNS! Incredible work @mayoclinic.org integrating 7T. Thanks for the visit, and examining @alaat.bsky.social's thesis!
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Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) @westernuwin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Tuesday July 22, Dr. Erik H. Middlebrooks from the @mayoclinic.org will be giving a seminar entitled "Clinical Applications of 7T MRI in Neuroimaging" at University Hospital.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
@cfmm.bsky.social speakers from @westernu.ca at the 7T Translational Alliance of North America meeting in Dallas, hosted by UTSW.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Honoured to give the keynote at the 7T Translational Alliance of North America meeting in Dallas this morning recognizing @cfmm.bsky.social leadership in 7T human imaging. We continue to be the only 🇨🇦 site at this meeting. @westernuresearch.bsky.social @westernu.ca
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415... What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)? led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️
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Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) @westernuwin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Incredible story featuring #WIN Executive Committee member @jclauneuro.bsky.social - A Kitchener man is now seizure free following a rare epilepsy treatment at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
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A Kitchener man is now seizure free following a rare epilepsy treatment at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC)
Neurosurgeon Dr. Jonathan Lau reviews medical scans with his patient Steven Kieffer, who underwent a rare epilepsy procedure called a laser ablation last year.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mohamad Abbass, Jonathan C. Lau, et al: The impact of localization and registration accuracy on estimates of deep brain stimulation electrode position in stereotactic space doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Really proud of MohamadAbbass & team for pushing our preprint through to publication in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! Hopefully the first of many in this journal. doi.org/10.1162/imag... Appreciate all the supportive feedback about our AFIDs project during the review process.🧠🎯
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The impact of localization and registration accuracy on estimates of deep brain stimulation electrode position in stereotactic space
Abstract. Effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) depend on millimetric accuracy and are commonly studied across populations by registering patient scans to a stereotactic space. Multiple factors cont...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elodie Germani, Camille Maumet, et al: On the validity of fMRI mega-analyses using data processed with different pipelines doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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TRIDENT Preclinical Trials @tridentpct.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Amazing work through @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social from leading minds in neuroscience including @lisasaksida.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @maximoprado.bsky.social and Dr. Tom Durcan, also TRIDENT lead researchers! 🙌🌎🔬🐁
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Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
At #HBHLSymposium2025, experts from @mcgill.ca & @westernubrainscan.bsky.social shared their breakthroughs in non-invasive neurostimulation, iPSC models and circuit-based approaches for epilepsy, ALS & more, as part of the McGill-Western ITN. 🧠🔬 @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
If you have an interest in non-human primate systems neuroscience and/or imaging esp. if it relates to development or learning, call me! These are major chair positions that come with at least $4M or $8M over 8 years, depending on career stage.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...
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Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New: Energy use shapes brain organization and development. We use gene expression maps from the @alleninstitute.bsky.social Human Brain Atlas to map the main energy metabolism pathways in the brain. Led by @moohebatpe.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social @goliashf.bsky.social and Justine Hansen 🧵
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If you would like to postdoc in ultra high field MRI (3T+7T human, 9.4T+15.2T marmoset and mouse) in a well funded lab with tons of great neuroscience collaborations, drop me a DM soon.
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Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 17/02/2025
I am excited to announce that I will be founding an institute for network stimulation at the University Hospital Cologne – already this coming May!
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Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) @westernuwin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🎉 Lyle Muller, Laura Batterink, and @jclauneuro.bsky.social awarded CIHR funding to study neural traveling waves in sleep spindles as a biological mechanism for memory consolidation. Dreaming big for understanding human memory! 🧠💭 #SleepScience #MemoryConsolidation #CIHR
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social
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David Seminowicz @daspainbrain.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
our NIH HEAL initiative funded biomarkers study now out @jama.com JAMA Neurology open access, open data and code w/ @drsmschabrun.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Predicting Individual Pain Sensitivity Using a Novel Cortical Biomarker Signature
This cohort study analyzes electroencephalography data from healthy participants to analyze and validate a cortical biomarker signature for pain, which comprised the measures sensorimotor peak alpha f...
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Out in @natureneuro.bsky.social today 🥂 Cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow of the human default mode network Combining 3D histology, 7T MRI, and connectomics to explore DMN structure-function associations Led by Casey Paquola, @themindwanders.bsky.social & a terrific team of colleagues 🙏
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The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow - Nature Neuroscience
The default mode network (DMN) is implicated in cognition and behavior. Here, the authors show that the DMN is cytoarchitecturally heterogeneous, it contains regions receptive to input from the sensory cortex and a core relatively insulated from environmental input, and it uniquely balances its output across sensory hierarchies.
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 08/01/2025
🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨 @braincircuits.bsky.social GPi DBS for dystonia is effective. More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative. In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published. We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal. Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...
A collage of figures from the 350 papers published in Imaging Neuroscience in 2024.
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Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How measurement noise limits the accuracy of brain-behaviour predictions - Nature Communications
Our ability to identify associations between behaviour and brain imaging is important for uncovering markers of cognition and disease. Here, the authors illustrate the importance of the reliability of...
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Michael Fox @foxmdphd.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Why do different studies of brain atrophy in schizophrenia identify different brain regions? New paper by @braincircuits.bsky.social shows these regions are part of one common network. www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
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Common Brain Network Links Brain Atrophy Patterns Seen in Schizophrenia | Mass General Brigham
Mass General Brigham-led research synthesizes results from 90 published neuroimaging studies to uncover a unique schizophrenia brain network that could inform treatment plans.
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Dani S. Bassett @danisbassett.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
How critically or favorably do we cite ourselves? How favorably do we cite collaborators? Do high h-index scholars cite more critically than low h-index scholars? Are some disciplines (or countries) more critical than others? Why? Check out our new manuscript: arxiv.org/abs/2411.09675
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Sophie Adler @sophieadlerwagstyl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Interested in joining the MELD Project or trying out the tools for FCD or HS detection? Come chat to us #aes2024 after the presidential symposium or at the posters! @konradwagstyl.bsky.social
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Sophie Adler @sophieadlerwagstyl.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Dr Mathilde Ripart showcasing early work using #AI for multipathology detection in focal epilepsies #AES2024
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thanks to the organizers for a great #AES2024 meeting! Awesome presenting some of our #epilepsy work and catching up with friends and colleagues in LA. Until next year! 🧠⚡🌅
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Interested in a Canada Excellence Research Chair ($8M or $4M for 8 years) in the area of ultra-high field MRI development and applications in the neurosciences? Please reach out to me. We have [15.2T, 9.4T] preclinical and [7T, 3T] human MRI scanners. www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...
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The CERC Program offers eligible Canadian degree-granting universities the opportunity to establish research Chairs at their institutions in research areas that are of strategic importance to Canada.
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
1/ 🧵 Free resources for scientists 💡 Covering research skills, careers, #SciComm, leadership, activism and more, everything in this thread appears on our Learning Resources page, with tips for researchers and academics at any career stage. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat buff.ly/4f8vIpk
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Learning resources for scientists · eLife
A collections of articles that provide practical resources and guidance for researchers and academics
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Zeke Gleichgerrcht, MD, PhD @egleich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thrilled to meet up with great friends and colleagues at #AES2024 in LA this week + good excuse to engage more w/ BlueSky! Don’t miss our session on Advanced Neuroimaging for Personalized Epilepsy Surgery—designed for clinicians & researchers, including patient testimony @amepilepsysoc.bsky.social
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Coming to #AES2024? Why spend the last conference day sleeping in when you could come to the Neuroimaging SIG? See you at 7am Dec 10 if you're curious about applications of brain gradients in TLE to understand cognitive and clinical phenotypes! 🌈 🌅
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Konrad Wagstyl @konradwagstyl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just in time for #AES2024, let's grow this list of epilepsy imagers! go.bsky.app/HnaoTqF
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨 14 DAY REMINDER! 🚨 Only 14 days left to submit your content for #OHBM2025 in Brisbane, Australia! 🗒️ The deadline is December 17, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST. Don’t miss this chance to share your research—follow the link in comments to submit! #Neuroscience #CallforContent
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Day 2
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Jonathan C. Lau @jclauneuro.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Snowy day on campus.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/12/2024
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
A screenshot of a paper on bioarxiv illustrating the lack of blue sky share button!
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Just looking at this beautiful work from Ann Graybiel's lab now out in Current Biology. I need this framed 🤩 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Colorful sagittal view of a mouse brain showing striosome inputs to dopamine neurons
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Following a week of big emotions, I declare a celebration of a part of your brain that's been on overdrive but you've barely heard of: the Insula! Each day, I'll pass along a fascinating something about the Insula. In 7 days it just might be your new favorite brain region (it's mine). Day 1 ...
Side profile highlighting the Insula
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 11/11/2024
Dear everyone, I am closing down my twitter handle today and will be here full time from now on. Also migrated @leaddbs.bsky.social @netstim.bsky.social, @stimbrains.bsky.social and @braincircuits.bsky.social Let's build a better world together!
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