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Sanju Koirala @koiralasanju.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m excited to share that I have defended my dissertation and graduated with a PhD in Developmental Psychology. Grateful to my mentors and committee members for their guidance and support: Damien @drdamienfair.bsky.social, Jed Elison, Brenden @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social, and Melissa Koenig.

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Bart Larsen @bart-larsen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Very excited to announce our new preprint, led by @hollysully.bsky.social, that presents, benchmarks, and validates a method to estimate brain iron content from routine fMRI scans! It comes complete with a BIDS app! Check out the preprint and thread below! doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Carina Heller, Ph.D. @carinaheller.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

tedana, multi-echo fMRI denoising software, newsletter includes tedana v26.0.3 updates and details of multi-echo fMRI ed course at OHBM 2026. groups.google.com/g/tedana-new...

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Multi-echo fMRI course at OHBM 2026 and tedana v26.0.3

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Sanju Koirala @koiralasanju.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Brenden is such an amazing mentor and Yale is SO lucky to have you!!! Congratulations!!! ( to Yale ;))

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Jianxun Ren @jianxunren.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Thrilled to announce our new paper in @natneuro.nature.com! We managed the impossible: precision functional mapping during #DBS, with 11.7h fMRI/patient. Selective DBS-induced deactivations in the SCAN, building on our recent @nature.com paper. nature.com/articles/s41... @ndosenbach.bsky.social

Selective DBS-induced deactivations in the SCAN, building on our recent @nature.com paper.

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Roselyne Chauvin @roselynechauvin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The 6x US memory champion – Nelson Dellis – can memorize a deck of cards in 40 seconds and knows the first 10K digits of pi. To figure out how, he let us peak inside his brain. Here is what we learned in our precision brain mapping study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... youtube.com/shorts/MryMq...

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how does his brain do it ? #neuroscience #memory #sport Nelson Dellis 6x US memory champion

YouTube video by Roselyne Chauvin

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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Hello all of you #ABCD and #HBCD data users! Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox? Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment. Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment. Go check it out! nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox

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Lasso is designed to streamline secure access, querying, and responsible use of the ABCD and HBCD datasets.

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Cleanthis Michael @clmich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Excited to share our new review “Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. We discuss how experience - particularly adversity - interacts with neuroplasticity during human development authors.elsevier.com/c/1mB5U4sIRv...

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Precision functional imaging in early development will allow us to uncover individual brain developmental trajectories and help tailor personalized interventions.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I've been thinking a lot about the preprint in terms of my own career. I grew up academically in computational labs. My papers were abstract early on and they only got more abstract as I progressed. The model was: find a new exciting mathematical tool. Apply it to brain imaging data. Write it up. 1/

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 … absolute star in the making!

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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

When nothing worked, this did. Precision functional mapping is here for treatment-resistant depression. This is what hope looks like. 💡

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works. *Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of. Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial. 1/2

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

At home, we used Bayes Tuning, an optimization procedure to refine and personalize stimulation settings. @ 7 weeks → suicidal thoughts gone. @ 6 Months → depression in full remission. @ 30 months later → Mike is still well. As a bonus some of if cognitive skills improved!!

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Here is a video showing his response when stimulating the fronto-parietal attention network: osf.io/8j4dp?view_o...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

We validated the effects and engagement of the networks in the days after surgery and replicated them 3 weeks later. Here is a video replicating his emotional response when stimulating the default network: osf.io/vsc42?view_o...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Now with PFM, prior cortical stim work by @ziad-nahas.bsky.social for depression could be patient specific. We developed the end-to-end minimally invasive PACE used by @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social to place electrodes directly on Mike's salience, default, fronto-parietal, and action mode networks.

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Using Precision Functional Mapping (PFM) we mapped Mike’s unique brain networks. We found his salience network was 4× larger than normal - it encroached on mood and attention systems.

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Sanju Koirala @koiralasanju.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

what a privilege to have been a part of such meaningful work this early in my career! So excited for the future of personalized intervention! So inspired to continue the work standing on the shoulder of scientists who brought us here today! 🧠

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Our proposed model: Pain is not a static signal. It’s a dynamic, modulated feedback loop for guiding behavior. Intervening at SCAN/AMN breaks the cycle — better than any one-size-fits-all cortical stimulation.

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

So, we examined it in our prior cortical stimulation patients. Two patients with central neuropathic pain. One had electrodes over both SCAN & AMN. One hit only SCAN. Pain relief tracked exactly with network engagement. Precision matters!!!!

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Figure 1 (attached) shows how these networks: • Interdigitate with traditional motor areas • Align closely with pain activations (r=0.73) • Vary dramatically between individuals These are non-sensory pain networks. That’s why classic targeting misses.

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 adults, yet current treatments — meds, DBS, SCS — often fail. Motor cortex stimulation sometimes works. 🤔 But why? We now have the answer: it’s not just the motor cortex. It’s how the brain integrates pain with action.

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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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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Hello all fMRIPrep users! What if you could use the same pipeline for processing MRI data from all ages? 👶👩‍🦱👩‍🦳 Check out fMRIPrep Lifespan! Our workflow optimized for data from the first years of life and further upstream enhancements to the entire NiPreps suite www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Among nearly 35,000 biological scientists who authored their first paper in 2000, women were more likely than men to have stopped publishing after 5, 10 or 20 years. The size of this gender gap varies between disciplines.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Finally out in its polished form 🤩 New methodological avenues that help facilitate looking at individual brain functional organization in developmental populations 👶🧠

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

hey -- i'm hiring a postdoc! the ad will be up shortly, but looking for someone with network neuroscience experience (very broadly). the position isn't tied to any specific project/grant, so lots of flexibility in terms of what you'd actually *do*. hmu if you might be interested/want to learn more!

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