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Moritz Gerster

@moritz-gerster.bsky.social
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Nikolai Kapralov @willenjoy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Our new preprint on promises and caveats of the extraction of M/EEG activity from ROIs is out (see more details in the reposted thread): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to @studenova.bsky.social, Ruben Eguinoa, Guido Nolte, @sparsity.bsky.social, Arno Villringer, and Vadim Nikulin!
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Non-uniform effects of remaining field spread on the estimation of M/EEG activity and connectivity between regions of interest
In M/EEG analyses, it is often convenient to extract time series of activity originating from the regions of interest (ROIs). However, due to the spread of electric and magnetic fields, M/EEG recordin...
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Parkinson’s disease involves two major abnormalities in subthalamic nucleus activity: 1️⃣ Excessive beta (13–30 Hz) rhythms 2️⃣ Increased neuronal firing Beta can be measured 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 surgery using deep brain stimulation electrodes.
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Deep brain stimulation can improve Parkinson’s disease symptoms, but selecting the optimal stimulation contact still relies on laborious trial-and-error.
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A neuron can only do two things: Fire. Don’t fire. Firing is the neuron’s output, and most theories of neural computation treat that output as the brain's core information signal. 🧵
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Imagine you run an experiment with 50 subjects and find a significant effect just below p < 0.05. Another research group tries to replicate your finding, so they also recruit 50 people. If your methodology was perfect, what’s the chance the replication succeeds? 95%? 80%? It’s only 50% 🤯 👇🧵
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Thank you @mpicbs.bsky.social for covering our study! And thank you for fostering such an inspiring, intellectually vibrant, and genuinely supportive research environment — it was an exceptional place to do a PhD 🙏
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Now out in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social! 📖 Read the open-access article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... #Neuroscience #Neurology #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS #Neurotechnology #Neuromodulation #Neurophysiology #BasalGanglia #OpenScience #Reproducibility
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
How does subthalamic nucleus activity relate to Parkinson’s disease symptoms? My last 5 years of Parkinson’s disease research summarized in 5 minutes at the DGKN Congress 2025 :) youtu.be/M9alDh836oU ⬇️ Full preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation
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Beyond beta rhythms - Moritz Gerster at DGKN Congress 2025
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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
How does subthalamic activity relate to Parkinson’s disease symptoms? In a truly collaborative effort across #DBS centers, we aggregated a diverse dataset of invasive recordings from 119 patients. Full article: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Main findings 🧵⬇️
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We were blown away by the public response to our findings that the infant brain can store memories. Many people wrote to share with us their first memories. To help us capture these reports, we created a short, anonymous survey. We hope you might also consider taking it. Please share with others! 🧠🧪
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Survey of Earliest Memories
This survey pertains to your earliest memories. It is anonymous and all participation is voluntary.
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Thomas S. Binns @tsbinns.com · 18/02/2025
Excited to have my PhD project paper exploring the network mechanisms of neuromodulation accepted for publication! We show how deep brain stimulation and medication exert a shared modulation of motor network synchrony in Parkinson's disease.
Schematic summary of therapeutic effects of dopamine and deep brain stimulation (DBS) across spatial, spectral, and temporal scales in Parkinson's disease.
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