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Nasia Metoki

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · 11h
There are many MRI approaches for studying myelin. But which ones are reliable, how do they relate to each other, and how do they behave in gray vs white matter? In our new preprint, we introduce Myelin Imaging Reliability and ReprOducibility Resource (MIRROR) 🧠🪞 📄🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So excited that our work is now published in PLOS Biology!! 🎉 Check out the final version here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... And for a bit more context and what we found, here’s our earlier thread: bsky.app/profile/goli...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Abdalla Bani, Aristeidis Sotiras, et al: Taming dimensionality in big neuroimaging data: Efficient orthonormal projective NMF via stochastic learning and data compression doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited for my first #Flux2026! 🧠 See you in La Jolla! Come visit poster W88: “Functional Brain Network Correlates of Pubertal Timing and Depressive Symptoms in Preadolescence”, Wednesday 09/09 at 1pm. Come say hi, or DM me to connect! Always happy to talk science and meet new people!
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Brooke Sevchik @bsevchik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Very excited to announce that this work is now published in Scientific Data! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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A longitudinal data resource to study brain development and transdiagnostic variation in executive function - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A longitudinal data resource to study brain development and transdiagnostic variation in executive function
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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thrilled to be on the board of this new OA journal that fills a critical niche! Kudos to the co-Editors-in-Chief (@lisik.bsky.social,KendrickKay,ElliePavlick) and a big TY to @mitpress.bsky.social for supporting this important effort! JIT for @cogcompneuro.bsky.social :) Send us your stuff (soon!)
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Check it out all!! the NBDC Sandbox lets researchers securely analyze ABCD/HBCD brain data (tabular + file-based) in the cloud, no downloads needed. Free to use!! Story: aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...
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The NBDC sandbox: How the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain built a secure cloud environment to accelerate brain development research with AWS | Amazon Web Services
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) and HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) studies, the largest longitudinal brain development studies in U.S. history, are producing transformati...
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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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Desmond Oathes, PhD @desmondoathes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Looking for a data analyst with good MRI skills and coding background 💻🧠👩‍🔧. Sorry but visa sponsorship isn't an option. Kindly re-post! Apply here: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
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Data Technician
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
TDIL there is an R function for preventing your computer from going to sleep while a R is processing a command. stackoverflow.com/questions/73...
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Prevent Windows from sleeping / hibernating whilst R script is executed from cmd
When I execute a long-running R script from the Windows command prompt (cmd.exe), I want my computer to understand that it is "active" and thus remain awake until the script is complete (...
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PennLINC @pennlinc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New dataset out in Data in Brief 🧠 We're releasing an open, test-retest neuroimaging dataset built for directly comparing single-echo vs. multi-echo fMRI, head-to-head, in the same people. 1/
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A single-echo/multi-echo BOLD fMRI test-retest dataset
Functional MRI (fMRI) remains one of the primary tools for non-invasive studies of brain activity and organization in humans. Recently, multi-echo ima…
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Corey Horien @coreyhorien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Pumped to share our latest work! Here, we peeked under the hood of fMRI-based predictive models to ask whether models of sustained attention and autism symptoms rely on overlapping functional connections. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/2
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Feature overlap in transdiagnostic connectome-based models of sustained attention and autism symptoms
Sustained attention is an important neurobiological process. Difficulties with attention play a key role in neurodevelopmental disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and au...
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrew N. Van, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, et al: Frame-wise multi-echo distortion correction for superior functional MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excited to share our new preprint “Functional brain network correlates of pubertal timing and depressive symptoms in preadolescence” doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.22.727009 We examined how pubertal timing relates to whole-brain functional connectivity and depression risk in >9,000 youth (ABCD Study)
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Get ready to get your mind blown! 🧠 ⛓️ Turns out cortex isn’t neatly following cytoarchitectonic borders, but more like a set of functional chains that link and split across regions, creating parallel processing streams. Safe to say this one might re-chain how we think about brain organization 👀
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Don’t miss out reading about this amazing work linking the SCAN to Parkinson’s disease. What are the best ways we could use this new knowledge?!
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Francesca Cesari @francesari.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Targeting the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) rather than motor regions doubles efficacy of TMS treatments for Parkinson’s disease. Seems that various DBS targets for Parkinson’s are selectively connected to the SCAN rather than effector-specific motor regions.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder - Nature
The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.
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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The highlight of my week was the publication of "Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder" in @nature.com. It's a great paper that shows how conceptual changes in fundamental neuroscience - the discovery of SCAN - can improve treatment 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder - Nature
The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all
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Scientists discover brain network that may cause Parkinson’s disease
An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Scientists just discovered a key brain network affected by Parkinson’s disease. The finding could change how doctors understand symptoms and lead to better treatments. 🧠 bit.ly/4qdpLMf
"Parkinson’s is not just a movement problem involving one body part. This study shows it is a whole-body brain network disorder that links movement, thinking, arousal and internal body control." —Michael Okun, neurologist at the University of Florida and medical director of the Parkinson’s Foundation
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Do not miss this incredibly important finding about the SCAN and Parkinson’s disease.
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Fantastic work showint how SCAN is related to Parkinson’s disease. Much promise for the future of battling the disease! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder - Nature
The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.
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WashU Medicine @washumedicine.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
What if we've misunderstood how ADHD stimulants work? WashU Medicine brain imaging and child neurology teams joined forces to uncover where in the brain these drugs act — knowledge that could improve how attention disorders are treated. medicine.washu.edu/news/stimula...
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Stimulant ADHD medications work differently than thought | WashU Medicine
A study from WashU Medicine shows for the first time that commonly prescribed drugs for ADHD do not act on the brain’s attention circuitry.
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Amazing work by @benjaminkay.bsky.social and the @ndosenbach.bsky.social lab on the effect of stimulant medications on the brain! A must-read!
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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
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Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications
The landmark ongoing HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study will longitudinally chart brain development in a large sample (projected n=7,200) of infants through age 10 years with multimo...
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Aris Sotiras @asotiras.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🎓 Congratulations Dr. Jin Yang! Jin successfully defended his PhD thesis, "The Development of Deep-Learning-Based Automatic Multi-Organ Segmentation Models from CT Images and their Clinical Evaluation", as part of the Imaging Science PhD Program at WashU!
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents? Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The brainstem’s red nucleus is an evolutionarily old structure that emerged as animals began to use limbs for walking, but its function in humans reaches beyond motor control, a new study suggests. By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
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‘Old’ brainstem structure evolved beyond basic motor control
The human red nucleus may also help coordinate action, reward and motivated behavior, a new study suggests.
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Sam Krimmel @samkrimmelneuro.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Had a great time speaking with Sydney about our most recent paper out now in @natcomms.nature.com @macwoodburn.bsky.social . Paper link here: rdcu.be/ehbOy
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The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action
Nature Communications - The authors find the human red nucleus is functionally connected with action and motivated behavior networks, instead of motor-effector networks. They argue the red nucleus...
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Roselyne Chauvin @roselynechauvin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It turns out the brain🧠is silently🤫working when your arm is in a cast. 🩼 🚧 Plastic changes occur, and revert again when the cast is removed … not just in cortex.
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Sam Krimmel @samkrimmelneuro.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Happening now! Don’t miss out - Come find me at Poster Session E (#E127) at #CNS2025 to discuss how brain functional connectivity, but not neuroanatomy, captures the interrelationship between sex and gender in preadolescents. @cnsmtg.bsky.social
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Nasia Metoki @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
At #CNS2025? Come visit my poster (#E127) Mon afternoon (2:30-4:30pm) to learn how brain functional connectivity, but not neuroanatomy, captures the interrelationship between sex and gender in preadolescents @cnsmtg.bsky.social @ndosenbach.bsky.social Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ingrid Olson @ingridsbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Amazing work by Dr. Yin Wang, Jamie Reilly, Haroon Popal, and others. The scale of this work is breathtaking.
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/03/2025
A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
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WashU Medicine Neurology @washuneurology.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Vote for WashU Medicine in #STATMadness! Help a publication from Nico Dosenbach, MD, PhD, & colleagues on the effects of psilocybin on the brain make it to the finals! Round 1 ends March 10 at 3 a.m. CT. Read the article: www.statnews.com/wp-content/u... Vote! www.statnews.com/feature/stat...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025
Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 17/01/2025
The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...
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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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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 16/12/2024
Is it critical to stimulate @ndosenbach.bsky.social's SCAN and CON networks for clinical improvements of Tourette's patients that undergo DBS? Carlos Baldermann says yes in a cool new paper out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social comms today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ashley Nielsen @ashley-n-nielsen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New paper out today in PNAS 🎉 demonstrating: 1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth 2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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