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Nicholas Cicero

@nickgcicero.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral fellow in neurology @ mass general hospital Neuroscience PhD @ Boston University neuroimaging, sleep, disorders of consciousness

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Nicholas Cicero @nickgcicero.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Excited to share recently published work from my PhD! 🧠💤 We used simultaneous EEG-fMRI to track responses to visual stimuli as people fell asleep www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cortex-specific inversion of visual responses during sleep - Nature Communications
While we sleep, we disengage from the external environment. Using EEG-fMRI, we found that during sleep visual signals reach the thalamus but are suppressed in the visual cortex, revealing a cortical m...
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Ewa Beldzik @ewa-beldzik.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What happens when the brain slips into a microsleep? An example from a highly drowsy participant showing a brief loss of responsiveness (at time 0s). Details of the research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ewa Beldzik @ewa-beldzik.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Neuromodulatory subcortical circuits underlie arousal fluctuations during daytime drowsiness — proudly sharing my the MIT postdoc project now on bioRxiv!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A hypothalamic-brainstem activity sequence underlies arousal fluctuations during daytime drowsiness www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Seems unlikely, given how crafty the brain is about getting the most flexibility possible out of a pretty static setup of neurons. Tl;dr for our other work: acetylcholine (ACh) release is wildly non-uniform in space and time! This time, we looked at norepinephrine (NE) release across the cortex.
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Laura Lewis @lauradata.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Our lab has an opening for a full-time research assistant, to work on human neuroimaging techniques and the neuroscience of sleep! To apply: massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MGBExt...
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Clinical Research Coordinator
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Nicholas Cicero @nickgcicero.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
i’m excited to share i’ve successfully defended my phd! extremely grateful to my amazing committee, friends, and family that have supported me through this journey
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Cortex-specific inversion of visual responses during sleep www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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