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Nicole Petersen

@npetersen.bsky.social
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assistant professor @UCLA - neuromodulation, neuroimaging, neuroendocrinology :)

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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"Taking this literature as a whole, there may be a sense that where there’s smoke, there must be fire,' but experience from other fields ... has shown that actually there can sometimes just be lots of smoke."
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
seems like this should be a bigger deal than it currently is: "Currently, industry-led experiments are publishable without [IRB] approval [39]. There is little reason to exempt industry from standard journal policies..."
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 02/10/2025
Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals @carinaheller.bsky.social, @uni-jena.de, @umn-midb.bsky.social, @icsantabarbara.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals - Nature Neuroscience
Heller et al. showed dense longitudinal imaging in four females, including one with endometriosis and one using oral contraceptives, and the finding that different hormonal milieus influence widespread brain volume changes linked to progesterone or estradiol.
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Carina Heller, Ph.D. @carinaheller.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠 Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience. Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why menstrual cycle irregularities belong in brain research - Nature Medicine
The menstrual cycle requires tight orchestration between the brain and body, and irregularities can be both the cause and the consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity, inst...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 06/06/2025
An Analysis of 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure-function coupling and behavior prediction highlights their effectiveness for neurophysiological applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain - Nature Methods
In this Analysis, Liu et al. benchmark more than 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure–function coupling and behavio...
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
we are entering a whole new era of brain imaging analytics 🤩🧠
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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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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠
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A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Caio is having a good day. Another preprint on which he's first author -- this time, describing pathways through the connectome for indirectly stimulating subgenual cingulate cortex in the context of depression. Neuroanatomical pathways of TMS therapy for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 27/12/2024
New landmark TMS trial dropped by Jonathan Downar's team, which will revolutionize care for depression even more than the SAINT trial did – extensive (10 hour!) sessions of TMS in a single day, enhanced by single dose of cycloserine. 90% response, 70% remission! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Real-world effectiveness of a single-day regimen for transcranial magnetic stimulation using Optimized, Neuroplastogen-Enhanced techniques in Depression (ONE-D)
PDF | Background: Conventional transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) regimens are logistically burdensome, requiring days or weeks of clinic visits.... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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ALT: a woman with a mustache and a crown on her head
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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
2/2 The second is my solution for the replication crisis. It was recently accepted at Assessment. "How to Produce, Identify, and Motivate Robust Psychological Science: A Roadmap and a Response to Vize et al." doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE STUDY SECTIONS IN THE BACK: ". . . classical functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) . . . can be reliable when averaged across tens of people, or even in an individual, given sufficient repetition."
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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Love to see this conversation starting! "Study design features increase replicability in brain-wide association studies" Full article led by Kaidi Kang and Simon Vandekar + awesome News+Views by @roselynechauvin.bsky.social & @ndosenbach.bsky.social! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
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Study design features increase replicability in brain-wide association studies - Nature
Optimizing study design is critical for increasing standardized effect sizes and replicability, and the features that increase replicability in cross-sectional and longitudinal brain-wide association ...
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
🧠 hello #neuroskyence! happy to share my early career commentary in neuropsychopharmacology, highlighting the importance of understanding sex hormones for understanding the brain: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
www.nature.com/articles/s44... my lab's first data paper is here 🤩 do you love neuromodulation, treating substance use disorders, persevering through a pandemic, or superstar trainees? if so, read on!
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
#neuroskyence neuromodulation, neuroimaging, and substance use friends -- don't miss Michael's SFN poster Monday morning! in this very cool (and ENTIRELY trainee-executed) project, our group looked at factors that differentiate people who respond to TMS (1/)
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Happy Halloween #neuroskyence
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Check out this amazing new work from @giuliaabaracc.bsky.social uncovering mechanisms of brain signal variability! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The biological role of local and global fMRI BOLD signal variability in human brain organization
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
I’m excited to share our new preprint – led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith – where we applied precision approaches (i.e., extensive per-participant data collection) to behavioral measures of inhibitory control. osf.io/preprints/ps... Attempting my first bluesky 🧵 in the following....
Screenshot of our preprint on PsyArXiv
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
happy Saturday #neuroskyence! check out our new preprint finding that neuromodulation dramatically (!) reduces sample entropy throughout the brain: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... this is a new area for me so kind feedback is very welcome! 🧠⚡🧲
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 08/09/2023
An interactive, clickable fMRI atlas (n = 40k, ukbiobank data) for associations with hundreds of traits and diseases. fmriatlas.org/index.html #neuroskyence #psyscisky
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Nicole Petersen @npetersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
hi bluesky! here for fun papers so I'll start by sharing one :D in this preprint we found that a small dose of TMS to the posterior parietal cortex reduced risk-taking propensity. super fun collaboration with Vaughn Steele and Anna Konova (are either of you here?!) psyarxiv.com/ag72n #neuroskyence
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