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Robert Hermosillo

@roberthermosillo.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New study says as many as 97.7% of #NFL players who died between 2016 & 2021 could have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease related to repeated blows to the head. 🧪🧠🏈 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/americ...
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NFL: At least one in four dead players had brain disease, says study
A new study says at least one in four ex-NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had a degenerative brain disease but the true figure could be much higher.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Impressive network neuroscience work by Bene Ramirez @benediktramirez.bsky.social ! This allows the field to start discussing the nuances of discrete parcellation. It's gonna have big implications for precision interventions.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In the US Pacific Northwest, I think we've added a new season between summer and fall, called "wildfire season", because everyone knows what time of year you're talking about.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Fascinating work!
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I absolutely love this idea! From the motor control scientific literature, we know that errorful learning fosters creative intelligence.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Congradulations @koiralasanju.bsky.social !
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Exceptional paper by Andrew Van and colleagues! Thrilled when I get to see work like this!
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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is a gutting visual. The effect is staggering already, but the losses will escalate exponentially.
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Renato Duarte @rcfduarte.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
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22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience
Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New preprint from the lab! Led by @martingell.bsky.social . There is something for everyone: brain-behavior prediction, latent variable modeling, test-retest reliability. 🧠📈📊 "Disentangling Brain-Psychopathology Associations: A Systematic Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Latent Factor Models"
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Excited to hear more about that inflated effect size poster.
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Now out in Psychological Medicine (led by Jodi Gilman and myself). "Impulsivity-related predictors of adolescent substance use initiation" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Impulsivity-related predictors of adolescent substance use initiation | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Impulsivity-related predictors of adolescent substance use initiation - Volume 56
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is a huge finding! What does this mean for action mode network genes? Is this network more susceptible than other networks to cancer?
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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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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Humans: evolve for millions of years to require 8 hours of restorative rest Modern Science: "Actually, if you just poke the brain’s arousal system with a pharmaceutical stick, you can ignore the check engine light indefinitely."
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Check out @benjaminkay.bsky.social and team losing sleep to publish this work in doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... about how stimulants rescue the effects of sleep deprivation. Don't nap on this one!
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Redirecting
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Great article. Small rant: How many different abilities are journalists going to keep labeling as the "6th sense"? We should be closing in on the 25th sense by now.
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health: www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...
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Disruptions in This Sixth Sense May Drive Mental Illness
Disruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health ailments
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
That's pretty cool. I had not seen that emBODY tool before.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This looks fascinating!
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Rejection can be a blessing. For the authors, rejection was a success if they learned from it.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Groundbreaking work by @drjuliamoser.bsky.social using ultra high spatial resolution fMRI in infants 😯
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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Mapping infant brains with precision today = insights into developmental health tomorrow. Incredible work by @drjuliamoser.bsky.social introduces precision functional mapping for infants. 👶 #Neuroimaging
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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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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This might be related to the feelings of joy we observed when stimulating the ventromedial PFC, which is also within the salience network: bsky.app/profile/drda...
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop: osf.io/preprints/os...
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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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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!
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ziad-nahas.bsky.social @ziad-nahas.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Then we turned on his minimally invasive brain pace-maker and this happened. Thirty months later, his depression remains in full remission. lnkd.in/gb4WdZMQ lnkd.in/gFZV4zBp #Neuroscience #MentalHealthInnovation #FunctionalMRI #PrecisionMedicine #DepressionResearch #PACE #BrainStimulation
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David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is the future. The reality of biological #psychiatry. We listen to the patient, create a personalized map of their brain, use algorithms to disrupt stuck networks, and adapt the stimulation over time while continuing our quest to understand those networks.
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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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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is so cool! I don't think I've ever seen a face projected onto the cortical surface like that. I can't wait to try out the code!
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"The [number of NSF trainees] supported would drop from 95,700 undergrads, grad students, and postdocs during this FY to 21,400." Not only will this eviscerate the future scientific workforce, but science will grind to a halt. Trainees are the workhorses of research. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I can't wait to hear more about this!
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Excited to be a part of this team working on the next generation of pain treatment led by and Alexander Herman and @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social and @drdamienfair.bsky.social
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Some seriously impressive neuroscience by @benjaminkay.bsky.social showing how stimulant use effects the brain.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It's tragic. Also, consider the tremendous loss of work hours that went into writing, reviewing, preliminary data collection, and grant support staffing hours that went into every one of these grants.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
To all the scientists out there who need to hear this right now, you are part of a legacy of scientists who changed the world. Keep going.
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
We built a tool that allows researchers to explore and contribute to these probabilistic maps. Check out the MIDB Precision Brain Atlas to download the neural network region sets: midbatlas.io. Get individual brain maps from the #ABCDstudy here nda.nih.gov
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
We also explore an example use case for probabilistic maps, highlighting their potential for use in targeted neuromodulation such as TMS treatment for depression. (8/8)
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Using data from the #HCPD study we find that network topography is fairly well-preserved from 8 to 21 years old. (7/8)
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Using this technique you can identify regions where networks overlap, which we call integration zones, that are similar to hubs that others have identified. (6/8)
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
We developed a procedure called OMNI mapping that allows multiple networks to overlap. We quantified the number of overlapping networks in an individual, and for matched groups of ~3,000 subjects each to identify integration zones. (5/8)
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
We show that region sets derived from probabilistic maps not only demonstrate higher within-network connectivity compared to conventional region sets, but also demonstrate higher brain-behavior reliability than standard whole-brain parcellations (4/8).
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Leveraging large independent groups (n=~3000 each, balanced for demographics) from the #ABCDstudy, we demonstrate that the probabilistic maps show high between-group reliability (3/8).
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
While the general location of functional neural networks is similar across individuals, there is vast person-to-person topographic variability. Using multiple community detection, we identified reliable individualized network maps in the cortex and subcortical structures (2/8).
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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Our paper “A Precision Functional Atlas of Personalized Network Topography and Probabilities” is out now in Nature Neuroscience! The MIDB Precision Brain Atlas is a collection of individualized neural network maps from n~10,000 and probabilistic atlases (1/8) rdcu.be/dCvuC
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