PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

The psychedelic psilocybin reorganizes brain activity into structured, context-aligned patterns that integrate internal and external processing, providing a neural basis for the felt continuity betwee...

Ticklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and follows a distinct bodily topography. They evaluate different theories on...

A large analysis of MRI studies in five psychiatric disorders reveals that maps of brain volume differences in psychiatric illness are rarely reproducible, highlighting the need for alternative approa...

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

Tan et al. demonstrate that flexible human cognition relies on two distinct neural processes: specialized brain regions that handle specific task components, and a distributed cortico-cerebellar network that recombines these components. This finding indicates that the cortico-cerebellar network serves an important role in coordinating complex, generalized cognition across different contexts.

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the...

Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the traditional Herculean pillars of constra...

Hemispheric specialization is a fundamental characteristic of human brain organization, where most individuals exhibit left-hemisphere dominance for language and right-hemisphere dominance for visuosp...

Molecular Psychiatry - Widespread synaptic density loss in schizophrenia follows molecular and network architecture

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

Brain regions exhibit dynamic yet highly coordinated activity patterns that form large-scale functional networks measurable through resting-state correlations. While their association with fluctuating...

Conscious error detection is accompanied by error-related changes in phasic autonomic activity. This autonomic response is diminished in older age – accompanied by impairments in the conscious detecti...

Psychedelic drugs are poised to become mainstream treatments, yet we lack a circuit-level account of how they reshape brain activity. Emerging evid...