@sinamansourl.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Network Science enthusiast, in pursuit of computational neuroscience https://sina-mansour.github.io/
Can brain training improve #meditation? 🧘♂️
New study by @saampras.bsky.social featuring AddPro's @vale-addiction.bsky.social suggests that #neurofeedback can boost awareness + reduce emotional distress during meditation in beginners!
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congrats to all authors!
1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social
AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Want to dive deeper? 🧠
Check out the full companion Jupyter Book with walkthroughs, links, and code to explore reproducible research workflows in action.
📘 Read here:
👉 sina-mansour.github.io/ohbm2025-rep...
🧠 #OHBM2025 is fast approaching, with a stellar educational session from @ohbmossig.bsky.social & @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social
I'll be presenting a semi-hands-on course on reproducible research workflows, from code to visualization.
📖 Slides are now online:
sina-mansour.github.io/ohbm2025-rep...
Can deep learning help us solve dynamical systems problems, particularly those used in neural mass models? Check out this preprint to read about the perks...
20.04.2025 12:29 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join us Mon 3/10 for a roundtable discussion addressing best practices and emerging opportunities in human brain imaging and how they can advance the study of women’s brain health.
27.02.2025 19:29 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
New paper‼️ Interested in the protective impacts of parenthood on brain dynamics? 👨👩👦👦🧠 Read Edwina Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social's new paper, out now in PNAS @pnas.org !
With collaborators L. Ooi, P. Chen, L. An @bttyeo.bsky.social, and more!
🔗https://tinyurl.com/parentalbrain
Congrats to Winnie Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social on their new #ParentalBrain paper, now out in PNAS! They find evidence for the neuroprotective effect of parenthood for women AND men! 👩🍼👨🍼🧠 It's lovely work, and I'm proud to have played a tiny role in it. Read it here 👇 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging
26.02.2025 23:29 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Flyer for SOBP BrainHack. Event website: https://www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-042025/
SOBP BrainHack is officially open for registration!
The hackathon will be held April 22-23 at Sick Kids Toronto. Beginners and experienced hackers welcome!
Website and registration: www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-042...
Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
27.02.2025 01:40 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...
26.02.2025 19:36 — 👍 151 🔁 40 💬 11 📌 3Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights!
TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)
P.S. For those interested, the slides are available online: 🖥️
sina-mansour.github.io/ISMRM_Diffus...
Had a fantastic time presenting our novel eigenmode-driven normative models at the ISMRM Diffusion Workshop! 🧠📊
Check out our preprint here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Video tutorials on how to use MSM cortical surface registration: classic, groupwise and anatomical
youtu.be/rQQx0k1Sgdc?...
Great talk by Simona Schiavi at the ISMRM workshop on 40 years of diffusion! Interesting to see the DK atlas as the top choice for mapping connectomes—though, as expected, a diverse range of opinions. No single right answer!
@ismrm.bsky.social
So much research focusses on using brain connectivity to predict an individual's cognition, IQ, disease status, etc.
BUT what about the inverse problem?
Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome?
YES - with AI:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Useful read to sharpen your "Defence against the dark charts" 🪄
14.02.2025 05:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Connectome architecture favours within-module diffusion and between-module routing.
Really cool multi-species work from Caio Seguin on module-defined communication policies in connectomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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...
TMS is delivered to the DLPFC in depression to modulate SGC activity
But axons linking DLPFC and SGC are absent.
How then does TMS stimulation delivered to the DLPFC modulate SGC activity?
Check out Caio's work on how stimulation effects propagate in the absence of direct anatomical paths
Thanks, Elvisha!
13.02.2025 06:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚠️ Note: This is an early **prototype**, built from HCP lifespan data. We’d love to hear your thoughts—try it out and let us know what you think!
13.02.2025 05:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🧠 What can you do?
✨ Get real-time reference thickness charts across the lifespan
✨ Query any location on the cerebral cortex
✨ See how cortical thickness varies over time at different loci
Here’s a sneak peek: 🎥👇
🚀 Explore Spectral Normative Modeling in action!
We’ve built an interactive visualization showcasing high-resolution normative reference ranges generated via SNM.
🔗 Try it here: sina-mansour.github.io/normative_br...
💥 special issue on open datasets: deadline extended 💥
08.02.2025 07:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
11/ 👏 Huge thanks to all the amazing co-authors for shaping this work!
Maria Di Biase, Hongwei Yan, Aihuiping Xue, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Eddie Chong,
@aarona-b.bsky.social, Christopher Chen, Helen Zhou, @bttyeo.bsky.social, @andrewzalesky.bsky.social
🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
10/ 🔮 We believe SNM opens new avenues for the future of brain charting in precision medicine—paving the way for individualized assessments & interventions to be explored in future research.
06.02.2025 05:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
9/ 🚨 But there’s more!
SNM reveals the heterogeneity in cortical atrophy among AD patients. AD patients are not only different from healthy individuals but also highly diverse among themselves, beyond the conventional findings of group/subtype-level studies.
