Alexander Holmes

Toward Robust Neuroanatomical Normative Models: Influence of Sample Size and Covariates Distributions | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precon_all is finally citeable! I’m relieved, pleased, thrilled and all other superlatives to present to you our preprint describing the inner workings of the precon_all pipeline for semi-automated non-human cortical surface reconstruction! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

'A life-changing experience in my career' - reflections on OxCIN Global Scholars We speak to OxCIN Global Scholars participant Kamilla Souza about her time on the scheme.

"I've always aspired to be a catalyst for change in my research field in Brazil, and OxCIN Global Scholars has made this goal more attainable."

Kamilla Souza talks about her Global Scholar experience and her work with @neuroecologylab.bsky.social on dolphin brains: tinyurl.com/bdcva2zv

🧠💊New preprint differentiating antipsychotic medication vs. illness effects on cortical thickness in people w/ psychosis.

Finding: People receiving placebo show prominent cortical thinning over 1st year of illness, whereas those receiving antipsychotics do not. 1/3

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Isabella F. Orlando, Claire O’Callaghan, et al:

Dopamine alters functional gradients in Parkinson’s disease

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Attention and executive delays in early childhood: a meta-analysis of neurodevelopmental conditions - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Attention and executive delays in early childhood: a meta-analysis of neurodevelopmental conditions

Attention and executive delays in early childhood: a meta-analysis of neurodevelopmental conditions | Molecular Psychiatry www.nature.com/articles/s41...

James is a great supervisor and doing a lot of really cool work right now - any neuro people that like tackling genuinely interesting research questions in a fantastic lab environment should defs apply

fMRI must break out of its silo We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

The scientific community needs to develop processes to support, hire and retain researchers whose work sits between traditional fields of study, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hui Wang, Emi Takahashi, et al:

Imaging of developing human brains with ex vivo PSOCT and dMRI

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

The impact of heterogeneous spatial autocorrelation on comparisons of brain maps | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Segmentation-Based Quality Control of Structural Magnetic Resonance Images | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jayson Jeganathan, Michael Breakspear, et al:

Spurious correlations in surface-based functional brain imaging

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

The Generalizability of Cortical Area Parcellations Across Early Childhood | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

China Autism Brain Imaging Consortium: Charting Brain Growth in Chinese Children with Autism | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I have had other papers pass this mile stone, but this one is special as it was my 1st, first-author paper, and was the output from my PhD many moons ago!

@drbreaky.bsky.social @mschira.bsky.social

Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain The mammalian brain is comprised of anatomically and functionally distinct regions. Substantial work over the past century has pursued the generation of ever-more accurate maps of regional boundaries,...

For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cognitive and psychiatric relevance of dynamic functional connectivity states in a large (N > 10,000) children population - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Cognitive and psychiatric relevance of dynamic functional connectivity states in a large (N > 10,000) children population

Cognitive and psychiatric relevance of dynamic functional connectivity states in a large (N > 10,000) children population | Molecular Psychiatry www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a way to end the year! Brilliant work by @elvisha.bsky.social and the team. Proud to be part of a lab that is focused on championing these issues in neuroscience.

📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Spanning spatial scales with functional imaging in the human brain; initial experiences at 10.5 Tesla https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629800v1

Hi BlueSky fam, for my first post and to celebrate our recent paper being physically published I thought I’d do a summary thread!

This has been my most favourite (and toughest) work to date.

Please help share around!!

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(Reach out if you can’t access)

The Brain Connectivity Workshop 2025 will be held just before #OHBM2025 on the paradise that is Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) a one hour ferry ride from Brisbane

Registration will open shortly (cost to be <$600 for travel registration & accomodation) so please plan your flights accordingly

Now that those #OHBM abstracts are done - think about submitting to this connectivity workshop. Stellar lineup of speakers is set! Register (and submit abstracts) here -
medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...
deadline is Jan 10, 2025.

Support Us - Sesame Workshop Individual donors and partners can have a major impact. Join Sesame Workshop’s Mission to Help Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder.

HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.

Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

How to make super-fancy brain network plots: A tutorial with Gephi This paper by Petri et al. from 2014 contains one of the most famous images in psychedelic science:

New blog post! I figured out how to make some really nice visualisations of brain networks using Gephi, and wrote a tutorial on how to do it here:
medium.com/@m.b.wall/ho...

Imaging Neuroscience new-paper posts from 2023. At the end of December we'll post the much bigger 2024 montage (even Rocky had a montage).

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

So You’ve Had a Hysterectomy. Do You Know What Was Removed? (Gift Article) Patients often are in the dark about which organs remain and which were removed — particularly the ovaries, which profoundly influence lifelong health.

« By the time they die, nearly half of women [in the US] will have lost their uterus. »

This is insane.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/h...

Here's another sample of the amazing speaker lineup for Whistler Brain 2025. @drbreaky.bsky.social @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social
Register here: medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...
Abstract submission is open - get yours in!