Sylvain Baillet

This morning, Dr. Drew Weissman delivered an inspiring talk at @crchum.bsky.social, emphasizing the importance of continued curiosity and purpose. 🙏

Congratulations Dr. Niloofar Gharesi, on your brilliant McGill University PhD defence today! Thank you, Prof. John Kalaska for the collaboration with Université de Montréal.
Another newly minted lab graduate on her way to do great things. Her next employer will be lucky to have her.

We are thrilled to announce that our lab has two newly minted @mcgill.ca Neuroscience PhDs: congratulations, Dr. @xiaoboliu.bsky.social and Dr. Jonathan Gallego!

Thousands of researchers. One shared mission: mapping the human brain. 🌍🧠
Join the OHBM community at OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux, France, from June 14–18, 2026.
Together, we advance the science of the human brain.
#OHBM2026 #OHBMCommunity #HumanBrainMapping

Today is my first day as Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre @crchum.bsky.social
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).

Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.

Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!

The PREVENT‐AD cohort: Accelerating Alzheimer's disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond The PResymptomatic EValuation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older ...

This is a major milestone for @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social & PREVENT-AD. Their vision & dedication have led to a series of impactful studies & high-profile publications, and the future promises insights as this unique dataset continues to grow.

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Exploring Deep Magnetoencephalography via Thalamo‐Cortical Sleep Spindles Results from functional connectivity analyses of MEG data (left) show that many thalamic nuclei can be distinguished via functional connectivity (right). However, results depend on the metric and con...

A fascinating update about how deep and fast MEG noninvasive imaging can be: differentiation b/w thalamus subnuclei, slow vs fast sleep spindles, and the talent and skills of Emily Coffey & her team. Grateful for being aboard this collaborative work.

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Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

Science is self correcting. Finally!

The multimodal sky's the limit now with Brainstorm.

Now featuring PET data integration with electrophysiology and MRI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/T...

Open source, free, for anyone interested (>50,000 users registered so far, >4,500 studies published.)

🙏🏼

Rejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social.
Merci de partager!
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Alpha oscillations mediate inhibitory control and perceptual transitions during binocular rivalry Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon that involves alternating percepts despite stable input, providing a window into perceptual processing and ne…

Just published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social
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New study ✨!
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social

Thanks Ravi — I find myself in good company indeed ;)

Thanks Alex! You played a big part in that journey!

Honoured to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada, Academy of Science.
Grateful to 🇨🇦 for the opportunities, and to all colleagues and trainees McGill University @theneuro.bsky.social for this shared recognition🙏🏼.

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Grateful from the support we just received from Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada. 🙏

43 years ago, ⁦‪@the‬⁩police played at ⁦‪@mcgillu‬⁩ stadium.

Save the Date! 🗓️ Join us in Bordeaux, France, June 14–18, 2026. #OHBM2026 registration opens January 2026.
Visit us here for important dates: https://humanbrainmapping.org/OHBM2026

@mcgill.ca campus life.

We have a newly minted ⁦‪@mcgillu‬⁩ ⁦‪@IPNMcGill‬⁩ PhD: congratulations Dr Zaida Martínez Moreno!

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

🧩🧠New release! OMEGA v3.1.1 is out—now with MEG-MRI co-registration for 480 participants 🎉 Manual alignment using original MRI+digitized head shape & fiducials. Includes BIDS-compliant landmarks+quality scores.

🔗 See “Co-registration” tab: www.mcgill.ca/bic/resource...

🧠🚀 Announcing 𝐬𝐄𝐄𝐆-𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦: open-source pipeline for multimodal intracranial ephys /epilepsy research: CT→MRI coreg, GARDEL contact localization, atlas labelling, seizure fingerprinting, source analysis—all in one GUI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/s...

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

« the administration’s cuts to science funding in the United States could even drive up the rate of scientific fraud by leaving scientists scrambling for limited resources and dwindling jobs. »

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Why do our brains think and feel so differently—even when we're doing nothing at all? This study shows how our resting brain activity is partly written in our genes, especially those tied to emotion and cognition. Nature and nurture, once again, tightly interwoven.

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

function.
🌟 @jasondasilvac.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social | Justine Hansen | Jonathan Poli
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Une nouvelle page s’écrit pour la recherche au CHUM! | CHUM - Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Une nouvelle page s’écrit pour la recherche au CHUM! Nous avons le grand plaisir d’annoncer la nomination de M. Sylvain Baillet, Ph.D., à titre de directeur de la recherche et de l’innovation du CHU...

Big news, and more to come, from our lab.

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