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Chiara Billi

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Neuro-X MSc student @ EPFL, now @ NeuroPSI, Paris. Earlier in Zürich and Pavia. [Tuscanian with a passion for opera and literature]

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

🧵 BREAKING: Gene therapy shows promise in slowing Huntington’s disease progression. A major milestone in neurodegenerative disease research. @uclqsion.bsky.social @ucl-hd.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

24.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 60    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 7
Verdi Opera Aida - Gloria all' Egitto, Triumphal March - HD
YouTube video by Frys Lan Verdi Opera Aida - Gloria all' Egitto, Triumphal March - HD

when did the set design stop being like this, and why?

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musée de l’homme was an instant favorite.

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Default mode network connectivity predicts individual differences in long-term forgetting: Evidence for storage degradation, not retrieval failure Author summary Why do some people forget faster than others? This study investigates individual differences in long-term memory forgetting by linking them to patterns of brain connectivity. Although m...

Have you ever wondered WHY memories fade away? And why some people are good at remembering facts while others suck at it? If so, you would be interested in thew new paper by Yinan Xu, Florian Sense, @van-rijn.org, @chantelpratphd.bsky.social, and myself doi.org/10.1371/jour... 👇 🧪

13.09.2025 06:12 — 👍 41    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 2
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it’s not always cloudy in paris

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#Opera

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Linking neural population formatting to function Animals capable of complex behaviors tend to have more distinct brain areas than simpler organisms, and artificial networks that perform many tasks tend to self-organize into modules (1-3). This sugge...

New results for a new year! “Linking neural population formatting to function” describes our modern take on an old question: how can we understand the contribution of a brain area to behavior?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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