Bastijn van den Boom

The talk series is back after a summer break! 🌞 Join us Aug 28 at noon ET / 6 PM CET for a fascinating session with the academic power duo @dorahermes.bsky.social & Kai Miller! 🧠✨ They’ll explore how single-pulse signals reveal biomarkers and map brain connectivity. Don’t miss it!

21.08.2025 00:16 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨Funded PhD studentship co-supervised by me and @matthewwself.bsky.social. Using neuropixels, behaviour, viral tracing and optogenetics you’ll study how visual areas enhance target representations vs background to support goal-oriented actions.

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03.07.2025 09:27 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...

Our paper is out in Nature.

By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.

Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

08.05.2025 00:12 — 👍 161    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 0

Histogram sampled from the same normal distribution with different sample sizes and bins.

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated!

Friends don't let friends use histogram for small sample sizes. Bin numbers affect the appearance of histograms, thus not robust to small (and modest sample sizes). They stabilize w/ large sample sizes.

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10.12.2024 16:30 — 👍 59    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 3

Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia - Nature Examination of the neural activity in the basolateral amygdala and ventral CA1 of mice during tasks or rest following exposure to social stress reveals signatures of resilience and susceptibility to s...

Why does stress make it harder to experience joy? A
@natureportfolio.bsky.social paper on mice provides some answers 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10.12.2024 22:17 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Hella cool work! Underlying mixed selectivity population coding is a mix of static and dynamic coding that differs by cell type.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

19.12.2023 16:44 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

Direct stimulation of anterior insula and ventromedial prefrontal cortex disrupts economic choices. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

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

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13.12.2023 15:48 — 👍 24    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2

New accessibility pilot on bioRxiv pilot: AI-generated paper summaries at 3 levels (general -> expert).

Click Automated Services in the dashboard to view these. We welcome feedback. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/11...

08.11.2023 17:23 — 👍 72    🔁 51    💬 19    📌 12

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23.10.2023 01:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First post on Bluesky! We recently published our latest work on the neural mechanisms of deep-brain stimulation (DBS). We investigated this by combining calcium imaging and internal-capsule DBS in freely-behaving compulsive and "normal" mice. Freely available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22.10.2023 23:07 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0