Golia Shafiei

Reproducible Brain Charts: Mapping brain development & mental health ft. @goliashf.bsky.social, T. Moore, T. Salo, M. Calkins, R. Gur, R. Gur, @cieslakmatt.bsky.social, @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social, C. Davatzikos & R. Shinohara (@dbei-upenn.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to see the paper describing the Reproducible Brain Charts open data resource now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social. Paper + link to data below; huge congrats to @goliashf.bsky.social @milhammichael.bsky.social and the whole RBC team. Lots of people (>2,500 downloads) are already using RBC!

Amazing stuff here from @goliashf.bsky.social and the RBC team! Harmonized and curated imaging and phenotype data from over 6,000 youth easily accessible without any DUA. Check it out.

Thank you Adam! Appreciate it :)

Thank you! :)

The BRIDGE Lab has officially been launched! 🔗 bridgelab.ucsd.edu 👉 we Bridge Research in Imaging, Development, Genetics and Emerging mental health 🧠 🧬 🚸 🌉 please don't be shy to reach out if you are interested in learning more about our lab's research!

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
doi.org/10.1038/s420...

How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

All of this and more can be easily accessed through sypres.io

Team effort with co-first author (!!!) @bsevchik.bsky.social and the rest of the SYPRES and Metapsy team who made this happen!

Just delighted to see this out in the world !! This is the first installment of SYPRES -- our living meta-analysis + open data resource focused on psychedelics. Led by the incomparable @parkersingleton.bsky.social and @bsevchik.bsky.social. Check it out + and give us your feedback!!!

SYPRES (Synthesis of Psychedelic Research Studies) logo

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

CONGRATS TO DOCTOR @audreycluo.bsky.social !!! Last week, Dr. Luo knocked our collective socks off with a thesis defense for the ages. Her presentation on "Axes of Hierarchical Brain Development" was magnificent -- beautiful science, presented in an incredibly accessible and engaging way. WOO!!!!

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan | doi.org/10.1371/jour...

How does blood perfusion map onto canonical features of brain structure and function? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates @plosbiology.org ⤵️

Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to temperament and behavior in adolescent eating disorders Molecular Psychiatry - Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to temperament and behavior in adolescent eating disorders

Super happy to see our latest research on multivariate brain-behavior patterns in adolescent eating disorders out in Molecular Psychiatry!

🔗Link to paper: rdcu.be/ewxpg

🗣️Lay summary thread of our work: tinyurl.com/dscnhduf

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function:

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@nsb-lab.bsky.social

‼️NEW PREPRINT‼️

What if you could take a normal 3T T1w MRI and make it look like it was acquired from a 7T scanner?

That's exactly what we do using AI in our new preprint!

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13782

#neuroskyence #neurosky #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology #mrisky #neuroimaging

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

Fab new work from @kanepav.bsky.social with @jchrispang.bsky.social looking at how different measures of inter-regional FC are resistant to motion-related noise and how they can improve (or not) BWAS effect sizes. Peep the thread!

New paper!

We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16.

Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001...

Code (python/Matlab/C): github.com/DynamicsAndN...

New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social , Toby Constable, Jeggan Tiego, and myself, looking at the psychometric properties of the CBCL in the baseline ABCD cohort. We show that the commonly used CBCL structures fail to meet standards for validity and reliability
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Have you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!

V useful paper by @bttyeo.bsky.social @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social in @nature.com. Scan longer if you want to predict behav using fMRI and save $.

Great use of the TCP data: (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...).

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...

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...