Matt Euler

Found this and couldn't resist ..

Easy two part solution.

(a) NIH should run its own journal, in house, that pays reviewers for their time and waives all publication fees for any NIH funded project.

(b) Publication fees for any other journal are then not an allowable budget line on NIH grants.

Huntington's progression slowed by experimental gene therapy An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular:

The joy.

One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨

Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions.

We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26.

Brief thread...

Pre-clinical risk of ADRD is associated with higher levels of intra-individual variability, according to one of Neuropsychology's most cited papers of 2024.

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@apajournals.bsky.social

Human single-neuron activity is modulated by intracranial theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala Firing rate analyses revealed neurons throughout the hippocampus, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex in humans that exhibited heterogeneous responses to intracranial theta b...

Excited to share our new eLife paper from our lab's first Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Justin Campbell! In this paper, Justin explored the effects of direct electrical stimulation to the human amygdala on single-unit activity throughout the brain. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

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.)

🌟INS Conference Travel Awards🌟

✈️Financial support for travel to INS Philadelphia 2026!!

✍️Applications will be accepted between September 5 and October 15

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Late breaking abstract submissions open for #INS @ins-slc.bsky.social @neuropsychblog.bsky.social Submit and share the link below:

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Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

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To shunt or not to shunt, that is the (NPH) question? The first large randomized trial of shunting for normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) just dropped in NEJM, and there was clear benefit for walking, and it favored the group receiving shunts. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

👀 "The lowest quality studies reported the biggest effects for growth mindset interventions. The higher the study quality was, the lower the effect was."

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Longitudinal characterization of electroencephalography features in consciousness recovery following severe traumatic brain injury: a case series study in male patients
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#consciousness
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This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313).

What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think.

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🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps...
The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!

#EEGManyLabs website is now live: eegmanylabs.org
A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.

Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

New preprint! 🧠

Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

After a couple of years in the making, we are thrilled to launch the new home for #EEGManyLabs: eegmanylabs.org

In Defense Of The Amyloid Hypothesis A guest post by David Schneider-Joseph

Great to see this all spelled out -- In Defense Of The Amyloid Hypothesis

www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Really cool and important work. Individual differences strike again!

Wow: tenure letter writers’ publication records (h-index) are better predictors of tenure decisions than candidates’ own publication record.

Congratulations!!! 😀🥳

The title/abstract page of the European Journal of Personality article by Rauthmann, Phan, Kuper, Modersitzki, & Quirin (2025), entitled "Integrating nomothetic and idiographic in personality science and beyond."

European J. of Personality recently published the following trio of articles (+intro) on idiographic approaches to personality that some of you may be interested in.

1️⃣ Kuper: tinyurl.com/mpfezvsb
2️⃣ Phan: tinyurl.com/2jc86jfw
3️⃣ Modersitzki: tinyurl.com/7pf3buab
Intro👇 tinyurl.com/37c7jdva

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I’m writing a post that explores the value of psychology. One way to frame the question is to ask: If there were no psychologists, what would the rest of the world miss out on? Anyone?

If you looked for examples within specific sub-disciplines, I bet you would come up with a long list of valuable insights from psychological research (amidst all the trivial stuff!).

Fascinating topic, but the question may be too broad to stimulate clear thinking. Just within clinical, two examples of meaningful recent progress are (1) the effectiveness of exposure-based treatments for anxiety and trauma, and (2) the evidence that suicide is typically impulsive, not reasoned.