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Functional Neurosurgeon Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School PI of #MENDLab Hiring post-docs and research assistants—DM me!

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A human brain network linked to restoration of consciousness after deep brain stimulation - Nature Communications In people with severe brain injuries, stimulation restored consciousness by engaging a deep brain circuit for wakefulness—revealing a target that may also guide treatment in stroke and epilepsy.

Just dropped in @natcomms.nature.com: we show that re-engaging a thalamic–ventral tegmental circuit with deep brain stimulation can reignite consciousness in patients with severe brain injury. Work led by Aaron Warren, with @andreashorn.org @foxmdphd.bsky.social @ others! tinyurl.com/4kz8j89b

21.07.2025 21:39 — 👍 27    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 2
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🧠 ⚡️ Preprint alert ⚡️ 🧠

I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.

Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

24.06.2025 19:24 — 👍 24    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

18.04.2025 14:52 — 👍 1822    🔁 949    💬 76    📌 132
Biomedical Informatics Research Data Scientist I- - Boston Childrens Hospital - Job Details Job Details: Our mission is to identify the brain circuits responsible for symptoms common in autism and other neurodevelop

The Cohen Lab of Translational Neuroimaging is looking to hire a bioinformatics and research data scientist to help accelerate our research and develop new analysis tools! @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social

Please consider applying or sharing!
jobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

04.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Cerebella Cards Welcome to the Neuro-Valentine's eCard Collection

Happy Valentine's Day! sites.google.com/view/cerebel...

14.02.2025 19:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

22.01.2025 22:58 — 👍 2780    🔁 1621    💬 75    📌 35

This is highly concerning.

22.01.2025 23:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Great talk by Mark Richardson on stimulation for IGE at AES. Packed room!

08.12.2024 19:42 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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I love AES, but they somehow always manage to mess up my name tag.

08.12.2024 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First day on @bsky.app, first episode released here: If you are into stimulating brains, give @stimbrains.bsky.social a follow – and tune into my conversation with Daniela Popa and Clement Lena on the cerebellum!

11.11.2024 17:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy holidays from the #MENDLab! I am grateful to work with an amazing team at the Brigham and Harvard Med School. Exciting things to come!

23.12.2023 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is the Lego set I want for the holidays:

18.12.2023 15:21 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
#1: On models of the mind – with Grace Lindsay – Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast

In this inaugural episode of a new podcast on Theoretical Neuroscience, Grace Lindsay (@neurograce.bsky.social) talks about her popular computational neuroscience book "Models of the Mind": theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn1/

22.10.2023 12:15 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Closed-loop stimulation in periods with less epileptiform activity drives improved epilepsy outcomes Neurostimulation can reduce seizures in cases of drug-resistant epilepsy, but rarely results in seizure freedom. Anderson et al. show that more frequent stimula

AND! Congrats to Dr. Daria Anderson (not quite here yet) and the rest of the team on this super cool article we just had come out in Brain! Such cool work! #neuroskyence #MedSky 🧪🧠📈https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awad343/7289609

05.10.2023 20:30 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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