Brain Networks

PhD position (m/f/d) for 3 years The Brain Networks Research and Development Group lead by Professor Thomas Knösche offers a PhD position (m/f/d) for 3 years.

A new PhD position in Cognitive Neuroscience just opened up in our lab @brainnetleipzig.bsky.social at @mpicbs.bsky.social !
Apply if you're interested and/or share with your network 😊🧠

www.mpg.de/25427952/phd...

30.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A Coupling Model of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Induced Electric Fields to Neural State Variables Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique used to modulate neural activity, with applications in clinical treatment, diagnostics, and neuroscientific resear...

🧠⚡ We present a biophysically grounded framework coupling realistic neuron morphologies to TMS.

Our model links direct axonal activation from L2/3 to L5 corticospinal neurons, revealing direction- & dose-dependent spatiotemporal patterns.

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

15.08.2025 20:51 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

🚨 New paper alert from Weise et al.!

"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"

🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

02.07.2025 07:58 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

(PDF) Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval PDF | Background Conceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

24.05.2025 10:29 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

In case you need a proxy for head circumference for your #NIBS meshes: pynibs.head_circumference() should do the trick.

#TMS #SimNIBS

gitlab.gwdg.de/tms-localiza...

27.04.2025 23:38 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Our #preprint on heart-brain coupling by TMS came just a little too late for the #BrainStimConf, it would've fit very well: #TMS, great stats ( #lme4 and #gam), repeatability checks, multiple targets - all the good stuff!

27.02.2025 06:34 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

OSF

"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

21.03.2025 17:56 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

Attending the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025 was fun!

I was able to present a first glimpse of my PhD project: a within-subject EEG study on perceived vs. unperceived somatosensory near-threshold stimuli, comparing mechanical and electrical stimulus processing.

Thanks to all your input!😊
#MBB25

12.03.2025 17:09 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Bluesky! We are the research group Brain Networks from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. We focus on Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Neuronal Circuits, EEG Source Reconstruction and Artificial Intelligence. Follow us for research updates and events! 🧠🔬🦾

27.01.2025 16:07 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1