Amir Dehqan

US once was a dreamy research place as it was offering a stable country with huge funds and a welcoming attitude for talented immigrants.

They're diminishing it all at once. Even with the coming of a new president, with a sane attitude, why should new immigrant researchers trust it again? Sad.

It doesn't give deep intuitions about their work, yet I get to grasp a fairly enough understanding of their work, for a ~50 papers an hour!

If interesting, I can always dive deeper :D

My research update routine:

To keep up with new papers, I bookmark them throughout the week. On weekends, I open them all in Safari, run a script to grab the links, and then give that list to Gemini Deep Research for quick, deep-dive summaries and even linked, related papers.

Dynamic coding and sequential integration of multiple reward attributes by primate amygdala neurons - Nature Communications The amygdala assigns value to stimuli, yet how its neurons process different value components is unclear. Here the authors show that monkey amygdala neurons respond to different reward attributes and ...

Dynamic coding and sequential integration of multiple reward attributes by primate amygdala neurons
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

fMRI can do more than you think Advances in brain imaging technology provide new and different information about the brain.

Taking full advantage of new advances in brain imaging technology will require more collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists, writes @lauradata.bsky.social in the latest for our human neurotechnology series.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...

Yup - or single-purpose/reductionist [models of] behaviors when the system must manage multiple goals IRL. If we race to the bottom with low-D tasks, should we then marvel at how scalar/categorical the response? elifesciences.org/articles/908...

Hippocampal output suppresses orbitofrontal cortex schema cell formation - Nature Neuroscience Inactivation of the ventral subiculum does not change existing schema cells in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) but aids their formation during new learning. This challenges the idea that the OFC relies...

Very nice indeed from Schoenbaum lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this cool work from my superstar student Elie developing a new dimensionality reduction algorithm that compares two conditions! It works on many types of data

After careful curation of single units from CA1 and connected structures, we identified cell assemblies - repeated patterns of synchronous firing (typically N~100, some approaching 300). Some assemblies were more active in NEW trials, others OLD. But did either or both groups reactivate in sleep?

Heterogeneity of human insular cortex: Five principles of functional organization across multiple cognitive domains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.646039v1

Neural correlates of perceptual decision making in primary somatosensory cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.29.646003v1

Aberrant preparation of hand movement in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: An fMRI study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644290v1

Using thread, the artist Sonya Clark has stitched a map of the world on a piece of wood, but then woven the individual threads into a single pony tail, visualizing our connected humanity.

From a visit to the Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

Do we need another starter pack? I'm erring on the side of yes.
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