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Alexandra John

@johnalexandra.bsky.social

PHD student at MPI Leipzig | interested in thalamus-cortex interactions | brain development | connectivity | bridging between neurobiology and neuroimaging.

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💫 Grateful for the fun discussions and the chance to present my work on 'Developmental Trajectories of Thalamocortical Connectivity' @Psychologie und Gehirn in Würzburg 💫 @dgps.bsky.social

23.06.2025 09:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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💫 no research this time, but check out my new mix below 💫

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🙏 @johnalexandra.bsky.social for awesome mentorship 🎧

01.06.2025 23:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

💫💎So vibey!!!💎💫

03.06.2025 10:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy to share my last PhD work "Genetic, transcriptomic, metabolic, and neuropsychiatric underpinnings of cortical functional gradients". We used UKB, HCP, and QTAB to analyze the genetics of functional gradients. The results are so good, consistent, and inspiring! (1/3)

05.03.2025 10:21 — 👍 40    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 1
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Stuart Oldham, Sina Mansour L., and Gareth Ball:

Perinatal development of structural thalamocortical connectivity

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

08.01.2025 22:44 — 👍 24    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers?

With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

07.02.2025 18:51 — 👍 128    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 5

For all the thalamus lovers❤️‍🔥 : Excited to share that our Paper is out now✨Huge thanks to @sofievalk.bsky.social and all collaborators @meikehettwer.bsky.social, @wanb.bsky.social, @amnsbr.bsky.social, @jroyer.bsky.social, @borismontreal.bsky.social, @linaschaare.bsky.social, Seyma Bayrak

07.02.2025 12:38 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0
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Multimodal thalamus by Alex John and team! We found two axes organizing nuclei and linked this to microstructure and core-matrix models. Thanks to reviewers and coauthors for help and support and ideas for the Thalnado project www.nature.com/articles/s42...

06.02.2025 08:59 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Hemispheric Asymmetry of Intracortical Myelin Orientation in the Mouse Auditory Cortex We find that the right and left auditory cortex in mice are both organised in cortical columns, with asymmetric myelination in the different layers and differences between the sexes. In addition, the...

As of today, the main finding of my PhD is published in the European Journal for Neuroscience! 🥳🥳

Together with Gesine Müller, we looked at hemispheric asymmetries in the mouse auditory cortex. We find layer, sex, and hemispheric differences: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

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20.01.2025 15:40 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

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