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Scott Marek

@smarek0502.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Radiology @ WashU; pediatric neuroimaging; population neuroimaging (BWAS); precision imaging; replicability & generalizability of brain and behavior

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I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

10.08.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 380    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 35

I’ve yet to receive a PFM grant.. perhaps the era is not yet over @rodbraga.bsky.social πŸ˜…

17.07.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

17.07.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 16
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Alert!!!!

β€œAn Action Networks Model for Pain”

We propose a new model for chronic pain β€” and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.

πŸ‘‰ thread below 🧡

osf.io/preprints/ps...

26.06.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by β€œstimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!

22.05.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 10
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It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper β€œThe human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy

10.04.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

Good on you for not taking him. He’s so mid along with every other contemporary right wing β€œnoticer”.. Sailer, Yarvin, I/O, etc.

04.03.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to be added, such a cool idea!

28.11.2024 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Love to see this conversation starting!
"Study design features increase replicability in brain-wide association studies"

Full article led by Kaidi Kang and Simon Vandekar + awesome News+Views by @roselynechauvin.bsky.social & @ndosenbach.bsky.social!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence

27.11.2024 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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