Kayson Fakhar

Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again?????

Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.

Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans Hemispherotomy is a neurosurgical procedure for treating refractory epilepsy by disconnecting a significant portion of the cortex. This study shows that the isolated cortex exhibits EEG patterns resem...

Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans | PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Report: Cost Of Raising Neglected Children Still Low As Ever

Report: Cost Of Raising Neglected Children Still Low As Ever https://theonion.com/report-cost-of-raising-neglected-children-still-low-as-1819577111/

Comparison diagram showing traditional vs discourse network user representations. Left: isolated platform-specific clusters with no cross-platform connections. Right: unified network where users are connected across platforms through shared narrative engagement, revealing previously invisible cross-platform communities.

New paper + interactive dashboard on the 2024 election information ecosystem.
Building on discourse networks work with @hanshanley.bsky.social @luceriluc.bsky.social @emilioferrara.bsky.social—this lets us visualize the online landscape as a unified system, rather than isolating each platform.

Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: The time for it is now Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology and how neurons work together to generate…

Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology, and how neurons generate behavior, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

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We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social

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Subplot mosaic is the best 🔥

Very nice thread, but can't get on board with taking all the panels to external software just for the panel labels and layout 🙅

I always use subplot_mosaic (Tutorial from matplotlib docs: tinyurl.com/3efsadeb) and add the panel labels with fig.text(), no third-party software needed!

Second attempt, but processing is tough.

This is about 3 min integrated exposure.

ok, imagine you have an oscillation that is not symmetric around 0 (small direct current shift) with some amplitude modulation, for instance with 1/f-dynamics.

➡️ then these 1/f-dynamics will show up in low frequency part of spectrum (red); in addition to around oscillation peak (yellow).

Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

A photo of the short story Everything and Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges, printed in a book.

A photo of the short story Everything and Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges, printed in a book.

A photo of the short story Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges, printed in a book.

A photo of the short story On Exactitude in Science by Jorge Luis Borges, printed in a book.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Got the hairstyle right tho

The 2nd CogBases Workshop is this 4 & 5 Nov at Institut Pasteur!
We'll discuss the latest in open science methods for analysing brain imaging data. Registration free, but mandatory
neuroanatomy.github.io/cogbases-2025/
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A framework for advancing mechanistic neuro-behavioral biomarkers in psychiatry Neuropsychiatry has yet to surmount the fundamental challenge of mapping behavioral pathology to its underlying neural pathology. This gap limits the development of treatments for specific circuit pat...

In this review, @kangjoolee.bsky.social and colleagues propose a provisional formalism, considering mechanism type, severity, and time, to map neuropsychiatric behavioral pathology to its underlying dynamic neural mechanisms to advance the development of precision treatments.

Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field.

#neuroskyence

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📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…

🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉

The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

YouTube video by The Royal Society The strange story of Phineas Gage | the Royal Society

A terrible accident left construction worker Phineas Gage with serious brain damage. Amazingly, he recovered - forever changing our understanding of the human brain. Watch our new video with #BBCIdeas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDTufQsee9o

Can general artificial intelligence emerge by not following the evolution of complex brains? In this 2022 paper with @brigan.bsky.social we argued that embodiment, mind reading (mirror systems), mental time traveling... are necessary conditions
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24... @anilseth.bsky.social

Apathy as a Loss of Prior Precision on Action Outcomes Apathy is common in neurological disease, associated with poor prognosis and limited treatments. Current models posit that goal-directed actions are reduced because costs or effort outweigh the expect...

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A slightly different take on the old problem of #apathy - we find evidence that apathy is linked to confidence on action outcomes 🎯

🧠This confidence may be underpinned by self-regulation of prefrontal superficial pyramidal neurons

#neuroskyence

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

I’m being silenced 😩

Nat. Hum. Behav.: Statistical evidence in psychological networks
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02314-2

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Emergent Directedness in Social Contagion An enduring challenge in contagion theory is that the pathways contagions follow through social networks exhibit emergent complexities that are difficult to predict using network structure. Here, we a...

Emergent Directedness in Social Contagion arxiv.org/abs/2510.06012

a group of people are watching a movie in a theater while eating popcorn . ALT: a group of people are watching a movie in a theater while eating popcorn .

So oscillations are… epiphenomenon??