Dr. Indrit Bègue

Resumé coming as soon as paper officially out, stay tuned! 🤩

✨The kind of emails that make your day.✨
This is the second big paper from my lab this year and resumes TMS targets across 4’283 patients w Schizophrenia, upcoming in Molecular Psychiatry 🧲🧠
Great work led by Lorina Sinanaj&Kostas Pallis at Synapsy Center Neuroscience and Mental Health Research🤩

#SOBP25 was great fun and easily one of the best conferences in the last years - so happy to catch up with friends and colleagues and speak also on my favorite brain region: the cerebellum! 🩵

Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain.
This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I have two papers under review since forever. It’s really not cool.😒 #scientificventing

🚀🚀🔥🔥 we got this!

It’s really heart breaking to realize just how much our short horizon, outcome focused funding cycles hurt science. We could do so much more if we could invest in people long term. Staff scientist positions and an ecosystem to support them are direly needed.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social ! ❄️🎄

I will be also talking at #SIRS2025 in Chicago - Little Brain World Tour! 🍾

Happy to present at #SOBP2025 in Toronto in the midst of a highly distinguished crowd - if you’re attending, let’s meet! #latergram #catchingupwithbluesky

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

Fantastic talk by @indrit_begue making the case that we should look at the cerebellum to treat schizophrenia using neuromodulation! #optodbs2024

One of my most intricate and painfully made pieces. This is the "Purkinje bear", composed of the 37 neurons individually, and manually cut in different woods. #neuroscience #brain #cerebellum #sciart

I too really enjoyed grad school 🤓👩‍💻 - I LOVED scientific conversations with coffee, discussing experiments and hypotheses. Honestly, few things beat analysing freshly acquired data on a newly designed experiment 🧠

Accelerated cerebellar TMS for negative symptoms of schizophrenia in a triple blind RCT ‘ATHENA’ - here with my fantastic lab!

How does one find cerebellum people in the good place? 😇

They capture you so well! So sunny!

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🔎 May 1: new psilocybin for depression meta analysis in The BMJ finds in-credible (literally) effect sizes (>4)
🔎 May 3: post-publication peer-review identifies severe issues
🔎 May 4: BMJ publishes expression of concern

www.bmj.com/content/385/...

#PsychSciSky 🧪

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Yay Gifs!

Meta-analytic evidence suggests no correlation between sleep spindles and memory

Another One Bites the Dust. No correlation between sleep spindles and memory in humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PsychSciSky
#metasci
#StatsSky
#sleepscience
#sleepresearch
#neuroskyence

i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) -

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. my job has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it.

#neuroscience

Sample sizes to obtain at least 90 % power and at most 10 % error for the association strength, weight, scores, and loadings.

How many people do you need to scan to get robust estimates for multivariate methods such as CCA and PLS?

The sobering answer is: likely several thousand (there is a calculator now)
Helmer et al. Commun Biol
#neuroscience

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Another fun fact: the cerebellum white matter is called Arbor vitae, the tree of life. Thanks for the great photos

These Purkinje cell look like trees are awesome.

“Ainsi périrent les ennemis de la République!”
#GenevaTradition 🍫