Jana Fehring

Exemplary analysis pipeline for respiratory data

'Robust circular cluster-based statistics
for respiration-brain coupling'

New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses.

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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New paper out! 🚀

Using a differentiable implementation of the reduced Wong–Wang model, we optimized whole-brain simulations for 1444 subjects.

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Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

Rethinking women’s brain health - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Far from being a niche concern, women’s brain health is a global issue, affecting more than half of the world’s population. Despite this, the unique aspects of how the female brain adapts, reorganizes...

Rethinking women’s brain health — a Comment article by Julia Sacher & Ingo Bechmann

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Undoubtedly the most massive group effort I was ever lucky to be involved in. Led by the ever-unwavering
@annekeitel.bsky.social, this preprint synthesizes the status quo of what we (don't) know about neural oscillations. Grateful to be part of the @scone-neuro.bsky.social network. #neuroskyence

Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...

New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:

How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)

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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration The brain processes information from the external environment alongside signals generated by the body. Among bodily rhythms, respiration emerges as a key modulator of sensory processing. Multisensory ...

New year, new preprint out! 🧨
'Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration'

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Great team effort w/ Andrea Zaccaro, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Marcello Costantini, @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social

#Neuroskyence #Interoception

Decoding Cortical Chronotopy - Comparing the Influence of Different Cortical Organizational Schemes The brain's diverse intrinsic timescales enable us to perceive stimuli with varying temporal persistency. This study aimed to uncover the cortical org…

New paper from our lab in NeuroImage on cortical chronotopy, led by Falko Mecklenbrauck!
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Time to share some news: I'm still somewhat perplexed but incredibly happy to be awarded an #ERC Starting Grant (starting in early 2025) to escalate our brain-body research: M/EEG + resp/cardiac/gastric rhythms, TMS, olfactory bulb recordings, patient studies, ...

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Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics We propose a computational framework for high-dimensional brain–body states as transient embodiments of nested internal and external dynamics governed…

Happy to see our opinion piece on the dynamics of brain-body states now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
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Really enjoyed drawing this up with @micahgallen.com and @jgross.bsky.social!

#CogSci #interoception #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Huge thanks to everone who was involved, in particular: @jgross.bsky.social, Christina Stier, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, Niels Focke & Udo Dannlowski!

Neurophysiological correlates of cortical hierarchy across the lifespan bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Excited to share this preprint in which we find individual and robust neurophysiological markers of cortical
hierarchy and highlight the dynamic nature of the brain's organization throughout life :)
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