Giulio Pergola

📢 PhD in AI for Health & Life Sciences in Bari!

We seek curious minds: computational biologists, data scientists, neuroimagers, psychologists interested in human diversity at cell, brain & behavior levels🧠🔬

📅 Call in July, selection in Aug/Sept, start Nov 1st

Info: giulio.pergola@uniba.it. DM me!

13.06.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Altered Brain‐Behavior Association During Resting State is a Potential Psychosis Risk Marker The study detects a potential multimodal biomarker that can be promising for identifying early markers of psychosis. It shows a consistent brain-behavior association between a circuit of interconnect...

🧠🎉 New paper in #AdvancedScience! 👏
Giuseppe Stolfa, from #UNIBA, used a novel #graph-based approach to define meta-ROIs on resting-state #fMRI data from 1,200+ subjects. Prefrontal-striatal #connectivity is associated to executive function and altered in #psychosis, even without cognitive deficits

04.04.2025 09:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

✨2025 #ResearchExcellenceAward✨ #SIRS

🧠🔬Honored to receive this award, recognizing my team’s impact on #schizophrenia research. It highlights the power of collaboration, uniting basic and clinical sciences. Grateful to learn from brilliant young scientists dedicated to improving patients’ lives.

30.03.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Interindividual Variability In Memory Performance Is Related To Cortico-Thalamic Networks During Memory Encoding And Retrieval Encoding new memories relies on functional connections between the medial temporal lobe and the frontoparietal cortices. Multi-scan fMRI showed changes in these functional connections before and after...

Congrats to Roberta Passiatore @lieberinstitute.bsky.social for another editorial success and to Antonella Lupo (Univ.Bari) for her first publication✍️ in #TheJournalofNeuroscience!
Their work on the #thalamus reveals new insights into thalamocortical connectivity, #memory, and neural individuality🧠🔬

28.03.2025 07:23 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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Honored to join the annual SIRS conference this weekend as a mentor to Deema Ali, PhD in Neuropsychiatric Genetics at University of Galway🇮🇪

Looking forward to great discussions, supporting young researchers and connecting with colleagues from around the world! 🧠🔬
schizophreniaresearchsociety.org

25.03.2025 06:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

March 20th, I competed in the Sumo Science Championship – MCS edition, where experts face off in scientific challenges. My match? Astrophysics (Elisabetta Bissaldi, Politecnico of Bari) vs. Neuroscience (me, University of Bari).
With 33 middle schoolers as our audience, Neuroscience won 23-10! 🎉 🧠🏆

24.03.2025 11:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🧩New study: "Network Constraints on 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 Synaptic Alterations in Schizophrenia"

medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

We map a prominent brain-wide pattern of synaptic defects in people with Schizophrenia using PET, then model the molecular, cellular & connectomic features shaping this pattern 🧵1/3👇

24.03.2025 01:28 — 👍 38    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 3

Synaptic-dependent developmental dysconnectivity in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome Synaptic dysfunction underlies brain connectivity alterations in 22q11DS, a syndrome linked to neuropsychiatric disorders.

Our latest cross-species 🐭👨 work is out today
▶️ science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We show that
1️⃣ Brain connectivity in carriers of genetic alterations conferring high risk for #autism & #schizophrenia U-turns (hyper▶️ hypo) during adolescence
2️⃣ This switch is driven by synaptic remodeling

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13.03.2025 14:42 — 👍 70    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 5

Schizophrenia Is More Complex Than We Thought, Which Means New Avenues for Treatment As a complex picture of schizophrenia emerges, so do new ways to treat the disorder

“There is no schizophrenia. There are schizophrenias."

Researchers are discovering that schizophrenia, which can involve alterations in both the brain and the body—particularly in the immune system—doesn't look the same in everyone with the condition.

My latest feature for @sciam.bsky.social:

19.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

20.03.2025 18:36 — 👍 482    🔁 166    💬 23    📌 22

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New PhD in Bari!🔬🧠 Apply by March 24th: lnkd.in/dDQ6R98n

Join us to study biological layers in psychosis—from genomics, transcriptomics, brain systems, up to behavior.

Work in a top team (70+ members, 5 PIs) with research in Bari 🇮🇹 & Baltimore 🇺🇸 (LIBD, Johns Hopkins Medical Campus).

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22.02.2025 07:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honored to present "AI in Psychiatry" at the CNS Academy 2024 in Rome on Nov 27-28!
This multidisciplinary neuroscience project organized by Lundbeck Italia SpA brought together experts and innovators in the field.
It was fantastic to engage with such a multidisciplinary audience!
www.cnsacademy.it

05.12.2024 09:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0