David Garnica

Can we run a child version of the Midnight Scan Club? Not at midnight, of course, but turns out we can! We collected large amounts of resting-state fMRI data from individual kids, and show high reliability with increasing amounts of data and individual variability. Check it out!

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The balance between neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I) shapes cognition, development and brain-based disorders. Electroencephalography and magnetic resonance spectroscopy allow non-invasive quan...

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Unlocking Our Ecological History New discoveries from Côte D'Ivoire place ecosystem diversity at the roots of our species.

How deep are humanity’s roots in African rainforests? Eleanor Scerri details her team’s research published in Nature about the discovery of tools in Côte d’Ivoire dating back to 150,000 years ago, which places ecosystem diversity at the roots of our species. #Academicsky 🏺 🧪

I am so excited that this is now out. An absolutely **mammoth** amount of work, please give this thread a read ⬇️💪💪

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors Hockley et al. investigate how the brain processes auditory stimuli based on predictability. The results show that predictions in the medial prefrontal cortex govern sensory information flow and modul...

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors
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#neuroscience

Predatory becomes a bit rude and intrusive. I've been receiving more of those emails lately

Saliva test may turn tide on prostate cancer claim scientists Analysing DNA in saliva can identify men at the greatest risk of prostate cancer

A saliva test that analyses DNA to identify men born with the greatest risk of developing prostate cancer may help "turn the tide" on the disease.

Targeting those men for biopsies & MRI scans discovered aggressive cancers that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. 🧪🧬

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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Happy presenting our work at the CNS 2025 in Boston! With Prof. Aysenil Belger @aysenil.bsky.social FC between the subgenual ACC and the left anterior insula is significantly increased in teenagers with increased anxiety and when they observe threat stimuli in an fMRI task #neuroimaging #CNS2025

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elio Balestrieri, Joachim Gross, et al:

Beyond oscillations—Toward a richer characterization of brain states

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

At the Boston StandUpForScience rally today. We had at least 1500 people, probably more.

Extremely sad

Not being anti-fascist at this moment in history is anti-science. Probably always was. But cannot be clearer than these last few weeks.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”

I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning - Nature Methods DeepPrep is a preprocessing pipeline for functional and structural MRI data from humans. Deep learning-based modules and an efficient workflow allow DeepPrep to handle large datasets.

Nature Methods

DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning

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The ACNP has joined forces with other brain and behavior organizations in opposition of the NIH imposed standard indirect cost rate. acnp.org/about-us/st...

Slow cortical dynamics generate context processing and novelty detection The brain efficiently processes sensory information by selecting novelty and discarding redundancies. In this work, Shymkiv et al. demonstrate that through a high-dimensional ensemble representation, ...

Neuron

Slow cortical dynamics generate context processing and novelty detection
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Increase in EEG functional connectivity and power during wakefulness in self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes Examine power and functional connectivity (FC) in children with Self-limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (SeLECTS) during resting-state.We ret…

📢 Publication Alert! 🧠
I'm excited to share that my latest research on EEG in children with Self-Limited Epilepsy of Childhood with Centrotemporal Spikes (SeLECTS) is now published in Clinical Neurophysiology!

📖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#EEG #SeLECTS #ChildNeurology #BrainResearch

The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow - Nature Neuroscience The default mode network (DMN) is implicated in cognition and behavior. Here, the authors show that the DMN is cytoarchitecturally heterogeneous, it contains regions receptive to input from the sensor...

Nature Neuroscience

The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Art is how we decorate space, Music is how we decorate time”.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Multimodal predictive modeling: Scalable imaging informed approaches to predict future brain health Predicting future brain health is a complex endeavor that often requires integrating diverse data sources. The neural patterns and interactions identi…

Using neuroimaging data to predict brain health. One of the cool things here is that we can train an image-informed model which can then outperform models trained only on assessments, *even from individuals without imaging data available* (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Ay, los memes del tuiter USA.

Más de 75 premios Nobel piden al Senado de Estados Unidos que no confirme a Robert Kennedy como secretario de Salud La carta, a la que ha tenido acceso el diario ‘The New York Times’, subraya que la salud pública estaría en riesgo bajo su dirección

El principal argumento de los 75 premios Nobel que firman esta carta es que, bajo la dirección de Kennedy, la salud pública de Estados Unidos estaría en riesgo