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Josh Brown, MD, PhD from McLean/Harvard Med will be our speaker this Wed, Oct 29, 1:30PM EST talking on, "Translating Synaptic Mechanisms of TMS into Clinical Improvements and Novel Protocols" at the usual Zoom link. DM me your email if not on the list for the link.

Apply TODAY for the ACNP Early-Stage Investigator Assistance Program! ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: Jan. 12-15, 2026, Atlantis Paradise Island Resort. You must already have an in-person invite or be registered to attend the meeting in person to apply. tinyurl.com/ctck8yjn 🌴

In better news, amazing @rubykong92.bsky.social will present in our virtual speaker series tomorrow, Wed Oct 15. The time will switch to 8am EST to accommodate her time zone. Title: "Individual-Specific Brain Parcellations For Brain Stimulation." DM me your email if not on our list for the link.

Nolan Williams, M.D. Nolan Williams, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab.

Crushing news... nolanrwilliams.com

To allow a big timezone difference, our virtual speaker series next week will be Wed October 15 at 8am EST starring @rubykong92.bsky.social . The title will be: "Individual-specific brain parcellations for brain stimulation." DM me your email if you aren't already on our list for the Zoom link.

Please join us Wed, Oct 8, 130-230PM EST for @loliver4.bsky.social (Lindsay Oliver) speaking on "Targeting Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Social Cognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia Using Personalized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation" at the usual Zoom. DM your email if you need the link.

Next week, Wed Oct 1 at the usual time (1:30PM EST) and zoom link, we'll host Miriam Klein-Flügge @mkflugge.bsky.social speaking on "Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making." DM me your email if not on our list for the link. Hope to see you then.

Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals - Nature Communications A large brain imaging study of over 2000 people worldwide shows that fear conditioning engages brain regions linked to emotion and attention, with differences in individuals with anxiety or depression...

Great to be part of this effort, led by Joaquim Radua, @drhannahsavage.bsky.social and Miquel Fullana, among other www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our speaker this week is Francesco Versace speaking on “From brain waves to behavior: Identifying neuromarkers for tailored smoking and obesity treatments”, Wed, Aug 27, 130-230pm EST at the usual Zoom. PM your email if not on our list for the link. See you then!

Preprint introducing our whole brain causal connectivity maps in >N80 participants according to single pulse interleaved TMS/fMRI. dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧠 ⚡ 🔭

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📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

At the Fixel Institute, August is all about momentum in scientific, clinical and community initiatives. We’re gearing up for our flagship DBS Think Tank (Sept 2–4), where global neuromodulation leaders will gather to shape the future of brain stimulation.

The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne shined a light on the stigma of living w/ Parkinson's. In our new, just released, op-ed at MedPageToday, Dr. Indu Subramanian and I reflect on how Ozzy Osbourne’s fearless honesty about Parkinson’s disease changed lives. @medpagetoday.com

Please join us Wed, July 30, 130PM EST for Kristin Sellers talking on  "Sustained benefit of closed-loop deep brain stimulation for major depressive disorder" at the usual zoom. DM me your email if not on our mailing list for the link.

fMRI Course Instructors

Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
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Today, wed July 23. Hope to see you.

Every year SfN brings together thousands of researchers at every career stage to discover new ideas, share their research, and experience the best the field has to offer.

Register now to join the community at #SfN25 in San Diego!

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Proximity to an SGC-DLPFC Individualized Functional Target and outcomes in large rTMS clinical trials for Treatment-Resistant Depression Background Targeting methods for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with depression now include the use of individual functional scans to target specific functional connec...

functional connectivity proximity not associated with clinical response in N>500 MDD patients: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Electroconvulsive therapy saves lives—an evidence-based response to WHO WHO's and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' publication on mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice is intended to guide mental health laws internationally and addre...

ECT saves lives -- www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Are you a TMS/fMRI researcher? Join us this September in Cancun! www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

Our speaker this week is Chris Sege speaking on, "Targeting Fight/ Flight/ Freeze Motivation in the Anxiety Spectrum: A Model for the Use of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation as a Precision Medicine Behavior Modulation Tool" at the usual time (Wed, Jul 23, 1:30PM ET) and Zoom link.

This new Yeo Lab tool should immediately and permanently replace sample-size-only power calculations for functional MRI.

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

Democrats stage a science fair of canceled grants to show what’s been lost Partisan fight over Trump cuts heats up as Congress works on 2026 spending bills.

Researchers came from around the United States to showcase projects, ranging from modeling coastal hazards to teaching quantum information science, that were killed prematurely this spring by one of a half-dozen federal agencies. scim.ag/3Tv5iVC

Virtual speaker series continues, Thur July 10, 1:30pm EST Speaker: Chris Pople, University of Toronto (Sean Nestor lab)

Title: Interleaved iTBS-fMRI as a causal, prognostic biomarker in treatment-resistant depression

DM me your email address if not already on our list for the zoom link.

The House Appropriations Subcommittee for HHS markup is scheduled for July 21 and full comm July 24. Not much time. Make those calls ☎️ to your congressional leaders NOW 🚨! Make sure they hear the devastation that will happen to research 🔬, training 👩🏽‍🔬 and health 🩺 if the proposed cuts go forward.

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...