@drbreaky.bsky.social
Michael Breakspear Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist, Physicist. https://www.systemsneurosciencegroup.com/
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative potential for the care of people with mental health illnesses.
This review explores key domains, applications & challenges that must be addressed to ensure safe, effective, & sustainable clinical integration.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dave and I will both be presenting this work through the year and I look forward to seeing where it goes!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Compromises in the timing of the forward and backward reconstruction cause allostatic stress which\, left unmitigated, lead to the major proteinopathies/dementias
25.01.2026 05:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Here @davidjonesbrain.bsky.social & I take a deep dive into the idea that the hippocampus might be a "latent diffusion engine" - explaining working memory/cued recollection, imagination, & perception
25.01.2026 05:59 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0People have been looking at "AI & brains" through the lens of LLMs/transformers. But what latent diffusion? (think text-to-image/video platforms such as Midjourney).
**Class conditioned latent diffusion and semantically cued hippocampus share a remarkably similar computational architecture...**
Who is planning to go to the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Australia chapter meeting? I'm leaving Australia soon so want to meet as many lovely Aussies as possible on my conference tour 😀
02.10.2025 07:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
It was a great pleasure presenting preliminary results from my ongoing study on social-affective inference and constricted affect at the @newybrains.bsky.social lunch symposium series.
We found some interesting first effects of positive affective surprise and bodily responses. 🙂
Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms?
Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social describe a scale-free property of brain activity conserved across diverse species, suggesting a universal principle of activity underlying cognition.
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
🔥ATTENTION!🔥
Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!
Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.
Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6
Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
The keynote speaker for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting is Dr. Michael Breakspear, @drbreaky.bsky.social! You won’t want to miss his talk – your only chance will be to register and catch it live at 12:00-13:00 UTC on September 11!
🔗 https://humanbrainmapping.org/25SEASIG
#OHBM #SEASIG
New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist
Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF),
Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/85537666
Thnx Ben :-)
19.07.2025 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience,
Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps
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12.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 1306 🔁 180 💬 36 📌 19thanks @earlkmiller.bsky.social !! 😎
11.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0good eyes!
28.05.2025 07:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On this auspicious day, I finally bit the bullet & asked my super post-doc @annabhlr.bsky.social to teach me how to code & run Python (today!)
Coding lifeline now goes:
BASIC (1982); FORTRAN (1990); MAPLE (1992); MATLAB (1999); PYTHON (2025)
(a bit of a gap between the last two!)
Program member Professor Michael Breakspear
@drbreaky.bsky.social will be presenting "Modelling the brain as a wave machine" at Pint of Science in Newcastle on May 20, 2025
Follow the link to book your tickets! 👇
pintofscience.com.au/event/brains...
Looking forward to presenting our work on cortico-hippocampal coupling and wave-wave interactions as a basis for some core human cognitions
5pm May 6th EST (US)
8am May 7th AEST (Sydney)
Zoom link: columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/92736430185
Thanks to WaveClub conveners Erfan Zabeh & Uma Mohan
What does parenthood, depression, and psychedelics do to your brain? Very proud to see Winnie Orchard joining this stellar grp of Aussie neuros @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social @lucacocchineuro.bsky.social ky.social & @drbreaky.bsky.social for a FREE public lecture in June. @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
29.04.2025 23:48 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations.
Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET!
Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend
@drbreaky.bsky.social
We are hiring!
@aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS).
If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!!
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)!
Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city!
Please share 🙂
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🧠🌡️ New preprint out!
BRAIN TEMPERATURE may be a key factor in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancer:
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
'Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health'
... and their disturbance in metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders
16.04.2025 04:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This new preprint led by @annabhlr.bsky.social and Christian Behler focusses on these topics in health
16.04.2025 04:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Given that core neuronal reactions (like everything in biology) are temperature dependent, the absence of focussed research on brain temperature, thermoregulation and its measurement (thermometry)is amazing
16.04.2025 04:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
New preprint: "Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health"
osf.io/preprints/os...
Program members Dr Alexander Thorpe and Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social presented today @hmriaustralia.bsky.social as part of the HMRI Weekly Research Seminar Series.
Thanks to our researchers for their fascinating presentations!
#neuroscience #researcher #neuromodulation #brain
