AJ Simon

Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats, great choices for Cogneuro research:

Great piece by @natolambert.bsky.social on the current state of human exhaustion in the AI world. Makes this important point:

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new preprint! We conducted a spatial meta-analysis of community violence and mental health, synthesizing 155 articles (k = 769) to test how exposure to community violence is associated with mental health problems, and how state social service investments moderate the link. 💵

Really cool interdisciplinary study!

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Excited to share our new paper entitled Multisystem Environmental Factors Elucidate Shared and Distinct Associations With Brain and Behavior in Adolescents.

Link: www.jaacap.org/article/S089....

@kavliatyale.bsky.social

thrilled to share our preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection!

Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls

paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social

thread below 👇

Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
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Couldn’t agree more. It’s easy to blame the “other” side for not trusting scientists, but to begin to repair these fractures it’s our responsibility to step up and be leaders and engage with the community

Beautiful example of fMRI-based stratification for precision psychiatry!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Creative experiences and brain clocks - Nature Communications Creative experiences such as dance, music, drawing, and strategy video games might preserve brain health. The authors show that regular practice or short training in these activities is linked to brains that look younger and work more efficiently.

Go do more creative stuff!

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

Functional connectivity is dominated by aperiodic, rather than oscillatory, coupling Functional connectivity (FC) has attracted significant interest in the identification of specific circuits underlying brain (dys-)function. Classical analyses to estimate FC ( i.e ., filtering electro...

This is a fascinating study dissecting the degree to which functional connectivity in EEG is driven by aperiodic activity instead of oscillations -- how robust are connectivity findings in a frequency band (theta, alpha) when oscillations are not omni-present?

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Great to have @timlawn.bsky.social visiting today and presenting some really interesting findings. Cool stuff.

Well put! Thank’s for the shoutout dr smith

Transdiagnostic connectome-based predictive modeling of many behavioral phenotypes reveals brain network mediators of clinical-cognitive relationships Connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) applied to functional MRI connectivity data can identify brain networks that vary with behavioral measures across subjects. The prediction strength also prov...

New preprint alert!

We used connectome-based predictive modeling in a transdiagnostic sample to identify brain network correlates of wide array of behavioral measures. We also identify where networks supporting cognition overlap with those linked to diagnostically related clinical symptomatology.

If only these jobs were posted 2-3 years from now… my partner and I would love to apply!

Listening to the Brain’s Hidden Rhythms: How Aperiodic Activity is Changing EEG and Depression… Rates of depression have been rising steadily over the past few decades, affecting more than 280 million people worldwide (World Health…

Theo Kertesz, a brilliant intern here in the B&C lab, wrote a fantastic piece about my PhD research. Read it on Medium! medium.com/p/listening-...

Started a new postdoc at Yale in @brognition.bsky.social Lab with Kia Nobre! Studying adaptive cognition in humans using brain recordings—both on and in the head. New lab, new city, new chapter!

If you’re at OHBM this year, come check out my poster titled “Brain networks that mediate clinical-cognitive relationships” on Friday and Saturday at location number 1150

Excited to get this collaborative paper out from my rotation with @dscheinost.bsky.social

Had a great time discussing network neuroscience (and skiing) at #whistlerbrain2025! Thanks for organizing @toddc.bsky.social and @anjasamardzija.bsky.social!

Last week to register! (registration closes Jan 26) #whistlerbrain
Register here: web.cvent.com/event/34b0c2...

“Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations”, a solo paper by yours truly, making the case that brain activity flow shifts are essential to mental flexibility (and quite interesting too!)

Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...