Ever wondered about #hemisphericAsymmetries in #Borderline personality disorder? We've got you covered! Check out our new systematic review in Springer Nature ⬇️📖: link.springer.com/article/10.100… With Sebastian Ocklenburg and co! 🧠👩‍🔬 #Psychiatry #Laterality

Assortative mating across nine psychiatric disorders is consistent and persistent over cultures and generations medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dissecting the Reduced Penetrance of Putative Loss-of-Function Variants in Population-Scale Biobanks medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

First paper from the PhD of Jitse S. Amelink on the genetics of functional connectivity between regions of the brain important for language nature.com/articles/s4200… many congratulations Jitse!! MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics Donders Institute

Imaging genetics of language network functional connectivity reveals links with language-related abilities, dyslexia and handedness. New paper by Jitse S. Amelink & al. Language & Genetics Simon Fisher Clyde Francks doi.org/10.1038/s42003…

Michael systematizes 9/10 Life Satisfaction The left/right logical/holistic idea is 1% true, 99% hype. The two hemispheres do have some different functions, but it's not as simple as logical/holistic.

A 1,000,000th reminder the crucial importance of basic research. Ambros and Ruvkun were looking into understanding nematode genetics and development, not looking for a drug, and ended up opening an entire new area in biology

HOW DOES YOUR GENETIC CODE affect your brain? 💡A new genetic roadmap of the brain (in today's Nature Genetics) reports: 💡100s of genomic loci affect deep brain structures 💡Genetic variants driving brain volume overlap with risk loci for Parkinson's, ADHD, many brain diseases

So excited about this study led by Anne Billot, PhD, @annebillot.bsky.social and NiharikaJhingan: Good news for us, aging folks -- some 🧠 networks (e.g., the language one!) don't seem to deteriorate with age! Long live the language network!

Want to do a PhD in Nijmegen on 'Mapping language-relevant genetic effects on brain variability using normative modelling' with myself, @amarquand and Simon Fisher ? Applications welcome via mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fell… 🧠🧬

Individualized cortical thickness asymmetry in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schizophrenia medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pre-adolescent Brain Asymmetry: Developmental Trajectory, Cognitive and Psychiatric Effects, Neurobiological and Environmental Influences in ABCD Study researchsquare.com/article/rs-525…

So, for now, I'm staying. I hope others will too. We can't, as scientists, just spend our time talking to each other. The stakes are just too high to cede the battleground of ideas, tempting as it may be. 6/6

It was nice to learn how flies 🪰🪰 can help understand some aspects of human hyperactivity, through being on the PhD exam committee of Benjamin Harich , student of Annette Schenck Barbara Franke MariekeKlein . Congratulations Dr. Harich and supervisors!!

Out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: a short article on studying brain asymmetry in terms of global patterns across the entire brain cell.com/trends/cogniti… Led by Kong, Xiangzhen (孔祥祯) and Yi Pu at Zhejiang Uni, with some contributions from myself

Excited to see our work featured in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! Huge congratulations to the team! Yi (Valerie) Pu Clyde Francks

Large-scale study links dyslexia genetics to brain structure medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-l… via Medical Xpress

Genes, brains and dyslexia: Our study in over 30,000 adults from UK Biobank now published in Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… - With a thread below from when we released a preprint version ⬇️

Scientists discover why parents can pass on dyslexia to their children dailymail.co.uk/health/article… Not how we would have put it but still appreciate the coverage (link to our press release mpi.nl/news/dyslexia-… )

A more detailed news article here: thedebrief.org/breakthrough-s…