A study led by Saampras Ganesan using advanced 7 Tesla fMRI found that focused attention meditation reduces self-referential thinking and promotes relaxation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Nicholas Van Dam Andrew Zalesky Valentina Lorenzetti (she/her) and Brad Moffat.

Our systematic review and meta-analysis of seed-to-whole-brain resting-state fMRI studies in youth depression encompassing 1400 participants is out now in NBR (tinyurl.com/2s3rw8w7). Robin Cash Andrew Zalesky Aswin Ratheesh Saampras Ganesan

Shadows In Spiritual Practice 🖤 Every part of my framework for awakening is a vital aspect of experience. When an aspect is excluded, a shadow emerges. 1. Here are the shadows to look out for.

Postdoctoral research opportunity to work University of Melbourne with Andrew Zalesky and I, and others, on a number of neuroimaging studies. Please retweet!

Want to learn about the mechanisms underlying Neurofeedback? Please join Valentina Lorenzetti (she/her) , Ethan Murphy , Saampras Ganesan and Chao Suo as they present a short workshop on Neurofeedback at the AS4SANinc conference on Monday the 27th of May.

Delighted to announce the first study supporting reliability of neural markers of advanced meditation (jhana) Now in Human Brain Mapping OHBM “Within-subject reliability of brain networks during advanced meditation: An intensively sampled 7 Tesla MRI case study” 🔬🧘🧠💫 🧵

This is super important for anyone using psychedelics to understand going in. Psychedelics reliably produce the *feeling* of insight. Doesn't make it true. Please read before disowning your family after that ayahuasca retreat. nature.com/articles/s4427…

What happens in your brain when you meditate? An article that explains this in simple, easy-to-understand language, perfect for kids aged 10 and up. Most importantly, this has actually been peer-reviewed by students aged 10 and up! 😎 lnkd.in/gf7PyHNp

Very excited to share that our 6-site mega-analysis of functional connectivity changes in youth MDD(n=810) is out now in Nature Mental Health (tinyurl.com/mv889hsm) and featured on Research Briefing and the Guardian! Are brain changes in youth MDD the same as those in adults?

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, along with collaborators, have created a beautiful and insightful bridge between physics and AI. They invented neural networks that were not only inspired by the brain, but also by central notions in physics such as energy, temperature, system

Science has a hypothesis-testing part, but it has an equally crucial ‘night science’ mode, where new ideas are improvised for the first time.

Congratulations to Dr. Saampras Ganesan for completing his PhD! 👏 Dr Ganesan’s research saw him establish a neurofeedback system for the 7T MRI scanner and develop an innovative model to train beginner meditators. Well done Saampras Ganesan ! 🎉 #PhDGraduation #MeditationResearch

🔥AMAZING TO SEE everyone @ last night's ENIGMA OHBM party here in Brisbane, Australia !!! 🥂🎆🎈🥳 🔥take 1 🔥take 2 (without motion correction ;) #OHBM2025 ENIGMA Consortium ENIGMA-Diabetes OHBM OHBM Trainees OHBM Australia OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group (OS-SIG) ENIGMA Consortium ENIGMA-Diabetes Lab of Neuro Imaging

🎉Celebrity neuroscientist sightings OHBM 🔥 1⃣Sylvia Lin, Amanda Boyes, Tim Silk, PT; PT, Saampras Ganesan, Tonya White; PT, Neda Jahanshad, Sophia Thomopoulos, Chris Ching; 2⃣ PT, Tiril Gurholt, Suyi Ooi; PT, Kami Pearson, Lei Wang, Habib Ganjgahi;  PT, Shan (Hannah) Luo; PT,