Today at UMN, we had the privilege of hearing an incredible talk by Dr. Mark George From precision brain stimulation to “brain stimulation in the sky”—truly mind-blowing insights. Huge thanks to Dr. for making this amazing opportunity possible! @UMN_Psychiatry

Our only speaker for November will be next week, Nov 20, 130PM EST: Aristotle Voineskos with talk titled, "Neuroimaging Approaches in Clinical Trials" at the usual zoom link. If not on our email list, please DM your email and we'll send the link.🧠

I am looking for a Post-Doctoral Researcher (2 to 3 year contract) interested in object recognition, and in exploring object shape, texture, material, and/or object-related action, using fMRI decoding and multivariate approaches. Send me an email [email protected]

Wow, what an incredible review panel! It was both educational and absolutely interesting. Grateful for the opportunity to learn and be inspired by such brilliant minds 🤩! Many thanks to Dr Connor Liston, Dr Sarah "Holly" Hollingsworth Lisanby, MD, and other great speakers in the panel. #ACNP2024

Excited to hold the hard copy of my first book chapter on brain stimulation in addiction, co-authored with Colleen Hanlon and Hamed Ekhtiari ! The entire book is an educational resource. Grateful to be part of this work by Ingmar H.A. Franken! us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-…

"... individuals without a hit paper as a postdoc are significantly less likely to pursue a faculty career than those with at least one... " Interesting #publication in PNASNews #Sciencetwitter #phdlife #postdoclife #Science #academia pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

I am proud to share this new review on The Biology of Addiction that appeared today in Science Signaling. It was fun to write the review all by myself and reflect on the tremendous progress achieved over the past three decades...

TMS is delivered to the DLPFC in depression, aiming to modulate SGC activity But axons linking DLPFC and SGC are absent How then does TMS stimulation modulate SGC activity? Caio's work on TMS propagation in the absence of direct anatomical paths: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

This study identified a common brain circuit centered on the hippocampus's posterior subiculum linked to lesions causing secondary psychosis. ja.ma/4aZ0bEY Frederic Schaper Shan Siddiqi @shansiddiqi.bsky.social

🚀 Workshop Alert! Join us at the 6th Int’l #BrainStimulation Conference in Kobe, Japan on Feb 23-26 for "Front & Center: MPFC as a Transdiagnostic Neuromodulation Target" 🎤 Featuring experts: Hamed Ekhtiari, #AbrahamZangen, Andrew Leuchter & Colleen Hanlon ! 🗓️ 24 Feb, 17:15-18:15

🚨 Our paper is out in Neuropsychopharmacology! 🧠⚡ Personalizing brain stimulation isn't 1D — it's 4D: Context, Target, Timing, Dose. Honored to collaborate with Colleen Hanlon , Michael Nitsche, Opitz Lab , Kelvin Lim, & with Hamed Ekhtiari 's guidance. 🙌 🔗nature.com/articles/s4138…

New results! Working memory is read out via a theta (3-6 Hz) traveling wave sweeping across cortex. Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #neuroscience

#ThisWeekInNPP This review article from Hamed Ekhtiari & team discusses the need for individualized non-invasive brain stimulation protocols to improve treatment outcomes, proposing personalization across 4 dimensions: context, target, dose, & timing nature.com/articles/s4138…

Today, NIH announced a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science while reducing the use of animals in research. This aligns with U.S. FDA’s initiative to reduce testing in animals. bit.ly/4jYd4T2

Nice review / meta-analysis but a misleading headline. TMS plus symptom provocation was NOT significantly better than TMS alone for either OCD or nicotine dependence. Remains an important but unanswered question.

Many thanks to Society for Neuroscience (SfN) for awarding me a Trainee Professional Development Award! 🎉 I’ll attend my first SfN this year and present our closed-loop concurrent tES-fMRI randomized trial led by Hamed Ekhtiari If you're attending and would like to connect, DM me, I'd love to chat!

Can internet use become addictive? A 2022 #SciencePerspective discusses the addictive potential of the internet and how it can be best conceptualized and evaluated. Learn more: scim.ag/3Kn2Zmw #ScienceMagArchives