Check out Marios Georgiadis's presentation at ISMRM: Diffusion MRI can provide beautiful brain tractograms, yet its signal is not specific to myelinated axons; needs validation. When: Sat, 03 June 2023 Time: 3:55 PM Session: Validation of Microstructure Mapping with Diffusion MRI

Greatest honor of my career: being the NIBIB New Horizons Lecturer at #ISMRM2024 🙏 As an ISMRM 'kid' since 2010, I can't express how excited I am to be giving this plenary lecture.

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇

The early registration rate is due soon! Join us to learn more about Diffusion MRI/MRS and connect with world experts in the field! 👇

Cognitive testing ~2 years post-Covid in a prospective study with uninfected controls: persistent deficits related to longer duration and ongoing symptoms, not seen in those recovered thelancet.com/journals/eclin… Claire Steves #LongCovid H/T Jeremy Farrar

Back from last week’s Gordon Conference and pretty overwhelmed by the positive response to this. Huge thanks for all the retweets and kind words 🌟Super happy to have this paper out and share BigMac with the world. Brief summary below:

The final steps of our launch are now complete! The journal website at The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is live: direct.mit.edu/imag The full submission-platform is finalised - see link on journal website. (For papers already being considered, please continue to use janeway.imaging-neuroscience.org)

Incredible optical illusion demonstrates that when objects are removed from peripheral vision, the brain perceives a slower pace of motion 📹 Akiyoshi Kitaoka

GPT4 and images. Exciting times, but still some work to be done. Be careful about how you name your files. 😉

🎉 Exciting news! The full program for the upcoming qMRI conference is now live! 🚀 Our lineup features stellar keynote speakers and an array of high-quality shorter talks! Explore the complete program at qmriconference.wixsite.com/home/2023-conf…, and secure your spot by registering! 🤗

Last week, NeuroImage invited me to (re)-join their team as Associate Editor, which precipitated the opportunity to write my perspectives as I declined and clarified why. Here is the exchange as I wanted to share more broadly. thebrainblog.org/2023/11/23/i-w…

A new Review in Science Translational Medicine looks at the complex connections between astrocytes and other types of cells in the nervous system, including neurons, oligodendrocytes, and microglia. scim.ag/4Xg

Next 𝗧𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 Gordon Research Conferences will occur July 13-18, 2025 at Stonehill College, MA, half-way b/w Boston and Cape Cod. Chair: Olivier Couture; vice-chairs: Ileana Jelescu @ijelescu.bsky.social and Marios Georgiadis 𝗚𝗥𝗦 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝘀: July 12-13, 2025

Excited to launch EPTI dissemination for fMRI & beyond! Explore EPTI in your studies as the next-gen EPI readout, with distortion-free, rich multi-echo & contrasts: martinos.org/~fw089/. Thanks to @NINDS BRAIN Initiative U24 & our committee: layerfMRI Jean Chen catie &

Solving the puzzle of #LongCovid Science Magazine today, Ziyad Al-Aly, MD and I review what we know and what needs to be done science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… w/ Science Visuals Ashley Mastin 🫀 + thanks Gemma Alderton for expert editing

The rise of neurologic disorders to become the leading global disease burden thelancet.com/journals/laneu… The Lancet Neurology Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Just updated! We updated our massive database of funding opportunities for POSTDOC fellowships. Each entry (316!), we provide the $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, description, and link to funder. Download this database freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

People with 2 copies of APOE4 have ~10X risk of Alzheimer's. Here's the discovery of a protective variant and learning how fibronectin 1 plays a role link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on *Tissue Microstructure Imaging* program is out! This unique meeting format offers a unifying look at tissue microstructure based on #MRI, #US, #optics, #EM , #xray, #photoacoustic, etc. Join us *July 12-18*! And please RT! 🙏 More info 👇