In this week’s nature, we publish a group effort to outline a framework for studies with neural #organoids, #assembloids and transplantation. More details below 1/n

👉👉New paper alert from SleepLüthiLab ! Newly promoted Dr. Cherrad, with Georgios Foustoukos, Laura MJ Fernandez and others combines stimulation of sensory neurons from the #vagus nerve with #sleep, #heartrate, temperature and #locuscoeruleus recordings Université de Lausanne #FBM #Neuro

Big step forward for awake rodent fMRI! Congrats Ian Shih, Martin and team!

Online now: Single-cell spatial transcriptomic atlas of the whole mouse brain dlvr.it/TJjqTG

💡Optogenetic stimulation of projection terminals is often thought to preferentially modulate downstream targets. In our recent fMRI study led by Li-Ming Hsu, we compared cell body and terminal stimulations, showing that potential antidromic effects shouldn’t be overlooked.👇

Our scientists with over 150 collaborators have released the largest functional map and wiring diagram of the brain to date – seven years in the making. Today’s 1.6 petabyte release marks a historic day for neuroscience. This moonshot milestone will further efforts towards

An analysis of 20 autism mouse models point to two subtypes: One displaying out-of-sync brain activity and impaired synaptic pathways, the other with too much synchrony and dysregulated immune pathways. By Calli McMurray thetransmitter.org/spectrum/too-m…

Not in my specific domain of expertise, but really “cool” and elegant work. Congrats Tomás Ryan and team!

Stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease has entered a new era. Two nature studies demonstrate that pluripotent stem cell–derived dopamine neurons can survive, restore function, and potentially change the treatment paradigm for this neurodegenerative disease.

Check out our new review on the history and future of resting state fMRI 🧠 Bharat Biswal nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & for myself, expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry work to the service

Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidity and relieves various autistic traits. Takamitsu Watanabe nature.com/articles/s4159…

Will deep brain stimulation be rewired by light? Will we one day swap metal electrodes for a beam? Is this something predicted by Francis Crick in a 1979 Scientific American article? YEP. And now enter a new Science Advances paper by Jin and colleagues. They have introduced a

New paper! We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16. Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001c.… Code: github.com/DynamicsAndNeu…

Everyone’s been saying psilocybin “rewires the brain.” Cool. But where, exactly? A new 2025 Nature study finally has the answer. And this could change how we treat depression. 🧵

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with James Pang where we review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.tins… Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How do we conceptually integrate these features into a coherent understanding of structure and function? ⤵️

Excited to share our new PNAS paper! 🎉 We examined the neural source of rs-fMRI FC using patterned optogenetic manipulation in mice 🧲🧠. A step toward answering a long-standing question. Fantastic work by Hyun Seok Moon Suk Jun Hong CNIR-IBS pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Excited to share our new preprint led by our mighty Alexia Stuefer Here we tackle a classic chicken/egg 🐣🥚 question in #autism and dev. neuroscience 👉Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence of autism? 👉 tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Find out below🧵

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science Magazine!✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass!🧭 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵1/