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What does the newly discovered SCAN network do?

Interestingly, it was the main network implicated in pediatric lesion-induced dystonia

Thanks Rose Gelineau-Morel for leading this multi-site study. Great to see lesion work being done in pediatrics!

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A precision functional atlas of personalized network topography and probabilities nature.com/articles/s4159…

Beautiful study by Jingnan Du Lauren DiNicola Peter Angeli and Randy Buckner on individualized network topography with minor involvement by me. This study uses the multi-session hierarchical Bayesian model developed by Ruby Kong doi.org/10.1152/jn.003…

'It doesn't have to be BWAS' – a Dosenbach quote everyone should frame and hang in their office. 👏👏

We could add 'What have BWAS given us, after all?' 🤡

I've been dreaming that the Ooi-Yeo calculator will one glorious day replace the grant 'power analyses' everyone enjoys so much. ... & remember ... if you don't enjoy logistics and don't have much $ funding. It doesn't have to be BWAS. There's also PFM ... 3 volunteers might be

1/11 The poll has ended: 53% (scan time) vs 47% (sample size)!

Here's our in-depth take on brain-wide association studies (with a 134-page supplement!): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Led by Leon Ooi Csaba Orban, there are a few twists, so do read till the end! Our previous study ...

I am so happy to have gotten the opportunity to collaborate with Thomas Yeo and his team on this paper, because I think this is one of the most important topics our field must face moving forward. Anyone thinking about fMRI study design must read this brilliant preprint!

Introducing the Action-Mode Network – AMN. Better late than never! 17 years ago, we clumsily called this the Cingulo-opercular Network (CON) based on its anatomy (we weren’t exactly sure what it does). Now we’ve finally got the evidence to give it the functional name it deserves:

Peter Bandettini asks Evan Gordon whether his mentor was Steve Petersen or Tim Laumann! Can't blame Peter for mistaking Tim for someone far more senior. He's still an Instructor in Psychiatry, which is ridiculous.
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What a great experience and a wonderful conversation!

Nathan Spreng Nico Dosenbach Evan Gordon Take a voxel in the PAG shown below which has a massive pulsatile artifact. Much larger than red nucleus. You can see the bands on the left that are related to pulsation. Same voxel on the right with MEICA removes this artifact very nicely.

Another neuroscience basic is the homunculus. @nature published a paper redefining that image by discovering a new network, the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) in motor cortex Evan Gordon Scott Marek Sam Krimmel Damien Fair Nico Dosenbach et al nature.com/articles/s4158…

We show that the midbrian red nucleus is functionally connected with the salience network (involved in motivated behavior/reward) and cingulo-opercular network (CON; involved in action control). See preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… Damien Fair Nico Dosenbach Evan Gordon

Check out our new discoveries about the connectivity of the red nucleus in this excellent thread by Sam Krimmel.

(Also: single-subject functional connectivity maps of deep brainstem structures! These data are amazing!)