In this paper, we are discussing CAUSALITY seriously and how much our beloved Neuroscience has been trapped in the correlational web of non-sensical stuff. It was great to see Shan Siddiqi @shansiddiqi.bsky.social, Michael Fox, Kording Lab 🦖 in action during the writing of this work. rdcu.be/cLLRN

Electrical perturbation of the hypothalamus with implanted electrodes causes raw emotions of shame, sadness & embarrassment w whole body component. "lower" structures and "higher" functions + neurobiology of human subjective experience. Full video: doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.…

(1/8) Delighted to announce our new results on medial frontal cortex’s role in performance monitoring and cognitive control! Neurons formed domain-general representations of errors, conflict, and conflict probability, while preserving task-specific info. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thanks Corey for your contribution. CCEP is becoming such a powerful method for mapping causal connections in the brain.

for Insula aficionados: Another great work by the Jülich team

Where fMRI gets it wrong: Less deactivation = activation & native brain space = standard MNI space. What intracranial EEG reveals about the brain's functional architecture in mm scale is astonishing! Fig4 is must see! doi.org/10.1007/s00429…

Excellent work by Brett L. Foster group combining single unit and iEEG work.

Initial S.A.F.E.R Trial (MGH, UNM, UWisc & Yale) data presented Neurocritical Care Society today: 295 patients had Ceribell-EEG & 670 had cEEG. Same PREDICTIVE value with both EEGs: If the first 1-hour of Ceribell-EEG has no epileptic abnormality, risk of seizures in the next 72hrs is <5%!!!

What a beautiful moment of international solidarity with the women’s uprising in Iran. May this wave continue!

To all the brave women in Iran - and beyond - who are fighting for their rights…. youtu.be/JKNkFQ-6vtk

Lower motor neuron homunculus! Great essay in Brain. Another reason for moving beyond Corticocentric Myopia. academic.oup.com/brain/article/…

Multi-site thalamic recordings in epilepsy patients with sEEG electrodes.

Thank you, Biyu Jade He for planning, organizing, and leading this conference on consciousness and making it open to everyone.

No it is NOT the default mode network! We are reporting a brain region and its connected network that is causally important for constructing a sense of physical self - when perturbed, a sense of dissociation is induced. doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

Your insula when electrically stimulated: Changes in the subjective states elicited with stimulation match the cytoarchitectural organization of the insula. Collaborative work with neurosurgeon Vivek P. Buch, MD and Svenja Caspers Svenja Caspers. DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2023.11.001

If you know anyone who is looking for an RA job, pls refer them to: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/research-…

"I am a loser." "I am amazing." In depressed and non-depressed patients, OFC responds equally during negative judgments, but OFC responses during positive self-judgments are nearly absent in those with high depression scores! jneurosci.org/content/44/11/…

Decoding the human thalamus: iEEG and stimulation data now shared with anyone interested: doi.org/10.1038/s41593…. Thanks to Vivek P. Buch, MD for great collaboration and for taking us deep inside the human thalamus —what a ride! Also check doi.org/10.1038/s41593… in the same issue.