A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain?? nature.com/articles/s4159…

This is one of my favorite stories I’ve reported, thanks to work from Laura Pritschet Liz Chrastil and Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social et al we now have a fairly detailed look at the brain of one woman before, during and after pregnancy. Read for more details over at The Transmitter

Pregnancy changes the brain, and new research reveals intriguing clues about how. Some areas shrink, while others appear to show temporarily improved communication, a new study of brain scans found. nyti.ms/3XNlXGR

Next Tuesday Sept 24th I’ll be giving a talk at Brain and Body Lab - UCLA. If you’re at UCLA or LA area, please come say hi! Thank you for the invitation Dr. Bridget Callaghan 💕

Seeking pregnant people to complete a 5 minute online survey about about how their changing body feels to them whilst pregnant for my doctoral research bit.ly/Yorkbody If you are pregnant, please please consider completing it, or if not please share with pregnant people!

Wooo! Awesome new work from Kevin Sun integrating personalized functional networks, genomic risk, and clinical psychopathology!!

The coolest work ever!

Amazing talk by Golia Shafiei on the powerhouse tool that is RBC. Still blown away by the amount of work this team has done to serve & benefit the brain imaging community. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 check it out!

Check out this editorial by Casey G. Turner and Dr. Jennifer DuPont, PhD: summary of recent findings & a well-balanced commentary on our paper in AJP-Heart and Circ (doi.org/10.1152/ajphea…) + highlights important work on microvascular responses by sex and OCP use (journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…)

Shameless #SfN24 plug: if you'll be in Chicago this weekend and want to chat about estrous cycle modulation of hippocampal plasticity (read: spines, dendrites, & place cells), come check out my poster at board P9 Sunday morning! 🐭🧠🔬

✨New Preprint!✨ Sex differences in psychiatric disorders often show up in adolescence as disparities in prevalence, symptoms, and treatment outcomes. We aimed to better understand sex diffs in brain organization that might lead to these disparities! t.ly/x6oxC 🧵⬇️

Excited to announce that the first preprint from the TReNDS lab is now up! Check out the awesome 🧵 below on how we used precision functional mapping and found robust, replicable sex differences in person-specific networks. 1/2

Wowza! Brilliance yet again from Isabella (Isa) Stallworthy - what a great resource! Check it out:

We anticipate that our paper on quality control (QC) will be an incredibly helpful resource for those of you doing any type of MRI segmentation work. For those doing hippocampal subfield work, we cover common segmentation errors and offer practical guidance on the topic of QC.

🚨Interested in an AI challenge with a meaningful impact? The WiDS Datathon is here! Build AI models to explore the adolescent brain across sexes 🧠 Check out the university challenge: ideal for the final project of your class 👩‍🏫 Runs until June'25 youtube.com/watch?v=tX5ucz… From

Beautiful cover of the outstanding precision imaging study by Laura Pritschet Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social Liz Chrastil and co. It’s a dream come true to see Nature Neuroscience displaying mothers and pregnancies in the cover 🤰💕

Thank you Nature Neuroscience for featuring women's health research so prominently. It's been a revolutionary few years with such novel & exciting work from all-star scientists around the globe, building off decades of foundational work from the OGs. The fight continues. Goodbye, X.