A detailed look at a “pregnant brain” highlights a need to investigate the neural alterations that occur during a transition experienced by nearly 140 million people worldwide each year. By Shaena Montanari thetransmitter.org/brain-imaging/…

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 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 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

Don't miss this groundbreaking study mapping brain changes during pregnancy with unprecedented temporal resolution. Thrilled to be part of this revolution in neuroscience! The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative Amazing work Laura Pritschet Emily G. Jacobs Liz Chrastil Dr. Caitlin Taylor

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 💕

new! from me! for National Geographic! A new study is the first to do MRIs throughout the course of pregnancy. It’s part of a larger push to study women + gender minorities by scanning the brain during hormonal changes (like menstrual cycles, menopause, HRT, etc) nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

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.