Carmen Bango and Marta Čeko presenting data at #usasp2024 on brain imaging signatures of pain from the UKBIOBANK UKBIOBANK - stay tuned for a similar analysis of #a2cps data tor wager

Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain! Our new study reveals how perceptions of pain can emerge from the interplay between thermal sensations, expectations, and uncertainty. Check out our thread for all the details! 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is the final week to apply for our staff scientist position at NIH Intramural! Join us & lead the application of state of the art neuroimaging tools & methods to our research on pain, affect, and social processing 🧠

Got FMRI data? Got QC? A 🧵about quality control tools in AFNI, including both quantitative/scriptable and qualitative/visual ones, now described here:
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Fun work with Gang Chen, 🥂𝔹𝕠𝕓 ℂ𝕠𝕩🧠, Taylor Hanayik, PhD, Dylan Nielson, C Rorden, J Rajendra, D Glen & R Reynolds!

If I’m going to wear a tie, I want it to be this one by Kathleen Sluka !

Finally, out today in PNAS: 'Brain decoding of spontaneous thought: Predictive modeling of self-relevance and valence using personal narratives' Hongji Kim et al. with Byeol Lux, Eunjin Lee, and Emily Finn pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Main thread:
My first project in CANlab tor wager has finally been published in Nature Neuroscience ! In this work, we aimed to take a new look at the brain mechanisms underlying emotion regulation from a slightly different perspective:
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Two #fMRI studies (N=358) show that cognitive regulation of negative #emotion alters activity in the cortex, but not amygdala or other subcortical areas

Ke Bo @Pgianaros tor wager Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences

nature.com/articles/s4159…

The idea that environmental enrichment promotes neural plasticity is so engrained in neuroscience that the main architect of this idea, Mark Rosenzweig, is always overlooked. I suppose that is a testament to the penetrance of his work, but would be nice for folks to acknowledge.

This is going to be fun! Great meeting, great location, and a topic very close to my heart 🤩

Congratulations Vinny!!! You’re brilliant and Emory is lucky to have you monkeying around down there.

The best rejection letter I have ever read.
Full of humanity, honesty, and foresight.
Amazing eloquence by Gregory Samanez-Larkin

For what it's worth, I was rejected by Johns Hopkins BME PhD program. But as the letter says, that's not a diagnostic, just a match that wasn't made at that time.

Major team effort by many people since April 2020 to understand non-trivial brain & mind impacts of COVID - this great work led thru thick-n-thin Greta Karen Wood Brendan Sargent et al @covidcns just pre-printed ▶️ researchsquare.com/article/rs-381… | tx NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre Addenbrooke's Charity WBIC

Join us for the Human Pain Seminar Series (HPSS) Summit 2024! We have 15 Canadian and International Pain Superstars for 2 jam packed days of awesome pain Science!

Trainees can apply for travel awards.
Cash Prizes for Poster and DataBlitz Presentations sponsored by André Dufour

Building on amazing development of simultaneous Ca2+ optical imaging and fMRI-BOLD by Evelyn Todd Constable (find me here @toddc.bsky.social) and Yale team, we investigated correspondence or lack thereof of large-scale cortical systems by considering overlapping networks.
Part of Hadi's tireless PhD work!

My brilliant PhD student Nufar, whose brother is a hostage in Gaza for over 80 days. Nothing prepared me to being a mentor under such a scenario. How can we even continue research in the lab?? Please help her, help us, spread this heart-breaking humanitarian call.

We loved hosting the AFNI team at #dartmouth ! Very enriching and engaging for everyone! 🙏🎸

Great thread on brain stimulation, affect, and OCD! We are experiencing a renaissance in human brain stimulation.