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We’ve all likely heard of the “weight loss” drug Ozempic, but what does it do to the brain? Penn NGG student and PNK writer Stephen Wisser does a deep dive in this week's piece: pennneuroknow.com/2024/03/19/you… #ozempic #scicomm #brainfacts

New preprint out w twitterless Daniel Herrera! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… How does the visual system estimate how surfaces move in depth? How should the brain do it? We develop an ideal observer to estimate 3D motion from binocular videos, a normative approach (1/n)

Opioid drugs have many effects – from medicinal to thrilling to deadly. How do they do so much at once? Penn NGG student @Lisa_Lanadridge dives into the world of opioids and their side effects in this week's piece: pennneuroknow.com/2024/04/02/opi… #scicomm #brainfacts

Neurons are not the only cell type in the brain. In diseases like Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s where we see neuronal death, researchers ask: what role do the other cell types play? Learn more in this week's article by Penn NGG student Julia Riley #scicomm pennneuroknow.com/2024/04/09/gli…

This week's #IAESBlog details the ExTINGUISH Trial #Clinicalstudy run by Stacey Clardy MD PhD that investigates a promising new treatment for #antiNMDAr #AutoimmuneEncephalitis #patients It takes a deep dive into explaining the monoclonal antibody inebilizumab. autoimmune-encephalitis.org/future-nmdar-e…

Have you ever noticed your heart rate increase when anxious or felt your stomach grumble when hungry? Learn about how you gather information about your body's internal state in this week's piece written by Penn NGG student Serena Chen! pennneuroknow.com/2024/04/16/int… #scicomm

Amazing news! Scientists have taken the first step towards a cure for a devastating group of brain diseases called prion diseases!! Check out this week's piece written by Penn NGG student Joseph Gallegos that dives into this topic. #brainfacts #prion #scicomm pennneuroknow.com/2024/04/23/a-n…

#PennNGG is thrilled to announce our spring neuroscience public lecture on May 1st at the Philadelphia Ethical Society! This event aims to bring neuroscience to the general public and will feature 3 TED-style talks from Penn faculty. Please RT! Register: forms.gle/EctNnFXHtHsSUH…

Cuttlefish are masters of disguise–they can change their color, pattern, & even texture to match their environment in under a min! Read about what we can discover from this clever creature in this week's piece written by Penn NGG student Abby Green Lieberman pennneuroknow.com/2024/04/30/for…

It was a joy to film this educational video with Medtronic about Brain Computer Interface tech for their video series "The Futurist". + Always a great time talking science with @dr_brein! Full video linked here: youtube.com/watch?v=gob7y5…

Excited for our VSS Meeting symposium tomorrow!! Let’s talk 🅱️ig data! #VSS2024 Come join us 🤩 Friday May 17 Talk room 2 @ 12 pm With cvnlab, Alessandro Gifford, Won Mok Shim, Tomas Knapen, Ian Charest & Jacob Prince

We wrote a perspective piece on the emergence of hardcore (i.e. intense) big datasets in neuroscience and how it effects the way we do science with eli merriam, Tomas Knapen and Eline Kupers! Let us know what you think! osf.io/kacb4

Check out this week's piece, where PNK Co-Editor and Penn NGG student Catrina Hacker describes a new study uncovering how your brain balances inflammation in your body, opening the door to new treatment options for diseases characterized by inflammation. pennneuroknow.com/2024/05/21/the…

Researchers have only been able to easily visualize the human brain in the last couple decades! Learn how that has changed the course of brain research & what's next in this MRI deep dive written by PNK Co-Editor and Penn NGG student Catrina Hacker pennneuroknow.com/2024/05/28/how…

You may have seen scientists making discoveries about the brain by experimenting with mice- but what can & can’t we learn about the human brain by studying rodents? Check out this week's piece by PNK Co-Editor & Penn NGG student Lindsay🧠 pennneuroknow.com/2024/06/04/of-… #scicomm

Out now in J Neurosci! Using real-time TMR, we find that sleep reactivation transforms memories, improving certain memory features at the cost of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu, Marlie Tandoc, @JamesWardAntony, Dr. Anna Schapiro jneurosci.org/content/44/24/…

New research finds that our brain is constantly changing the way it views the world – even when nothing around us is actually changing! Let's discuss the wandering mind in this week's piece written by Penn NGG student Jafar Bhatti pennneuroknow.com/2024/06/18/a-d… #scicomm #brainfacts

It's difficult to make decisions both quickly & well at the same time, yet, brains have an effective way to make decisions that are reasonably accurate & reasonably fast. Learn more about this balance in this week's piece by Penn NGG student Jake Parker pennneuroknow.com/2024/06/25/dec…

I’m so excited to share that in the fall of 2025, I’ll be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience in York Psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada! 🤩 I’m looking forward to working with my amazing new colleagues and students!

Exited to share our latest Trends in Neurosciences opinion paper on —intensive— fMRI, with Tomas Knapen cvnlab eli merriam! We discuss ways to maximize both quantity and quality of your large-scale “deep” fMRI dataset, and create a community resource 🧠 tinyurl.com/intensivefmri