Thrilled to share my new work, a PET-fMRI study! We build the bridge between brain function and metabolism, which is "Gradient"! Also offer a pretty fresh insight into spatial dynamics (competition) for brain asymmetry!

Need a power/sample size calculation for a study or upcoming grant? Led by Emil Hodzic-Santor, we built a simple, free, and pain-free (!) shiny app. feedback welcome plz share with interested parties. check it out: powercalc.ca 🦾🤓 Michelle Sholzberg Kieran Campbell Lianne Jeffs

The distribution of ~ 2 trillion immune cells in the human body.

PhD students — Do these 10 things in the first year of your PhD. With this, 90% of your PhD problems will disappear. 𝟏. 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Many PhD students struggle to narrow down their research topic to a concrete research gap. Learn

Looking for a PhD position in comparative connectomics? Apply for a joint-supervised position, with myself and Lucia Prieto. The aim is to understand how circuits evolve by comparing whole-brain connectomes of fruit fly species. Apply for Project #2 here: crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

Convergent functional effects of antidepressants in major depressive disorder: a neuroimaging meta-analysis nature.com/articles/s4138… New paper molecularpsychiatry 🎉 🧵⤵️ 1/

Fantastic, authoritative & comprehensive ‘roadmap’ article out in Nature Rev Neurosci by Segobin et al. about in vivo segmentation of the thalamus. nature.com/articles/s4158…

⁉️What do model-neural similarity scores tell us? To systematically explore this for different metrics, we develop new numerical tools & analytics to characterize what drives similarity scores and what constitutes a "good" score. (1/10)

Cortical maps manifest hemispheric asymmetry in various forms and scales. Our attempt to unveil them through 🧠 eigenmodes: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… Work led by Alicia Milloz✨

Agreed! That's why I wrote ggpubfigs, a ggplot2 extension that *only colorblind-friendly color palettes. Easily make your figures colorblind-friendly with ggpubfigs! x.com/NKWhiteman/sta…

Our (Katerina Manoli Simon Eickhoff Amin Saberi Sofie Valk) study mapping the cerebellar behavioural topography & introducing a cerebellum-adapted method of activation likelihood estimation (ALE), is out now on bioRxiv! Find it here: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…. A thread 🧵 1/18

New preprint! Strong genetic overlap between severe mental disorders and blood metabolic markers. Fascinating patterns: opposite effect directions of the markers on major depression versus bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. tinyurl.com/metaboPsych. #metabolicpsychiatry