#neuroscience

Research on mental imagery engineering anyone? https://youtube.com/watch?v=7jFJ_IXzwKI

Existing literature https://www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm #neuroscience

Discover how motherhood reshapes the brain, influencing postpartum females to prefer cooler environments. #Neuroscience #Motherhood #BrainChanges

https://geekoo.news/postpartum-brain-changes-influence-temperature-preferences/

It's all about the waves, cats
Musical neurodynamics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-00915-4
#neuroscience

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Cellular Metabolism

Northwestern University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/northwestern-university-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-position-in-cellular-metabolism/?feed_id=93629

#biochemistry #cancer #metabolism #metabolomics #neuroscience #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/northwestern-university-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-position-in-cellular-metabolism/?feed_id=93629

#PlaceCells often have elongated place fields next to an environment's boundaries.
Is there any paper where this phenomenon is directly predicted by the #SuccessorRepresentation model of place cells?

#SpatialCognition #Neuroscience #Hippocampus

Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

#psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu

I'm trying to read a #Neuroscience paper published by #Wiley and it's showing me a banner that says only "healthcare professionals" should be reading the paper. What's up with that? Researchers are not allowed to read papers anymore?

Impossible to find a way to contact Wiley about it, but maybe someone out there will know them and might be able to ask what is happening?

The paper: Locomotor action sequences impact the scale of
representation in hippocampus and posterior parietal cortex #NitzLab #WileyOnlineLibrary #Academia

Did rats invent The vOICe? Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08527-1 via @WiringtheBrain; only the alternating sweep direction is not the best choice for maximum latency. #neuroscience

Exciting news, our paper is out!

"Behavioral Clusters and Lesion Distributions in Ischemic Stroke, Based on NIHSS Similarity Network" on Springer Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research https://rdcu.be/efgma

With my co-first-author Andrea Zanola and co-authors, we explore the relations between behavioral measures of impairment after stroke, and the underlying brain lesions.
Rather than focusing on covariances at the population level, we first cluster individual behavioral phenotypes, and then explore the typical and significant lesions of each cluster.

Our technique, Repeated Spectral Clustering is performed on a similarity network (derived from the General Distance Measure, handy for ordinal scales!), and the partitions are statistically robust thanks to the aggregation of results from multiple random initializations.

We end up with 5 clusters, 3 of which show reknown principal components of deficits (Left Motor, Righ Motor, Language), and their associate lesions.

Interestingly, this multi-item and multimodal approach allows to distinguish different etiologies for the same deficits, thanks to their different behavioral associations, and the different lesions characterizing each cluster. Even when the single NIHSS measure is a bit "vague"...

We hope that popularizing the General Distance Measure, Repeated Spectral Clustering and this clustering perspective aside of PCA / CCA studies can inspire multimodal approaches in other neuroscientific and biomedical domains!

Many thanks to our co-authors, Antonio Luigi Bisogno, Silvia Facchini, Lorenzo Pini, Manfredo Atzori and Maurizio Corbetta for data, analytic and medical insights, and their guidance throughout the whole process!

#stroke #neuroscience #clustering #machinelearning

The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterious-flow-of-fluid-in-the-brain-20250326/

#HackerNews #MysteriousBrainFlow #FluidDynamics #Neuroscience #QuantaMagazine #BrainResearch

Even worms can minimize effort when they have the choice – here, assessed when feeding:

"C. elegans food choice exhibits effort discounting-like behavior", Millet et al. 2025 (Shawn Lockery's lab)

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.641934v1.full-text

#neuroscience #Celegans

"A spiking neural network model for proprioception of limb kinematics in insect locomotion", by van der Veen et al. 2025.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.27.615365v1.full

#neuroscience #proprioception #insects #locomotion #SNN

New observations on white matter organisation at the micron scale. #Neuroscience
https://elifesciences.org/articles/94917?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Neurons Unplugged: A Fun Journey Through the Brain's Social Network!

#Neuroscience #BrainFunction #Neurons #Synaptogenesis #Glycans #GutHealth #Neurotransmission #BrainAdventure #ScienceFun #LearnWithMe #Neurites #Mitochondria #BrainHealth #CognitiveScience #EducationalVideo

https://youtube.com/shorts/EfFMOkLai38?feature=share

The Whimsical Dance of Mind and Body: Exploring Psychopathology and Biomarkers

#MindBodyConnection #Psychopathology #MentalHealth #Biomarkers #Stress #Anxiety #Neuroscience #GutHealth #Psychology #HPAaxis #CircadianRhythm #Science #Wellness #EmotionalHealth #Biology #HealthEducation #StressManagement #WhimsicalScience

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ze1Ua3mdhuc?feature=share

And we need to embrace the likely possibility that brains are more than connectivity patterns and their weightings. That is the start, not the end.
Accepting “the bitter lesson” and embracing the brain’s complexity
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/accepting-the-bitter-lesson-and-embracing-the-brains-complexity/
#neuroscience

Quite the big deal:

"Light-field deep learning enables high-throughput, scattering-mitigated calcium imaging", by Howe et al. 2025 (Amanda Foust lab).
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.643718v1.full

Transfers one-photon light field images of Ca2+ sensors monitoring neuronal activity, which suffer from scattering in the mouse brain, to two-photon volumes that don't, using machine learning.

Image volumes acquired at 100 Hz demonstrate 10Hz spike rates.

#neuroscience #mouse #CalciumImaging

Preview of the talk I'm giving on Friday. #neuroscience #CompNeuro #ComputationalNeuroscience

This popular food ingredient could boost your brain health—how a doctor eats it every day https://www.diningandcooking.com/1980781/this-popular-food-ingredient-could-boost-your-brain-health-how-a-doctor-eats-it-every-day/ #GroceryShopping #health #Lifestyle #LocalFood #LongevityRates #MakeItContributors #Mediterranean #MediterraneanIngredient #MentalHealth #neuroscience #psychology #science

Moreover, unlike with Neuralink, there is quite a bit of scientific literature based on use of The vOICe, although we still have important open questions that we would like to see addressed https://www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm especially regarding mental imagery engineering. #neuroscience #blindness