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Interesting that this study on infant brain development is not done with fMRI but with fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy [1]). And concerning to read about the complete reliance on software provided opaquely by a company for the analysis: "As all fNIRS data preprocessing was carried out on MATLAB-based toolboxes, no custom scripts are available."

[1] fNIRS measures more or less the same as fMRI: blood flow. "Using fNIRS, brain activity is measured by using near-infrared light to estimate cortical hemodynamic activity which occur in response to neural activity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_near-infrared_spectroscopy

#neuroscience


Happy birthday to #neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system". He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.⁠
⁠🧵1/n

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #histstm #PurkinjeCell #neuroscience #MastoArt


Today @eLife has reached 1,000 manuscript submissions using the new model, Reviewed Preprints https://elifesciences.org/about/peer-review

See all published Reviewed Preprints https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints

Within themes, #eLife makes no distinction between old-style articles (where editors decided whether a manuscript is accepted) and reviewed preprints (where authors decide instead). Keep in mind both have the reviews attached, including as of recently a brief assessment paragraph summarizing, with a controlled vocabulary, the significance of findings and, more importantly, the strength of evidence.

See the subset of #eLife publications tagged as #neuroscience https://elifesciences.org/subjects/neuroscience

#ScientificPublishing #academia #eLife


"An analysis of about 450,000 electronic health records has found a link between infections from influenza and other common viruses and an elevated risk of having a neurodegenerative condition such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease later in life."

#Virology #AlzheimersDisease #NeuroDegeneration #Neuroscience #Immunology

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00181-3


Open Science #OpenScience #OpenData #neuroscience #astrocytes #zebrafish

We published whole-brain neuron+glia light-sheet calcium imaging data...

... from Mu et al., Cell 2019, 12 fish, 5.9 TB, >1,000,000 cells total + behavior, NWB format

Data: https://dandiarchive.org/dandiset/000350

Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30621-X

Thank you CatalystNeuro + authors for implementing, and
Simons Foundation Global Brain for supporting this effort!

Data is open for everyone to use. We are also happy to actively collaborate!


A post-migration re-#introduction!

I’m currently a postdoc in Marlene Behrmann’s lab at Carnegie Mellon. I’m broadly interested in understanding the #psychology and #neuroscience underlying the #development of cognitive abilities such as categorization.

Recently I’ve been exploring the broader biological network that may support may object categorization (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.019) and the #computational processes that may support few-shot categorization in infancy (e.g., https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74943)


I just made an new Mastodon instance focused on #neuroscience at https://synapse.cafe . I'd like this to be a cozy space to discuss the wonders of the brain, from cells to thoughts. If you do research in neuroscience or even have a general interest in it, come by and check it out!

#instance #mastodon


#Introduction to "1-paper-a-day 2022"
After countless conversations that I read too little, I decided to read 1 paper on every workday of 2022 and point to them on SocMedia.

Papers are in the general area of #cognitive + #sensorimotor #neuroscience, including meta-stuff such as #OpenScience.

List of papers so far with links to tweets - toots from now on…
https://public.3.basecamp.com/p/pHVdbnV4yhuSuH92LExx24W4

I'm at #133 – doesn’t mean I had lots of vacation but rather that sticking to the plan hasn't been easy ;)


#introduction

Hi all,
I am a Group Leader at HHMI Janelia Research Campus, working on the systems #neuroscience of flexible behavior and #learning, #brain-body communication, #microscopy, #computation, #astrocytes, and large #networks.

We enjoy collaborating, including with computational neuroscientists who want to take a look at whole-brain neuron + behavior data! Get in touch 😀

Websites: https://www.ahrenslab.org/
https://www.janelia.org/lab/ahrens-lab
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nr9NPRwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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