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Alessandro Gozzi

Alessandro Gozzi

@gozziale.bsky.social

1.1K followers 730 following 110 posts

Senior scientist at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Rovereto, Italy)
🧠 🐁 Functional Neuroimaging, Brain (dys)connectivity and Autism
ERC Grantee
www.gozzilab.it

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Mar 6

Can we use brain scans to identify biologically distinct "autisms"? And If so, how?

In our latest cross-species study 🐭👨 with @iitalk.bsky.social we dive into these questions!

Find out more here 👇👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 3d

New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵

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Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization

Nature Neuroscience - Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas...

Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 7d

Wrapping up 2025 with the lab.

Proud moments (including some I once thought impossible) and so many failures, living side by side, as science does. We stuck with it together. Grateful for the shared effort, trust, and fun that shaped this year.

Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday break!

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 14d

Just provisionally accepted -- preprint updated | The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction

Functional connectivity (FC) is frequently operationalized as a correlation. Many studies have examined changes in correlation networks across time, claiming to link time-varying fluctuations to ongoi...

www.biorxiv.org

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 15d

Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study:

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 16d

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆?
@lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too.
Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon.
youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

Prof. Lucina Uddin from UCLA discusses her views on brain networks as studied with functional MRI

YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon

Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 17d

Very cool result! Congrats! Reminds
of what we found in the rat upon i.v..ghrelin infusion!
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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Brain Reinforcement System Function is Ghrelin Dependent: Studies in the Rat Using Pharmacological fMRI and Intracranial Self-Stimulation

Ghrelin (GHR) is an orexigenic gut peptide that interacts with brain ghrelin receptors (GHR-Rs) to promote food intake. Recent research suggests that GHR acts as a modulator of motivated behavior, suggesting a direct influence of GHR on brain ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Andrea Luppi @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 18d

🧠 Excited to share our latest preprint: Automated Brain Mapping with AI Experts!🤖

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ever wanted to summarise the cognitive/systems neuroscience literature beyond MRI and PET? Ever wished we could do the same for macaque 🐒 and mouse 🐭 ? Read on! 🧵👇

Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts

The complexity of the brain is increasingly mirrored by the complexity of the neuroscientific literature, yet no individual mind can fully grasp the diversity of scales, methodologies and model organi...

www.biorxiv.org

Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 21d

As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about..
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 23d

Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691701v1

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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge @eng.cam.ac.uk · 23d

Dr Andrea Luppi is one of 25 early-career researchers recognised for their outstanding scientific contributions and commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience.
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social
www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-andr...

Dr Andrea Luppi named ‘Rising Star in Neuroscience 2025’

Dr Andrea Luppi is among 25 researchers worldwide to be recognised by The Transmitter – a US-based publication for the neuroscience community. Rising Stars in Neuroscience 2025 honours early-career re...

www.eng.cam.ac.uk

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 24d

Exciting new work from @lindenmp.bsky.social and friends!

Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory - Nature Communications

Here, the authors develop novel dynamical methods to model brain regions’ intrinsic neural timescales (INTs) from data, and find that they couple whole-brain structural connectivity to dynamic switchi...

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OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom) @ohbm-com.com · 24d

Each year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆

First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social

Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

Interview with Prof. Mac Shine, 2025 Winner of the Early Career Investigator Award — OHBM Communications

Writer: Ashley Tyrer Editor: Audrey Luo, Alfie Wearn Video Editor: Xuqian Michelle Li

www.ohbm-com.com

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 28d

Please repost: another kind of Black-Friday deal!

Reposted by Todd M. Gureckis, Alessandro Gozzi

Bradley Love @profdata.bsky.social · Nov 25

"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Nov 24

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs.

Website: www.pennlinc.io

Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

neuroimaging | Satterthwaite Lab | UPenn

www.satterthwaitelab.com Homepage for Satterthwaite lab neuroimaging | neurodevelopment | adolescence | psychiatry | machine learning | network science

www.pennlinc.io

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Ian Shih @shihyyi.bsky.social · Nov 20

1/6 Excited to share our new Nature Protocols article led by Tatiana Shnitko: “Measurement of electrochemical brain activity with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry during fMRI”, a step-by-step guide for simultaneous FSCV + fMRI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reposted by Stefan Müller, Mark Rubin, Paolo Crosetto , and 3 more Stefan Müller, Mark Rubin, Paolo Crosetto, Madeleine Pownall, Johannes Breuer, Alessandro Gozzi

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Nov 14

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Nov 13

🚨New review paper ! Lovely to reconnect with Sheraz Khan around what we think is a timely review of the state of knowledge about brain electrophysiological markers of early/late Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology, and what's left to discover.
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tracking electrophysiological signatures of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of multimodal studies

We conducted a review of the electrophysiological manifestations of Alzheimer's disease (AD) as captured by electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), with a focus on tracking th...

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Nov 13

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism

Claims that the gut microbiome causally contributes to autism regularly appear in the scientific literature and popular press. Mitchell et al. critically examine influential studies underpinning these...

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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · Nov 13

14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N

Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI

Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Nov 12

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chirag Mehra, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, et al:

Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Nov 12

Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article on a new phase of consciousness science ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Nov 10

Connectome datasets alone are generally not sufficient to predict neural activity. However, pairing connectivity information with neural recordings can produce accurate predictions of activity in unrecorded neurons

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prediction of neural activity in connectome-constrained recurrent networks - Nature Neuroscience

The authors show that connectome datasets alone are generally not sufficient to predict neural activity. However, pairing connectivity information with neural recordings can produce accurate predictio...

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Nov 5

ICYMI @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2025 keynotes are now online! Here's mine: "Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks" 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9J...

OHBM 2025 | Keynote | Lucina Uddin | Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks

YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Nov 4

Great coverage by @thetransmissions.bsky.social of our latest preprint: adding new evidence (and a hint of controversy 🙂) to the E/I imbalance debate in autism
👇👇
www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/ram...

Ramping up cortical activity in early life sparks autism-like behaviors in mice

The findings add fuel to the long-running debate over how an imbalance in excitatory and inhibitory signaling contributes to the autism.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Nov 4

Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Nov 4

Our School is recruiting! Come and join a great team
@MonashUni

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Francesca Mandino @francimandi.bsky.social · Oct 31

Talking about spooky stuff…try to do awake mouse fMRI.
Oh, you want it spookier? Try to add simultaneous Ca2+ imaging.

Now, do it all again, longitudinally….

So proud to finally have this out!!!
🐭 🧠 🧲
Go read…if you dare!! 👻

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Longitudinal, simultaneous wide-field fluorescent Ca2+ imaging and fMRI in awake mice

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be applied in mice and humans making it a key technology in translational neuroimaging research. Yet, most neuroimaging studies in rodents use anesthes...

www.biorxiv.org

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Oct 28

Mind over matter, matter over mind?

Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact.

🧠🕺

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Egor Levchenko @egorlevchenko.bsky.social · Oct 27

🆕 New open neuroimaging dataset released!

I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!