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Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson

@ptenigma.bsky.social

1.4K followers 1.3K following 630 posts

Neuroscientist, professor
AI guided tour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOORfzGjCTA
ENIGMA guided tour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNjP5nZsJyQ
Diffusion MRI of Brain Diseases - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jHFm0wcN0 .. more

Paul Thompson is a British-American neuroscientist, and a professor of neurology at the Imaging Genetics Center at the University of Southern California. Thompson obtained a bachelor's degree in Greek and Latin languages and mathematics from Oxford University. He also earned a master's degree in mathematics from Oxford and a PhD degree in neuroscience from University of California, Los Angeles. .. more

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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 2d

Bangalore, early Sunday

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 2d

🔥Superb lecture by Ed Bullmore on schizophrenia and mental illness, now online as part of Petra Vertes' seminar series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=51t8...

Making Connections- Prof. Ed Bullmore

YouTube video by Making Connections Seminar Series

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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 3d

Afternoon tea

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 3d

1 am (only jet lagged people are going for a walk)

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 3d

Midnight (Dubai)

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 3d

I have now mastered the art of sitting in a chair for 16 hours

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

Waiting for the next grant to be awarded

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

Filling out forms to ask for travel reimbursement after presenting at a conference

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

The global quest to alleviate brain diseases is within our reach – a collective endeavour that is greatly empowered by the OHBM community, supporting us all in our shared mission to bring life-changing discoveries to all corners of the globe.

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

With generative AI, vision-language models, and multimodal brain decoding, we are on the cusp of new possibilities – from decoding disease mechanisms to designing targeted treatments.

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

fostering open collaboration, training, and opportunities for all. In this talk, we will outline major findings to date and examine how AI-driven methods may reshape the landscape of brain research.

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

linking to neuroscientific findings at cellular and molecular scales (Larivière et al., ENIGMA Toolbox, Nature Methods, 2021).

ENIGMA’s impact extends globally through initiatives such as ENIGMA India, Pakistan, and the ENIGMA-U education program, ..

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

By applying rigorous, consensus-driven workflows to vast global datasets, ENIGMA is revealing unexpected disease subtypes, risk factors, and treatment effects, identifying emerging principles that connect and distinguish multiple brain disorders, ..

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

neurology (e.g., epilepsy, Parkinson’s, ataxia, neuro-HIV, TBI, chronic pain), and several neurodevelopmental brain disorders (anorexia, conduct disorder, Tourette syndrome, neurogenetic syndromes).

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

These findings laid the groundwork for broader studies: today, ENIGMA’s 30 disease-focused working groups coordinate the largest MRI, DTI, and fMRI studies in psychiatry (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, PTSD, addiction, OCD), ...

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

ENIGMA began by tackling the replication crisis in brain imaging genetics, uncovering over 500 common and rare genetic and epigenetic variants that influence brain structure, function, and the speed of brain aging (Grasby et al., Science, 2020; Brouwer et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2022).

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

This global alliance reflects the shared vision, mutual support, and collective power of the neuroimaging community, to tackle questions that no single lab can address on its own.

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

Abstract: Since 2009, the ENIGMA Consortium has brought together over 2,000 brain researchers from 47 countries to coordinate the largest neuroimaging studies of over 30 brain diseases – a global effort driven by the expertise and vision of many in this very audience.

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

Talairach Lecture - huge thanks to OHBM for putting this (very nervous) lecture online! youtube.com/watch?v=3iWp...

OHBM 2025 Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Paul Thompson
Title: Talairach Lecture: Worldwide Collaboration & Artificial Intelligence in the Global Quest to Map Human Brain Diseases.
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OHBM 2025 | Talairach Lecture | Paul Thompson | Worldwide Collaboration and Artificial Intelligence

YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 8d

Great story + great reporting!!

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 8d

So many fireworks went off last night that my air quality machine says avoid strenuous activity*
* I was already avoiding it

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 9d

That’s was close

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 9d

Today's experiment ! :)

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 10d

2 extremely tiny children about 4-5 years old came to the door on their own and I said “how did you get here” and the little girl said “I drove here”

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 10d

Happy 🎃!!!

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 11d

This could solve a lot of problems

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 14d

Haha yes !

Reposted by Paul M. Thompson

Jordan Hass @jordanhass.com · 14d

I hope somebody somewhere made this bet and is going to make a shotload of money.

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 14d

17th inning (1 in every 588,000,000 games) #WorldSeries