Carsten Finke
@carstenfinke.bsky.social
Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscientist & Neurologist | Heisenberg Professor at Charité Berlin and Berlin School of Mind & Brain | Head of @BerlinCognition
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How does the brain work?
Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵
🧠📈
Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵
🧠📈
April 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How does the brain work?
Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵
🧠📈
Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵
🧠📈
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We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
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We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
February 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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What a rich dataset - and in @bidsstandard.bsky.social !
Thanks for making it openly available and kudos for this accomplishment!
Thanks for making it openly available and kudos for this accomplishment!
We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
February 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What a rich dataset - and in @bidsstandard.bsky.social !
Thanks for making it openly available and kudos for this accomplishment!
Thanks for making it openly available and kudos for this accomplishment!
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𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀
The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social )
#neuroskyence
The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social )
#neuroskyence
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀
The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social )
#neuroskyence
The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social )
#neuroskyence
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A colleague in study section had the meeting abruptly end with the message "Sorry for any inconvenience: This meeting has been cancelled due to White House's Executive Order pausing external communications from NIH and other federal health-related agencies." @drugmonkey.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A colleague in study section had the meeting abruptly end with the message "Sorry for any inconvenience: This meeting has been cancelled due to White House's Executive Order pausing external communications from NIH and other federal health-related agencies." @drugmonkey.bsky.social
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Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use
Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery
tinyurl.com/47c9n65w
osf.io/preprints/os...
Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery
tinyurl.com/47c9n65w
osf.io/preprints/os...
January 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use
Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery
tinyurl.com/47c9n65w
osf.io/preprints/os...
Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery
tinyurl.com/47c9n65w
osf.io/preprints/os...
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🚨 Big News! For the 1st time in years, OHBM is offering Late-Breaking Poster Abstract Submissions!
📅 Submit: Feb 24 – Mar 3, 2025 (11:59 pm EST, USA)
🧠 Poster abstracts only
Don't miss this chance to share your cutting-edge neuroscience research! Guideline link in comments.
📅 Submit: Feb 24 – Mar 3, 2025 (11:59 pm EST, USA)
🧠 Poster abstracts only
Don't miss this chance to share your cutting-edge neuroscience research! Guideline link in comments.
January 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨 Big News! For the 1st time in years, OHBM is offering Late-Breaking Poster Abstract Submissions!
📅 Submit: Feb 24 – Mar 3, 2025 (11:59 pm EST, USA)
🧠 Poster abstracts only
Don't miss this chance to share your cutting-edge neuroscience research! Guideline link in comments.
📅 Submit: Feb 24 – Mar 3, 2025 (11:59 pm EST, USA)
🧠 Poster abstracts only
Don't miss this chance to share your cutting-edge neuroscience research! Guideline link in comments.
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The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
March 15, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
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Very pleased to see this online @NeuroCellPress
With colleagues at @MayoClinicNeuro @MayoFL_NeuroRes @MayoClinic Rochester, we summarise state of the art (and some history 😃) in autoimmune neurology…..ENJOY!!
dlvr.it/THL45K
With colleagues at @MayoClinicNeuro @MayoFL_NeuroRes @MayoClinic Rochester, we summarise state of the art (and some history 😃) in autoimmune neurology…..ENJOY!!
dlvr.it/THL45K
Toward curing neurological autoimmune disorders: Biomarkers, immunological mechanisms, and therapeutic targets
This article by Segal et al provides a comprehensive overview of immunopathogenic
mechanisms of autoimmune neurological disorders, focusing on the interplay between
humoral and cellular immunity, rece...
dlvr.it
January 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Very pleased to see this online @NeuroCellPress
With colleagues at @MayoClinicNeuro @MayoFL_NeuroRes @MayoClinic Rochester, we summarise state of the art (and some history 😃) in autoimmune neurology…..ENJOY!!
dlvr.it/THL45K
With colleagues at @MayoClinicNeuro @MayoFL_NeuroRes @MayoClinic Rochester, we summarise state of the art (and some history 😃) in autoimmune neurology…..ENJOY!!
dlvr.it/THL45K
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Happy head direction cell day y’all!
On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984.
Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)
On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984.
Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)
January 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Happy head direction cell day y’all!
On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984.
Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)
On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984.
Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)
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UCL colleagues and alumni have paid tribute to award-winning researcher, Professor Eleanor Maguire @uclqsion.bsky.social, whose studies into spatial awareness and memory led to a deeper understanding of how the brain works and had a profound impact on neuroscience www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...
Tribute to pioneering cognitive neuroscientist Professor Eleanor Maguire
UCL colleagues and alumni have paid tribute to the award-winning researcher, Professor Eleanor Maguire, whose groundbreaking studies into spatial awareness and memory, led to a deeper understanding of...
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
UCL colleagues and alumni have paid tribute to award-winning researcher, Professor Eleanor Maguire @uclqsion.bsky.social, whose studies into spatial awareness and memory led to a deeper understanding of how the brain works and had a profound impact on neuroscience www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...
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🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨
"Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity"
Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
"Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity"
Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
January 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨
"Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity"
Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
"Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity"
Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
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Mapping Early Brain Maturation: Anatomical Substrates of Cortical Connectivity Shifts in Neonates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mapping Early Brain Maturation: Anatomical Substrates of Cortical Connectivity Shifts in Neonates
Understanding the early development of brain connectivity is essential for unraveling the mechanisms of brain maturation. In this study, we utilized diffusion MRI data from 242 term neonates to chart ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Mapping Early Brain Maturation: Anatomical Substrates of Cortical Connectivity Shifts in Neonates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
January 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
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New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...
January 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...
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*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans - Nature Communications
The hippocampus is thought to encode the content of stimuli, but how it does so is unknown. The authors show that when hippocampal spiking variability tracks the abstract building blocks of individual...
www.nature.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
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It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
www.online-tribute.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
*** Two doctoral scholarships available by Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog and Berlin School of Mind and Brain @MindaBrain funded by DAAD ***
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
January 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
*** Two doctoral scholarships available by Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog and Berlin School of Mind and Brain @MindaBrain funded by DAAD ***
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
#MRI in autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 we reviewed the currrent evidence
👉 what to expect and what NOT to expect in clinical MRI studies of patients with autoimmune encephalitis
#openaccess
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 we reviewed the currrent evidence
👉 what to expect and what NOT to expect in clinical MRI studies of patients with autoimmune encephalitis
#openaccess
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#MRI in autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 we reviewed the currrent evidence
👉 what to expect and what NOT to expect in clinical MRI studies of patients with autoimmune encephalitis
#openaccess
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 we reviewed the currrent evidence
👉 what to expect and what NOT to expect in clinical MRI studies of patients with autoimmune encephalitis
#openaccess
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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First post on this platform 👋. Glad to reconnect with old friends, and also learn from new contacts. Will post about intersecting themes: human evolution, genetics (esp. aDNA), neuroscience & cognition. Currently focusing on brain organoids and early developmental changes that may have had an impact
![cortical organoid [image credit: O. Leonardi, who is leading this collaborative project]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ljcyk7tem65k7epgu5pkwuuh/bafkreico75nbiyo5zg6kzzahk5kxmcpcajygslloxkndmry2tnzr5q72pu@jpeg)
November 16, 2024 at 7:16 AM
First post on this platform 👋. Glad to reconnect with old friends, and also learn from new contacts. Will post about intersecting themes: human evolution, genetics (esp. aDNA), neuroscience & cognition. Currently focusing on brain organoids and early developmental changes that may have had an impact
Reposted by Carsten Finke
New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9)
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
December 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9)
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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📣What is NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, and Why is the ExTINGUISH Trial so important? Watch and Share with your network 👇🏼- You may just help someone get to the correct diagnosis 🧠🔥
#MedSky
#Neurology #Encephalitis
youtu.be/6bXMZ-L1jPs
#MedSky
#Neurology #Encephalitis
youtu.be/6bXMZ-L1jPs
The ExTINGUISH Trial for NMDAR Encephalitis
YouTube video by Stacey Clardy
youtu.be
November 10, 2024 at 3:49 PM
📣What is NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, and Why is the ExTINGUISH Trial so important? Watch and Share with your network 👇🏼- You may just help someone get to the correct diagnosis 🧠🔥
#MedSky
#Neurology #Encephalitis
youtu.be/6bXMZ-L1jPs
#MedSky
#Neurology #Encephalitis
youtu.be/6bXMZ-L1jPs