Our paper and research on a #taVNS #MRI setup has now been published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@nbkroemer.bsky.social @glassybrain.bsky.social

I am currently at #ESOC2025 with the @csi-lab.bsky.social to present latest findings on #sleep and cerebral small vessel disease ( #CSVD )

❤️ Big thanks to the whole team for this wonderful dataset including excellent #neuroimaging 🧠

#TaVNS inside the MR scanner IS POSSIBLE! ⚡🧠

I hope that this paper and its guidance on the taVNS MRI set-up will help those planning concurrent #fMRI and #vagusnervstimulation

Checkout our new preprint
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Endless gratitude to @nbkroemer.bsky.social & @glassybrain.bsky.social

Across institutes. One contributing factor is the filling of leadership positions with individuals who lack both leadership knowledge and a genuine interest in this responsible task, focusing instead on their own self-interest and personal ego.

I am very much looking forward to this week with 2 meetings of the Neuromodulatory Subcortical System PIA:
📌 Tiny dots 21.01.25 12.30am CT (USA) - Noradrenergic Axon Loss Drives Hyposmia in AD
alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📌 Year in Review 24.01.25 10am CT (USA) alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The thing is, it’s not like the resistance has failed. They set out to impeach him, to convict him for his many felonies, to vote him out of office. They have achieved all of that.

It’s just that it has now turned out that all of those achievements were meaningless. That’s where hopelessness lives.

🚨 STIMULATE TO REMEMBER ? ⚡

Link to publication:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

⚡ 3 sec of taVNS (5 mA, 25 Hz, 250 μs) during an emotional memory task

⚡ real (cymba conchae) vs. sham (earlobe) vs. no stimulation trials

🚨Short bursts of taVNS ⚡ & 👁️ pupil dilation - as an indirect measure of #LocusCoeruleus (?!) #vagusnerv #taVNS

Link to publication:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I systematically tested different frequencies (10 & 25 Hz) and intensities (3 & 5 mA) during 3 sec of short bursts of taVNS

Functional #locuscoeruleus imaging, #fmri, to investigate an #ageing noradrenergic system

📑 link to paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🧵 see thread below

New work from our postdoc Elouise Koops just got published: #locuscoeruleus metabolism is elevated in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, and provides resilience against cognitive decline! In collaboration with Joyita Dutta (UMass) alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We plan to recruit a new PhD student, who will work on projects testing the effective neuromodulation (tVNS, ghrelin) of gut-brain interactions in Bonn.

A good command of German is necessary for this position. Please spread the word.
#neuroscience #psychscisky
neuromadlab.com/en/research/...

Germany's best show with great scientists and topics - that was a great evening with @evaschulz.bsky.social and @fmriguy.bsky.social 🧠 and the whole maithinkx team - thank you! Sundays on ZDFneo or ZDF Mediathek