Julia Moser
@drjuliamoser.bsky.social
Developmental neuroscientist at University of Minnesota’s MIDB. Interested in developmental brain imaging and the emergence of cognitive abilities
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Julia Moser
@drjuliamoser.bsky.social
· Nov 12
www.biorxiv.org
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
Reposted by Julia Moser
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
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Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
soc.stanford.edu
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
First one out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎉
Can’t wait to read the full @fitngin.bsky.social special issue!
Can’t wait to read the full @fitngin.bsky.social special issue!
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
First one out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎉
Can’t wait to read the full @fitngin.bsky.social special issue!
Can’t wait to read the full @fitngin.bsky.social special issue!
If you are at #SfN25 and curious about infant 7T research, reach out to chat!
This work, a collaborative effort between MIDB and the University of Minnesota's Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, provides a first glance on what we can achieve with 7T MRI in infants and highlights its role as a promising new avenue for developmental cognitive neuroscience 🧠
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If you are at #SfN25 and curious about infant 7T research, reach out to chat!
Reposted by Julia Moser
After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications
The landmark ongoing HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study will longitudinally chart brain development in a large sample (projected n=7,200) of infants through age 10 years with multimo...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
A particular shoutout to Essa Yacoub, @drdamienfair.bsky.social, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Jed Elison, @benediktramirez.bsky.social, @smnelson.bsky.social and many more for their important contributions!!
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
A particular shoutout to Essa Yacoub, @drdamienfair.bsky.social, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Jed Elison, @benediktramirez.bsky.social, @smnelson.bsky.social and many more for their important contributions!!
Our work, which was a huge collaborative effort between UMN CMRR and @umn-midb.bsky.social provides a first glance on what we can achieve with 7T MRI in infants and highlights its role as a promising new avenue for developmental cognitive neuroscience.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Our work, which was a huge collaborative effort between UMN CMRR and @umn-midb.bsky.social provides a first glance on what we can achieve with 7T MRI in infants and highlights its role as a promising new avenue for developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Leveraging this high-resolution data we were able to identify the Somato-Cognitive Action Network in a five week old infant, the earliest this network has been shown thus far, questioning the degree of ‘maturation’ we assign to infant networks.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Leveraging this high-resolution data we were able to identify the Somato-Cognitive Action Network in a five week old infant, the earliest this network has been shown thus far, questioning the degree of ‘maturation’ we assign to infant networks.
Our 7T data showed an increase in spatial precision using a spatial resolution more appropriately matched to infants' small head sizes and improvements in reliability compared to 3T, reducing the need for long data acquisitions.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Our 7T data showed an increase in spatial precision using a spatial resolution more appropriately matched to infants' small head sizes and improvements in reliability compared to 3T, reducing the need for long data acquisitions.
We implemented a subject specific safety assessment to ensure safe scanning within SAR limits on the Siemens Terra system using a commercially available head coil.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
We implemented a subject specific safety assessment to ensure safe scanning within SAR limits on the Siemens Terra system using a commercially available head coil.
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
www.biorxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
Reposted by Julia Moser
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Reposted by Julia Moser
🚀 Big news: With a $3.3M NIH grant, MIDB members Meghan Swanson, PhD, and Mark Schleiss, MD, are leading a first-of-its-kind study of infants born with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV).
Learn more ➡️ med.umn.edu/news/univers...
Learn more ➡️ med.umn.edu/news/univers...
September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🚀 Big news: With a $3.3M NIH grant, MIDB members Meghan Swanson, PhD, and Mark Schleiss, MD, are leading a first-of-its-kind study of infants born with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV).
Learn more ➡️ med.umn.edu/news/univers...
Learn more ➡️ med.umn.edu/news/univers...
Reposted by Julia Moser
Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social
Thanks for all the contributions of @drdamienfair.bsky.social @catcamacho.bsky.social @roberthermosillo.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social @muriahwheelock.bsky.social @tu-jiaxin.bsky.social @koiralasanju.bsky.social @smnelson.bsky.social @crimoral.bsky.social and many many more!
August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thanks for all the contributions of @drdamienfair.bsky.social @catcamacho.bsky.social @roberthermosillo.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social @muriahwheelock.bsky.social @tu-jiaxin.bsky.social @koiralasanju.bsky.social @smnelson.bsky.social @crimoral.bsky.social and many many more!
Precision functional imaging in early development will allow us to uncover individual brain developmental trajectories and help tailor personalized interventions.
August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Precision functional imaging in early development will allow us to uncover individual brain developmental trajectories and help tailor personalized interventions.
For these studies we acquired up to 154 min of low motion resting state fMRI data in neonates and up to 153 min with auditory oddball paradigm in 8 week old infants.
August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
For these studies we acquired up to 154 min of low motion resting state fMRI data in neonates and up to 153 min with auditory oddball paradigm in 8 week old infants.
And that babies show individual specific nuances in their BOLD response patterns towards salient stimuli.
August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
And that babies show individual specific nuances in their BOLD response patterns towards salient stimuli.
Using both resting state and task fMRI, we show that babies brain functional architecture can be divided into cortical areas that are individual specific and distinct from other babies.
August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Using both resting state and task fMRI, we show that babies brain functional architecture can be divided into cortical areas that are individual specific and distinct from other babies.
Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🐣👶🧠
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Reposted by Julia Moser
New layer-fMRI preprint looking at laminar response differences of across (very) early development in newborns.
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
August 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New layer-fMRI preprint looking at laminar response differences of across (very) early development in newborns.
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!
Congratulations @agreco.bsky.social ! 🎉
🎉 Congrats to Dr. Antonino Greco for winning the “HIH Paper of the Year Award” during yesterday's Neuroscience Campus Get Together for his publication “Predictive learning shapes the representational geometry of the human brain” in Nature Communications. Well done! 🙌
More info: tinyurl.com/mw3kkc36
More info: tinyurl.com/mw3kkc36
July 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Congratulations @agreco.bsky.social ! 🎉
Reposted by Julia Moser
This is your last chance to submit your abstract 👶🧠 ! We have an outstanding scientific program, join us in beautiful Dublin 🇮🇪 for your annual dose of neonatal brain science (and beer 🍻😉)
🔊 Final Call for Late Breaking Abstracts
▶️ Due to the extenuating circumstances of the current uncertainties surrounding travel and funding this year, FIT’NG is offering a final extension for abstract submissions.
🗓️ Submission deadline: July 24
fitng.org/late-breakin...
▶️ Due to the extenuating circumstances of the current uncertainties surrounding travel and funding this year, FIT’NG is offering a final extension for abstract submissions.
🗓️ Submission deadline: July 24
fitng.org/late-breakin...
Late breaking poster abstracts | fitng.org
fitng.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is your last chance to submit your abstract 👶🧠 ! We have an outstanding scientific program, join us in beautiful Dublin 🇮🇪 for your annual dose of neonatal brain science (and beer 🍻😉)
Reposted by Julia Moser
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
June 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
Reposted by Julia Moser
Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...