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Jana Fehring
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Doing some neuroscience in Münster
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New paper out! 🚀

Using a differentiable implementation of the reduced Wong–Wang model, we optimized whole-brain simulations for 1444 subjects.

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November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Rethinking women’s brain health — a Comment article by Julia Sacher & Ingo Bechmann

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Rethinking women’s brain health - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Far from being a niche concern, women’s brain health is a global issue, affecting more than half of the world’s population. Despite this, the unique aspects of how the female brain adapts, reorganizes...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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danlikesbrains.bsky.social
Undoubtedly the most massive group effort I was ever lucky to be involved in. Led by the ever-unwavering
@annekeitel.bsky.social, this preprint synthesizes the status quo of what we (don't) know about neural oscillations. Grateful to be part of the @scone-neuro.bsky.social network. #neuroskyence
annekeitel.bsky.social Anne Keitel @annekeitel.bsky.social · Jul 22
Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639
July 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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danlikesbrains.bsky.social
New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:

How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)

#neuroskyence

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Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling
Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...
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June 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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April 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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martinasaltafossi.bsky.social
New year, new preprint out! 🧨
'Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration'

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Great team effort w/ Andrea Zaccaro, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Marcello Costantini, @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social

#Neuroskyence #Interoception
Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration
The brain processes information from the external environment alongside signals generated by the body. Among bodily rhythms, respiration emerges as a key modulator of sensory processing. Multisensory ...
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January 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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schubotzlab.bsky.social
New paper from our lab in NeuroImage on cortical chronotopy, led by Falko Mecklenbrauck!
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Decoding Cortical Chronotopy - Comparing the Influence of Different Cortical Organizational Schemes
The brain's diverse intrinsic timescales enable us to perceive stimuli with varying temporal persistency. This study aimed to uncover the cortical org…
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November 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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danlikesbrains.bsky.social
Time to share some news: I'm still somewhat perplexed but incredibly happy to be awarded an #ERC Starting Grant (starting in early 2025) to escalate our brain-body research: M/EEG + resp/cardiac/gastric rhythms, TMS, olfactory bulb recordings, patient studies, ...

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September 5, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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danlikesbrains.bsky.social
Happy to see our opinion piece on the dynamics of brain-body states now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
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Really enjoyed drawing this up with @micahgallen.com and @jgross.bsky.social!

#CogSci #interoception #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics
We propose a computational framework for high-dimensional brain–body states as transient embodiments of nested internal and external dynamics governed…
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May 29, 2024 at 11:08 PM
janafehring.bsky.social
Excited to share this preprint in which we find individual and robust neurophysiological markers of cortical
hierarchy and highlight the dynamic nature of the brain's organization throughout life :)
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Neurophysiological correlates of cortical hierarchy across the lifespan
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July 18, 2024 at 12:25 PM