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Jingnan Du
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Postdoc @ Harvard, Buckner Lab
cognitive neuroscience, precision functional mapping
https://jingnandu93.github.io/
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Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
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Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI
The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...
go.illinois.edu
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣

The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network

Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results

Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?

Thread 🧵 ⬇️
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Thrilled to team up with @caterinagratton.bsky.social @ariellekeller.bsky.social and Chuck Lynch for a symposium at CNS 2026! Please consider voting for our session!
Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member?
Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026:
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience
Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch
Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/
By: 11:59pm Oct. 1
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March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter
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September 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
September 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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⬇️ Check out this great paper by Jingnan Du et al. It shows you can use fMRI task data to estimate networks as reliably as with rest data! A game changer to increase statistical power in regions with low SNR and leverage datasets that may only have task data.
Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Amazing work led by Jingnan! Pooling in task and rest data can give us a lot of discovery potential like discovering hard to find networks in the thalamus (bulk of my postdoc work with Randy). Task data can be used to define networks and activations from left out runs can be investigated. Cool work!
Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied.

👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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New brain/language study w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social! We applied task-agnostic individualized functional connectomics (iFC) to the entire history of fMRI scanning in the Fedorenko lab, parcellating nearly 1200 brains into networks based on activity fluctuations alone. doi.org/10.1101/2025... . 🧵
A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of over 1,000 human brains doing arbitrary tasks
A century and a half of neuroscience has yielded many divergent theories of the neurobiology of language. Two factors that likely contribute to this situation include (a) conceptual disagreement…
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.

We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
February 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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As if there wasn’t enough to worry about…

It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing!

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February 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Intriguing work led by Jingnan! Task regressed functional connectivity is similar to resting state in defining individualized functional networks!
February 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Within-Individual Precision Mapping of Brain Networks Exclusively Using Task Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640090v1
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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New preprint!!!

We can reliably detect brain changes in individuals in just a year by collecting several rapid 1-minute T1s at each time point - i.e. "cluster scanning". We discovered large individual differences, even in healthy adults

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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.21.25322553v1
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February 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
[PREPRINT❗️❗️] Very excited to share our latest work on precision mapping of brain networks exclusively using task data!🧠
With @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Within-Individual Precision Mapping of Brain Networks Exclusively Using Task Data
Precision mapping of brain networks within individuals has become a widely used tool that prevailingly relies on functional connectivity analysis of resting-state data. Here we explored whether networ...
www.biorxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM