🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.

rdcu.be/el18q

A short thread follows for those interested.

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My lab has two fully funded MSc/PhD positions available!

* Cool research on neuroimaging, epilepsy, and brain development ⚡️
* Located in a brand new building with lots of natural light 🌱
* Worldwide collaborations 🤝🏼
* Fun and inclusive environment 🤩

Learn more and apply 👉🏼 slic-lab.github.io

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Viktor Pfaffenrot, David G. Norris, et al:

Characterizing BOLD activation patterns in the human hippocampus with laminar fMRI

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

🚀 Fully Funded PhD – AI & Neurodevelopment @ KCL! 🧠💡

Come join us in the IMAGINE lab to develop AI tools for imaging and genetics in neurodevelopmental disorders!

Apply here: shorturl.at/Zb4GX
For more info, get in touch: konrad.wagstyl@kcl.ac.uk

New preprint (first of my PhD) | Associations between epilepsy-related polygenic risk and brain structure in childhood 🧬🧠⚡️

Elevated PRS for TLE-HS is linked to cortical thinning in healthy children—mirroring atrophy patterns observed in epilepsy case-control studies

bit.ly/imaging-gene...

"A lot of the things in this work were correct, but some not so much" - said every scientist who was telling the truth

New year, new preprint (+ last thesis paper!)

Macroscale gradients of intracranial EEG power spectra follow familiar axes: sensory-motor and unimodal-transmodal 🕵️‍♀️
Gradients show overall stronger association to distance, but multimodal information was best in transmodal areas 🧠

tinyurl.com/ykacndd5

How the architecture of memory gives rise to 'mind'. A brief discussion of the article: "Hippocampal Reinstatement of Episodic Details During Simulation" written by Preston P. Thakral, Kevin P. Madore, Donna Rose Addis, and Daniel L. Schacter. #hippocampus #corenetwork #DMN #neuroscience #brain

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

using ChatGPT to help design a neural network, choose your own adventure style, feels like the personal computer in Ender's Game

Blue sky or red sky?
youtube.com/watch?v=uqsB...