Mateja Perović
@matejaperovic.bsky.social
CIHR Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Galea Lab @ CAMH | Computational neuroscientist interested in women's health, sex and gender science 🧠🌈
https://matejaperovic.com
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New open access paper with @drmack.bsky.social! 🎉 The menstrual cycle has non-linear effects on pattern separation as measured by the mnemonic similarity task (MST). Perceived stress facilitates pattern separation performance independent of the menstrual cycle.
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Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V
Research Analyst - Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology-camh
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July 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V
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Always a good day when you get good news on funding. I am thrilled on many levels but also because I really believe in this call & the project! My eternal thanks to our group @mcgovernaj.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social @jennyrabin.bsky.social S Frangou L Gravelsins
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CARE Program Details | Wellcome Leap: Unconventional Projects. Funded at Scale.
NEW $50M Program in Women's Health care Cutting Alzheimer's Risk through EndocrinologyWe are pleased to announce the selected performers.Kaarin Anstey & Kristine Yaffe: University of South Wales...
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May 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Always a good day when you get good news on funding. I am thrilled on many levels but also because I really believe in this call & the project! My eternal thanks to our group @mcgovernaj.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social @jennyrabin.bsky.social S Frangou L Gravelsins
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We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.
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April 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.
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Please RT.
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Please RT.
New open access paper with @drmack.bsky.social! 🎉 The menstrual cycle has non-linear effects on pattern separation as measured by the mnemonic similarity task (MST). Perceived stress facilitates pattern separation performance independent of the menstrual cycle.
t.ly/k6Pul
t.ly/k6Pul
May 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New open access paper with @drmack.bsky.social! 🎉 The menstrual cycle has non-linear effects on pattern separation as measured by the mnemonic similarity task (MST). Perceived stress facilitates pattern separation performance independent of the menstrual cycle.
t.ly/k6Pul
t.ly/k6Pul
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Super excited to share the preprint we've been working on, "On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei responses"! Check it out, and come see us at CNS if you're around this afternoon! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
March 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Super excited to share the preprint we've been working on, "On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei responses"! Check it out, and come see us at CNS if you're around this afternoon! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
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New publication from my PhD research looking at influences of sex on brain health outcomes in a rodent model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk 🎉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Big thank you to the best co-authors, @liisagalea.bsky.social, Melike Cevizci, and Stephanie Lieblich 🙏
Big thank you to the best co-authors, @liisagalea.bsky.social, Melike Cevizci, and Stephanie Lieblich 🙏
Sex-specific influences of APOEε4 genotype on hippocampal neurogenesis and progenitor cells in middle-aged rats - Biology of Sex Differences
Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately and uniquely affects females, and these sex differences are further exacerbated by the presence of Apolipoprotein (APOE) ε4 alleles, the top gene...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
New publication from my PhD research looking at influences of sex on brain health outcomes in a rodent model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk 🎉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Big thank you to the best co-authors, @liisagalea.bsky.social, Melike Cevizci, and Stephanie Lieblich 🙏
Big thank you to the best co-authors, @liisagalea.bsky.social, Melike Cevizci, and Stephanie Lieblich 🙏
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So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes
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February 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes
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Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives.
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Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
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February 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives.
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Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social.
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December 27, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social.
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V interesting study in @bmj.com
USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions
Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls.
My thoughts in🧵
USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions
Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls.
My thoughts in🧵
Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers. #BMJ
"Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease"
Fulltext:
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"Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease"
Fulltext:
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December 17, 2024 at 9:45 AM
V interesting study in @bmj.com
USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions
Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls.
My thoughts in🧵
USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions
Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls.
My thoughts in🧵
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#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
December 2, 2024 at 4:52 PM
#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
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Only 0.5% of neuroscience research focuses on issues exclusive to the female body. Let’s be the change. 🧠💪
November 21, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Only 0.5% of neuroscience research focuses on issues exclusive to the female body. Let’s be the change. 🧠💪
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Here is a starter pack with research tools for cognitive (neuro)science! This is still very preliminary, so please repost widely and let me know what else to add, so we can rebuild a helpful community over here!
November 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Here is a starter pack with research tools for cognitive (neuro)science! This is still very preliminary, so please repost widely and let me know what else to add, so we can rebuild a helpful community over here!
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So here is a starter pack of African scientists and researchers across disciplines. It will continue to grow as I find more people and more migrate to this platform but gotta start somewhere 😊.
go.bsky.app/GixA4xP
go.bsky.app/GixA4xP
November 21, 2024 at 7:44 PM
So here is a starter pack of African scientists and researchers across disciplines. It will continue to grow as I find more people and more migrate to this platform but gotta start somewhere 😊.
go.bsky.app/GixA4xP
go.bsky.app/GixA4xP
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A thread...
Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by
@carrisacocuzza.bsky.social: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes [1/N]
Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by
@carrisacocuzza.bsky.social: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes [1/N]
November 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
A thread...
Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by
@carrisacocuzza.bsky.social: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes [1/N]
Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by
@carrisacocuzza.bsky.social: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes [1/N]
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Here’s our new review lead by @rominagl4.bsky.social on the roller coaster of central & peripheral inflammatory signalling during pregnancy & the postpartum & it’s relation to psychiatric disease risk in short term & neurodegenerative in long term www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Inflammatory signalling during the perinatal period: Implications for short- and long-term disease risk
During pregnancy and the postpartum, there are dynamic fluctuations in steroid and peptide hormone levels as well as inflammatory signalling. These ch…
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November 22, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Here’s our new review lead by @rominagl4.bsky.social on the roller coaster of central & peripheral inflammatory signalling during pregnancy & the postpartum & it’s relation to psychiatric disease risk in short term & neurodegenerative in long term www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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(reposted 🧵 from the Bad Place)
My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity.
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My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity.
rdcu.be/dQYfU
November 11, 2024 at 3:48 AM
(reposted 🧵 from the Bad Place)
My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity.
rdcu.be/dQYfU
My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity.
rdcu.be/dQYfU
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Nice review of progestogen effects on mental health— highlights the need for more well-designed experimental studies! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Progestagens and progesterone receptor modulation: Effects on the brain, mood, stress, and cognition in females
Progesterone is a highly lipophilic gonadal hormone that can influence behavior and mental health through its receptors in the brain. Fluctuations in …
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November 17, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Nice review of progestogen effects on mental health— highlights the need for more well-designed experimental studies! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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If this exists already.. I feel you can never have too many pet packs.
Please let me know if you'de like to join.
go.bsky.app/4TA4G8D
Please let me know if you'de like to join.
go.bsky.app/4TA4G8D
November 17, 2024 at 12:32 PM
If this exists already.. I feel you can never have too many pet packs.
Please let me know if you'de like to join.
go.bsky.app/4TA4G8D
Please let me know if you'de like to join.
go.bsky.app/4TA4G8D
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Looking for people you used to follow on Twitter/X? The Sky Follower Bridge browser plugin (Chrome and Firefox) helps you easily transition to BlueSky!
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#AcademicSky
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Sky Follower Bridge: Connect Your Twitter Follows to Bluesky
Sky Follower Bridge | Instantly find and follow your Twitter connections on Bluesky. Streamline your social network transition effortlessly.
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November 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Looking for people you used to follow on Twitter/X? The Sky Follower Bridge browser plugin (Chrome and Firefox) helps you easily transition to BlueSky!
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#AcademicSky
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#AcademicSky
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Hey new BlueSky friends! Here's a roundup of my health psych / health comm research.
Read on for insights about helping people understand COVID-19 exposure risk in daily life 😷, beliefs about immunity 🛡️, and interventions to motivate vaccination 💉
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #EpiSky #MedSky
Read on for insights about helping people understand COVID-19 exposure risk in daily life 😷, beliefs about immunity 🛡️, and interventions to motivate vaccination 💉
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #EpiSky #MedSky
November 16, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Hey new BlueSky friends! Here's a roundup of my health psych / health comm research.
Read on for insights about helping people understand COVID-19 exposure risk in daily life 😷, beliefs about immunity 🛡️, and interventions to motivate vaccination 💉
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #EpiSky #MedSky
Read on for insights about helping people understand COVID-19 exposure risk in daily life 😷, beliefs about immunity 🛡️, and interventions to motivate vaccination 💉
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #EpiSky #MedSky
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For anyone interested, I wrote this piece recently:
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#Alzheimers #womensbrainhealth
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#Alzheimers #womensbrainhealth
Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research
New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 17, 2024 at 2:25 AM
For anyone interested, I wrote this piece recently:
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#Alzheimers #womensbrainhealth
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#Alzheimers #womensbrainhealth
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New publication: midlife ovarian removal associated with insomnia-like sleep patterns, which is associated with smaller entorhinal cortex and poorer verbal memory: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1265470
September 23, 2023 at 11:26 AM
New publication: midlife ovarian removal associated with insomnia-like sleep patterns, which is associated with smaller entorhinal cortex and poorer verbal memory: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1265470
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A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy - Nature Neuroscience
Neural changes in pregnancy are not well understood. Here Pritschet et al. present an open-access precision brain imaging resource, mapping neuroanatomical change in an individual from preconception t...
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September 16, 2024 at 5:55 PM
A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...