Nitzan Lubianiker
@nitzanlubi.bsky.social
Postdoctoral associate at the Turk-Browne lab (@Yale) and the Norman lab (@PNI) | Studying memory, learning and neuromodulation in humans.
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Our new paper is out in @natmed.nature.com 😱! A thread:
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
Our new paper is out in @natmed.nature.com 😱! A thread:
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
January 21, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Our new paper is out in @natmed.nature.com 😱! A thread:
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
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Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase in the body’s immune response to a vaccine, according to a study in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4sQo3mK #medsky 🧪
January 20, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase in the body’s immune response to a vaccine, according to a study in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4sQo3mK #medsky 🧪
Reposted by Nitzan Lubianiker
Positive thinking may boost immune response from vaccines, new brain training study shows
Brain training may boost immune response to vaccines
Positive thinking may boost immune response from vaccines, new brain training study shows
www.scientificamerican.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Positive thinking may boost immune response from vaccines, new brain training study shows
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Direct human evidence that the #PlaceboEffect can shape humoral immunity: reward-related brain activity correlates with vaccine-induced antibody
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturemedicine.bsky.social @telavivuni.bsky.social @nitzanlubi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 19, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Direct human evidence that the #PlaceboEffect can shape humoral immunity: reward-related brain activity correlates with vaccine-induced antibody
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturemedicine.bsky.social @telavivuni.bsky.social @nitzanlubi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturemedicine.bsky.social @telavivuni.bsky.social @nitzanlubi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come check out my poster at SfN today between 13:00 and 17:00 (Mm15), about how we used fMRI-Neurofeedback to teach individuals with Major Depression to reduce their negative attentional biases!
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Come check out my poster at SfN today between 13:00 and 17:00 (Mm15), about how we used fMRI-Neurofeedback to teach individuals with Major Depression to reduce their negative attentional biases!
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Come check out my poster at #SfN, Wed (8am-12pm, NN1)!
"Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus"
Using high-resolution fMRI, we ask how does the human hippocampus represent sensory modalities beyond vision, and how does it integrate sense information across modalities?
"Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus"
Using high-resolution fMRI, we ask how does the human hippocampus represent sensory modalities beyond vision, and how does it integrate sense information across modalities?
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Come check out my poster at #SfN, Wed (8am-12pm, NN1)!
"Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus"
Using high-resolution fMRI, we ask how does the human hippocampus represent sensory modalities beyond vision, and how does it integrate sense information across modalities?
"Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus"
Using high-resolution fMRI, we ask how does the human hippocampus represent sensory modalities beyond vision, and how does it integrate sense information across modalities?
Reposted by Nitzan Lubianiker
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
www.science.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...