Sylvain Baillet
@sylvainbaillet.bsky.social
Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre
Professor, Neuroscience @ University of Montreal.
Professor, Neuroscience @ University of Montreal.
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Today is my first day as Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre @crchum.bsky.social
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).
Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.
Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).
Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.
Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!
This morning, Dr. Drew Weissman delivered an inspiring talk at @crchum.bsky.social, emphasizing the importance of continued curiosity and purpose. 🙏
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This morning, Dr. Drew Weissman delivered an inspiring talk at @crchum.bsky.social, emphasizing the importance of continued curiosity and purpose. 🙏
Congratulations Dr. Niloofar Gharesi, on your brilliant McGill University PhD defence today! Thank you, Prof. John Kalaska for the collaboration with Université de Montréal.
Another newly minted lab graduate on her way to do great things. Her next employer will be lucky to have her.
Another newly minted lab graduate on her way to do great things. Her next employer will be lucky to have her.
October 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Congratulations Dr. Niloofar Gharesi, on your brilliant McGill University PhD defence today! Thank you, Prof. John Kalaska for the collaboration with Université de Montréal.
Another newly minted lab graduate on her way to do great things. Her next employer will be lucky to have her.
Another newly minted lab graduate on her way to do great things. Her next employer will be lucky to have her.
We are thrilled to announce that our lab has two newly minted @mcgill.ca Neuroscience PhDs: congratulations, Dr. @xiaoboliu.bsky.social and Dr. Jonathan Gallego!
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We are thrilled to announce that our lab has two newly minted @mcgill.ca Neuroscience PhDs: congratulations, Dr. @xiaoboliu.bsky.social and Dr. Jonathan Gallego!
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Thousands of researchers. One shared mission: mapping the human brain. 🌍🧠
Join the OHBM community at OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux, France, from June 14–18, 2026.
Together, we advance the science of the human brain.
#OHBM2026 #OHBMCommunity #HumanBrainMapping
Join the OHBM community at OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux, France, from June 14–18, 2026.
Together, we advance the science of the human brain.
#OHBM2026 #OHBMCommunity #HumanBrainMapping
October 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thousands of researchers. One shared mission: mapping the human brain. 🌍🧠
Join the OHBM community at OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux, France, from June 14–18, 2026.
Together, we advance the science of the human brain.
#OHBM2026 #OHBMCommunity #HumanBrainMapping
Join the OHBM community at OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux, France, from June 14–18, 2026.
Together, we advance the science of the human brain.
#OHBM2026 #OHBMCommunity #HumanBrainMapping
Today is my first day as Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre @crchum.bsky.social
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).
Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.
Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).
Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.
Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!
October 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today is my first day as Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre @crchum.bsky.social
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).
Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.
Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!
(University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital).
Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca.
Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!
This is a major milestone for @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social & PREVENT-AD. Their vision & dedication have led to a series of impactful studies & high-profile publications, and the future promises insights as this unique dataset continues to grow.
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The PREVENT‐AD cohort: Accelerating Alzheimer's disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond
The PResymptomatic EValuation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older ...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is a major milestone for @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social & PREVENT-AD. Their vision & dedication have led to a series of impactful studies & high-profile publications, and the future promises insights as this unique dataset continues to grow.
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A fascinating update about how deep and fast MEG noninvasive imaging can be: differentiation b/w thalamus subnuclei, slow vs fast sleep spindles, and the talent and skills of Emily Coffey & her team. Grateful for being aboard this collaborative work.
doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
Exploring Deep Magnetoencephalography via Thalamo‐Cortical Sleep Spindles
Results from functional connectivity analyses of MEG data (left) show that many thalamic nuclei can be distinguished via functional connectivity (right). However, results depend on the metric and con...
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A fascinating update about how deep and fast MEG noninvasive imaging can be: differentiation b/w thalamus subnuclei, slow vs fast sleep spindles, and the talent and skills of Emily Coffey & her team. Grateful for being aboard this collaborative work.
doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
Reposted by Sylvain Baillet
Science is self correcting. Finally!
Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Science is self correcting. Finally!
The multimodal sky's the limit now with Brainstorm.
Now featuring PET data integration with electrophysiology and MRI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/T...
Open source, free, for anyone interested (>50,000 users registered so far, >4,500 studies published.)
Now featuring PET data integration with electrophysiology and MRI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/T...
Open source, free, for anyone interested (>50,000 users registered so far, >4,500 studies published.)
September 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The multimodal sky's the limit now with Brainstorm.
Now featuring PET data integration with electrophysiology and MRI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/T...
Open source, free, for anyone interested (>50,000 users registered so far, >4,500 studies published.)
Now featuring PET data integration with electrophysiology and MRI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/T...
Open source, free, for anyone interested (>50,000 users registered so far, >4,500 studies published.)
Rejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social.
Merci de partager!
www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...
Merci de partager!
www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...
September 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Rejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social.
Merci de partager!
www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...
Merci de partager!
www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...
New study ✨!
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New study ✨!
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social
Honoured to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada, Academy of Science.
Grateful to 🇨🇦 for the opportunities, and to all colleagues and trainees McGill University @theneuro.bsky.social for this shared recognition🙏🏼.
rsc-src.ca/en/news/roya...
Grateful to 🇨🇦 for the opportunities, and to all colleagues and trainees McGill University @theneuro.bsky.social for this shared recognition🙏🏼.
rsc-src.ca/en/news/roya...
September 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Honoured to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada, Academy of Science.
Grateful to 🇨🇦 for the opportunities, and to all colleagues and trainees McGill University @theneuro.bsky.social for this shared recognition🙏🏼.
rsc-src.ca/en/news/roya...
Grateful to 🇨🇦 for the opportunities, and to all colleagues and trainees McGill University @theneuro.bsky.social for this shared recognition🙏🏼.
rsc-src.ca/en/news/roya...
Grateful from the support we just received from Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada. 🙏
Congratulations to Sylvain Baillet, Boris Bernhardt, Alyson Fournier, Wayne Sossin, Madeleine Sharp, Alain Dagher, and Ronald Postuma, whose research projects were funded by CIHR through its Spring 2025 Project Grant.
www.mcgill.ca/research/cha...
www.mcgill.ca/research/cha...
CIHR grants $48.4M to McGill health research
53 McGill research projects were awarded funding through CIHR’s Spring 2025 Project Grant competition, to support high-potential health research across all areas and career stages. The Canadian Institutes...
www.mcgill.ca
August 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Grateful from the support we just received from Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada. 🙏
43 years ago, @thepolice played at @mcgillu stadium.
August 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
43 years ago, @thepolice played at @mcgillu stadium.
Reposted by Sylvain Baillet
Save the Date! 🗓️ Join us in Bordeaux, France, June 14–18, 2026. #OHBM2026 registration opens January 2026.
Visit us here for important dates: https://humanbrainmapping.org/OHBM2026
Visit us here for important dates: https://humanbrainmapping.org/OHBM2026
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Save the Date! 🗓️ Join us in Bordeaux, France, June 14–18, 2026. #OHBM2026 registration opens January 2026.
Visit us here for important dates: https://humanbrainmapping.org/OHBM2026
Visit us here for important dates: https://humanbrainmapping.org/OHBM2026
We have a newly minted @mcgillu @IPNMcGill PhD: congratulations Dr Zaida Martínez Moreno!
August 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
We have a newly minted @mcgillu @IPNMcGill PhD: congratulations Dr Zaida Martínez Moreno!
Reposted by Sylvain Baillet
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
August 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
🧩🧠New release! OMEGA v3.1.1 is out—now with MEG-MRI co-registration for 480 participants 🎉 Manual alignment using original MRI+digitized head shape & fiducials. Includes BIDS-compliant landmarks+quality scores.
🔗 See “Co-registration” tab: www.mcgill.ca/bic/resource...
🔗 See “Co-registration” tab: www.mcgill.ca/bic/resource...
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🧩🧠New release! OMEGA v3.1.1 is out—now with MEG-MRI co-registration for 480 participants 🎉 Manual alignment using original MRI+digitized head shape & fiducials. Includes BIDS-compliant landmarks+quality scores.
🔗 See “Co-registration” tab: www.mcgill.ca/bic/resource...
🔗 See “Co-registration” tab: www.mcgill.ca/bic/resource...
🧠🚀 Announcing 𝐬𝐄𝐄𝐆-𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦: open-source pipeline for multimodal intracranial ephys /epilepsy research: CT→MRI coreg, GARDEL contact localization, atlas labelling, seizure fingerprinting, source analysis—all in one GUI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/s...
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/s...
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🧠🚀 Announcing 𝐬𝐄𝐄𝐆-𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦: open-source pipeline for multimodal intracranial ephys /epilepsy research: CT→MRI coreg, GARDEL contact localization, atlas labelling, seizure fingerprinting, source analysis—all in one GUI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/s...
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/s...
« the administration’s cuts to science funding in the United States could even drive up the rate of scientific fraud by leaving scientists scrambling for limited resources and dwindling jobs. »
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
« the administration’s cuts to science funding in the United States could even drive up the rate of scientific fraud by leaving scientists scrambling for limited resources and dwindling jobs. »
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Reposted by Sylvain Baillet
Why do our brains think and feel so differently—even when we're doing nothing at all? This study shows how our resting brain activity is partly written in our genes, especially those tied to emotion and cognition. Nature and nurture, once again, tightly interwoven.
August 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Why do our brains think and feel so differently—even when we're doing nothing at all? This study shows how our resting brain activity is partly written in our genes, especially those tied to emotion and cognition. Nature and nurture, once again, tightly interwoven.
Reposted by Sylvain Baillet
Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️
Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability
Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.
www.science.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️
🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca
Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability
Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.
www.science.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca
