So pubmed and eRA Commons seem to be down. The repository that brings federally funded science to the public is seemingly inaccessible. The site for tracking grants is down. And based on a quick search, the whole NIH website.

We also explored sex steroid hormone levels, as both the cerebellum and hippocampus are rich with receptors for #estradiol and #progesterone. Older females show marked drops in these hormone with #menopause. More 17beta-estradiol=stronger connectivity. The opposite with progesterone.

Here, we report the first detailed mapping of resting state connectivity between the #cerebellum and #hippocampus in adults 35-86 years of age. Not super surprisingly, connectivity is significantly lower in older partcipants.

Not surprisingly, we see associations with age -- as we get older, lobular volume is smaller. There are also robust associations with motor behavior in particular and anterior regions of the cerebellum. This extends prior work showing this in older adults, demonstrating this across adulthood.

Old fashioned shortbread cookies (via NYT Cooking) and an old fashioned. Plus -- a new lab paper to share.

A hold over from this weekend: chocolate peppermint buche de Noel.

This is pretty much a baking account for the next two weeks.

I should probably embroider this on a pillow or get it tattooed because this AI bot was not wrong. blueskyroast.com/roast/bernar...

Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday later this week, and very excited that post-doc Ashwini Sansare had her first lab paper accepted to Neurobiology of Aging. And with a major assist from my other postdoc Thamires Magalhaes (an actual dream team!).

Texas really showing off today.

Almost 20 participants into this new study and very excited to see our eventual results.

Fully on brand here.

Final grades submitted.