Dragana Manasova
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Dragana Manasova
@d-manasova.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Lewis Lab, MIT
Previously @ Paris Brain Institute

Interested in the in-between of sleep and wakefulness

www.dragana-manasova.com
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If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
www.unicog.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜

I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics"
w@thomasandrillon.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter

Strap in!
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Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics
Conscious experience depends on the coordinated activity of neural processes that span multiple scales--from synapses to whole-brain dynamics. A recently introduced measure, dynamical independence, id...
www.biorxiv.org
July 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Thrilled to have organized and presented at the “Coping with Sleepiness” symposium at #IOP2025 in Krakow! A fantastic experience sharing the stage with @d-manasova.bsky.social, @jtegelbeckers.bsky.social and A. Domagalik — insightful talks and great discussions! 🧠💤✨
July 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉

We outline how to capture the #emergent dynamical structure in #biophysical neural models.

coauthored with a team dear to my heart; @thomasandrillon.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
May 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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With immense pleasure, here is our #TICS opinion paper on "mind blanking"!
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

**Where is my mind?**
A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With Jenny Windt, @antoinelutz.bsky.social and @ademertzi.bsky.social
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Journée portes ouvertes : faites tourner la roue du sommeil et testez vos connaissances sur cette fonction vitale.
March 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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In 1/3 of #insomnia, the #1 #sleep disorder, objective sleep recordings do not reveal abnormalities, contradicting subjective assessments.

This has bugged sleep experts for decades!

@rherzoga.bsky.social publishes a new study in @commsbio.bsky.social to understand this paradox:

rdcu.be/edj22

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A continuous approach to explain insomnia and subjective-objective sleep discrepancy
Communications Biology - Sleep and wake intrusions distinguish insomnia with and without subjective-objective sleep discrepancy, providing a robust framework to reconcile subjective and objective...
rdcu.be
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share part of my PhD work published in @PNAS_Nexus! 🌍 This collaboration spanned France, Italy, and Uruguay. We explored how brain-heart interactions reveal attentional focus—insights relevant to patients with #DisordersOfConsciousness (DoC).
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Predicting attentional focus: Heartbeat-evoked responses and brain dynamics during interoceptive and exteroceptive processing
Abstract. Attention shapes our consciousness content and perception by increasing the probability of becoming aware and/or better encoding a selection of t
academic.oup.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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🎉🥳A huge THANK YOU for the incredible number of applications for the #MESEC Winter School🥳🎉

We're also astonished by the numerous requests to extend the deadline, so we’re happy to extend the deadline until 11.12.2024, 24:00 ⏰ #consci
Carpe diem⏳ mesec.co/event/winter...
@ibroorg.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 11:37 AM
1/ Excited to share a part of my PhD in our new preprint:

Integrative Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging Approach in Assessing Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Multicentric Machine Learning Study

#DoC #MachineLearning #Multimodal

medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Integrative Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging Approach in Assessing Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Multicentric Machine Learning Study
Severely brain-injured patients may enter a spectrum of conditions collectively known as disorders of consciousness (DoC). This spectrum includes clinical categories such as unresponsive wakefulness s...
medrxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share!

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Revised eLife version of our 'Fractal cycles of sleep' - a new aperiodic activity-based definition of sleep cycles:

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

We have some plans how/where to apply the concept, but would be happy to receive additional ideas!
November 22, 2024 at 1:03 PM