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Dema Abdelkarim
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I love learning about neurovasculature 🫀🧠

Carle-Beckman Postoc @ UIUC 🌽
PhD ‘22 @ UT Dallas 🤠
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The vascular contribution to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia — a Review by Silvia Anderle, Michael Dixon, Tania Quintela-Lopez, George Sideris-Lampretsas & David Attwell

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The vascular contribution to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Growing evidence suggests that reduced cerebral blood flow contributes to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia. Attwell and colleagues discuss the underlying mechanisms and functional consequences...
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Dema Abdelkarim
🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics."

🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵 Five things to know 👉
July 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Reposted by Dema Abdelkarim
🚨New paper!🚨

Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵

Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal
April 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Dema Abdelkarim
ICYMI: In this essay for our series on sex differences in the brain, @nmbaran.bsky.social explains why it’s important for students to learn about the dynamic, complex process by which sexual differentiation occurs.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
What birds can teach us about the ‘biological truth’ of sex
Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by Dema Abdelkarim
1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance?
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Reposted by Dema Abdelkarim
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🧠 NEW REVIEW

"Interoceptive Rhythms & Perceptual Experience
Mechanisms, Contexts & Strategies for Real-World Research"

How heart, lungs & gut shape what we see, feel & do—& how to study it in everyday life.

🔗 tinyurl.com/4ex7chdr
#NeuroSky #Interoception #Perception

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May 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Starting up my bluesky account on a rainy day...
May 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM