Mac Woodburn, PhD
@macwoodburn.bsky.social
Associate Editor at Nature Communications. Cognitive Neuroscience. Neuroimaging.
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
Dance styles engage the brain in different ways depending on the movements, aesthetics, and emotions associated with the dance, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4i8eLO2 #Neuroskyence 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Dance styles engage the brain in different ways depending on the movements, aesthetics, and emotions associated with the dance, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4i8eLO2 #Neuroskyence 🧪
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Reduced brain structural similarity is associated with maturation, neurobiological features, and clinical status in schizophrenia www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reduced brain structural similarity is associated with maturation, neurobiological features, and clinical status in schizophrenia - Nature Communications
Individuals with schizophrenia show reduced structural similarity in temporal, cingulate, and insular lobes, especially those with worse cognition and symptoms, affecting late maturing association areas with low metabolism and high neurotransmission.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reduced brain structural similarity is associated with maturation, neurobiological features, and clinical status in schizophrenia www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
September 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
📢 The new cross-journal Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain” with @commsbio.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com, and Scientific Reports is now open for submissions! 📭
🌍 Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...
#Neuroscience #Brain #Lifespan #Neuroimaging
🌍 Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...
#Neuroscience #Brain #Lifespan #Neuroimaging
Lifespan changes in the human brain
This cross-journal collection invites submissions that investigate human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📢 The new cross-journal Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain” with @commsbio.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com, and Scientific Reports is now open for submissions! 📭
🌍 Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...
#Neuroscience #Brain #Lifespan #Neuroimaging
🌍 Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...
#Neuroscience #Brain #Lifespan #Neuroimaging
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. A study in Nature Communications shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion and the prominent role of odours in food reward. 🧪
Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion and the prominent role of odours in food reward.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. A study in Nature Communications shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion and the prominent role of odours in food reward. 🧪
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Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10
Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10
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I am very excited to let you know that my first PhD study has now been published in Nature Communications. 🧠📄 See the link to the article or read a summary in the post below! ⬇️
#alzheimersdisease #tau #amyloidbeta #neuroimaging #MRI #PET
#alzheimersdisease #tau #amyloidbeta #neuroimaging #MRI #PET
🚨New paper alert! Our study led by @teanijarv.bsky.social
investigated why some individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develop hemispheric asymmetry in tau pathology and what drives this phenomenon.
Out now in Nature Communications! 🔗Full article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
A thread🧵👇
investigated why some individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develop hemispheric asymmetry in tau pathology and what drives this phenomenon.
Out now in Nature Communications! 🔗Full article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
A thread🧵👇
Hemispheric asymmetry of tau pathology is related to asymmetric amyloid deposition in Alzheimer’s Disease - Nature Communications
Asymmetrical distribution of tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease is linked to asymmetrical amyloid-beta deposition, not reduced brain connectivity, suggesting regional vulnerability plays a key role ...
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September 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I am very excited to let you know that my first PhD study has now been published in Nature Communications. 🧠📄 See the link to the article or read a summary in the post below! ⬇️
#alzheimersdisease #tau #amyloidbeta #neuroimaging #MRI #PET
#alzheimersdisease #tau #amyloidbeta #neuroimaging #MRI #PET
Developmental cognitive neuroscientists - I'll be attending #FluxCongress2025 in Dublin this week. Say hello!
September 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Developmental cognitive neuroscientists - I'll be attending #FluxCongress2025 in Dublin this week. Say hello!
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory!
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications
When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...
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August 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory!
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
Decade + long work at UNC here - we longitudinally link prefrontal thickness peaks at 12 months to 8-12 yr working memory performance + activation!
Fifty children had up to 11 brain scans throughout their childhood; the images show nonlinear changes in cortical thickness. Infant frontal lobe thickness predicts neurocognitive function at age nine, measured by a working memory task. In PONAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Decade + long work at UNC here - we longitudinally link prefrontal thickness peaks at 12 months to 8-12 yr working memory performance + activation!
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
May 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to see this out in @natcomms.nature.com today!
This paper builds on the lab's work on self-regulation of arousal through pupil-based biofeedback. We assessed several markers of cortical and cardiac arousal in a pure self-regulation and dual task setting.
Excited to see this out in @natcomms.nature.com today!
This paper builds on the lab's work on self-regulation of arousal through pupil-based biofeedback. We assessed several markers of cortical and cardiac arousal in a pure self-regulation and dual task setting.
Modulating cortical excitability and cortical arousal by pupil self-regulation - Nature Communications
Weijs, Missura, Potok et al. showed in this study with brain stimulation and electrophysiological methods that self-regulation of pupil size via pupil-based biofeedback modulates cortical excitability...
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May 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Excited to see this out in @natcomms.nature.com today!
This paper builds on the lab's work on self-regulation of arousal through pupil-based biofeedback. We assessed several markers of cortical and cardiac arousal in a pure self-regulation and dual task setting.
Excited to see this out in @natcomms.nature.com today!
This paper builds on the lab's work on self-regulation of arousal through pupil-based biofeedback. We assessed several markers of cortical and cardiac arousal in a pure self-regulation and dual task setting.
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
“Human V4 size predicts crowding distance”.
@jankurzawski.bsky.social, now Assistant Professor at U Maastricht, led a big effort over a few years. We used individual differences in object recognition and the size of brain maps to identify a perceptual bottleneck.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jankurzawski.bsky.social, now Assistant Professor at U Maastricht, led a big effort over a few years. We used individual differences in object recognition and the size of brain maps to identify a perceptual bottleneck.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human V4 size predicts crowding distance - Nature Communications
Across 49 observers, we found large variations in crowding distance and retinotopic map size. These measures covary, conserving a 1.4-mm cortical crowding distance in the human V4 map. This links the ...
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April 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“Human V4 size predicts crowding distance”.
@jankurzawski.bsky.social, now Assistant Professor at U Maastricht, led a big effort over a few years. We used individual differences in object recognition and the size of brain maps to identify a perceptual bottleneck.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jankurzawski.bsky.social, now Assistant Professor at U Maastricht, led a big effort over a few years. We used individual differences in object recognition and the size of brain maps to identify a perceptual bottleneck.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
Hey Arcuate freaks and geeks!
I first contacted Erin in 2019. I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections?
The article: rdcu.be/eifzU
I first contacted Erin in 2019. I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections?
The article: rdcu.be/eifzU
Individual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication
Nature Communications - Here, authors reveal the anatomy of the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts use of intentional, communicative gestures and sounds. The chimpanzee arcuate is not...
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April 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Hey Arcuate freaks and geeks!
I first contacted Erin in 2019. I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections?
The article: rdcu.be/eifzU
I first contacted Erin in 2019. I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections?
The article: rdcu.be/eifzU
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
Had a great time speaking with Sydney about our most recent paper out now in @natcomms.nature.com @macwoodburn.bsky.social . Paper link here: rdcu.be/ehbOy
May 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Had a great time speaking with Sydney about our most recent paper out now in @natcomms.nature.com @macwoodburn.bsky.social . Paper link here: rdcu.be/ehbOy
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
in press @natcomms.nature.com 🌟
"Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization"
7T MRI + cytoarchitectonics reveal a sensory-paralimbic axis of areal specialization & integration
led by superstar Yezhou Wang & a terrific team of friends & colleagues
▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...
"Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization"
7T MRI + cytoarchitectonics reveal a sensory-paralimbic axis of areal specialization & integration
led by superstar Yezhou Wang & a terrific team of friends & colleagues
▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...
April 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
in press @natcomms.nature.com 🌟
"Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization"
7T MRI + cytoarchitectonics reveal a sensory-paralimbic axis of areal specialization & integration
led by superstar Yezhou Wang & a terrific team of friends & colleagues
▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...
"Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization"
7T MRI + cytoarchitectonics reveal a sensory-paralimbic axis of areal specialization & integration
led by superstar Yezhou Wang & a terrific team of friends & colleagues
▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
New study by Yin et al. charts early brain development (0-6 yrs) using fMRI, revealing key connectivity patterns tied to cognitive abilities. #earlybraindevelopment #braincharts
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Charting brain functional development from birth to 6 years of age - Nature Human Behaviour
Yin et al. harmonized 1,091 fMRI scans across five imaging cohorts to map developmental trajectories of brain functional connectivity in early childhood, revealing early brain development and its link...
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April 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New study by Yin et al. charts early brain development (0-6 yrs) using fMRI, revealing key connectivity patterns tied to cognitive abilities. #earlybraindevelopment #braincharts
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Mac Woodburn, PhD
It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy
April 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy
We are hiring an editor (expertise: neurological disorders, epidemiology) to join the neuroscience team @naturecomms.bsky.social
! Reach out if you'd like to chat about the position.
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! Reach out if you'd like to chat about the position.
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Associate or Senior Editor (neurological disorders & epidemiology), Nature Communications
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Neurological disorders & Epidemiology), Nature Communications Organisation: Nature Portfolio Locations: Beijing, Jersey City, London, Nanjing, New York, Phil...
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April 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We are hiring an editor (expertise: neurological disorders, epidemiology) to join the neuroscience team @naturecomms.bsky.social
! Reach out if you'd like to chat about the position.
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...
! Reach out if you'd like to chat about the position.
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...