Nathan M Petro
@nathanpetro.bsky.social
Staff Scientist, DICoN Lab, Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital.
PhD from U of Florida.
Many broad interests in human neuroscience. Mostly emotional processing.
PhD from U of Florida.
Many broad interests in human neuroscience. Mostly emotional processing.
A really cool thing about the gamma pre-SMA result: we found the same effect for negative > positive faces in a recent paper (academic.oup.com/scan/article...). As many before me have said: it is essential to consider how the brain is “moving the body” during emotion processing!
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A really cool thing about the gamma pre-SMA result: we found the same effect for negative > positive faces in a recent paper (academic.oup.com/scan/article...). As many before me have said: it is essential to consider how the brain is “moving the body” during emotion processing!
Affective info involves visual and limbic regions, but ALSO systems involved in motor planning.
June 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Affective info involves visual and limbic regions, but ALSO systems involved in motor planning.
Overall, screen time or social media use didn’t “matter”, but specific problematic behaviors. With prior lit, suggests that social media provides more (i.e. constant) opportunity to engage in behaviors problematic to mental health, lead to different trajectories of brain development.
February 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Overall, screen time or social media use didn’t “matter”, but specific problematic behaviors. With prior lit, suggests that social media provides more (i.e. constant) opportunity to engage in behaviors problematic to mental health, lead to different trajectories of brain development.