just in time for the SfN-Thanksgiving combo 😰

Stellar! @actlab.bsky.social will have to bring his bluegrass band to play CNS…

That is *of course* why fMRI is my method of choice, so we can measure our (black box) whole-brain BOLD signal with the advantage of astrocyte neurovascular influences 😅 or something like that….

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This week two new #28andMe babies joined the extended family:

⏳ @lapate.bsky.social’s lab uncovered a resting-state connectivity signature that reflects the passage of time. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/x)

Pre-registration 🤨🫣🤷‍♂️😶
Pre-frontal 🤠😎😇🤓🎊🙌🏼🎉

But I’ll actually read this and would love that chat about it sometime! :)

Very cool! Did you also look at load signals in frontal ctx? Seems like you’d get a uni/multi-variate divergence there, for many reasons. Although from a brief glance it looks like IPS still showed both highest uni and multi-variate load signals? (But I should actually, ya know, read the paper…)

You are making my deeply held cortical chauvinism tougher and tougher to keep up 😫 🥲

Thanks, and hat makes total sense, esp. to maximize effect first! The specific targeting has me thinking of this work from Xu & Desimone with simultaneous NHP grid e-stim with fMRI recording: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... curious what spatial scale the spatial optimization effects will come down to!

super cool (& inspiring)! Finally read this and was wondering, for chronic stimulation (beyond initial 3-day electrode mappings), were all 4 electrode panels stimulated simultaneously? or were they isolated and that could vary with optimization? (didn't catch in paper, curious about PFC specificity)