Taufik A. Valiante
@tvaliante.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, Krembil Brain Institute, CRANIA, MPUTC, BME & ECE University of Toronto.
https://neurontobrainlaboratory.ca
https://kite-uhn.com/crania
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It was incredible to be part of #purpleday yesterday! 💜 Each year, this important day continues to grow bigger and stronger, bringing more awareness and support for the 1-in-100 people living with epilepsy.
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March 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It was incredible to be part of #purpleday yesterday! 💜 Each year, this important day continues to grow bigger and stronger, bringing more awareness and support for the 1-in-100 people living with epilepsy.
@kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social
@kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social
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Happy to share this work putting forth the first #computational model of #developing #embrionic cortical circuits. Phenomenal team coordination by Fernando Garcia Moreno @achucarro.bsky.social. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes
The amniote pallium contains sensory circuits that are structurally and functionally equivalent, yet their evolutionary relationship remains unresolved. We used birthdating analysis, single-cell RNA a...
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February 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Happy to share this work putting forth the first #computational model of #developing #embrionic cortical circuits. Phenomenal team coordination by Fernando Garcia Moreno @achucarro.bsky.social. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social
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I’m not “abandoning my diet”; I’m “supporting my country.”
February 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I’m not “abandoning my diet”; I’m “supporting my country.”
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Save the date! Come learn about how we're using machine learning to reverse-engineer the human brain and build brain-machine interfaces kite-uhn.com/talk/rounds-...
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February 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Save the date! Come learn about how we're using machine learning to reverse-engineer the human brain and build brain-machine interfaces kite-uhn.com/talk/rounds-...
@uoft.bsky.social @bme-uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social @kbi-uhn.bsky.social
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New brain aging study is out today in Nature
The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN
The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN
January 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New brain aging study is out today in Nature
The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN
The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN
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Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.
Scientist/Senior Scientist – Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
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December 27, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.
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We are proud to support this trial through our our extensive academic and clinical programs affiliated with @uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social
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In an interview with The i Paper, #TeamUHN's Dr. Andres Lozano discusses his excitement over UHN's Toronto Western Hospital being selected as the first international site of Neuralink trials.
Read more 👇
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Read more 👇
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'We'll be uploading information to the brain' - the future of Musk's Neuralink
Previous brain implants were bulkier or required cables to protrude from the back of a patient’s head
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December 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
We are proud to support this trial through our our extensive academic and clinical programs affiliated with @uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social
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Congrats to Sam Mestern, Ph.D. student at @westernu.bsky.social, for winning the MapMySpikes challenge! His tool, PatchOTDA, excelled in mapping electrophysiological data to molecular properties. 🧠📈
More on his tool and the MapMySpikes challenge: alleninstitute.org/news/canadia...
More on his tool and the MapMySpikes challenge: alleninstitute.org/news/canadia...
Canadian Ph.D. student, Sam Mestern, wins first MapMySpikes challenge
The Allen Institute for Brain Science's MapMySpikes challenge aimed to address a key challenge in neuroscience by making connections between cells' electrical and molecular properties.
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December 11, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Congrats to Sam Mestern, Ph.D. student at @westernu.bsky.social, for winning the MapMySpikes challenge! His tool, PatchOTDA, excelled in mapping electrophysiological data to molecular properties. 🧠📈
More on his tool and the MapMySpikes challenge: alleninstitute.org/news/canadia...
More on his tool and the MapMySpikes challenge: alleninstitute.org/news/canadia...
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Three UHN research projects have received over $4M through the Ontario Research Fund, part of a $92M investment in Ontario research!
Learn how this funding advances:
▶️#MRI tech
▶️#AI for donor lungs
▶️Muscle & joint #health
Congrats to the awardees!
🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...
Learn how this funding advances:
▶️#MRI tech
▶️#AI for donor lungs
▶️Muscle & joint #health
Congrats to the awardees!
🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...
December 10, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Three UHN research projects have received over $4M through the Ontario Research Fund, part of a $92M investment in Ontario research!
Learn how this funding advances:
▶️#MRI tech
▶️#AI for donor lungs
▶️Muscle & joint #health
Congrats to the awardees!
🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...
Learn how this funding advances:
▶️#MRI tech
▶️#AI for donor lungs
▶️Muscle & joint #health
Congrats to the awardees!
🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...
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Hopfield and Hinton @nobelprize.bsky.social lecture today
John J. Hopfield: Physics is a point of view
Geoffrey Hinton: Boltzmann Machines
www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...
John J. Hopfield: Physics is a point of view
Geoffrey Hinton: Boltzmann Machines
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December 8, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Hopfield and Hinton @nobelprize.bsky.social lecture today
John J. Hopfield: Physics is a point of view
Geoffrey Hinton: Boltzmann Machines
www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...
John J. Hopfield: Physics is a point of view
Geoffrey Hinton: Boltzmann Machines
www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...
Grateful for these two and that they find such joy in one another!! Photo cred @samravaliante.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Grateful for these two and that they find such joy in one another!! Photo cred @samravaliante.bsky.social
Holiday festivities have begun. Grateful for my amazing lab for making each year fun, and exciting!!
December 3, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Holiday festivities have begun. Grateful for my amazing lab for making each year fun, and exciting!!
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Done Christmas Shopping? Or need inspiration what open MRI tools to get for your loved ones? After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is 🥁
#MRITogether Tuesday (and Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 😉). There is still time to register for our free online event mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...
#MRITogether Tuesday (and Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 😉). There is still time to register for our free online event mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...
December 2, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Done Christmas Shopping? Or need inspiration what open MRI tools to get for your loved ones? After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is 🥁
#MRITogether Tuesday (and Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 😉). There is still time to register for our free online event mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...
#MRITogether Tuesday (and Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 😉). There is still time to register for our free online event mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...
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Thank you to the global community for citing, sharing, and building on this work! 🙏
Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41...
Stay tuned for MedSAM2, set to be released next month, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy for medical video and 3D image segmentation.
Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41...
Stay tuned for MedSAM2, set to be released next month, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy for medical video and 3D image segmentation.
November 27, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Thank you to the global community for citing, sharing, and building on this work! 🙏
Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41...
Stay tuned for MedSAM2, set to be released next month, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy for medical video and 3D image segmentation.
Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41...
Stay tuned for MedSAM2, set to be released next month, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy for medical video and 3D image segmentation.
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thanks @haoyin.bsky.social 🙏🙏
Dr. Bo Wang is on BlueSky now
@bowang87.bsky.social
Follow him if you don't want to miss the coolest AI-Biomedical development!!!😎
@bowang87.bsky.social
Follow him if you don't want to miss the coolest AI-Biomedical development!!!😎
November 20, 2024 at 2:41 AM
thanks @haoyin.bsky.social 🙏🙏
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An early Thanksgiving gift to you all… a new preprint, representing the final piece of my postdoc work at @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social with @tvaliante.bsky.social.
Full description to come next week 😀
#neuroskyence #compneuro
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full description to come next week 😀
#neuroskyence #compneuro
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
H- and m-channel overexpression promotes seizure-like events by impairing the ability of inhibitory neurons to process correlated inputs
Channelopathies affecting h- and m-channels present a paradox in epilepsy research: while both over- and underexpression of these channels can be epileptogenic, channel overexpression does not appear ...
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November 26, 2024 at 2:40 PM
An early Thanksgiving gift to you all… a new preprint, representing the final piece of my postdoc work at @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social with @tvaliante.bsky.social.
Full description to come next week 😀
#neuroskyence #compneuro
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full description to come next week 😀
#neuroskyence #compneuro
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Oh I know this guy. I listen to him all the time. But more importantly, you should see what his colleagues have to say about
"To Keep or Not to Keep"
"To Keep or Not to Keep"
Should neuroscientists keep all raw data or focus on processed datasets? Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social asks experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts on neurophysiology’s data dilemma:
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Check out some opinions in the thread below:
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Check out some opinions in the thread below:
To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology’s data dilemma
An exponential growth in data size presents neuroscientists with a significant challenge: Should we be keeping all raw data or focusing on processed datasets? I asked experimentalists and theorists…
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November 25, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Oh I know this guy. I listen to him all the time. But more importantly, you should see what his colleagues have to say about
"To Keep or Not to Keep"
"To Keep or Not to Keep"
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Also for those with broader brain health related interests where you get to play with these toys! If it sounds interesting, let’s chat at ACNP in Phoenix!
Interested in a Canada Excellence Research Chair ($8M or $4M for 8 years) in the area of ultra-high field MRI development and applications in the neurosciences? Please reach out to me. We have [15.2T, 9.4T] preclinical and [7T, 3T] human MRI scanners. www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...
Canada Excellence Research Chairs - Home
The CERC Program offers eligible Canadian degree-granting universities the opportunity to establish research Chairs at their institutions in research areas that are of strategic importance to Canada.
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November 25, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Also for those with broader brain health related interests where you get to play with these toys! If it sounds interesting, let’s chat at ACNP in Phoenix!
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I am giving a 2-day #advanced #course on #astrocyte multiscale #models at the University of #Padua IT on April 10--11, 2025 #EMBO. An excellent opportunity to learn how to include #neuron-#glia #interactions in your models, from molecules to networks. Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/yx3m6acy
November 24, 2024 at 11:06 PM
I am giving a 2-day #advanced #course on #astrocyte multiscale #models at the University of #Padua IT on April 10--11, 2025 #EMBO. An excellent opportunity to learn how to include #neuron-#glia #interactions in your models, from molecules to networks. Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/yx3m6acy
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The most fun paper I have ever written. Great theory, too. Read it if you want to understand the American Psyche.
Bayesball! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The Bayesian nature of baseball. From Brantley & @kordinglab.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 9:30 PM
The most fun paper I have ever written. Great theory, too. Read it if you want to understand the American Psyche.
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Wow one of the best videos of basic hippocampal anatomy for the human brain.
Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:
Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:
Fantastic explanation of the anatomy of the human #Hippocampus! Great video and visualizations!👌 #neuroscience #PsychSciSky vimeo.com/323365182
Morphology of Memory: The Anatomy of the Human Hippocampus
The hippocampus is a part of the brain known to be critical for learning and memory. It is made up of many interconnected regions with distinct characteristics.…
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November 17, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Wow one of the best videos of basic hippocampal anatomy for the human brain.
Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:
Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:
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When the conference doors close, these scientists rock out.
A "skinny-tie rock" show by the band Pavlov’s Dogz has become tradition at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.
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A "skinny-tie rock" show by the band Pavlov’s Dogz has become tradition at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.
www.thetransmitter.org/community/wh...
November 21, 2023 at 2:42 PM
When the conference doors close, these scientists rock out.
A "skinny-tie rock" show by the band Pavlov’s Dogz has become tradition at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.
www.thetransmitter.org/community/wh...
A "skinny-tie rock" show by the band Pavlov’s Dogz has become tradition at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.
www.thetransmitter.org/community/wh...
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A potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication
New paper from Halassa lab in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper from Halassa lab in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prefrontal transthalamic uncertainty processing drives flexible switching - Nature
By examining neural responses from tree shrews performing hierarchical decision tasks with rule reversals, the authors identify a thalamocortical mechanism for regulating cognitive flexibility.
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November 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
A potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication
New paper from Halassa lab in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper from Halassa lab in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dream Science 2.0 — AKA New Strategies for the Cognitive Science of Dreaming - Online ahead of print in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2024 doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.004.
by Remington Mallett, Karen R Konkoly, Tore Nielsen, Michelle Carr, and Ken A Paller
by Remington Mallett, Karen R Konkoly, Tore Nielsen, Michelle Carr, and Ken A Paller
November 17, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Dream Science 2.0 — AKA New Strategies for the Cognitive Science of Dreaming - Online ahead of print in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2024 doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.004.
by Remington Mallett, Karen R Konkoly, Tore Nielsen, Michelle Carr, and Ken A Paller
by Remington Mallett, Karen R Konkoly, Tore Nielsen, Michelle Carr, and Ken A Paller