Tobias Navarro Schröder
vitalcurrent.bsky.social
Tobias Navarro Schröder
@vitalcurrent.bsky.social
I study how mechanical forces influence brain function and health, bridging disciplines across cognitive neuroscience, memory, navigation, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, population coding & anatomy. Committed to interdisciplinary research.
Mechanical forces matter "When APP is considered to be part of the force-sensitive machinery of the brain, it immediately indicates a novel role for APP in healthy brain function.."

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Scientists uncover a new mechanical pathway linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers discovered that amyloid precursor protein interacts with talin to maintain synaptic stability. Disruptions in this interaction may lead to Alzheimer’s disease by impairing mechanical signa...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The fact that a drug can dissociate neuronal from BOLD-based measures of connectivity is a powerful example for the non-linear relationship between spikes and fMRI-BOLD.
Important paper for interpreting #fMRI results on #psychedelics! In short, psilocybin changes neurovascular coupling (i.e., how neural activity links to blood flow). 👇
🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Fascinating study that suggests that the origin of AD-related tau pathology is mechanical stress caused by anatomical architecture www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Hidden Cost of Human Evolution: Why Our Brains May Be Vulnerable to Age-Related Degeneration
What if the traits that make us uniquely human—our large brains and upright posture—also make us vulnerable to neurodegenerative diseases? Our new research tests this and suggests that a common aspect...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Tobias Navarro Schröder
Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :)
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fMRI_EPI_KspaceAcquisition_short
This is a demonstration of how a single slice of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is collected. Before this makes any sense, you will need to understand…
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October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Fascinating prepring showing that mechanically-driven brain folding may determine behavior more than genetics across primate species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Principles of neocortical organisation and behaviour in primates
One sentence summary The study of brain MRI from 70 different primate species reveals a fundamental principle of neocortical organisation and behaviour driven by mechanical morphogenesis. The develop...
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July 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM