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Campino als Gastprofessor an der ⁦Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf⁩. Was darf man heute noch sagen? Einerseits werden Begriffe hinterfragt und dürfen nicht mehr gesagt werden, andererseits haben wir eine Verrohung der Sprache insb in den Sozialen Medien. Dabei auch: Kuddel und Philipp Oehmke.

Alles neu macht der Mai: Führungswechsel am UKD! Seit dem ersten Mai 2024 hat das UKD erstmals in seiner Geschichte eine Frau an der Spitze des Vorstands und als Ärztliche Direktorin: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Schmieder hat das Amt von Prof. Dr. Dr. Frank Schneider übernommen. (1/3)

Our book on diffusion MRI tractography is now out: shop.elsevier.com/books/handbook… Enjoy!

Great collaboration - thanks to all!

🚀 New research! Dive into our study on the neural mechanisms behind visual consciousness using advanced fMRI techniques. Discover how brain circuits shape our conscious visual experiences. Read the full paper in Communications Biology: nature.com/articles/s4200… #Neuroscience #Consciousness

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Great work from our PhD student - check it out!

Great coverage on our recent work led by Sam Vickery -> the relation between human brain aging and evolutionary expansion in Science Advances (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… ): -> "Humanity’s newest brain gains are most at risk from ageing" nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

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🧠 Just published in @BrainComms! Our latest study explores the structural and functional properties of superficial pyramidal neurons in the adult human neocortex. Age-related changes of synaptic properties… Freiburg #Neuroanatomy academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

After the MRtrix3 team was a finalist at the Australian Museum Australian Museum Eureka Prizes ceremony, I conducted an interview with Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) to speak about my involvement with that project and my opinions on the research software ecosystem.

25 neue Impulse aus der #Wissenschaft für #acatech: Wir heißen unsere 25 neuen Mitglieder herzlich willkommen. Sie bringen ihre Expertise mit #Technologie-Bezug in den Dialog mit #Politik und #Gesellschaft ein. 📷acatech/Svea Pietschmann acatech.de/allgemein/neue…

📢 We are excited to announce that the Handbook of Diffusion MR Tractography is finally out! 🎉 Huge thanks to all the authors and the ever growing tractography community at IST International Society for Tractography and DSG-ISMRM ISMRM Diffusion Study Group !! From Flavio Dell'Acqua, Maxime Descoteaux, Alexander Leemans

🚨New paper in Journal of Affective Disorders highlights the prevalence of subclinical depressive symptoms in adults 50+ years, explores sociodemographic, (neuro-)psychological, somatic and medical links! Based on 1000BRAINS data Svenja Caspers doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.…

📢New Open🔓 Access Article in GeroScience Association between night shift work and markers of metabolism, cardiovascular and immune system in a population-based German cohort by Nora Bittner & Svenja Caspers (Svenja Caspers) et al. rdcu.be/egCcd #anthropometric

While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike deep neural nets), but the dirty secret ... 1/N

📢New Open🔓 Access Article in GeroScience Bilingualism and “brain reserve” in subregions of the hippocampal formation by Katharina Peitz & Svenja Caspers (Svenja Caspers) et al. rdcu.be/eh2jx #aging #bilingualism #hippocampus #graymatter #brain

🧠 Just out in Brain Stimulation: Our review explores how rTMS modulates microglia, influencing neuroinflammation, plasticity, and brain repair. Ready to explore the immune dimension of neuromodulation ?! #Freiburg #Neuroanatomy 👉 brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-…

Finally out in "Sleep Medicine Reviews": Neural correlates of #insomnia with #depression and #anxiety from a #neuroimaging perspective: A systematic review doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv… #Sleep #Brain FZ Jülich-INM7 Simon Eickhoff Ji Chen

(1/3) New work from our lab and Bennett Landman (Vanderbilt MASI Lab) creating White matter brain charts across the lifespan. Brain charts for 72 pathways, both microstructure (DTI) and macrostructure (volumes, lengths) - using data from >40 harmonized population studies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…