1/ Excited about network neuroscience🧠but unsure how to turn your fMRI data into a connectome? 😵‍💫 Our systematic evaluation of fMRI pipelines for functional connectomics is just out Nature Communications! We compare 768 pipelines, across 5 criteria, in 3 datasets doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

maternal grandmas buffer the effects of discrimination on maternal anxiety and depression in pregnant Latina women -- what a cool paper testing intergenerational strengths cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Part 3 in our series on the science of growing up is out now! Developmental psychologist Laura Bechtiger and developmental neuroscientist Plamina Dimanova @Pdimanova from Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development explain how healthy relationships are formed. #ChildDevelopment bold.expert/how-important-…

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Moral learning and decision-making across the lifespan annualreviews.org/content/journa… New review with Jean-Claude Dreher and @Connected_Mindz We provide a framework for understanding similarities and differences from birth to older adulthood

Beyond cortical geometry: brain dynamics shaped by rare long-range connections | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In this longitudinal study of 2K+ recent trauma survivors in the US, individual & neighborhood factors were associated with psychological outcomes. Results have implications for the clinical care of trauma survivors and trauma-informed policy efforts. ja.ma/4hOqQaH

Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, PhD (he/him) showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Accepted at Trends in Cognitive Sciences! 🎉 'Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development' with Katie Lancaster osf.io/preprints/psya…

📅 Dazu passender Veranstaltungstipp: Talk im Turm: «Glücklich gross werden. Was es dazu braucht» Dienstag, 4. Februar 2025, 18:15 Uhr, UniTurm Restaurant Es diskutieren: Entwicklungspädiater Oskar Jenni und Neuropsychologin Nora Maria Raschle Zur Anmeldung: uzhalumni.ch/events/163293

... to trajectory modeling rules out this confound: doi.org/10.1037/amp000…

The Psychology of Framing: How Everyday Language Shapes the Way We Think, Feel, and Act - Stephen J. Flusberg, Kevin J. Holmes, Paul H. Thibodeau, Robin L. Nabi, Teenie Matlock, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

A very overdue announcement of our new paper! We used a unique longitudinal sample from the Harvard Study of Adult Development—spanning over 60 years of data collection!—to see how social networks change across the entire adult lifespan: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pa…

New paper! Sample size estimation for task-related functional MRI studies using Bayesian updating doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.… (reproducible version w/ notebooks: eduardklap.github.io/sample-size-fm…) Had a blast working w/@JoranJongerling Herbert Hoijtink Eveline Crone. Short summary + highlights: 1/n

After 5 years of data collection (179 first-time mothers + controls), and 2 years of data analyses and article writing, the first BeMother (BabyBrain) paper is out! We uncovered a U-shaped trajectory in maternal GM volume, resolving a long-standing puzzle in the maternal brain field.

Children need stimulation and attention for the healthy development of their brains. Neglect can have serious consequences for children’s health, as well as their ability to learn and form relationships: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/ne… Nora Maria Raschle Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development

2024 marked the 10-year anniversary of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (FKNE). We warmly invite you to explore the 10-Year Report, showcasing its impact on science, mentoring, outreach, advocacy, and personal achievements. rb.gy/zj9pyk

Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Happy to share that our article “Dissecting human cortical similarity networks across the lifespan” is now published online at Neuron Neuron. led by Xinyuan Liang and Lianglong Sun cell.com/neuron/abstrac…

Synchrony is typically seen as in the business of binding. Alternatively, it’s the spontaneous breaking of a continuous symmetry, creating a counterfactual absence in the service of conscious presence. cell.com/trends/cogniti…