Preprint out ⚡Functional connectivity contractions in temporal lobe epilepsy are mediated by microstructural white matter changes and represent a clinically relevant pathological mechanism of focal epilepsy bit.ly/35H9mq5

NOW: We’re hearing from Quebec #Autism Research Training Program trainee Oualid Benkarim, postdoc at #TheNeuro (supervisor @BorisBernhardt), who is studying autism using functional MRI. #TACC2020 #ACAR

Gradients workshop happening now at The Neuro with the amazing people of the MICA lab (Oualid Benkarim, @BorisBernhardt, @CaseyPaquola, @J_Royer_ and @reindervosdwael) giving an introduction to their great BrainSpace toolbox (brainspace.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)!

OHBMX Yuliet Herrera @BrainImagingUoL ENIGMA Consortium Chris Whelan Paul Thompson @BorisBernhardt 1. Epilepsy is increasingly conceptualized as a network disorder. Here we will show how we identified network mechanisms underlying atrophy patterns in 1,021 epileptic patients relative to 1,564 healthy controls from 19 international sites. #OHBMx

Next is @CaseyPaquola from The Neuro ! Casey combines local and global features of cortical wiring, demonstrating how this cortical wiring scheme interfaces micro-scale cellular architecture with large-scale functional hierarchies. Awesome work!

New preprint, led by Oualid Benkarim, examining out-of-distribution prediction in #ABIDE + #HBN: Analytical tools are needed to get a handle on #untracked #diversity in multi-site cohorts biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now out in Nature Methods | The ENIGMA Toolbox 🧰 An open-source python (🐍) and matlab (🌋) repository to access 100+ ENIGMA maps, visualize cortical and subcortical surface data, and relate neuroimaging findings to multiscale brain organization 🔗 go.nature.com/3ycxvn5

As this trainee committee's year comes to a close, we would like to take the opportunity to thank all the amazing speakers who presented on their work at our Get-Togethers this year. See thread below ⬇️ 1/6

Excellent work on Autism spectrum disorder published in Communications Biology by Oualid Benkarim, recent HBHL Fellow alumn and former co-president/president of the HBHL Trainee Committee.

Our paper on #distributionshift in human neuroscience now accepted at PLOS Biology. Congrats to Oualid Benkarim for leading this quantitative analysis! #untracked #diversity #outofdistribution ENIGMA Consortium ABCD-ReproNim @BertrandThirion Dr. Angie Laird ✨🫶

'our findings highlight the limitations of prevailing deconfounding practices in mitigating the full consequences of #population #diversity' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… Neuromatch Vince Calhoun @vcalhoun.bsky.social Thomas Nichols @nichols.bsky.social Diego Vidaurre

Contribution of diversity-aware #MachineLearning models to understanding out-of-distribution generalization in large-scale #neuroimaging datasets; population diversity is key to performance Oualid Benkarim @BorisBernhardt Danilo Bzdok &co #PLOSBiology plos.io/37abGNp