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Get a chance to discuss more about it with Prof. tor wager at #NAPainSchool 2025 in Montebello, 🇨🇦 where we invite the leading experts in #pain research and management for a 1-week pain training and professional development program. #CanadianPain25 Canadian Pain Society

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. 92–97% of experts

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 I've been fascinated by this contradiction for years: we hate exerting effort, yet we value things more when they're difficult to achieve. Is the effort paradox real, illusory, or adaptive? Have a read! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We have created a free syllabus + teaching materials on the psychology of shared identities It includes links to papers, lecture slides, chapter summaries, exams, interactive activities, educational videos & podcasts. Link on next post:

Seeing this mitochondrial reconstruction for the first time with MJ McManus was one of the most exciting sight ever! It changed my life. What do you see? The story behind cristae alignment here: scientificamerican.com/article/why-mi…

**FMRI/neuroimaging folks** Quick reminder @ the next AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025. Learn through interactive data analysis! Day 1-2: data viz, single subject analysis & QC. Day 3: statistics, results reporting and group analysis. Details & register: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas. Funding research that is openly shared benefits the whole world, but the nation it benefits most is the one where the research is

Excited to share my co–first-authored paper with Jinxiao Zhang and teamwork with tor wager and @JamesGross in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! We discuss emerging findings and a potential framework of neural overlap between emotion generation and regulation cell.com/trends/cogniti…

some thoughts on human-ai relationships and how we're approaching them at openai it's a long blog post -- tl;dr we build models to serve people first. as more people feel increasingly connected to ai, we’re prioritizing research into how this impacts their emotional well-being.

Excited to share this pre-print of a long-awaited collaboration with Yoni Ashar, tor wager with Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab grad students Stevi Ibonie & Cindy Villanueva on prosocial emotional responding in bipolar disorder! doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Mice harboring mutations in Fmr1, Cntnap2 or Shank3B show a blunted update of priors during decision-making, suggesting that distinct genetic instantiations of ASD may yield common neurophysiological and behavioral phenotypes nature.com/articles/s4159…

1/ Delighted to officially launch the 2025 BrainModes Conference 🔗 brainmodes2025.org 📅 October 8-10 📍 The Fields Institute , University of Toronto, Toronto Registration now open! All you need to know in the 🧵below👇: Brain Simulation Section OHBM The Virtual Brain The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics CAMH Research The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation Opinion by Jin-Xiao Zhang (Jinxiao Zhang), Ke Bo (Ke Bo), Tor Wager (tor wager), & James Gross tinyurl.com/4y9kszb6

Our lab's funding was terminated—here’s how that compares to the amount of all terminated research at Harvard Medical School nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. I'm a medical doctor and I actually read the paper. Here's my perspective on why this is both impressive AND misleading ... 🧵

What gives us the capacity to grow, recover, and heal? We build on first principles and recent discoveries on biological system dynamics to develop the concept of intrinsic health, a field-like state emerging from the dynamic interplay of energy, communication, and structure🧵

Predictive processing models posit top-down influences of internal models on brain processing at multiple levels, including sensory processing. But they don't specify the details. How deep does predictive information penetrate into perception? What are the limits? New paper on

New paper on the energetic stress marker GDF15 GDF15 is remarkably high in people whose mitochondria cannot flow energy properly - patients with mitochondrial diseases we see in the clinic have 2-10x higher GDF15 levels We report that GDF15 can be measured in human saliva 🧵

PRF was always my favorite site to keep up with the flood of amazing pain science… So so happy to see it back in original form!