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These young-adult dips and blips are not typical lifespan patterns, and we show this using two independent reference lifespan datasets: NKI-Rockland Sample (NKI) and Dallas Lifespan Brain Study (DLBS). Neither showed the marked young-adult deviation seen in the HCP data.
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The cohort-level signal differences in HCP-YA distort measurements of brain network organization, resulting in surprising decreases and increases in multiple measure of brain organization during young-adulthood.
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Join our faculty!
A reminder that we are searching for two tenure-track faculty (neuroscience & clinical science) this fall. Application deadline is September 28. Learn about our department to see all that we have to offer.
psychology.uiowa.edu/about/j…
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Our next publication on neuropsychological assessment of personality change is out! tandfonline.com/eprint/QXKZG…
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🚨Job Search announcement 🚨
@PsychIllinois is searching for an assistant prof in cognitive neuroscience. Come join us! Pls RT 🙏
Full ad: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/car…
New paper with @vosshbc 😎! Using data from the Brain EXTEND trial, we asked whether a change in fitness from an exercise prescription tracked with change in high-frequency head-motion contamination in fMRI. Check out what we found: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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A special highlight of our work on precision fMRI of the prefrontal cortex
Out of the 30 million MRIs performed in the United States every year, data shows about 22% of those are on the brain. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois are mapping out ways to see the results at a more detailed level.
wcia.com/news/health-news/u-…
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Very excited about this project, led by @zach_ladwig
We show that the individual lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches.
Full🧵 coming soon!
Online now: Precision fMRI reveals densely interdigitated network patches with conserved motifs in the lateral prefrontal cortex dlvr.it/TSbkcr
Come join our awesome team 😎
We're hiring! Full-time research assistant @ UT Dallas
Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging. Project integrates MRI, behavioral testing, real-world health/lifestyle measures.
Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk.
Application deadline May 6.
Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/3…
@CVLneuro @UT_Dallas
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We know aging reorganizes large-scale brain networks in humans, with real consequences for cognition and dementia risk. What we haven't had is an animal model of this phenomenon — one that could help us figure out why it happens and how to intervene.
We’ve now mapped brain network changes over a wide range of the mouse adult lifespan.
The changes mirror key features of human brain aging, but not entirely, and the differences are just as interesting as the similarities.
New paper in @PNASNews 🧵
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Attending SFN? The lab has new discoveries about brain aging that we'll be sharing in the upcoming days. Stop by to chat and learn about our work!
#Sfn2025 @SfNtweets
@UTDResearch @CVLneuro
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I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver is going to do nothing to actually instigate that change, it is simply going to result in a giant DIRECT cut to biomedical science in this country that is going to cripple science, lead to layoffs of hardworking students and postdocs with big dreams who are the country's future, and destroy this country's scientific pre-eminence. I personally find it hard to fathom how Elon Musk and pals, who clearly understand the value and beauty of science deeply, could not see this endgame and...hesitate. This is matricide. @shaunmmaguire @elonmusk
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies.
The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% accuracy.🧵
Here's a preliminary release of our calculator to explore sample size and scan time to maximize individual-level prediction accuracy: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcu…
Let us know if anything is unclear or if there's bugs. Your feedback is welcome. If you find this calculator helpful for your grant application, etc, please also let us know!
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Dr. Hosea Covington may be the first in our college savings program to earn a medical degree. But he won’t be the last. Not as long as we recognize the good that exists in people everywhere and work to keep that good going: ow.ly/bzf450Ut25u
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I'm back with more exciting news! Our review article is now out on Neurobiology of Aging as part of a special issue on New Directions in Brain Connectivity in Aging 🧠 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Something to watch 👀
Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars.
Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature.
The lawsuit claims that these publishers violate antitrust laws on the following three grouds:
1. The publishers have colluded to fix the price of peer review at zero.
2. These publishers agree to not compete with each by making it obligatory for researchers to submit their work to only one journal at a time.
3. These publishers prohibit scholars from sharing scientific advancements while they are under peer review, which can take up to a year.
Here's a comparison of the publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers
Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion
Wiley: $1.8 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800 million
Sage: $500 million
They pay:
Authors: $0
Peer reviewers: $0
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I'll be recruiting a PhD student through the Cog Neuro Program @PsychIllinois this year. If you're interested in brain organization, networks, and cognition, please consider applying. 🧠🧠🧠
🚨Personal Update🚨: Next month, I’m moving back to my home town, and joining @PsychIllinois as an Assoc Prof, with my lab in @BeckmanIllinois
I’m sad to leave the friends & great colleagues I've made @PsychologyFSU, but so thrilled to join the exciting 🧠community @UofIllinois!
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We are excited to announce an open-area search for a transformational and visionary scientist at the rank of associate or full professor. Human experimental, clinical, theoretical, computational... Click below for more info.
psychology.uiowa.edu/about/j…
