Data Scientist at Ascension. PhD in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University. Dad. Data nerd. Reefkeeper. Very amateur astronomer.
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Pregnancy is a time of immense biological change, and approximately 80%+ of women carry to term in their lifetime. Despite this, we know remarkably little about pregnancy-related brain changes. We sought to address some answered questions with this paper:
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Our new paper, led by @BenNConrad, using structural and functional MRI connectivity, suggests the left ITNA is involved in mapping digits to verbal number representations, while the right ITNA may support mapping of digits to quantity representations. academic.oup.com/cercor/adva…
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So it's #October and I needed to test some #MRI sequences for a new study. Use a standard phantom? I think not. I give you #PumpkinMRI!
Huge thanks to my committee @gavinrprice, @DrJamesBooth, @mika_rubinov, Dr. Cutting. Others from @numerical_brain - @darrenjyeo, @EricDWilkey, @AndrewCLynn, @_CPollack, Lisa, Sharo, Amanda, Adam. And those from @vuiis @Gorejc51, @seth_smith_a, @VickyLMorgan, & @Researcher_Rob 🙏
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PreQual, our #diffusion #MRI preprocessing and QA pipeline is out! If you work in this space and get a chance to try it out, let us know what you think! Big thanks to our amazing collaborators, @kurtschilling5, and the entire @MASI_Lab team!
Congrats to #firstauthor @LeonCai (G2) and coauthor Graham Johnson (G2) on their new pub in @mrm_highlights! This work created a single pipeline that joins established #DWI preprocessing tools with quality assurance readout. Get the full picture here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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1/10 New paper with @gavinrprice, @BenNConrad, and @darrenjyeo about shared patterns of number-specific cortical activity (7T fMRI) across number formats (digits and dots) and tasks (comparison and identification) in Cerebral Cortex Communications: doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa0…
So rewarding to see these studies come to fruition! Huge thanks to @Researcher_Rob & Satoshi Maki, and @seth_smith_a & @gore_jc for their guidance and mentorship. Also shout out to coauthors @jennwatch, @LydiaMcKeithan and others for their contributions! @vuiis @VanderbiltBrain
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Ben Conrad retweeted
Update: Leads in PA and GA continue to decrease. The linear trend is consistent with a difference between votes counted last night and the mail-in votes being counted now. Note that the expected total vote is an estimate. If this changes, the entire plot shifts to right or left.
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I am accepting applications for PhD students this year in the neuroscience and/or psychology programs, to study neural basis of numerical cognition. Please send interested students my way! numericalbrainlab.com
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A whole new batch of articles just posted in final form, closing out our third journal issue this year | our 'biggest' issue yet, with 469 pages and 21 articles!
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Issue 4 will open next month & incl our Focus Feature "Network Communication in the Brain"
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Network Neuroscience 2020, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 714–745
Network topology of symbolic and nonsymbolic number comparison
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1/9 I’d like to highlight our recently published, open access manuscript in @netneurosci titled “Network topology of symbolic and nonsymbolic number comparison”. @numerical_brain doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00144
8/9 Several regions showed differences between formats, including occipital areas, the left hIP3 subdivision of the intraparietal sulcus, and the right posterior inferior temporal gyrus (a ventral-stream region proximal to the “Number Form Area”, shown below).
