Alex Fornito
Doing cognitive neuroscience at @BMH_Hub & @turnerinstitute. We play with brains, networks, genes, models, cognition & disorders.
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OHBM Student–Postdoc Special Interest Group
The OHBM Student and Postdoc SIG provides a community of shared interests for OHBM students and postdocs (trainees). Our platform provides support and networ...
The efficacy of different preprocessing steps in reducing motion-related confounds in diffusion MRI connectomics
Head motion is a major confounding factor in neuroimaging studies. While numerous studies have investigated how motion impacts estimates of functional…
Early and mid-career scientists face a bleak future in the wake of the pandemic
Lockdowns, working from home and funding cuts put a generation of Australian scientists at risk of dropping out.
(PDF) Prediction, not association, paves to road to precision medicine
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Connectome Harmonic Decomposition of Human Brain Dynamics Reveals a Landscape of Consciousness
A central question in neuroscience is how cognition and consciousness arise from human brain activity. Here, we decompose cortical dynamics of resting-state functional MRI into their constituent elements: the harmonics of the human connectome....
The genetic architecture of human brainstem structures and their involvement in common brain disorders
The genetic architecture underlying brainstem regions and how this links to common brain disorders is not well understood. Here, the authors use MRI and GWAS data from 27,034 individuals to identify genetic and morphological brainstem features that...
More funding needed for future of Australian medical research, peak body says
More funding for early and mid-career researchers is needed to prevent world-leading experts of the future leaving the field, the Australian Association of Medical Institutes says.
Intrinsic excitation-inhibition imbalance affects medial prefrontal cortex differently in autistic men versus women
Excitation-inhibition imbalance affects medial prefrontal cortex differently in autistic males versus females.
Improved prediction of schizophrenia by leveraging genetic overlap with brain morphology
Schizophrenia is a complex, polygenic disorder associated with subtle, distributed abnormalities in brain morphology. Here, we report large genetic overlap between schizophrenia and brain morphology, which enabled derivation of polygenic risk scores...
Multi-dimensional connectivity: a conceptual and mathematical review
The estimation of functional connectivity between regions of the brain, for example based on statistical dependencies between the time series of activ…
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Julich-Brain: A 3D probabilistic atlas of the human brain’s cytoarchitecture
Cytoarchitecture is a basic principle of microstructural brain parcellation. Here we introduce Julich-Brain, a 3D atlas containing cytoarchitectonic maps of cortical areas and subcortical nuclei. The atlas is probabilistic to consider variations...
Mesoscopic architecture enhances communication across the Macaque connectome revealing structure-function correspondence in the brain
Analyzing the brain in terms of organizational structures at intermediate
scales provides an approach to negotiate the complexity arising from
interactions between its large number of components. Focusing on a wiring
diagram that spans the cortex,...
Layer-dependent functional connectivity methods
Recent methodological advances in fMRI contrast and readout strategies have allowed researchers to approach the mesoscopic spatial regime of cortical …
Predicting intelligence from brain gray matter volume
A positive association between brain size and intelligence is firmly established, but whether region-specific anatomical differences contribute to general intelligence remains an open question. Results from voxel-based morphometry (VBM) - one of the...
Gene coexpression patterns predict opiate-induced brain-state transitions
Persistent alterations to neural circuitry may help to explain why opiate abuse liability is higher among individuals with a history of chronic exposure. In this study, we employ a unique combination of computational approaches to understand how...
PhD research fellow (189635) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD research fellow (189635), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, August 3, 2020
Cross-species regulatory sequence activity prediction
Author summary Human population genetic studies have highlighted thousands of genomic sites that correlate with traits and diseases that do not modify gene sequences directly, but instead modify where and when those genes are expressed. To better...