NEW ARTICLE ALERT ‼️ proud to share that my first-first author paper is now out in @SfNJournals and has been selected as a featured article. Read on for a breakdown of our findings🧵:.

On another exciting note — I’m also on the job market! Always looking forward to discussing potential opportunities :) stop by my poster 1:45-3:45PM and the 6PM poster reception to chat!.

Spatial heterogeneity of CSF related-noise in fMRI: why it matters and what we can do about it. My work at #OHBM2025 provides evidence for taking a region-specific approach when isolating CSF artifact in the subcortex. Swing by #P1358 on Fri/Sat to discuss!

Had a great time presenting my work at #CNS2025. A huge thank you to my advisor @sNeuroble for helping me bring this project to life. Incredibly excited to see how well received our poster was and I can't wait to share new developments at #OHBM this June! #fMRI #CSF

Improving fMRI signal quality starts with better noise modeling. My project at #CNS2025 shows how localized region-specific CSF correction may better isolate neural activity and increase sensitivity in the subcortex. Come by my poster #D138 to learn more! (Mon. 8:00-10:00AM) 🧠

Really fantastic and innovative work led by my amazing NeuroPRISM lab colleague and good friend. Congrats @ShearerHallee!.

NeuroPRISM Lab's 1st birthday (full of cake & statistically driven party games, of course)!!! 🥳🎉.

RT @sNeuroble: 💯 My lab can’t stop talking about it & I also had an absolute blast.🙌🏽 @arokem & Noah Benson. As a bonus, we (@ShearerHallee….

All that to say, thanks for everything @NeuroHackademy 🙂 #OpenScience #ReproducibleScience #NeuroImaging #NeuroHackademy2024

I cannot express how grateful I am to have been part of this summer workshop. A huge thank you to @arokem and Noah Benson for fostering such a supportive & collaborative space to learn + meet incredible fellow neuroimaging trainees who I'm now lucky to call friends🧠 (3/3).

Our pipeline extracts inputs and outputs from functions within a python script, organizes them into a sequential flowchart, and exports the flowchart to a README file in your GitHub repo. To find out more, visit our GitHub repo here: (2/3) #OpenScience.

Back in Boston after 2 incredible weeks in Seattle for @NeuroHackademy! For our final hackathon project, @ShearerHallee and I developed a tool to enhance the clarity and reproducibility of code documentation (1/2 🧵).

Week 2 of @neurohackademy 🗻 Such a great weekend exploring Seattle with @ShearerHallee, @sNeuroble & @psychonetrics 🧠 Incredibly grateful for this team and awesome summer program #NeuroPRISMLab #NeuroHackademy2024

Kicked off @neurohackademy.at @UW in Seattle w/ a great first day of lectures on best coding practices + science as a design problem! Looking forward to the next 2 weeks of workshops on reproducible data science and neuroimaging 🤓💻🧠#NeuroHackademy2024 #OpenScience.

RT @ShearerHallee: Bring-your-parents-to-work day at the NeuroPRISM lab! Having the chance for my parents to meet @sNeuroble (the reason I….

Check out an abbreviated summary of our new PAG working memory manuscript in ‘This Week in the Journal’ 🧠 #PAG #fMRI #brainstem #subcortex #JNeuro.

9/9 To summarize, our results are consistent with the emerging perspective that the PAG serves a general integrative function—as opposed to a survival-specific function.

8/9 These findings suggest that one of the most well-known ‘survival circuits’ in the brain exhibits a clearly defined pattern of BOLD increase in the vlPAG in response to a task approximately as easy as remembering a phone number ☎️.

7/9 Both 1-back and 3-back tasks elicited localized BOLD responses along the entire rostral-caudal axis in the ventrolateral PAG (vlPAG) – a subregion commonly associated with 'freezing' behaviors in animals and anticipated breathlessness or subcutaneous pain in humans.

6/9 Both 1-back & 3-back elicited similar spatial patterns of whole-brain BOLD, with the 3-back showing widespread increases in the brainstem. These increases were not sig. greater than those in the 1-back, suggesting subthreshold brainstem BOLD increases even under mild demand.

5/9 Given the PAG’s small size (~14mm in height, internal diam 0-1mm, external diam 3-4mm) and its susceptibility to noise (CSF), our localization procedure aimed to enhance the spatial precision of PAG columns.