Can a brain injury lead someone to commit a #crime? Brain imaging is increasingly introduced as evidence in criminal trials but it remains unclear which structural injuries play a causal role in criminal behavior. @foxmdphd @Brain_Circuits @BWHNeurology https://t.co/xXwvLGWj2o

Damage to the right uncinate fasciculus is strongly linked to criminal behavior—especially violent crime—more than any other brain tract. Lesion mapping confirms its key role. #Neuroscience #Brain #CriminalBehavior https://t.co/dTpIGinEf8

“Should brain injury factor into how we judge criminal behavior? Causality in science is not defined in the same way as culpability in the eyes of the law,” Kletenik mused. @Brain_Circuits

Nice coverage of our recent paper: “White matter disconnection in acquired criminality” in @molpsychiatry by @CUAnschutz @Brain_Circuits https://t.co/5VBvm28eCi

Buyback worked for me so if you would qualify for PSLF forgiveness now then consider the buyback program to fill in the payments you’re missing due to the ongoing court cases around SAVE and IDR

Profound gratitude to the @usedgov Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and the @NIH Loan Repayment program. These programs allowed me to pursue an academic medicine career rewarding public service and research to help pay off my medical school student debt. ❤️🥼👨‍🎓🧑‍🔬🩺🧠

“The sense of the sacred is something that has really strong grounding in the human brain,” says Michael Ferguson, Ph.D: https://t.co/CiMh3mUVvD Great reporting on neurospirituality in Popular Mechanics! I stand by this parting shot: “I really think that we’re just barely

MRI scans are becoming common in the courtroom and show abnormalities in defendants brains. But can any of these abnormalities actually cause #criminal behavior. New paper from @IsaiahNeurology @Brain_Circuits @MGBResearchNews in says YES. Thread below:

Real and imagined images are processed using the same systems in the brain, yet most people can distinguish between the two. Now neuroscientists have identified two brain regions that keep imagined images separate from reality. https://t.co/5EWkD6jmU9

By analyzing rare cases we show that lesions associated with criminality intersect the right uncinate fasciculus more than other lesions & more than other white matter tracts. Damage to the right uncinate may play a causal role in criminal behavior, especially violent crime.

Can brain injury cause the loss of visual imagination? We studied #aphantasia due to brain injury. Lesions were in many different regions but 100% were connected to fusiform imagery node - a region active during visual mental imagery @Brain_Circuits https://t.co/LleywZdLXp

Thank you @ScienceMagazine for covering our work of childhood environment and brain-wide white matter signatures.

@AmarDhand @DuncanAstle @Braindoc_MGH @harvardmed @BWHNeurology Adversity was associated with lower white matter integrity and later difficulty with arithmetic & receptive language yet interpersonal resilience was protective. New work out in @PNASNews https://t.co/VAsy5lsbfb

How do early life social environments impact white matter brain connections and subsequent cognitive abilities? Was fun working on this exciting project led by Sofia Carozza, @AmarDhand @DuncanAstle @Braindoc_MGH @harvardmed @BWHNeurology

In a new study, researchers from @BrighamWomens and colleagues discovered a brain circuit for creativity. The study is published in @JAMANetworkOpen. Read more: https://t.co/j7RatjbCzw @foxmdphd @IsaiahNeurology

Excited to present my poster at ACTRIMS: “Network Localization of Multiple Sclerosis Gait Speed Compared to Stroke” 🧠☺️ ➡️ Thanks to @IsaiahNeurology and @foxmdphd for the amazing mentorship! 🎉

A new study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham suggests that different brain regions activated by creative tasks are part of one common brain circuit. @Brain_Circuits https://t.co/HZDrmM27cm

New paper: Mapping Neuroimaging Findings of Creativity and Brain Disease Onto a Common Brain Circuit Published in ‘JAMA Network Open’: https://t.co/UX4IoFWZK1

This fMRI study found that brain regions activated by creativity tasks mapped to a circuit centered on the right frontal pole; damage to this circuit was linked to both decreases and paradoxical increases in creativity in multiple different brain diseases. https://t.co/nc5b90j8pO

Does human creativity map to a specific brain circuit? Can damage to this brain circuit increase creativity? New paper by @IsaiahNeurology @Brain_Circuits out today in @JAMANetworkOpen says answer to both is YES. Paper is open access and great thread below: