Mike Datko
@MichaelDatko
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T32 postdoctoral fellow @harvardmed | @MGHMartinos | @CMC_CHA | clinical neuroscience, pain, mood disorders, anxiety, interoception, mindfulness, psychedelics
Cambridge, MA
Joined November 2009
Excited to be attending @OHBM with the #migraine study crew & @VitalyNapadow lab!😊 Check out our ⭐️ RA @aligoldstein_’s poster on breath-hold induced CVR in migraine at #7Tesla! Poster #147
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On January 11, @MGHmartinos staged its first-ever talent show, aptly titled: “The Martinos Center’s Got Talent!” The event showcased the talents of folks across the center, Fortunately, many of the performances were recorded, and you can catch them here: https://t.co/7yUFm6ZdfP
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Our band "The TIM Trio" performed its first gig at the @MGHMartinos Center last night as part of the inaugural "Martinos Center's Got Talent" show! @marcologgia1 on Keys, @MichaelDatko on Drums, with special guest vocalist Jennifer Murphy! @MGH_RI @MGHImaging #physicslife
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Among patients with moderate/severe depression (triangles), but not those with no or mild depression (circles), increased insula activation after MTPC was associated with increased Body Trust, a sub-scale of MAIA previously linked with depression (Dunne et al., 2021) 2/2
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Excited to share my new paper, with teams at @CMC_CHA and @MGHMartinos! https://t.co/HR44w85Red We found that after an 8-week mindfulness intervention (MTPC), patients with anxiety and/or depression showed increased insula fMRI response to interoceptive attention. 1/2
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Delighted to share our new paper in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: "Resting-state fMRI functional connectivity and mindfulness in clinical and non-clinical contexts: A review and synthesis" Co-authored with Idil Sezer and @DiegoPizzagalli 🧠🧘♀️🔬
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These authors looked at the effects of combined respiratory-gated auricular vagal afferent nerve stimulation and mindfulness meditation for chronic low back pain. https://t.co/Q2Rdv6SV3t
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Our article on a neural circuit for #spirituality and #religiosity is the current cover story for Biological Psychiatry (@BiologicalPsyc1)! https://t.co/9kPlkKqkUL Twitter summary of our findings in RT that follows ⤵️ #brain #mind #science #medicine #psychiatry #neurology
(1/12) New article! I'm very pleased to share our most recent report: A neural circuit for spirituality and religiosity derived from patients with brain lesions. Here is my Twitter summary of our findings... https://t.co/u9h5VcWPES
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Do you like #MRI? And do you like holiday music? Mass General talks to the Center's @MichaelDatko about his "funktional MRI" project - making music from samples of MRI sounds - and debuts a new MRI-based holiday recording! https://t.co/ptYc2v0t0U
@MGH_RI @MassGeneralNews
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Thrilled to announce we’ve received ethics approval for the world’s first trial investigating psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to treat Generalised Anxiety Disorder! (1/n)
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BRAIN Trust your gut: vagal nerve stimulation in humans improves reinforcement learning
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Weber et al. demonstrate for the first time that vagal nerve stimulation in humans enhances reinforcement learning and decelerates extinction of learned be
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Excited to have put together live-virtual conference on #psychedelics for 11/6/21. Wanted to include many more talks but grateful to be able to do the first event like this at MGH, & more to come: https://t.co/W5lm3WuIVr
@MGHMedicine @BrianBarnettMD @neuro_mgh @MAPS @RickDoblin
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Today begins a new @visceral_mind collaboration with @Marc_M_Andersen and colleagues from @RecFearLab - we'll be measuring cardiac interoception just before participants enter a real life haunted house! Can't wait to see if ecological fear relates to interoception. 🎃👻🫀
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@russpoldrack This seems to implicitly assume that the only valuable outcome from a mentoring relationship is a research track career for the mentee. Perhaps a better metric is the c-index: the number of mentees willing to have a coffee with the mentor after 5 years ;)
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Two years ago, I asked hundreds of neuroscientists (including many of you!) at various levels about their skills and career trajectories. Now, I can finally share some of those insights in my first senior author preprint, with Saloni Shah! https://t.co/eWbJksiens
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Understanding the skill sets required for career paths is a prerequisite for preparing students for those careers. Neuroscience career paths are rapidly changing as the field expands and increasingly...
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