Amber Howell
@ambrains_
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Neuroscience PhD Student at @Yale thalamocortical systems/computational modeling/clinical neuroimaging
Joined May 2012
🎉 Exciting news! 📢 🧠🔍Our study of thalamic connectivity patterns is now available in @elife: The spatial extent of anatomical connections within the thalamus varies across the cortical hierarchy in humans and macaques
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📣 First 2 years of my PhD have culminated into this new preprint w/ @Kevin_M_Aquino @LindenParkes @AFornito @bendfulcher! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties🧠🧮 https://t.co/eouyuWAro9
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🎯 Do you really understand p-values? The p-value histogram can reveal a LOT about your data. Let's break it down using real examples.👇
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Super excited to share our latest work on integrating environmental factors across family, school, neighborhood, and policy systems to predict subcortical GM volume and externalizing psychopathology in adolescents using the ABCD Study. Preprint:
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Objective Environmental factors have long been shown to influence brain structure and adolescent psychopathology. However, almost no research has included environmental factors spanning micro-to-ma...
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Very excited to share our work on infant brain age from @DScheinost's lab is out on @NatureComms! https://t.co/t6wPQVehnN Here we use brain ages to estimate individual brain’s maturity and find that altered brain age can be related to perinatal exposures and cognitive outcomes.
nature.com
Nature Communications - Here, the authors show that altered brain development of infants after birth, driven by perinatal exposures, influences long-term cognitive outcomes.
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🎉Congratulations to Dr. Avram Holmes @AvramHolmes, associate professor of psychiatry at @RWJMS and core faculty member of the @BHI_Rutgers and @Rutgers_CAHBIR, on publishing a paper in @NatureNeuro
#neuroscience #cognition #mentalhealth @RutgersU
https://t.co/YTzTXn0W8B
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Nature Neuroscience - Here Zhang et al. establish multiscale relationships that link postmortem cell-type distributions with the in vivo functional organization of the human cerebral cortex, as...
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Our latest in @TrendsCognSci on embracing, rather than mitigating, variability in the search for biological mechanisms of psychiatric disorders Available here: https://t.co/P6yQ7F0d4I Thanks to the dream team (@AFornito, @JegTiego, @LindenParkes, @AvramHolmes, @amarquand)!
Concerned about standard case-control studies in psychiatry? Check our our latest on embracing variability in biological studies led by @AshleaSegal, with @AvramHolmes @amarquand @LindenParkes & J Tiego now out in @TrendsCognSci: https://t.co/6Mtmv8Sfot
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Excited to share my latest work studying if specific features of major life stressors and resting-state functional connectivity at baseline differentially predict anxiety and depression symptoms in a longitudinal sample of adolescents enriched for anxiety and depressive disorders
Shared and unique lifetime stressor characteristics and brain networks predict adolescent anxiety and depression https://t.co/A0GRRcKc9e
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Amazing work using the HCP-EP dataset to identify FC-derived biomarkers in psychosis
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Molecular Psychiatry - Functional dysconnectivity of visual and somatomotor networks yields a simple and robust biomarker for psychosis
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Our new editorial about @OHBM_DIC's signature multilingual initiative, Brain Mappers of Tomorrow! We've seen its exponential growth since 2021, engaging over 1k children in 2023 alone. We highlights the benefits/challenges, sharing experiences/resources. https://t.co/E8mxJFXT29
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By Kangjoo Lee, Valentina Borghesani & 6 more. “Brain Mappers of Tomorrow” coordinated by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Diversity and Inclusivity Committee aims to make neuroscience...
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Happy to share our new work showing widespread lower structural 🧠 connectivity in people w/ first-episode psychosis (pre-antipsychotics). Alterations affect all large-scale systems and can predict changes in functional outcomes up to 1 year after 🔮 🧲 https://t.co/QPyuHyyQqe
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Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars. Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature. The lawsuit
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Incredibly excited about this massive collaborative effort to longitudinally phenotype (for 2 years!) 1800 patients & 600 controls w/ MPIs @DrChrisPitt @PearlsonGodfrey. Too many rock star collaborators to name but here are a few w/ twitter: @RobbRutledge @_AnnaKonova_ @docqhuys
@YaleMed researchers have been awarded a $20.6 million federal grant for a five-year study of people with a wide range of mental illnesses. Project leaders are, from left, @DrChrisPitt, @yip_lab, and Dr. Godfrey Pearlson. https://t.co/sZnDnSl7ae
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As fun as it was to holographically tickle these tracts, it'll be even more exciting to update them with the data to come out of the LINC project. Thanks for hosting me @DukeU @McIntyreDBSLab. Great visit with @portokalh and many others 🧠🍝⚡️
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Our protocol paper for NCT is now online at @NatureProtocols!! Check it out here: https://t.co/5uNQlBH2sI
@jason_z_kim @sattertt @DaniSBassett
We’ve got a new preprint out! 👏🥳 Have you ever wanted to model and ⚡️control⚡️neural dynamics on your connectome data? 🤔 Well, you’re in luck because our team has put together a protocol paper and a Python package to help you do just that! 😎 https://t.co/6fJm9Waopu
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Mind & Brain Lab in Ljubljana is looking for a new researcher (pre- or post-doctoral) to work in the field of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. More info: https://t.co/EuuBnyAszG Please retweet.
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Hello, world! I have some work I’m very excited to share with you. We've been cooking it over the past four years, starting when I was confined to a studio apartment during Covid lockdowns. Collab w/ @jmacshine @eli_j_muller @DrBreaky @LabEthan doi: 10.1101/2024.06.22.600219
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Check out our review on how the prefrontal cortex integrates memory systems across timescales to guide adaptive behavior! And we detail the many plastic changes observed in PFC with learning and training, from single neurons to brain-wide activity patterns
New review article: Timescales of learning in prefrontal cortex https://t.co/IcbzYOGmVJ
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@HolmesLab_BHI is thrilled to announce the long-awaited Transdiagnostic Connectome Project, TCP 🎉🚨🧠 Data on OpenNeuro (BIDS MRI, behavior) & preprinted on medRxiv! A true “team work makes the dream work” effort, huge thanks to co-1st authors @SidChop @ConnorLawhead, as well
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