Last week I lost a friend. But the rest of the world lost a warrior. A visionary who dedicated his life to healing the sick and relentlessly bulldozing any barriers that got in his way. 1/n @NolanRyWilliams

Thank you @NolanRyWilliams for your friendship and for inspiring so many of us @Brain_Circuits to take risks and innovate to develop better treatments for psychiatric disorders. You will be dearly missed.

Delighted! Thanks to @royalsociety and the selection panel

We hope this work paves way toward symptom-specific, personalized neuromodulation in schizophrenia. Congrats to all co-authors in particular Lorina Sinanaj and Kostas Pallis - as well as funders Leenaards Foundation (IB) and SwissGovt Excellence Scholarship (LS)

Our new paper out in @molpsychiatry shows TMS significantly improves symptoms of schizophrenia across domains. E-field modeling spots optimal targets: left dorsomedial PFC, orbitofrontal cortex, motor cortex, and cerebellum.

The kind of emails that make your day.✨ This is the second big paper from my lab this year and resumes TMS targets across 4’283 patients living with Schizophrenia 🧲🧠 Great work led by Lorina Sinanaj & Kostas Pallis at Synapsy Center for Neuroscience and Mental Health Research.

Outcomes for the first 60 MDD patients treated at our clinic @QLDNeurostimCen with robotically delivered & fMRI-personalized rTMS MADRS response=74%, remission=53% for RCT patients EXCITED to see fMRI moving from research to real-world clinical use! https://t.co/eXkQuF1iGo

This is misleading because the speaker is mixing apples and oranges. Different MH conditions follow different trajectories. Depression (and prescriptions) may increase with age as he says. But bipolar disorder and psychotic disorders (eg, schizophrenia) are most often recognized

I'm from Italy, the country that gave the world the Pope, and I can guarantee that, for the majority of us, this picture still looks as alien as a frame from a dystopian movie

Wrote Scientific Reports 02/2024 that their new meta-analysis on mindfulness & brain morphology excluded all null-findings and therefore by definition found a relation. Still no proper response from (other then many "we'll look into it"). It's been a year now.

Anatomy of Moncrieff's Anti-Medication Playbook @joannamoncrieff has a carefully honed 3-step strategy of attacking psychiatry, which she has used with remarkable power against the medical establishment. Step 1: Identify a narrow, technical assertion pertaining to the

Nature Communications Cerebellar-driven cortical dynamics can enable task acquisition, switching and consolidation https://t.co/ph0TMVSdaG

.@EBRAINS_eu Joint-CEO Prof. Katrin Amunts participated in a policy panel discussion at the “Brainstorming the Future of Brain Health” event on November 12, in Brussels. The event facilitated a dialogue with the upcoming European Partnership for Brain Health. Read more:

Mark Hallett's Wartenberg lecture on FND at the American Academy of Neurology. https://t.co/BSLaQ5bjVY... and if you cant access the article... this NotebookLM 20 min podcast gives a good summary. https://t.co/jBIFdGJFrs

I look forward to bringing the Swiss perspective in this European panel!

SSBP annual meeting is going excellent. The General Assembly has just appointed a new executive board. Young investigator awards went to @deedsou and @FlurinCathomas Poster award to @lijing_MR

📅 On Nov. 12, join us in Brussels at @PAN_akademia "Brainstorming the Future of Brain Health". Our Coordinator will present the way towards the EU Partnership for Brain Health, followed by a panel discussion with @Kasia_Jurczak, Dr. Mazurek, Prof. Amunts & Prof. @indrit_begue.

Faculty Position Open @UNIGEnews . Seeking Associate/Assistant Professor in Genetics & Language Development Focus: Genetic influences on human language Part of @NCCRevolving Geneva, Switzerland 🗓️ Start: Sept 2025 📅 Apply until November 25th, 2024

We are thrilled to address the opportunities and challenges in #BrainHealth delivery and education. In this letter, we highlight the need for comprehensive interdisciplinary education for the next generation of specialists in #BrainMedicine. Link in comment👇

1/4 - Une récente méta-analyse portant sur plus de 600’000 participants montre que le sentiment de solitude est un facteur de risque de déclin cognitif lié à l’âge (HR=1,30) de même force que le tabac fumé. https://t.co/W3F3kCaVNI