Jimmy Dooley
@jimmycdooley
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Assistant Professor @PurdueBiolSci studying how movements made by sleeping infant brains teach their bodies how to move. @jimmycdooley.bsky.social
UCDavis / uIowa / Purdue
Joined January 2008
Just published the first paper - a ViewPoint article in @SfNJournals JNeuro with @Meikeesther1. We have a more thorough summary over on 🟦sky, but thought I'd put it here oo - in case there's any stragglers still on X https://t.co/47ArXj0hka
jneurosci.org
The nervous system contains complex circuits comprising thousands of cell types and trillions of connections. Here, we discuss how the field of “developmental systems neuroscience” combines the...
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Professor @jimmycdooley and team explore brain development in ➡️ https://t.co/K1lDhK0qXQ
@PurdueScience
#PurdueScience #Science #PurdueBiology #Biology #Neuroscience #BrainDevelopment
jneurosci.org
The nervous system contains complex circuits comprising thousands of cell types and trillions of connections. Here, we discuss how the field of “developmental systems neuroscience” combines the...
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The takeaway is that by using Systems Neuroscience methods to study development we can learn a lot about how brains are built. Check it out for some interesting examples of how unpredictable and non-linear neural activity can be, and why this approach shows promise moving forward
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First an eclipse, then an aurora, and tonight a comet?!? And all 3 (basically or literally) in my backyard. I feel like this is the best year of my life for exciting things in the sky!
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Barely dark and ive already got this! First time "seeing" the northern lights - although I barely saw anything with my eyes alone. Maybe in an hour. Photo taken in West Lafayette, Indiana
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Every year, I hear about amazing talks or posters at #sfn2024 after the fact - which is always a bummer. So if anyone knows of any must-see or must-hear science at SfN, let me know! To increase engagement, here's a snapping turtle I saw on a recently walk in my neighborhood.
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Thanks to @CAMBER_Atlanta for providing my lab with sample Myomatrix Arrays! A bit overkill for nuchal muscle tone for sleep staging, but the forelimb recordings look just as good. Can't wait to relate this activity to motor cortex and red nucleus activity!
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I know it's a bit cliche to relate everything back to your own research, but I SO BADLY want to see this: 1. Applied to behaviors during sleep, and 2. Applied to development. Looks amazing! I've dreamed of "muscle-centric" coordinates since starting my postdoc...
How does sensorimotor (S1/M1) cortex support adaptive motor control? Come find out in our latest preprint, which spans the development of a full adult forelimb model + physics simulations, neural-modeling for control, complex 🐭behavior 🕹️, large-scale imaging, and of course
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This is a must read if you're interested in identifying and quantifying rodent sleep spindles!
Oscillatory-Quality of sleep spindles links brain state with sleep regulation and function @ScienceAdvances
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I'm delighted to announce the lab's first paper is finally out! Huge congrats to Eric and the team. https://t.co/JwDDHmnFqb
1/N Excited to share the lab’s first preprint on neural population dynamics in motor cortex and spinal motoneurons during locomotion! This project was led by Eric Kirk, an outstanding postdoc in the lab. Thread … https://t.co/LJTJZ5yHOY
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Really nice article on sensorimotor development, and just how complicated the process is. Wonderfully written, and a real joy to read!
Darshana Narayanan, @dznarayanan: When babies are born, they cry with an accent: in the final month of pregnancy, fetuses learn protophones, vowel-like sounds that turn into the tones and melodies of speech from their mother's bodies https://t.co/WWFYdqNNZK via @aeonmag
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I'm happy to share the latest manuscript from my lab, where we reveal how behavioral context transforms the somatotopic map in sensory cortex into a value-based map in the midbrain SC that encodes stimulus priority. 1/n
biorxiv.org
A fundamental trait of intelligent behavior is the ability to respond selectively to stimuli with higher value. Where along the somatosensory hierarchy does information transition from a map of...
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Since I'm just starting off - I can make my own lab traditions/customs. Whenever I'm profiled by a University, I'm always going to push to have a drill (or other power tool) out of focus above my right shoulder.
Congrats to @jimmycdooley on acquiring a grant from the Sleep Research Society Foundation to study the mysteries of sleep and circadian rhythms. @PurdueScience @ResearchSleep
#PurdueScience #Purdue #Science #PurdueBiology #Biology Read more:
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Awesome study showing that the movements during REM sleep (twitches) are accompanied by increased thalamic activity. I wonder if that twitch-related thalamic activity serves a function...
Thalamocortical dynamics during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep in the Mouse Somatosensory Pathway
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Our brain has two sides, yet how neurons bind stimulus features across the hemispheres to create a unified perceptual experience remains unknown. Check out our preprint, where we reveal the state-dependent logic underlying bilateral integration in S1. https://t.co/F2i88QBAQL 🐭🧠
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If you're on the fence - read this book! It's entertaining, accurate, and fascinating. I don't think I could oversell it.
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IMO a more accurate title would be "A Brief History of Learning." The book goes through the brain evolution, including 5 "breakthroughs" that made human brains possible I studied brain evolution for my PhD and developmental neuroscience in my postdoc - and honestly, he nailed it
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On a podcast, @angeladuckw mentioned @maxsbennett's book "A brief History of Intelligence" giving it a glowing review I was skeptical, mainly because of the word "Intelligence" in the title Now that I'm through it I can easily say it's the BEST neuroscience book I've ever read
I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed since the dawn of life itself. Check out @maxsbennett's book here: https://t.co/zO4VcArvRq
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For the first time, I have a mature, basically ready to submit R01 a full week before the deadline. I blame @mark_s_blumberg and my time in the @blumberg_lab - because I certainly didn't learn this kind of discipline in graduate school.
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