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.
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RT @PurdueBiolSci: Professor @jimmycdooley and team explore brain development in ➡️ . @PurdueScience .#PurdueScien….
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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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RT @bsauerbrei1: I'm delighted to announce the lab's first paper is finally out! Huge congrats to Eric and the team. .
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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 via @aeonmag.
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RT @LabPluta: I'm happy to share the latest manuscript from my lab, where we reveal how behavioral context transforms the somatotopic map i….
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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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RT @LabPluta: Our brain has two sides, yet how neurons bind stimulus features across the hemispheres to create a unified perceptual experie….
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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:
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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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