Laura Pritschet
@laura_pritschet
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Postdoc @Penn | PhD @ucsantabarbara | women's health & equality (not actively on X anymore)
Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2017
Delighted to announce I’ve transitioned to @PennMedicine as a postdoctoral fellow w/ @sattertt and @SheilaShanmugan. Can’t wait to tackle pressing women’s brain health questions with the powerhouse PennLINC team! & many thanks to @NIHAging for supporting my F99/K00 proposal🧠🩷
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Thank you @NatureNeuro for featuring women's health research so prominently. It's been a revolutionary few years with such novel & exciting work from all-star scientists around the globe, building off decades of foundational work from the OGs. The fight continues. Goodbye, X.
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Beautiful cover of the outstanding precision imaging study by @laura_pritschet @emilyjacobs @chrastil and co. It’s a dream come true to see @NatureNeuro displaying mothers and pregnancies in the cover 🤰💕
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🚨Interested in an AI challenge with a meaningful impact? The WiDS Datathon is here! Build AI models to explore the adolescent brain across sexes 🧠 Check out the university challenge: ideal for the final project of your class 👩🏫 Runs until June'25 https://t.co/igMb2b4fp8 From
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We anticipate that our paper on quality control (QC) will be an incredibly helpful resource for those of you doing any type of MRI segmentation work. For those doing hippocampal subfield work, we cover common segmentation errors and offer practical guidance on the topic of QC.
We are thrilled to finally share our newest paper led by @kelseylcanada & @negar_mazloum, with senior authors @rosanna_olsen & @DrAnaDaugherty! We provide guidance on quality control and reporting practices for hippocampal subfields. 🫶🏻🧠 Link:
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Excited to announce that the first preprint from the TReNDS lab is now up! Check out the awesome 🧵 below on how we used precision functional mapping and found robust, replicable sex differences in person-specific networks. 1/2
✨New Preprint!✨ Sex differences in psychiatric disorders often show up in adolescence as disparities in prevalence, symptoms, and treatment outcomes. We aimed to better understand sex diffs in brain organization that might lead to these disparities! https://t.co/zyZXtbwlb6 🧵⬇️
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Wowza! Brilliance yet again from @isaStallworthy - what a great resource! Check it out:
Interested in causal questions but working with observational data? Check out our new preprint, an accessible tutorial introduction to investigating causal questions in human development using marginal structural models (MSMs) & user-friendly R package!👇
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✨New Preprint!✨ Sex differences in psychiatric disorders often show up in adolescence as disparities in prevalence, symptoms, and treatment outcomes. We aimed to better understand sex diffs in brain organization that might lead to these disparities! https://t.co/zyZXtbwlb6 🧵⬇️
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Shameless #SfN24 plug: if you'll be in Chicago this weekend and want to chat about estrous cycle modulation of hippocampal plasticity (read: spines, dendrites, & place cells), come check out my poster at board P9 Sunday morning! 🐭🧠🔬
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Check out this editorial by @CaseyGTurner1 and @DrJenDuP: summary of recent findings & a well-balanced commentary on our paper in @ajpheartcirc ( https://t.co/N5b5Egoggn) + highlights important work on microvascular responses by sex and OCP use ( https://t.co/kRse4SCJeS)
journals.physiology.org
The purpose of this study was to evaluate in vivo endothelial function and nitric oxide (NO)-dependent vasodilation between women in either menstrual or placebo pill phases of their respective...
Our new editorial discussing the effect of hormonal cycles on vascular physiology in premenopausal females and recent novel findings is available now in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. @DrJenDuP @ajpheartcirc
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Amazing talk by @goliashf on the powerhouse tool that is RBC. Still blown away by the amount of work this team has done to serve & benefit the brain imaging community. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 check it out!
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The coolest work ever!
What happens when you go beyond tract averages to study white matter development along tracts? *hint* Some wildly stark patterns appear. Come chat with me at poster 37 on Monday's session!! #Flux2024
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Wooo! Awesome new work from Kevin Sun integrating personalized functional networks, genomic risk, and clinical psychopathology!!
How are genetic risk for mental illness, personalized functional brain networks, and overall psychopathology related during early adolescence? New preprint out now https://t.co/pc11gYp9ge and I'll be presenting a poster at #Flux2024 this Sunday! (1/17)
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Seeking pregnant people to complete a 5 minute online survey about about how their changing body feels to them whilst pregnant for my doctoral research https://t.co/WJYLKpdVpk If you are pregnant, please please consider completing it, or if not please share with pregnant people!
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Will be sharing these photos for the rest of our lives....
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We scanned @p_shapturenka 's brain 40 times over one month, every 12-24 hours at peak AM/PM times. Great exploratory dataset if you are interested in probing variability in s/fMRI at this temporal scale. We have MRI, serological assessments, physio, mood, etc. All on OpenNeuro!
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Congrats to @murataelle, lead author on the latest 28andHe pub out now in JNeuro. Using this precision imaging dataset, she further characterized diurnal brain change in a new & complementary way to the existing literature. Check it out!
Keepin’ the lab tradition alive of having my first *first* author paper out in #JNeuro ✨… and we even got the cover 🤩 (1/7)
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Next Tuesday Sept 24th I’ll be giving a talk at @BABLab_UCLA. If you’re at @UCLA or LA area, please come say hi! Thank you for the invitation @Dr_BCallaghan 💕
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Pregnancy changes the brain, and new research reveals intriguing clues about how. Some areas shrink, while others appear to show temporarily improved communication, a new study of brain scans found.
nytimes.com
As hormones surge, some brain areas shrink in what scientists say may be a fine-tuning that helps mothers bond with and care for their babies.
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A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal @emilyjacobs on menopause and inspired by @laura_pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain?? https://t.co/mTLfToPhru
nature.com
Nature Neuroscience - Neural changes in pregnancy are not well understood. Here Pritschet et al. present an open-access precision brain imaging resource, mapping neuroanatomical change in an...
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This is one of my favorite stories I’ve reported, thanks to work from @laura_pritschet @chrastil and @emilyjacobs et al we now have a fairly detailed look at the brain of one woman before, during and after pregnancy. Read for more details over at @_TheTransmitter
A detailed look at a “pregnant brain” highlights a need to investigate the neural alterations that occur during a transition experienced by nearly 140 million people worldwide each year. By @DrShaena
https://t.co/33sYKHVWIM
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