Davi Bock

dddavi.bsky.social

18 September 2026 06:58

This stuff may be fun, but sorry to say, it is thin soup, scientifically. See: www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... for a readable description of the issue.

The Science of Parkinson's

scienceofpd.bsky.social

18 September 2026 06:52

Interesting perspective on the pros & cons of adaptive deep brain stimulation for people with #Parkinsons; "The broader issue this raises is the field’s over-reliance on the beta signal as the sole proxy for disease" tmrwedition.com/2026/09/12/t...

Anil Seth

anilseth.bsky.social

17 September 2026 09:31

1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

Marlene Cohen

marlenecohen.bsky.social

11 September 2026 06:52

Now out in Nature Neuroscience: fantastic work by @cxue.bsky.social, Sol Markman et al who discovered a neural reason that performance suffers under cognitive load: “Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵1/

Matteo Carandini

carandinilab.net

09 September 2026 21:06

If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...