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Golia Shafiei

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CIHR Postdoctoral fellow at Penn | Previously at McGill

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We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes

02.03.2026 01:09 👍 100 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 4
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Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | doi.org/10.1007/s004...

How do neuroreceptor distributions vary across people?

13.02.2026 15:14 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.

Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.

The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)!

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

27.01.2026 03:04 👍 115 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 5

Excited to share a new preprint that examines how adversity exposure across development is associated with subcortical-cortical structure-function coupling and youth mental health! 🧠
Thread below: 🧵⬇

14.01.2026 18:59 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3
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Anatomical White Matter Tracts Span the Cortical Hierarchy to Support Cognitive Diversity Long-range white matter (WM) tracts support cognition by enabling communication between distant cortical regions, which are organized along a hierarchy defined by the sensorimotor-to-association (S-A)...

Ever wondered how white matter tracts actually map onto the cortical hierarchy and cognition—beyond the usual “projection vs association” labels?
Our new preprint tackles exactly that! 🧠✨ doi.org/10.64898/202...
Thread below 🧵

05.01.2026 16:20 👍 33 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 4
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Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts The complexity of the brain is increasingly mirrored by the complexity of the neuroscientific literature, yet no individual mind can fully grasp the diversity of scales, methodologies and model organi...

🧠 Excited to share our latest preprint: Automated Brain Mapping with AI Experts!🤖

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ever wanted to summarise the cognitive/systems neuroscience literature beyond MRI and PET? Ever wished we could do the same for macaque 🐒 and mouse 🐭 ? Read on! 🧵👇

08.12.2025 11:11 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study:

careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

11.12.2025 09:17 👍 11 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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Brain size links neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease Genetic studies have advanced our understanding of Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis, establishing a role for autophagy and lysosomal dysfunction. However, how genetic risk translates into neurona...

Cortical expansion and genetic risk for PD.
Led by Houman Azizi and Nooshin Abbasi.
With @ptenigma.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social @yasharneuro.bsky.social @ndrewvo.bsky.social and many others www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

11.12.2025 22:34 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

18.12.2025 14:58 👍 74 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 3
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Investigating links between white matter hyperintensities and menopausal status using robust age-correction methods in UK Biobank Wezel, Parent et al. investigated white matter hyperintensity volumes across the menopausal transition in the UK Biobank using strict age-matching procedur

Excited for this new paper in @braincomms.bsky.social by Denise Wezel and @oknox.bsky.social

The association between white matter hyper intensity volume and menopausal status in the UK Biobank
@linasifi.bsky.social @nikigervais.bsky.social @dadarmahsa.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

22.12.2025 12:58 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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neuroimaging | Satterthwaite Lab | UPenn www.satterthwaitelab.com Homepage for Satterthwaite lab neuroimaging | neurodevelopment | adolescence | psychiatry | machine learning | network science

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs.

Website: www.pennlinc.io

Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

24.11.2025 21:58 👍 31 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 6
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Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??

14.11.2025 13:40 👍 42 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 2

Superb work by the stellar @bsevchik.bsky.social — a new fully processed open data resource focused on exec fxn in psychosis and ADHD.

‼️Also‼️ Brooke is applying to PhD programs now— great time to recruit an absolute star ⭐️ + wonderful human.

13.11.2025 01:26 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

An Open, Fully-processed, Longitudinal Data Resource to Study Brain Development and Transdiagnostic Executive Function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687633v1

12.11.2025 20:15 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Check out this amazing work by @bsevchik.bsky.social !!

13.11.2025 01:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

11.11.2025 20:01 👍 92 🔁 43 💬 4 📌 3
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Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications The landmark ongoing HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study will longitudinally chart brain development in a large sample (projected n=7,200) of infants through age 10 years with multimo...

After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:

11.11.2025 22:03 👍 44 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 2
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Reproducible Brain Charts: Mapping brain development & mental health ft. @goliashf.bsky.social, T. Moore, T. Salo, M. Calkins, R. Gur, R. Gur, @cieslakmatt.bsky.social, @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social, C. Davatzikos & R. Shinohara (@dbei-upenn.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

09.10.2025 12:30 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

26.09.2025 15:24 👍 57 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 2

Delighted to see the paper describing the Reproducible Brain Charts open data resource now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social. Paper + link to data below; huge congrats to @goliashf.bsky.social @milhammichael.bsky.social and the whole RBC team. Lots of people (>2,500 downloads) are already using RBC!

24.09.2025 13:23 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Amazing stuff here from @goliashf.bsky.social and the RBC team! Harmonized and curated imaging and phenotype data from over 6,000 youth easily accessible without any DUA. Check it out.

24.09.2025 12:58 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you Adam! Appreciate it :)

23.09.2025 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! :)

23.09.2025 03:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BRIDGE Lab Welcome to the BRIDGE Lab (Bridging Research across Imaging, Development, Genetics, and Emerging Mental Health) within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego! Our resea...

The BRIDGE Lab has officially been launched! 🔗 bridgelab.ucsd.edu 👉 we Bridge Research in Imaging, Development, Genetics and Emerging mental health 🧠 🧬 🚸 🌉 please don't be shy to reach out if you are interested in learning more about our lab's research!

10.09.2025 16:09 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

22.09.2025 21:51 👍 71 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 2
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Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

14.09.2025 21:34 👍 75 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 0
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Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
doi.org/10.1038/s420...

How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

16.09.2025 16:16 👍 22 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

14.09.2025 23:30 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

07.09.2025 14:59 👍 31 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
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Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

17.08.2025 04:27 👍 96 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 1