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Bottom line is that this is all reverse inference of intrinsic functional connectivity. No task. No behavior. The take-home headline inferences (behavioral, cognitive, and psychological) are misaligned with the approach. You don't need imaging at all for drawing strong psych inferences.
Dec 27, 2025 18:03It’s so wild to me how there are subcommunities in brain imaging who believe you can infer anything about whether something as complex as “attention” is modulated by medication with nothing but resting state fMRI. We’re still stuck in cingulategate ten years later.
And like, all these posts about how the “story makes so much sense” and “resonates with what patients say”. I’m an ADHD person who takes stims and a neuroscientist and I find all of this totally incredulous.
But I guess a story sounding good does tend to trump what the actual science can say in outpost truth vibes dominated era!
Thanks for saying something - I’m extremely shy about saying stuff like this on social media these days but someone needed to say it!
