Yashar Zeighami
Neuroscientist-ish, Assistant Professor at the Douglas Research Centre, McGill University. Interested in neuroimaging, genomics, statistics, cats, books, ...
- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiCortical 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...
- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiNeed more fMRI data (beyond the amazing NSD)? Introducing MOSAIC! Incredible effort led expertly by Ben Lahner, with help from grad student Mayukh Deb. Work in collaboration with the amazing Aude Oliva! @neurosky.bsky.social. More below..
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- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiThe effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️
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- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiStill smiling after my keynote abt Community at #useR2025 💜 Huge thanks to the organizing team for the invite, and to everyone who joined, asked questions, and shared their thoughts — you made it truly special! Slides docs.google.com/presentation... Video: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-... #rstats
- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiMapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan | doi.org/10.1371/jour... How does blood perfusion map onto canonical features of brain structure and function? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates @plosbiology.org ⤵️
- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiHey #AAIC25 ! Today I'll be sharing our research on the mediating effect of WMH on spontaneous brain activity during aging! 🧠 Join me on poster 430! @ameliemetz.bsky.social @dadarmahsa.bsky.social @yasharneuro.bsky.social @roqamoqa.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiCongrats to HBHL-funded researcher & 2022 HBHL New Faculty Recruit @dadarmahsa.bsky.social on being awarded the President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the 2025 @mcgill.ca @healthsciences.mcgill.ca Convocation Ceremony! Well deserved. 👏 🔗 reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgills-pres...
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- Reposted by Yashar Zeighami(1/6) Thrilled to share our triple-N dataset (Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes)! It captures thousands of high-level visual neuron responses in macaques to natural scenes using #Neuropixels.
- Triple-N Dataset: Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Gustavo Chau Loo Kung, Jennifer A. McNab, et al: Non-parametric prediction of brain MRI microstructure using transfer learning doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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- Reposted by Yashar Zeighami@maximoprado.bsky.social and @mallarchak.bsky.social present their @westernubrainscan.bsky.social supported work on early biomarkers for development and monitoring of effective disease-modifying therapies at the #hbhlsymposium2025. @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social @westernu.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiFor #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
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- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiAre you tired of getting signal dropout in your gradient echo EPI for spinal cord fMRI applications? Check out this new shimming study by Bréheret, D'Astous, Ma, Stockmann 🚀 👉 doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiAwesome opportunity to work on women’s brain health with an absolute star — pls repost
- We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui... Please RT.
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- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Rebecca G. Clements, Molly G. Bright, et al: Quantitative mapping of cerebrovascular reactivity amplitude and delay with breath-hold BOLD fMRI when end-tidal CO2 quality is low doi.org/10.1162/imag...
- Reposted by Yashar Zeighami@christopherjwhyte.bsky.social and I introduce a novel data-driven framework to evaluate >200 connectivity-based neural correlates of consciousness! Results are used to quantitatively compare predictions from neurodynamical models tailored to theoretic predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Yashar Zeighami🧠📊 Just out: a deeply sample structural brain and spine dataset from the cneuromod.ca team, now published in Imaging Neuroscience! led by Mathieu Boudreau and Julien Cohen-Adad. 📰 Paper here: lnkd.in/ewXA3dED 1/🧵
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- Reposted by Yashar Zeighami🧠 I'm excited to share our latest publication in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... In this study, we explore the computational memory capacity of the brain & how it declines with aging. A big thanks to Mite Mijalkov, all other lab members for their help and amazing collaborators!
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- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiCanada joins Horizon Europe programme
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- Reposted by Yashar Zeighami🚨 New paper on ArXiv: “Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction” TL;DR; We present an efficient method to sample the entire ensemble of possible network reconstructions that are compatible with an indirect observation, e.g. a dynamics. Short thread: 1/N
- Reposted by Yashar ZeighamiCerebral blood perfusion across biological systems and the human lifespan | doi.org/10.1101/2025... How does blood perfusion map onto canonical features of brain structure and function? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️
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