Golia Shafiei
CIHR Postdoctoral fellow at Penn | Previously at McGill
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiThe 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...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiExcited 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: 🧵⬇
- Corticolimbic structure-function coupling is sensitive to childhood adversity and buffers adversity-related symptoms during development biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiEver 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 🧵
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei🧠 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! 🧵👇
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiCome 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...
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- Reposted by Golia Shafieinetneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiExcited 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...
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei#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
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiHappy 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??
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiSuperb 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.
- 🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Check out this amazing work by @bsevchik.bsky.social !!
- 🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiHappy 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 🧵
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiAfter 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:
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- Reposted by Golia ShafieiOur 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...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiDelighted 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!
- 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
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiAmazing 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.
- 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
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiThe 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!
- 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
- (1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiLab’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
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiNetwork 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 ⤵️
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- Reposted by Golia ShafieiNew 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/...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiInterested 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...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiAll of this and more can be easily accessed through sypres.io Team effort with co-first author (!!!) @bsevchik.bsky.social and the rest of the SYPRES and Metapsy team who made this happen!
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiJust delighted to see this out in the world !! This is the first installment of SYPRES -- our living meta-analysis + open data resource focused on psychedelics. Led by the incomparable @parkersingleton.bsky.social and @bsevchik.bsky.social. Check it out + and give us your feedback!!!
- 🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiCONGRATS TO DOCTOR @audreycluo.bsky.social !!! Last week, Dr. Luo knocked our collective socks off with a thesis defense for the ages. Her presentation on "Axes of Hierarchical Brain Development" was magnificent -- beautiful science, presented in an incredibly accessible and engaging way. WOO!!!!
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiMapping 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 ⤵️
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- Reposted by Golia ShafieiIntegrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiInterested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function: osf.io/preprints/ps... @nsb-lab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei‼️NEW PREPRINT‼️ What if you could take a normal 3T T1w MRI and make it look like it was acquired from a 7T scanner? That's exactly what we do using AI in our new preprint! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13782 #neuroskyence #neurosky #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology #mrisky #neuroimaging
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiFab new work from @kanepav.bsky.social with @jchrispang.bsky.social looking at how different measures of inter-regional FC are resistant to motion-related noise and how they can improve (or not) BWAS effect sizes. Peep the thread!
- New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social, @jchrispang.bsky.social, and myself looking at the sensitivity of different methods used to estimate FC/EC in relation to residual motion artifacts and behavioural prediction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiNew paper! We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16. Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001... Code (python/Matlab/C): github.com/DynamicsAndN...
- Alam et al. develop a canonical time-series feature set for characterizing biologically informative dynamical patterns in fMRI: doi.org/10.52294/001... @bendfulcher.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiNew pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social , Toby Constable, Jeggan Tiego, and myself, looking at the psychometric properties of the CBCL in the baseline ABCD cohort. We show that the commonly used CBCL structures fail to meet standards for validity and reliability osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiHave you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!
- New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social , Toby Constable, Jeggan Tiego, and myself, looking at the psychometric properties of the CBCL in the baseline ABCD cohort. We show that the commonly used CBCL structures fail to meet standards for validity and reliability osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiV useful paper by @bttyeo.bsky.social @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social in @nature.com. Scan longer if you want to predict behav using fMRI and save $. Great use of the TCP data: (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...).
- 1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiHow does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei#OHBM2025 was a blast -- the perfect way to celebrate submitting my PhD thesis with y'all 🎉 It was an honor (and so fun!) to represent the Aussie imaging community alongside a fab panel in the LOC Symposium, sharing my final thesis work on homotopic connectivity: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Golia ShafieiNew preprint! Why are long-range connectomic interactions in the cortex dominant in shaping dynamics in some experiments but apparently negligible in others? We (w/ R Maran, @elimuller.bsky.social) address this question by studying a new hybrid model of cortical dynamics. arxiv.org/abs/2506.19800
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- Reposted by Golia Shafiei@goliashf.bsky.social is ALSO presenting "Systematic dynamical profiling to discover and manipulate the dynamical regime of the primate brain" Thursday, Jun 26: 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM during the computational dynamics symposium in Room M2.
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei@goliashf.bsky.social is presenting (via video, 🥲) "Reproducible Brain Charts: An Open Data Resource for Mapping the Developing Brain and Mental Health" on Friday, Jun 27: 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM. This talk is part the Neuroinformatics and Data Sharing session in Room M3 (Mezzanine Level).
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei@kevin-y-sun.bsky.social will be presenting his work on "Copy Number Variant Risk Scores Are Associated with Personalized Functional Brain Network Topography" Wed, June 25, 13:15 - 15:15 & Thus, June 26, 13:45 - 15:45
- Reposted by Golia Shafiei@audreycluo.bsky.social will be presenting her fab work on "Two Axes of White Matter Development" on Wed, June 25, 13:15 -15:15 & Thurs, June 26, 13:45 -15:45; Poster #1010.
