María José Castro Gómez
Neuroscience graduate student at McGill University
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- Reposted by María José Castro GómezHow many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵
- Methodological Flexibility in the Iowa Gambling Task Undermines Interpretability: A Meta-method Review: osf.io/4g3vr
- Reposted by María José Castro Gómez📢 FIT'NG is seeking volunteers to serve as abstract reviewers for the 2026 conference. Reviewers will be selected based on expertise and career stage and will review 5–7 abstracts during a two-week period in early March. Sign Up Now 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #FITNG2026
- Reposted by María José Castro Gómez📣 2025 Leo and Rachel Hendlisz Award competition Congratulations to the recipients! Learn more here : douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/2025-le... *** 📣 Concours du prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2025 Félicitations aux récipiendaires! Plus d'informations: douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/news/conc...
- One of my favourite places. So happy and proud to have the opportunity to work in this research hospital.
- 🏆 The Institute remains #1 in Quebec and ranks among Canada’s Top 3 research hospitals in the 2025 Research Infosource Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals ranking. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 📊 Learn more: rimuhc.ca/en/-/canada-...
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezDon't miss next week's Neurogenesis faculty lecture! Join @tasmiahai.bsky.social & Delphine Raucher-Chéné to learn about their groundbreaking research and the latest advances in neuroscience at @mcgill.ca. 🧠 📅 Nov. 26, 2025 📍 @theneuro.bsky.social 🤝 Reception afterwards! Register: mcgill.ca/x/iHe
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- Reposted by María José Castro GómezYou won't want to miss this: Exciting talks by Roger Zemek, Benjamin Goldstein (@camhnews.bsky.social), Kris Noakes, @piawintermark.bsky.social (@rimuhc.bsky.social), Lesley Fellows (@healthsciences.mcgill.ca), Philip Jai Johnson & Georg Northoff (@uottawa.ca) 🧠🙌
- Pssst... The Amazing Brain Science Talks are back tomorrow & it's going to be a full house! Join HBHL, @braincanada.bsky.social & @bhi-icc.bsky.social at @banq-officiel.bsky.social to hear from experts + learn about the brain, the heart & everything in between. See you soon 🧪🧠 www.amazingbrain.ca
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezPssst... The Amazing Brain Science Talks are back tomorrow & it's going to be a full house! Join HBHL, @braincanada.bsky.social & @bhi-icc.bsky.social at @banq-officiel.bsky.social to hear from experts + learn about the brain, the heart & everything in between. See you soon 🧪🧠 www.amazingbrain.ca
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezEcstatic about my science AND art being featured in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI's current issue with @northernthrux.bsky.social painting on the cover and our exciting @theabcdstudy.bsky.social article completed with @catherinealebel.bsky.social www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/current
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezWe wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezWe’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨
- Reposted by María José Castro Gómez👀 Lifespan Trajectories of Asymmetry in White Matter Tracts | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezA method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezScience is self correcting. Finally!
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezExcited 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)
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- Reposted by María José Castro GómezJoin us next July in Panama!! #FITNG2025 --> 2026 🌴🤓
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezNew 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 María José Castro GómezThe Fourier transform is everywhere you look. It has helped scientists to study tides, detect gravitational waves, and develop radar and MRI technology. Here’s how it works.
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- Reposted by María José Castro GómezIs precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezEver stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezNew paper alert! This paper describes the work that we have been doing in the last few years to create a software ecosystem for tractometry that is extensible, interoperable, and generally useful.
- New pub alert 📖 Our very own @arokem.org co-authored "A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight" for PLoS Computational Biology. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezNew evidence indicates the thalamus actively influences the timing and pattern of brain development, shaping plasticity in cortical regions throughout childhood and adolescence. doi.org/g9vd4x
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezAbsolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezMapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by María José Castro Gómez38 research teams analyzed the same fNIRS data...Really nice visualization of the variety of processing pipelines people use from Meryem Yücel, Rob Luke, et al.: "fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience" www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezIntegrating 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? ⤵️
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- Rapid 1 mm isotropic diffusion tensor imaging with denoising and improved parameter estimation for detecting focal hippocampal lesions in temporal lobe epilepsy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroscience #neuroimaging
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezCongrats 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 María José Castro GómezDon't miss our next FIT'NG Together event this Thursday, April 10th at 12pm EST where we will discuss a new paper on Hippocampal Encoding of Memories in Human Infants (DOI: 10.1126/science.adt7570) with @tristansyates.bsky.social and other authors! Register for FREE at: tinyurl.com/fitngtogether
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- Reposted by María José Castro Gómez🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 🎙️ We’re bringing the best minds to the FIT’NG Annual Conference, Sep 7—8, 2025! ✨ Join us in Dublin, Ireland as our invited speakers share their groundbreaking research on early brain development 🧠 🔗 Read their full bios at: fitng.org/speakers/ #FITNG2025
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- Reposted by María José Castro Gómez‼️FIT’NG is excited to announce symposia will be held at the 2025 Annual Conference! 📂 Submissions for symposium proposals from the FIT’NG community are now open. 🗓️ Deadline: April 22, 2025 🌐 fitng.org/symposium-su... #FITNG2025
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- Reposted by María José Castro GómezThe latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
- Reposted by María José Castro GómezWe think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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- Reposted by María José Castro GómezThis paper is a huge one for me, taking years and years to get right. I can’t believe it’s finally out and I am so proud of the way it came together. Thank you to Dr Lebel for her unwavering support! www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
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