Nora Maria Raschle
Developmental neuroscientist, Assoc. Prof., hobby illustrator, mom. Studying developing brains through space & time @JacobscenterUZH #development #brains #cartoons
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- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle#Call for proposals: Brain health The European Partnership for Brain Health is launching a call for multinational projects aimed at improving #BrainHealth, with a focus on neurological, mental and sensory disorders. Submission deadline: 10 March 2026 (pre-proposals) ➡️ sohub.io/x6bi
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleHappy new year! If you'd like to start it on a POSitive note, we have a new scale led by Kelsie Lopez and now preprinted measuring dimensions of promotional socioemotional experiences in development validated for retrospective reporting in childhood, adolescence 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Ever wondered how MRI creates images from inside the body? We made a child-friendly explainer video (german) 🎥👇 youtu.be/k-KCyoUP9vA #scicomm
- Made by the www.growingbrains.ch Team @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social at the University of Zurich. Big thanks to everyone! 🌱 UZH psychology students: Lena Götz und Gian Andri Bamert (UZH Psychology), directed and cut by Leon Junge, supported by Jasmin Wyss, including doctoral student Elena Federici
- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:
- Join the talk by Prof. Matsudaira today @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social ! Thrilled to welcome Prof. Matsudaira today and to hear all about her intergenerational work and the TRIO study that is conducted in Japan 👨👩👧🌼🧠
- In our next #ResearchSeminar, Prof. Dr. Izumi Matsudaira will discuss “From Parents to Offspring: Unlocking Brain Development Through the “TRIO Study”. 📅 December 15th, 2:30 p.m., Andreasstrasse 15 in Zurich, AND 3.46. Everyone is welcome, no registration is needed.
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleFor more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7
- 1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleOnline Now: Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleYES! "to explain all human cognition, we inherently must include development". Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy - Ward - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleExcited 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 Nora Maria Raschle🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com ! Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleThe paper is 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia' and it's worth reading in full. It’s a great resource for educators, administrators and anyone concerned about AI in the classroom. And a great resource for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy admins.
- So true and beautifully said @pdimanova.bsky.social ❤️Having your sweet peanut there made it even more special. Intergenerational care at its best: science and family on your poster, in our hearts and spirits, across the community. #Flux2025 brought it all together!
- Attending Flux 2025 feels like being home academically! Thanks everyone for the interesting talks, insightful discussions, and inspiring conversations. Huge thanks to @noramraschle.bsky.social for the opportunity to immerse in the developmental cognitive neuroscience society again 🧠
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleI had an amazing time at #Flux2025 presenting our research and connecting with colleagues!
- ✈️ The NMR Kids Lab is heading to #Flux2025 in Dublin! We can’t wait for inspiring talks, lively poster sessions, and connecting with colleagues in developmental neuroscience. 👉 Visit our lab's presentations! Each poster comes with a cartoon-style story summarizing the science 🧠🎨 #brains #scicomm
- @pdimanova.bsky.social 🧬 Parent-Child Similarity in Corticolimbic Brain Structure: Intergenerational Effects and the Role of Parental Childhood Experiences 📅 Friday | Poster Session II 🕟 4:30–6:00 PM | Goldsmith Hall 🎶 Johnny Cash vibes included: you’ll know the song when you see
- Lena Götz & Gian Andri Bamert 📚 Neuromyths in Swiss Society: Prevalence and Implications for Education and Learning 📅 Friday | Poster Session II 🕟 4:30–6:00 PM | Goldsmith Hall 🍪🧠🎶 Gingerbread hearts, brain hemispheres & Mariah Carey: myth-busting at its sweetest.
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View full threadJonathan Bugmann 🌱 Believing in Change: The Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Emotion Beliefs, Growth Mindset, and Mental Well-Being in Young Adults 📅 Saturday | Poster Session III 🕙 10:15–11:45 AM | Goldsmith Hall 🌱 Proof that believing in change isn’t just philosophy, it’s written in the brain.
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleA common neural signature between genetic and environmental risk for mental illness www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleIf you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschlePlease, I beg everyone panicking about “kids these days” to just display the full scale on the y-axis of their (not so) terrifying charts. Oh wait, maybe that story would not sell 🤔 mikemales.substack.com/p/how-to-go-...
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- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleWe recorded simultaneous brain activity from 27 teacher–learner pairs as they taught each other facts about unfamiliar items as well as eye-gaze, speech, nodding and breathing.
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleWe're thrilled to see our new meta-analysis on childhood maltreatment and interoception published in Nature Mental Health! 🧠💔 Led by our @juliaditzer.bsky.social, we found that emotional abuse/neglect is linked to lower trust in bodily signals — a risk factor for mental health issues. 👇👇👇
- My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleIt was an honor to lead this project as first author. Thanks to my wonderful co-authors Christian Woll, Clara Burger, Alisa Ernst, Ilka Böhm, @alzietlow.bsky.social & @susangarth.bsky.social for their support and expertise! 🫰 Full paper: rdcu.be/eu8bo
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- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleNew paper! When do children trust others and when do they come up with their own ideas? Kids 8+ considered and weighed each person's confidence to decide whether to form new beliefs. With @janengelmann.bsky.social and @celestekidd.bsky.social Free here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleSynchrony and subjective experience: the neural correlates of the stream of consciousness: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleOur latest work, "Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback", is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social 🧠💡🎉 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠
- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle🤩IT'S A PREPRINT 😍 Adolescents' social sensitivity isn't a bad thing—it's adaptive! In our new study, led by amazing Andrea Gradassi @connectedmindslab.bsky.social, we show that teens learned to copy successful peers faster than adults in a new multiplayer exploration task. osf.io/preprints/os...
- Excited to share thoughts on growing brains, behavior, and how social contexts shape development - looking forward to exchanging ideas, bridging boundaries, and enriching perspectives together! Thanks for the invite 👇
- Join us for a talk by the fantastic @noramraschle.bsky.social GROWING BRAINS - STUDYING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HUMAN BEHAVIORS ACROSS SPACE (BRAIN), TIME (DEVELOPMENT) AND GALAXIES (SOCIAL CONTEXTS) 1 July 2025, 1pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleEvidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out": Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies. Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleI urge all researchers interested in #emotion - or using facial expressions as emotive stimuli - to read this response paper 👇 by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others doi.org/10.1177/1745... #neuroskyence #affectsci
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleNow officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle🚀 Calling all visionary female researchers with startup interest! 🌟 Do you have an innovative idea that could change the world? 🌍 Apply now and take the next step in your entrepreneurial journey with confidence and support. ❤️
- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle🥪 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗴 𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵: Wie können wir komplexe Themen durch Wissenschaftsvermittlung, Ko-Kreation & Dialog zugänglich machen? Nora Raschle gibt Einblicke ins Projekt «Growing Brains». 📅 19. Juni ⌚ 12:15 - 13:15 👉 www.citizenscience.uzh.ch/de/aktuelles/events/bblunch @noramraschle.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleFrom the moment we are born & even before in the womb, our bodies move all the time Here we propose that the sense of self is necessarily related to coupling bodily movements to bodily actions IN the world There is no clear/cut distinction between inside / outside the self osf.io/preprints/ps...
- No plans for Wednesday eve? 🌧️ = perfect excuse for a @pintofscience.ch! Join us at Klara for: 🐟 the magic of tiny fish 🧠 growing brains 🌱 & the secrets of adapting & thriving! I'll be talking alongside brilliant @mads100tist.bsky.social & Büsra Coban. Come curious. Leave inspired! ✨ #ScienceRocks
- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle🎨🧑🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊 anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleIn case you missed CDS last week, here is the preprint for Young-Eun Lee's presentation:, "Children learn what is right or wrong selectively from a legitimate authority’s punishment" osf.io/preprints/os...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleOur April issue is now live! www.nature.com/neuro/volume...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleIt's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleUpdated preprint for those who might be interested: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleSo happy this paper is out! Though our assumption that peer experiences would be linked to later social development was not supported, at least not with respect to parental stress and self-efficacy, we demonstrate the value that lays in longitudinal research. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleThis interdisciplinary project, led by S. Brem and S. Di Pietro in collaboration with @ccruff.bsky.social, @noramraschle.bsky.social, M. von Rhein, and A. Rauch investigates the neurobiology of multisensory learning and its development in children with and without developmental language disorders.
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleWhat are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'? My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience. We are seeking interested participants in the below survey: tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleGood post. I would add that heritability not only doesn’t say anything about an individual; it also doesn’t say anything about traits, especially in uncontrolled humans where variances are random. The question what is the heritability of X has no general answer.
- Heritability = one of the most commonly confused concepts in public (mis)understanding of genetics. Let’s break it down. Imagine studying a cohort of people in a specific set of environmental circumstances. You assess everyone for an observable trait & find it varies from one person to another. 🧪1/5
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleOur report on "The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and In-Scanner Motion" is out now in Human Brain Mapping. In short: even anxiety-evoking movies reduce pediatric in-scanner movement compared to 'rest', highlighting its benefit for developmental neuroimaging. doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleThe view from Neuroscience. 👇
- 📣 Science matters! #FENS and its allies unite in solidarity with the U.S. scientific community facing challenges to research, collaboration, and academic freedom. 🔬 🔗 Read the full statement: loom.ly/cn7vJR4 #sciencematters #standupforscience #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleSetting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Nora Maria Raschle👀 new paper alert! Over the last few years I have read & thought - a lot - too much!? - about whether/how neural synchrony (measured by #fNIRS) ⚙️mechanistically⚙️ supports child development. So E. Redcay and @rachelromeo.bsky.social and I wrote about what we know - and what we don’t. 🧠🔦 ⚡️ 🧠🔦 🧵 1/7
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleNice meta synthesizing DAD mental health effects on child mental health. TLDR: Paternal mental illness links to more child mental health probs, indicating family-based solutions are necessary for healthy kids. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleThis story is another great example of why we can’t just extrapolate what we know about neuroscience in the developed brain to neuroscience in the developing brain. www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleWe have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in @natrevpsych.bsky.social We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Here is a free link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleWhat do children need to grow up happy? 🪁 The dossier in the current issue of UZH Magazine 📖 is dedicated to this question, feat. contributions by various Jacobs Center researchers - @moritzdaum.bsky.social, @noramraschle.bsky.social, @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social, @ribeaud.bsky.social, & Kaspar Burger.
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleNeuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Nora Maria RaschleGood news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool.skewed.de Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N #networkscience
