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

Happy 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...

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

Wie wir mit Magnetresonanztomographie (MRT) das Gehirn sichtbar machen YouTube video by NMR Kids Lab

Ever wondered how MRI creates images from inside the body?
We made a child-friendly explainer video (german) 🎥👇
youtu.be/k-KCyoUP9vA #scicomm

"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 👨‍👩‍👧🌼🧠

For 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

Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions In recent years, scientific interest in sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), a personality trait reflecting increased sensitivity, reactivity, and deeper processing of stimuli, has grown exponentially. Building on this momentum, we synthesise recent SPS literature to discuss several central themes, including SPS assessment, relations to other personality traits and diverse positive and negative outcomes. We propose a novel account of SPS grounded in predictive processing, that bridges cognitive, neural, and computational domains. Specifically, we posit that brains of high-SPS individuals consistently assign high precision to incoming sensory signals. This account offers a unified explanation for the phenotypic consequences of heightened sensory sensitivity. We review behavioural and neural evidence that indirectly supports this account, and delineate important avenues for future research.

Online Now: Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions

Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...

YES! "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....

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

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

🧠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🧵

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢 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/...

The 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!

What an excellent flash talk this was @sofiascatolin.bsky.social ! Very proud on all the nice work and presentations by you, our team members & all. Huge thanks to the organizers and flux community for being so welcoming, inspirational & ready to move forward together! #child #development #brain

I had an amazing time at #Flux2025 presenting our research and connecting with colleagues!

Jonathan 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.

@sofiascatolin.bsky.social
💡 Parent-Child Functional Neural Similarity and Its Association With Child Mental Well-Being
📅 Saturday | Posters III
🕙 10:15–11:45AM | Goldsmith Hall
🎤 Flash talk: Saturday | 9:10–9:15AM | Hyde Suite 1&2
✨ As the Beatles sang: in the end, it’s all about the love we share

Dennis Saikkonen
🔄 Developing Minds: Functional Brain Maturation and Mentalizing From Childhood to Adulthood
📅 Saturday | Poster Session III
🕙 10:15–11:45 AM | Goldsmith Hall
😎🌼Growing up isn’t just about the brain changing, it’s about seeing the world through others’ eyes.

Elena Federici
👫 Shared Perspectives: The Neural Basis of Sibling Similarity in Affective Processing
📅 Saturday | Poster Session III
🕙 10:15–11:45 AM | Goldsmith Hall
👯‍♀️ When siblings sync, it’s not just Spotify playlists, it’s in the brain too.

Mirjam Habegger
🧠 Predicting Children’s Mental Health Longitudinally by Their Functional Brain Connectivity
📅 Friday | Poster Session II
🕟 4:30–6:00 PM | Goldsmith Hall
🔮 A poster that peers into the future - without a crystal ball, just networks of the brain.

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.

@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

✈️ 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

A common neural signature between genetic and environmental risk for mental illness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If 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_...

How to go viral with dire-sounding – but phony – “statistical trends” Those bent on creating anti-internet panics keep rigging their presentations.

Please, 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-...

Neuroscience methods - YouTube Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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We 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.