OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom)

🎧 OHBM Podcast Neurosalience S6, Ep 9 is out now! Host Peter Bandettini and Dr. John Allen discuss the neuroscience of depression, from frontal EEG asymmetry to emerging treatments like focused ultrasound and psilocybin. Listen now!
 
Spotify: tinyurl.com/m58353ht
YouTube: youtu.be/7hHWJ2pKSQE

A new frame for psychiatry promises an optimistic picture — OHBM Communications The truth is that psychiatry has had significant advances, mainly due to new technologies that have allowed a better understanding of conditions. However, the fight is far from over. We haven’t yet pr...

A new framework could reshape psychiatry - linking brain mechanisms to symptoms and opening the door to personalized care. ✨️ Read our latest #BrainBites ⬇️

Based on work by @kangjoolee.bsky.social and colleagues

@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

Neurosalience #S6E8 with Mario Senden - From rich clubs to mapping neuroscience itself Spotify video

🎧 OHBM Podcast Neurosalience S6, Ep 8 is out now! Peter Bandettini (@fmri-today.bsky.social) and Dr. Mario Senden explore rich club networks, the future of whole-brain modeling, and a sweeping data-driven map of neuroscience itself.

Watch now!

YouTube: youtu.be/PY4bFy1h6TI
Spotify: bit.ly/471I9kz

Interview with Prof. Amy Brodtmann, 2025 Winner of the OHBM Mentor Award — OHBM Communications Author: Zaki Alasmar Editor: Simon Steinkamp, Ashley Tyrer Video Editor: Zaki Alasmar

Kicking off the new year with our next installment of the OHBM Award Winner Interview Series, featuring the 2025 winner of the Mentor Award, Prof Amy Brodtmann! ⭐

Watch the interview here 👇
www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

A recent study by @alexamousley.bsky.social and colleagues has rewritten the chronology of human brain development. Check out our latest #BrainBite 👇

The geometry of change — OHBM Communications share.google/WO2fzlYt9LU6...

Interview with Prof. Jack Van Horn, 2025 Winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award — OHBM Communications Author: Simon Steinkamp Editors: Zaki Alasmar, Ashley Tyrer

Our third interview in the Award Winner Interview series features the 2025 winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award: Prof Jack Van Horn! 🏆 @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social

Huge thanks for the stimulating conversation! ⭐

Read the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you.

📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...

Interview with Dr. Meiqi Niu, 2025 Winner of the Karl Zilles Award — OHBM Communications Author: Zaki Alasmar Editors: Ashley Tyrer, Simon Steinkamp

Next up in our Award Winner Interview series is Dr. Meiqi Niu, the 2025 winner of the Karl Zilles Award! 🏆

We had the pleasure of speaking with Meiqi about her work in neuroimaging and her career journey so far. 💪

Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

Interview with Prof. Mac Shine, 2025 Winner of the Early Career Investigator Award — OHBM Communications Writer: Ashley Tyrer Editor: Audrey Luo, Alfie Wearn Video Editor: Xuqian Michelle Li

Each year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆

First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social

Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

Organization for Human Brain Mapping The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is the premiere international organization dedicated to using neuroimaging to discover the organization of the human brain. Founded in 1995, The OHBM ha...

OHBM 2025 Educational Course videos are going up right now!

The first few are already available. The rest will appear throughout the next few hours.

Watch this space!
www.youtube.com/@ohbm

Loneliness isn’t just emotional — it shows up in the brain. 🧠
New Brain Bites explores how large-scale neuroimaging reveals changes in gray matter, connectivity, and memory pathways linked to feeling socially disconnected.
Read more: www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

OHBM Award Winners - 2025 — OHBM Communications Authors: Ashley Tyrer Editors: Zaki Alasmar

Congratulations to all of this year's OHBM Award Winners! 🏆
We're thrilled to share the full list of award winners, and we’ll also be posting exclusive interviews with each of them in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more 👀
👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/o8brgzb...

Neurosalience #S6E1 - Highlights of season 5 and looking ahead to season 6 YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

We're kicking off Season 6 (!!) of #Neurosalience!

This week, we have a chat between Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social our new podcast team lead Xuqian Michelle Li, looking back at the past season, as well as preview what's to come!

YouTube: youtu.be/qFcqCkNWTUE
Spotify: bit.ly/4qCiaZ4

Our Site Visit to Bordeaux! — OHBM Communications Authors: Emily Weber, Beth Slater Editors: Ashley Tyrer, Audrey Luo, Zaki Alasmar

Thinking about attending #OHBM2026 in Bordeaux? 🤔

In our new blog post, Emily Weber and Beth Slater of the OHBM Executive Office share details of their visit to the new OHBM host city, immersing themselves in Bordeaux's rich history and cultural scene 🏰

Read here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/our-sit...

The OHBM Executive Office is hard at work getting ready for OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux. Preparation is well underway for an inspiring meeting in a truly historic city.
Join us June 14–18, 2026
Learn more about our visit by clicking the link in the comments.
#OHBM2026 #BrainMapping

Making Research Relatable — Why Science Belongs to All of Us YouTube video by The SciComm Spectrum

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Julia Masselos, host of the SciComm Spectrum podcast, about all things science communication! 🔬 🤓

We discussed my role leading the blog team for @ohbm-com.com, and also my research on decision-making 🧠

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb07...

Rewiring Hope: A Custom-Fit Approach to Depression — OHBM Communications When you break a bone, it’s easy to point to the problem and where to fix it. With a brain tumor, you need an image of the brain to locate it. Some tumors are harder to remove than others, but it is p...

Hope is in the wiring: A new brain-stimulation therapy is showing promise for depression 🧠✨️ #MentalHealthDay

www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

Former ComCom chairs have just published an editorial on the value of communication within a scientific community beyond traditional publications.

Check it out in Aperture Neuro doi.org/10.52294/001...

Keynote series Dr. Lucina Uddin - Mapping the Brain: Why Standardization Matters — OHBM Communications The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) helps neuroscientists compare brain imaging data across different atlases, addressing inconsistencies in how brain networks are labeled. Developed by Dr. Lucin...

Tired of mismatched brain maps? 🧠

The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) brings consistency to neuroimaging by aligning findings across atlases. A big leap toward reproducible brain science! @lucinauddin.bsky.social

www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

#OHBM2025 #BrainBites #neuroscience

Keynote series Dr. Sharna Jamadar — Seeing the aging brain in a new light: “The power of fPET imaging” — OHBM Communications Dr. Sharna Jamadar’s keynote sheds light on a promising new lens for understanding cognitive aging: the brain’s energy economy . Through her work with functional PET (fPET) imaging, Jamadar and colle...

Brain energy = cognitive health? 🧠⚡

Dr. Sharna Jamadar's (@sharnajamadar.bsky.social) research reveals that understanding how brain regions coordinate energy use could be a game-changer for predicting cognitive decline

www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/... ‪

#ohbm2025 #brainbites

Keynote series Dr. Melanie Boly - The Nature of Consciousness: A Clash of Paradigms in Integrated Information Theory — OHBM Communications Dr. Melanie Boly's keynote explores the deep divide between two views of consciousness—formalist vs. biological—centered around Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0. While IIT aims to quantify con...

Can math measure consciousness? 🧠

Is consciousness computable, or bound to biology? 🧬

Dr. Melanie Boly is dissecting this pivotal debate in neuroscience

Read the #BrainBite here: www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

#OHBM2025

📢Call for students📢

Are you a student passionate about #science communication?

Do you speak more than one language fluently?

We want to hear from you!

We're looking for multilingual students to help us make #neuroscience more accessible. Details here: neurofrontiers.blog/the-brain-ac...
#SciComm

Keynote series Dr. Joana Cabral - The Brain’s Slow Dance: How Macroscale Oscillations Orchestrate Long-Range Neural Communication — OHBM Communications A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Joana Cabral (University of Minho) reveals how slow, brain-wide oscillations—detected via ultrafast fMRI—coordinate long-range neural communication in female rats. ...

We loved Dr Joana Cabral's excellent keynote at #OHBM2025

In our latest #BrainBite, we created a summary of some of her work, written for non-experts.

Could slow rhythmic brain waves be key to understanding cognition? Read the article here: www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

The OHBM Time Machine places all recorded talks/sessions from OHBM annual meetings onto YouTube *for free*.

Sessions from 2015-2024 are available to watch now, with 2025's recordings coming in the next couple of months - watch this space.

Explore the time machine yourself: www.youtube.com/@OHBM

#OHBM2025, we miss you already. So many great ComCom initiatives this year, with many more exciting ideas for the future. Looking forward to connecting with you all throughout the year, and reuniting next year in Le France!

#OHBM2025 Live Neurosalience Podcast recording happening now in the main hall!

If you're at #OHBM2025, come see our second competition as part of ComCom's Comms Comps! This time, a 3-minute chalk talk

13:00-14:00, Room M2!

#OHBM2025 !

Ever missed an annual meeting? Or an early morning symposium? You probably need a time machine...

Find all annual meeting talks from 2015 now on YouTube. 2025 content coming soon!

Poster #0589 Weds/Thurs

Of course! Looking forward to seeing you there later!

If you're at #OHBM2025, come see our Best Figure competition as part of ComCom's Comms Comps!

12:45-13:45, Room M2!

Also we're accepting last minute sign-ups for tomorrow's 3-minute flipboard presentation: forms.gle/VZHaTGBK99A8...