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Advances in Imaging Methods

• Multinuclear Fingerprinting (MNF)
• High-throughput light-sheet 3D microscopy of brain microstructure for integration with diffusion MRI
• High-Resolution Functional MRSI of the Human Brain
• Interleaved TMS-fMRI using BOLD and diffusion functional contrasts to study motor inhibition
• Making Mesoscale fMRI More Accessible: Open-Source Implementation of 3D-VASO at 3.0 T Using Pulseq
• Functional sodium MRI reveals human neuronal responses with high temporal resolution.

AI and the Analysis of brain structure and function

• A Novel Foundation Model for Structural Brain Health Analysis
• DL-Derived Neurodegenerative and Cerebrovascular Brain Ages Enhance Dementia Progression Prediction
• A deep-learning framework for morphological fingerprinting across 18 neurological conditions
• Federated Label-Noise Filtering of Neuroimaging Data
• MAMBAxBrain: A Multi-task Framework for Individual, Cognitive, Behavioral, and Clinical Prediction
• Reconstructing High-Resolution Tau Maps from Regional Tau-PET Using Implicit Neural Representations

Brain Networks and Clinical Phenotypes in Psychiatry

• Avoiding Loss through Goal-directed Control in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
• Dynamic Rumination-Related Network Changes after CBT vs Pharmacotherapy in Depression
• Prediction of sleep-related depressive phenotypes based on lifestyle and socioeconomic factors
• Clinically Distinct Subtypes of Depression from fMRI-Based Brain-Function-Symptom Integration
• Lifespan Modeling Reveals Shared Cortical Thickness Organization in Mental Illness
• The Stability of Psychopathology Measures Lowers the Reproducibility of Brain-Behavior Correlations

Brain Stimulation

• Connectivity, receptor diversity and gene expression shape brain-wide responses to iES
• Connectivity and Subjective States Evoked by Electrical Stimulation of Human Mediodorsal Thalamus
• Neurophysiological signatures of Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy in treatment resistant depression
• Energy-efficiency of pulsed transcranial and intranasal photobiomodulation to modulate brain rhythms
• A multimodal signature of electroconvulsive therapy
• Rapid neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation: a concurrent TUS/fMRI study

Emotion and Social Neuroscience

• Investigating higher-order signatures of emotions in the human brain using film fMRI.
• Mapping Locus Coeruleus–Cortical Functional Gradients
• Tracking Emotion Regulation Through Dynamic Affective Transitions
• The Brain Network Underlying Social Participation: A Multimodal, Data-Driven Investigation
• Whole-Brain Mapping of Naturalistic Social Interaction in Mice Using Zero Echo Time Functional MRI
• Mapping a Continuous Neural Signature for Decoding Social Distance from the Self

Heritable Variation in Brain Structure and Function

• Julich-Brain guided genetic mapping of cortical folding: A pilot for the ENIGMA Gyrification Group
• MRI-based spinal cord morphology links to sensory–motor pathway structures and systemic diseases
• Distinct heritable components of latent brain subtypes reveal chronotype heterogeneity
• Navigation training alters twin cortical similarity at the gray–white matter boundary
• T1w/T2w ratio as an in vivo proxy for reduced intracortical myelin content in youth with RASopathies
• Genetic Foundations of Environmental Sensitivity Indexed by Spontaneous Regional Brain Activity

Higher Cognitive Functions

• Modulation of decision-making under risk through real-time fMRI neurofeedback
• Procrastination May Theoretically Reflect an Evolutionary Byproduct of Non-planning Impulsivity
• Prior Knowledge Shapes the Neural Correlates of Selective Attention
• Dissociable representations of aesthetic features in the human visual cortex
• Naturalistic fMRI and Instrument-Specific Neural Synchronization in Musicians
• Wake-to-sleep transition facilitates novel idea generation based on associative recombination

Language Across Brain Systems and the Lifespan

• Silent Functional MRI for Language Network Localisation: Echo Planar Imaging Versus Looping Star
• Maturation of the arcuate fasciculus in relation to language development around 1 year of age
• Decoding Language Identity from Whole-Brain fMRI During Bilingual Picture Naming
• Neural substrates of orthographic coding in skilled deaf readers.
• Language and attention crowding revealed through a multi-scale perspective on brain lateralization
• MEG Evidence for Distributed Encoding of Parts of Speech in the Human Brain

Lifespan Development

• BrainCharts identify baseline brain phenotypes associated with cognitive vulnerability in ageing
• Structure-Function Dynamics in Healthy Cognitive Aging: A Graph Signal Processing Approach
• Mapping Organizational Gradients of Cortical Growth Using Spectral Normative Models
• Spatiotemporal Pattern of Individual Functional Variability in Youth
• The link between gender inequality and brain structure across the lifespan and the world
• Macroscale connectome gradient development in infants with and without prenatal substance exposure

Machine Learning for Structure–Function Mapping

• Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts
• Bridging Anatomical and Effective Hierarchies via Neural Mass Modeling
• Mesoscopic 0.35 mm T2*w MRI at 7T reveals arteries comparable to TOF and rich venous anatomy
• Topology-Aware Synthetic Learning for Generalizable Neonatal Hippocampal Subfield Segmentation
• Spatial maps of similarity across the cortex
• A Framework for Real-Time Laminar fMRI at Ultra-high Field Strengths

Modeling and Analysis of Multimodal Data

• Exposomic Stratification of Neurocognitive Health: Identifying Priority of Modifiable Factors
• FORCE: Forward modeling approach for complex microstructure estimation
• How much can scalp EEG tell us? insights from simultaneous high-density EEG and intracranial EEG
• Multiverse Sampling Uncertainty in Large Brain-Behaviour Multiverse Analyses
• Transferable and Conditional Norms: Profiling Cortico-Subcortical Individual-level Variation
• What effect sizes can we expect in fMRI? Modeling effect sizes distributions across the brain

Multiscale brain network alterations in early neurodevelopmental conditions

• Functional synchronization profiles in autism differ by spatial scale and along cortical gradients
• Environmental exposures and DNA methylation networks linked to brain anatomy during childhood.
• Tonotopic mapping in children shows an overrepresentation of high frequencies in autism
• Altered Claustrum Connectivity in Preterm Neonates and Adults Links to Cognitive Outcomes
• Population-scale lifespan brain charts identify distinct clinical–biological subtypes of autism
• A Multi-Cohort, Multi-Modal Validation of Cerebello-Cortical Connectivity in Autism

Neural Circuits of Memory and Learning

• Selective enhancement of neural response consistency through self-organisation
• Dopaminergic modulation of large-scale brain activity in reversal learning
• Predictable acoustic content engages layer specific cortical hippocampal circuits
• Latent architecture of conceptual knowledge representation in the human hippocampus
• Functional organization underlying superior performance in a memory champion
• Preferential superficial-layer representation of attended working memory content in human PFC

Neuroanatomy

• A Longitudinal Tractography Atlas for Infant Brain Development
• Beyond the classical anatomical concept of Broca's region: new subdivisions and link to function
• Brain anatomy shapes the emergence of human cognition and behaviour beyond genetics
• Sulcus-Based Topology of Superficial White Matter Bundles in Humans and Chimpanzees
• Unveiling the functional specialisation of human circuits with naturalistic stimuli
• Testing Ultra-Low Field MRI for Subcortical Brain Imaging in Infants Exposed to Perinatal Depression

Neurodegenerative Disease and Late Life

• Multimodal MRI indices of the neurovascular-glymphatic system and cognitive impairment in T2DM
• Metabolic Signatures of Brain Structure: Pathways to Understanding Brain Disorders
• Brain Size Links Neurodevelopment to Neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s Disease
• Clinical, Lesion, and Hypoperfusion Loadings for Outcome Prediction in Acute Ischemic Stroke
• Mapping Symptom Domains to Substantia Nigra Subregions in Parkinson’s Disease Using Neuromelanin MRI
• Hemodynamic Response Function Varies Across Anatomical Location and Pathology in the Epileptic Brain

Neuroinformatics and Data Sharing

• Neuromaps-PRIME: a graph-based framework for integrating cross-species neuroimaging spaces
• Harmonizing Connectomes Related to Emotional Disorders to Map Psychopathology
• BIDS-Flux: High-throughput, Federated Neuroimaging Data Management Platform for Multisite Studies
• Intracortical microstructure profiling: a versatile method for indexing cortical lamination
• Beyond Tool Development: Building the Nipoppy Ecosystem and Pipeline Store
• ClinicaDL v2: an open-source Python library for reproducible deep learning in neuroimaging

Perception, Attention, and Consciousness 

• Psilocybin acutely reduces low-frequency BOLD power and alters frequency-specific connectivity
• A Simple Dynamical Motif Supports Dual Attentional Modes in Humans and Macaques
• Gonadal Puberty Gates Genetic Risk to Widespread Pain via Brain Network-Mediated Pathways in Girls
• Lateralised role of left anterior insula in coordinating itch-scratch behaviour
• Relating image similarity metrics across brain, human, and AI models
• Decreased Sleep is Linked Longitudinally and Directionally to Alterations in Functional Connectivity

Software Demonstrations

• Mapping the Human Retinotopic Visual Connectome In Vivo
• Fetpype: An Open-Source pipeline for reproducible Fetal Brain MRI Analysis
• WhiFuN: A toolbox to map the White Matter Functional Networks of the Human Brain
• Multimodal Brain Connectivity Integration for Cognitive Performance Prediction in Youth
• FFRPREP: An open BIDS App for processing and analysis of auditory EEG frequency-following responses
• PRISME: A MATLAB Toolbox For Large Data-Driven Multimodal Power Benchmarking