We know that chronic back pain is driven by brain amplification of sensory input -- but we haven't known how far this amplification extends In new work just published in Annals of Neurology, we show that people with chronic back pain also have substantial (d ~ 1.0) amplification of aversive auditory processing, and that this is - driven by hyper-responsivitiy in auditory cortex and insula - has overlapping mechanisms with fibromyalgia - partially reversible with treatment (pain reprocessing therapy), including stronger mPFC responses to aversive sounds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Is this multi-sensory sensitization cause of consequence of chronic pain? collaboration with @torwager @AlinaPanzel @C_Buchel

The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.o… ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

Excited to see my first PhD project out in @NatureComms! Thanks to @sofievalk for her invaluable guidance and grateful for our co-authors @INM7_ISN @MeikeHettwer @lisa_wiersch @GiacomoBIgnardi @Susanne__W @CognNeuroend and reviewers/editors for their constructive contributions

Get ready for the next application round of our excellent PhD program starting in September 1st 2024! Our application portal will open via our webpage on that day! #maxplackschools #passionforscience 🧠🍀💪🏻👌

We’re inviting women (afab) Internationally to complete this questionnaire & help us understand pelvic pain, pls share! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…

The countdown of this year‘s application cycle has started today! Our application portal is now open for both, the Cognition Track and the Clinician Scientist Track. More information can be found here: cognition.maxplanckschools.o…! Looking forward to hearing from you! 💪🏻🧠🥰

🧠Neuroimaging peeps🧠 our field is blessed with beautiful visualizations. Our preprint provides 3 tools to help move toward code-based & replicable visualization: 📗practical guide (why should I?) 📦package selector (which one?) 🏗️code template generator (how do I start?) 👇🧵

Reminder: application deadline on Friday!

(1/7) After submitting my dissertation, I am happy that my main project is finally published with the great support of @C_Buchel, @BjornHoring and M. Rose @SysNeuroHamburg . We investigated agency and placebo/nocebo in the context of a Bayesian pain model. cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…

1/Large language models like Galactica and ChatGPT can spout nonsense in a confident, authoritative tone. This overconfidence - which reflects the data they’re trained on - makes them more likely to mislead.

My first paper is out in DCN! Investigating the #endocrine #neurocognitive and #psychosocial factors associated with the emergence of sex differences in internalizing symptoms in the #ABCD 9- to 10-year-old cohort @yip_lab @BobKohlerPhD @lichsar @YeFengdan doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.1…

We are going on the final week of our application phase! Hurry if you would like to become part of our excellent fully funded program! #passionforscience 🫵🏻🧠🫀🎈 cognition.maxplanckschools.o…

Our very own @AlinaPanzel presenting her research at the Max Planck Schools‘ Day! #passionforscience 💥💐

Inspiring talks & workshops, a thought-provoking debate, nice food, some karaoke and lots of laughter. Yesterday's Max Planck Schools Day 2022 in Berlin was simply amazing! We enjoyed learning more about the research of the other Max Planck Schools @MPS_cog and @MPS_Photonics 🙌

I remember breaking down to my Ph.D. advisor about how stupid I felt while troubleshooting a problem in my project when she handed me this paper. Years later it is still relevant to young students starting off in Science. It's ok to feel stupid, we all do on a regular basis.

Very happy to introduce this paper to the Twitter community nature.com/articles/s41593-0…. It was a lot of work, producing all types of affect on its way, and here it finally is in all its multicolored beauty! @phkragel @mlopezsola82 @choongwanwoo @torwager