Dominic Boutet
@dominic_boutet
PhD Student @IPNMcGill @TheNeuro_MNI | Comp Neuro/Neuroimaging/ML/AI | NSCI 200 TA @mcgillu | (at)dominic_boutet(at)neuromatch(dot)social
Happy to announce that some of my undergrad work with @sylvain_baillet is now out on arxiv! It all started when I tried to fit a brain model to MEG data. I was struggling with high-dim parameter space and limited compute. Here's my solution in a quick 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2309.16465
Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s41592… What is the best FC metric? led by @liuzhenqi0303 in @naturemethods ⤵️
Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 ♊️ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
New work led by Gleb Melshin with @MachGaensslen's support & @AVoppel with @BBRFoundation's support using @discourseinpsy speech data. Clinically important negative symptoms are detectable via speech spectrograms in #psychosis. nature.com/articles/s4427…
Max Levinson, Christopher C. Pack & Sylvain Baillet @TheNeuro_MNI investigate stimulus-dependent delay of perceptual filling-in by microsaccades. doi.org/10.1167/jov.25…
Our new paper just out in @ScienceAdvances ✨ “Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling” science.org/doi/full/10.11… 🧵⤵️
We're living in the Dunning Krugerest of timelines........
it is 2025 and there are people who believe that accurately predicting the next token does not require understanding the underlying reality that created that token btw
Looking forward to growing our collaboration with @lena_pl through this transformative grant from the Wellcome Trust, by leveraging large language models and time-resolved imaging of natural speech processes in psychotic disorders. neurospeed-bailletlab.org/news/dialog-pr…
What mechanisms generate alpha rhythms? Read our @PLOSCompBiol paper comparing major neural models of alpha rhythms journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… We found that distinct models (limit cycles vs. noise-driven) create similar rhythms! Outstanding work by first author Sorenza Bastiaens
In our paper, published today in EJNM, we introduce a technique to profile tau tangle accumulation in the brain across the Alzheimer's disease (AD) spectrum: link.springer.com/article/10.100… 1/5
This is going to be a great project, thanks Wellcome Trust! douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/understan…
We are #hiring for a fully funded PhD position at TU Dresden. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. I’m attending COSYNE 2025 if you would like to meet! #cosyne2025 #cosyne25
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. thetransmitter.org/theoretical-ne…
Dendrites doing AI problems, so great to see the increased activity! nature.com/articles/s4146…
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/offres_d_emplo… With $9.5M+ investment from @wellcometrust, we are setting out to study why disorganised speech/behaviour occur in #psychosis #bipolar & how to reverse it. Join us for this 7-country study with MEG+PET+MRI & communication remediation. @discourseinpsy
Preprint alert: “Virtual Brain Inference (VBI): A flexible and integrative toolkit for efficient probabilistic inference on virtual brain models” biorxiv.org/content/10.110… With @sci_developer, Marmaduke, @spase_petkoski, @codemart_ro & @ViktorJirsa. @INS_Umr1106, @EBRAINS_eu 1/n