Ryan Webler, PhD
@ryanwebler45
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ BWH Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics | I use causal methods and psychological theory to make better TMS anxiety protocols.
Check our latest preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We present the first population-specific brain charts for China, developed through the Chinese Lifespan Brain Mapping Consortium (Phase I) using high-quality MRI data from 43,037 participants (aged 0-100 years,384 sites). (1/6)
Our lab has spent the last few years developing a fully automated tool for predicting personalized outcomes from stroke that incorporates lesion location. Our hope is that it bridges lesion research and clinical neurology. Check it out: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
The US government is aiming to get rid of a quarter million people involved in science research and education by 2026. I have no words.
Locus coeruleus activation “resets” hippocampal event representations and separates adjacent memories cell.com/neuron/abstrac…
If your actions do not reflect the things that matter most to you, how might you bring those things closer into connection? What would you be willing to feel to come back into alignment?
Inspiring days at Lviv hospital with great talks by Ilan Harpaz-Rotem and @NoahSPhilipMD along with successful completion of the first TMS hands-on training day.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation goes around the world. This technology can do enormous good. Motor threshold skills are the foundation.
Inspiring days at Lviv hospital with great talks by Ilan Harpaz-Rotem and @NoahSPhilipMD along with successful completion of the first TMS hands-on training day.
Stimulant drugs work great, but how? We found no evidence that they affect the brain’s attention system, instead …check out our new preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and thread by brilliant first author Ben Kay👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/benjam…
MRI-guided repetitive Transcranial focused ultrasound to left amygdala reduces amygdala BOLD and distress in patients. Way to go Fonzy! nature.com/articles/s4138…
Trump terminated $1.8B in science funding in 40 days. A loss of ~$4.6B in future economic activity. Means a higher fraction of new discoveries will be overseas. We'll be buying our future drugs from other countries...and, oh - they'll have tariffs on them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Our focused ultrasound (FUS) #neuromodulation paper now out in @molpsychiatry! Low-intensity FUS attenuates #amygdala fMRI BOLD signal. Broad therapeutic effects in patients with once-daily FUS. Next up, the RCT! Thanks to @OneMindOrg, who funded this! rdcu.be/ejcYD
This study identified a common brain circuit centered on the hippocampus's posterior subiculum linked to lesions causing secondary psychosis. ja.ma/4cfRA15 @fredschaper_ @shansiddiqi
🔍What Is Non-Agentic AI? A recent paper by @Yoshua_Bengio etal arxiv.org/abs/2502.15657 proposes a "safer AI" system, designed to: 1. Model the world by generating theories to explain observed data. 2. Answer questions based on these models, providing insights without taking…
Outcomes for the first 60 MDD patients treated at our clinic @QLDNeurostimCen with robotically delivered & fMRI-personalized rTMS MADRS response=74%, remission=53% for RCT patients EXCITED to see fMRI moving from research to real-world clinical use! karger.com/pps/article/do…