Danylyna Shpakivska Bilan
@shpakivskad
PhD student in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at @C3N_UCM
Excited to share that our new paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉
An excellent introduction. Written 40 years ago, but feels fresh and relevant to today’s big questions and debates.
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jesús Cabrera-Álvarez, Gianluca Susi, et al: The fluctuations of alpha power: Bimodalities, connectivity, and neural mass models doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Danylyna Shpakivska-Bilan, Stephanie R. Jones et al.: High-power transient 12–30 Hz beta event features as early biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease conversion: An MEG study doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…
Exercising outside is better for your brain. A 15-min walk outside improved cognitive performance & increased P300 amplitude - a neural response associated with attention and working memory. This was not seen following a walk inside.
Exercise helps the immune system to fight tumours by stimulating microbes in the gut to make a compound known as formate go.nature.com/44jPqvg
How does neural variability affect coding efficiency and robustness? We found that while the intrinsic neural variability structure is suboptimal for coding efficiency, it is, in fact, optimal for robustness! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
NIH’s 2025 policy on animal testing grants worries neuroscientists. Organoids & in silico models can’t yet replicate glymphatic systems for brain implants or complex vision circuits. Strict animal model justifications may delay funding & discoveries. #Neuroscience #NIH
Submit an abstract and present your research at the #EBRAINSSummit2025! Researchers working in open neuroscience are invited to submit high-quality abstracts for the opportunity to present their work at the Summit, which will take place in Brussels, from 8-11 December 2025. The…
Human thalamocortical connectivity matures along the cortex’s sensorimotor–association axis nature.com/articles/s4159…
MEG hackathon 2025 update We started training models for the speech decoding from MEG competition. First track is currently active - binary classification (speech/no speech).
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nikhil Bhagwat, Yu-Fang Yang, et al: Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…
Agreed. Here is a cool paper on new strategies for brain stimulation for impulsivity in ADHD, addiction, trauma. nature.com/articles/s4139……
Nos vemos el jueves 11 de 15 a 16:30 en el Campus Joven Internacional @UAM_Madrid ¿Os animáis a conocer a Ray 🤖? Él está muy emocionado 😍
In this piece of brain tissue the size of sand grain are 200,000 neurons and nearly 2.5 miles of axons. While it may seem small in size, it was previously thought impossible to map. The road to this beautiful image is both a scientific and human triumph: alleninstitute.org/news/scientist…
🎉¡Estamos de celebración!🎉 El máster ha entrado en el Ranking de los 250 mejores másteres de Psicología del periódico El Mundo. Estamos muy agradecid@s de recibir este reconocimiento. elmundo.es/especiales/mej…
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elze M.L. Wolfs, Jana Klaus, and Dennis J.L.G. Schutter: Functional cerebello–cortico–limbic connectivity in aggression: A resting-state 7T fMRI study in healthy volunteers doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…
Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP! (1) "Verifies" common misuse of t-SNE and UMAP, (2) reveals the causes behind, and (3) guides how to use them properly @ieeevis review said "I do not agree" 🥲 Still, we will keep our effort to disseminate this message 🤣 arxiv.org/abs/2506.08725
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BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
EEG Foundation Challenge: From Cross-Task to Cross-Subject EEG Decoding Creating universal models that generalize across tasks & subjects for EEG decoding 📊 Dataset: 3000+ participants, 128-channel EEG ⏰ Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 🏆 Prize: $2,500 + NeurIPS presentation