New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Dana M. Parker, Michael A. Yassa, et al:
NODDI-derived measures of microstructural integrity in medial temporal lobe white matter pathways are associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology and cognition
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Incandescently happy to spend an evening with friends and colleagues at @ucirvine.bsky.social & the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory for the 2026 Barclay Lecture. @mikeyassa.bsky.social, it's an honor. Join us Jan 28. Registration: cnlm.uci.edu/emilyjacobs/
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How do brains manage it? For a long while, the hippocampus has been known to be involved (thanks to @brockkirwan.com, @mikeyassa.bsky.social and others) - eg individuals with hippocampal damage are impaired at tasks like the Brady task.
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#ACNP2026 - Wednesday afternoon @biancaleonard.bsky.social will present a computational model-driven motivational conflict challenge that identifies novel, *opposing* influences of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia @mikeyassa.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social
I am recruiting an exceptional postdoc to join my lab at UC Irvine. Must be a productive researcher with experience in functional neuroimaging, network neuroscience, AI/ML, who is interested in aging, neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative illness.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
It felt like the right time for a reminder. This is based on an older interview but almost too relevant today. “On Failure and “Pathological Persistence” in Science“ by Michael Yassa on Medium: medium.com/@myassa_6289...
Please note that details on the position are at faculty.sites.uci.edu/myassa/get-i.... The LinkedIn job post was deactivated as I was getting spammed with irrelevant applications. Email me with any questions at [email protected]
Landed at #SfN and we have lots of fun new results to share. See below for Yassalab poster presentations. If you want to talk #Alzheimers or #mentalhealth come chat with us.
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If you’re a scientist and you’ve ever opened a blank doc to start a paper and immediately regretted your life choices, you’re not alone. Here's my method. Read "Slot-Based Writing: The Cure for Scientific Paper Paralysis" on Medium medium.com/@myassa_6289...
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Published! to NAIL human paraventricular thalamus, we imaged & aligned postmortem human thalamus labeled c calretinin. Finally a gold standard allowing mouse, rat human comparisons onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social @flagel-lab.bsky.social @mikeyassa.bsky.social l
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Existing definitions of the human paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) differ between histological and MRI atlases; this study addresses this conflict by leveraging MRI and histology in the ...
