LachlanWebb

WATCH 🧠🧬 Researchers have discovered nearly 300 previously unknown #genetic links to #depression, helping scientists to better predict risk for developing the condition. @EdinburghUni @KingsCollegeLon @UQ_News @BrainMind_Usyd @nhmrc @DepressionAu #mentalhealth #researchforgood

Dr Nathan Stevenson and Kartik Iyer's #AI tool to monitor children's #brain #development: thesector.com.au/2024/06/06/aus…

Our latest study! Published in Nature Mental Health today, we show that bright days and dark nights are of fundamental importance for mental health. Individual light exposure data from >85,000 people…14 million hours of light data. Epic! Led by @anguscburns with @circadianumbers, Dan Windred, and a great team! nature.com/articles/s4422…

Symptoms of OCD are distressing & disabling but 1/2 of people with OCD do not remit with current therapies 7 years ago, @LucaCocchi78 & I embarked on a sham-controlled RCT to assess prefrontal TMS in reducing OCD symptoms & frontostriatal connectivity rdcu.be/dhCnx

♨️ off the press: A new clinical trial by @LucaCocchi78 et al. shows no difference between targeted frontal pole 🧠 stimulation and sham in reducing #OCD symptoms or frontostriatal connectivity 👇 @FunctionOfL @AndrewZalesky @BjornBurgher @DrBreaky nature.com/articles/s4422…

Back in Australia after #cns2023 @CNSorg in Leipzig and a few days in Berlin. Now back to finishing the thesis, as it unfortunately didn't finish writing itself while I was gone

Third Keynote talk today by Prof. Alain Destexhe "Mean-field approach to biophysical models of spiking networks."

Teamwork makes the dream work! Testing our fMRI paradigm for our @nhmrc funded Ideas study: imaging participants with severe #OCD with implanted #deepbrainstimulation devices. With @LucaCocchi78 @jnvandermeer @lachie_of_ham @ConorNRobinson & @MetroNorthHHS

Some worldwide media coverage of @DrPhilipMosley's research! 🧠 Cannabis reduces Tourette syndrome tics, clinical trial reports myjournalcourier.com/greenstate/art…… via @journalcourier

Medicinal #cannabis — or tetrahydrocannabinol and #cannabidiol — has been proven to reduce symptoms of #Tourette Syndrome. Findings from the ground-breaking clinical trial have been published in the US-based @NEJMEvidence: evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Absolutely thrilled that this was published in @NEJMEvidence on International #TourettesAwarenessDay & that we have provided methodologically robust evidence that cannabinoids are an efficacious treatment option for #Tourette syndrome! eviden.cc/3quxGvA Summary... 👉👉👉

Just published! Original Article: “Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol in Tourette Syndrome,” by @drphilipmosley et al. eviden.cc/3quxGvA #TouretteSyndrome #ClinicalTrials #PsychTwitter @qimrberghofer @lambert_usyd @wesleyresearch @iainsmcgregor

One of the most fascinating things about infant sleep patterns is that they go straight into #REMsleep before moving into NREM sleep. Fourth year PhD student Lachlan Webb, from the Brain Modelling Group, used mathematical modelling to find that an increased ... @FunctionOfL

Happy International day of Women in Maths!!

With @LucaCocchi78 & @QIMRBerghofer we are going to give #OCD a good kicking this year. Watch this space for THREE exciting new trials. Queensland researchers at QIMR Berghofer find likely cause of OCD abc.net.au/news/2023-04-1… via @ABCaustralia

Raising awareness of #OCD thanks ⁦@UNSWMedicine⁩ & ⁦@DrLizzieManning⁩ ⁦@QIMRBerghofer⁩ we lead trials of #deepbrainstimulation & #ultrasound for severe OCD & advocate for access to DBS for OCD in Australia. msac.gov.au/internet/msac/… theconversation.com/obsessive-comp…

Researchers at #QIMRBerghofer have harnessed the power of #artificialintelligence to rapidly track how preterm babies are developing in neonatal intensive care: bit.ly/3YPHR9x

How did we come to live in a world where sums of squares are too abstract and boring to teach while models with multiple hidden layers and millions of parameters are business as usual

Seven of our incredible scientists awarded @nhmrc Grants to support their vital #research. Congratulations @Vicki_Whitehall, Prof Grant Ramm, Prof Sudha Rao, @DrPhilipMosley, @Edwards_Stace, @HackerElke, and @Dr_JasonLee Read more: qimrberghofer.edu.au/news/seven-qim… #NHMRC #IdeasGrant

Our incredible Head of Mental Health and Neuroscience