David Baranger

I am recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas. More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/

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New work from us, with one possible answer to the question "What to do about the low reliability of task fMRI?"

I'm shutting down @PsyArXiv_bot_v2 until further notice. You can still get #Psyarxiv notifications on @bluesky.

Question for my fellow task #fMRI folks: A frequent assumption I see (including in my own work) is that regions that are the most 'activated' in a contrast will also show the largest associations with individual differences. Is there any empirical work showing this is the case?

Remember back in 2022, when we didn't need to worry about a 2nd Trump Presidency, but were concerned about how many participants it would take to map links between personality & brain activity? (cf work by @smarek0502 & @ndosenbach) We have good news 👇 nature.com/articles/s4200…

Excited to share that this manuscript has now been published @NatMentHealth! nature.com/articles/s4422…

Woo another fun collab in the books! Enjoyed getting comfortable with multilevel log-linear models for this one.

🔬The Sheahan Lab at MCW is looking for a research technician! This position is great for someone interested in gaining more neuroscience experience in the realm of itch/pain prior to applying for graduate or medical school. Please share! More info here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

@JamieLarsH @sha_zhiqiang @FangChengYeh Thanks for these ideas! I do think that a very easy plug-and-play visualization approach for regression results from AtlasTrack would be very useful.

@sha_zhiqiang @David_Baranger @FangChengYeh Not to make Frank's life tougher/busier, but there's a solid google group of tech issues... groups.google.com/g/dsi-studio?p…

I've gotten multiple questions about how to visualize white matter tracts with the ABCD, but I don't think there's an easy way. Is it time for a ggsegAtlasTrack?

@sha_zhiqiang Oh nice. The online manual seems to be all about processing the data and making the tracts. Not clear how the visualization would work, but good to know the tools are buried in there!

@David_Baranger Yes, sure. I think so. Basically, a value for one tract. I think DSI Studio is a fancy tool for visualizing white matter tracts.

@sha_zhiqiang Haven't used it yet! Does DSI make it easy to visualize results (e.g., from regressions)?

@David_Baranger There are some tract atlases in DSI Studio. If you used these atlases, it's good to try.

Spin tests and such are great if you're comparing brain maps of distributions (mean/variance/etc). But if the maps are from regressions - use permutations!! Better error control, and can be applied to any measure type (volume, connectivity, white matter), not just the surface.

@DammeSf Depending on the goals, openpsychometrics is interesting openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/, and a bunch of the HCP data is available for anyone to download.

@literalbanana @seconds_0 @netflix As typical, the reanalysis finding that the findings don't hold up continues to get a lot less attention than the original article journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

@seconds_0 @netflix the main issues I see (without even considering the reanalyses that fail to find the effect) is that 1) it depicts a girl but they only find the effect in boys, and 2) the 13RW show method is cutting wrists which is almost never lethal and the reported "increase" is by hanging

The release of @netflix adaptation of "13 Reasons Why" seems to have caused about 20 school shootings worth of children's suicides. stat.cmu.edu/~joel/JAACAP

@realJoshSiegel @tayler_sheahan Thanks! Yeah, it was a slog

@David_Baranger @tayler_sheahan Congrats on the jobs! 30+ job apps sounds exhausting.

We had the less common experience of going on the academic job market as couple. @tayler_sheahan and I wrote some reflections and advice about how we once again navigated our "two body problem". Hope it's helpful! davidbaranger.com/2024/08/06/nav…

@Joseph_Deak @NIDAnews @NIH_LRP @YalePsych WOO congrats!!

Some news: I'm happy to share that I've received a couple recent awards from @NIDAnews including an @NIH_LRP and a K01 award that will help support my next steps @YalePsych. More details to come soon.

@erin_bondy @MedicalCollege Thanks Erin!

@David_Baranger @MedicalCollege Congratulations, David!

We're heading to Milwaukee! So stoked to be able to share that I'll be joining the Medical College of Wisconsin @MedicalCollege as a TT Asst Prof and opening my lab in July 2025! Keep an eye out for more from the Brain, Environment, and Addictions Research (BEAR) Lab! 1/4