Rodrigo Braga

How can the "default network" support many forms of introspective thought? Our new review argues these functions rely on distinct MTL connections: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Thanks to Deniz Vatansever & Jess Andrews-Hanna for the invitation to this Special Issue!

1/8. New preprint! Using fUSi in head-fixed mice🐭, we found that arousal events trigger a brain-wide wave of activity 🌊🧠. Surprisingly, this pattern was preserved during manipulations of the locus coeruleus, pointing to a minor role for noradrenaline. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

I’ll be speaking at CNS 2026 in Symposium Session 6: “Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience” on Monday, March 9, 10am–12pm. Excited for a session centered on how individual-level fMRI can reshape cognitive and clinical neuroscience. cogneurosociety.org/symposia/?sym=… This symposium has an all-star group of presenters covering cutting-edge work in precision and individual-level neuroimaging. It should be a really fun and substantive discussion. @RodBraga @ArielleKeller @jingnandu049 Andre Zamani

Northwestern scientists are uncovering how the #brain and its communication networks shape behavior, social cognition, and language, with implications for neurological and psychiatric disease. spr.ly/6010htK8p

@yutakatsumi Congrats!

Our latest on precision MRI in AD/FTLD!

It’s out!

@hesheng3 Congratulations, Hesheng. Very cool findings

A short but super cool video that gives a quick overview of our Nature paper on the SCAN of PD, along with videos showing patients with Parkinson's before and after non-invasive brain surface stimulation (see thread).🧠 nature.com/articles/s4158…

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If you were where we were, we were where you were. Weren’t we?

My review with @GrattonCaterina is (apparently) open access for those who couldn't see it before: We discuss individual differences in brain network organization and how to home in on and talk about commonalities in the face of such differences annualreviews.org/content/journa…

@cl9681 @postlelab @donnisa_ Thanks Chuck!

@RodBraga @postlelab @donnisa_ Very cool, congrats, Rod!

As a high-school student learning about science, I never even dreamed that my research would ever be on the cover of a textbook 🥹 Thank you @postlelab ! And congrats to 1st author @donnisa_ ! amazon.com/Essentials-Cog…

Join us Wednesday Dec 17th, 2025 at 12 pm EST for the last BrainMap of 2025! 🎄❄️🧠🗺️🧠❄️🎄 Prof. Bruce Rosen (et al.), MD, PhD — Director of Martinos Center (@MGHMartinos) 🎄❄️🧠🗺️🧠❄️🎄 Webinar link: martinos.org/event/brainmap… Contact organizer for more info: @abbas_neuro

Our new review paper on how to interpret individual differences in brain network organization, as well as what these differences may mean functionally and how they might arise! Thanks to @GrattonCaterina for inviting me to contribute to this!

Tagging co-authors: @SalvoJoe Maya Lakshman @aniaholubecki @z_saygin Marsel Mesulam

We welcome feedback - Read the full preprint here: 👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110… And congrats to Joe Salvo and the team for a careful and comprehensive (5y+) study! 🧵 The end

📣New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣 The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of text to concepts and meaning? Thread 🧵