Chiara Maffei

New preprint out! Using dMRI, tracer, & PS-OCT, we show the SLF-I isn’t a uniform tract, but a modular system of multiple fiber pathways, conserved across species👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.648… 🙏 to @AnastasiaYendiki @Haber_Lab for making this multimodal, multiyear project possible.

🚨 Reminder! Next TractAnat Club this Friday, June 20 at 9:00 AM (Montréal, EDT). 🧠 Speaker: Roger Lemon, FRS (UCL, UK) 📖 Current Views on the Structure and Function of the Corticospinal Tract Join us! #Tractography #TractAnatClub

1/2🌍 Exciting news for our global community of scientists! The Tract-Anat-Club is relaunching on Thursday, September 19th! 🧠Join us for a talk by Dr. Chuyang Ye, Associate Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, on machine learning in Diffusion MRI & #Tractography

Inspirational keynote by Lucia Melloni at #ohbm2024 @OHBM. Not only an example of a great approach to science, but also of fantastic public speaking 👏

We combined in vivo and ex vivo dMRI with optical imaging in humans and tracer in macaques to investigate the mesoscopic connectivity of the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus I @nastasiayendiki @Haber_Lab

It was great to have the chance to present our multi-modal multi-scale work at #ohbm2024. Come by poster #2200 today or tomorrow to chat more! 🐒🧠🔬🧲. Photo credit @Alex_Leemans

Happening tomorrow June 20th 9:00 am EDT! @SSarubbo giving the second talk of the TractAnatClub series on tractography in the neurosurgical setting 🧠🥼. Message for zoom link. @FrancoisRheault @tractography

Please RT 🗣️ For our Plan to Enhance Diverse Perspectives, our BRAIN Initiative funded LINC project is seeking to name 2 undergrads + 2 postdocs from diverse backgrounds and/or under-resourced institutions “LINC fellows” for 2024-25. Eligibility and info: connects.mgh.harvard.edu/outreach/

Excited to kick off the first Tract-Anat club virtual seminar series by presenting the history of tractography. Contact @FrancoisRheault or @chiaramff for zoom link. Join us Thursday for may 23rd 9:00 CST 14:00 UTC and see if you can answer these questions:

@andreashorn_ @b_hollunder @CNN @Brain_Circuits @NingfeiL @netstim_org 😯😯😯🙌🙌🙌

Pretty unreal to see @b_hollunder’s tracts on @CNN! – @Brain_Circuits @NingfeiL @netstim_org

We are hiring - bigly. Join the computational team of our multi-institutional BRAIN Initiative comprehensive center that will produce first-ever maps of the wiring of the brain. Tech: tinyurl.com/mrxymtc6 Coordinator: tinyurl.com/bdesd957 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/yckjy7xf

Absolutely thrilled 🤩 to have received the prestigious #NARSAD Young Investigator Award by the @BBRFoundation to develop high-resolution dMRI tractography to investigate the small pathways of the depression circuit.🧠🔬@nastasiayendiki @Haber_Lab @ComaRecoveryLab @MGHMartinos

Very excited to kick-off our lab retreat with these fabulous speakers on a session about tools for automated tractography! We thought this could be interesting to others so will do hybrid and have booked a larger room. Anybody in Boston welcome to RSVP in person, if not via zoom.

@nastasiayendiki @WitzelThomas @MGHMartinos @GLlorden @SusieHuangMDPhD @CUBRICcardiff Very true.... But I'm sure the lamas will keep an eye on it..🦙🧠

@WitzelThomas @MGHMartinos @chiaramff @GLlorden @SusieHuangMDPhD @CUBRICcardiff It is also survived by its many cousins, all the Prismas of the world (but hey let’s not talk like it’s dead yet, some of us really need this last dataset 😁🙏🏻)

It's the last scan ever on the Connectome 1.0 scanner 🥲 It is getting ramped down on Tue, to be replaced by Connectome 2.0. The last subject is an ex vivo brain. End of an era! So many memories here in @MGHMartinos Bay 8... @chiaramff @GLlorden @SusieHuangMDPhD @WitzelThomas

Martinos! As a small taste of our tomorrow's very first talent-show, Inside-Out has interviewed one of our brave performers. A math enthusiast, a piano player and a composer... Find out who we are talking about at bit.ly/3VZc4kX. @cmaffei @nm_gilmore @MGHMartinos

8/8 To conclude, we provide proof-of-principle evidence that an automated tractography pipeline has translational potential to detect and quantify TAI in patients with acute severe TBI. Its potential prognostic utility will need to be evaluated in future studies.

7/8 For each patient we extracted the total number of abnormal tracts. Results show at least one abnormal tract in all patients. The number and type of abnormal tracts varied across patients and LOC. The pipeline accurately discriminated between patients and controls (AUC: 0.91).

1/8 Our work on the automated detection of axonal damage in acute severe TBI is now out in NeuroImage: Clinical! @eic_nic 👇doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl…. Shout-out to @ComaRecoveryLab @nastasiayendiki @YelenaBodien @SamBSnider @nm_gilmore