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vt.tiktok.com/ZSHkxLkbt/ Activists need to understand our own #basalganglia and how we encode it into our stories and thus our #amygdala anger is memory on autopilot - shut up, lock down, inhale 4 exhale 6, find 5 neutral facts, signal safety to amygdala..

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Pablo Vázquez Mar 16

My review has been published in Frontiers in Physiology.
It discusses evidence linking perinatal asphyxia with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, focusing on how alterations in the indirect pathway may contribute to thalamic disinhibition and the emergence of positive symptoms
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2026.1759386
#Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #BasalGanglia #Schizophrenia #PerinatalAsphyxia

Frontiers | The indirect pathway hypothesis of schizophrenia: insights from perinatal asphyxia

The comorbidity between perinatal asphyxia (PA) and schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) has been consistently documented in both clinical and experimental...

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Fabrizio Musacchio Jan 9

🧠 New preprint by Greenstreet, Geerts, Gallego, and Clopath on #MotorLearning across #cortex, #cerebellum, and #BasalGanglia.

Key idea: supervised learning builds a low-dimensional action embedding, and #ReinforcementLearning operates directly in this structured space. This explains generalization, interference, and striatal similarity patterns as geometric consequences, not add-ons.

🌍 https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.19.695526

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #RL

Albert Cardona Nov 3

Songbird connectomics, from my colleague Joergen Kornfeld:
https://www.songbird-connectomics.org/

Includes the first connectome of basal ganglia.

Three key papers:

"The songbird basal ganglia connectome", Rother et al. 2025 (Kornfeld lab)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.684569v1

"An anatomical substrate of credit assignment in reinforcement learning", Kornfeld et al. 2025 (with Michael Fee as senior author)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.18.954354v2

"Songbird connectome reveals tunnelling of migratory neurons in the adult striatum", Shvedov et al. 2025 (B.B. Scott's lab)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684388v1

#neuroscience #connectomics #ZebraFinch #songbirds #BasalGanglia

songbird basal ganglia connectome

AlexCrimi Oct 31

the first songbird #basalganglia #brain connectome:
-8,500 automated neuron reconstructions
-20 million synapses
-16 cell types
https://www.songbird-connectomics.org/

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Moritz Gerster Oct 29

Now out in eBioMedicine!

📖 Read the open-access article: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2352-3964(25)00432-3

#Neuroscience #Neurology #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS #Neurotechnology #Neuromodulation #Neurophysiology #BasalGanglia #OpenScience #Reproducibility

RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸Sep 30, 2025

Something I always wondered about people with #tourettes and #ticdisorders:

We're almost always empaths.

The part of our brain - the #prefrontalcortex - responsible for #empathy is slightly larger than usual while the part of our brain in our #basalganglia regulating motor planning/control, has faulty neuro-pathways and shrunken parts.

More connections to the PFC as an adaptation, resulting in glitchy motor controls but perhaps very deep emotions.

#writing #mentalhealth #neuroscience