Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist, Physicist. he/him @drbreaky.bsky.social
Awabakal country, Australia
Joined August 2015
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Michael Breakspear retweeted
𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿?
Sometimes analyzing *macroscale* signals (including EEG, MEG, of course fMRI, but even LFPs) people emphasize linearity. But that's just not really the case!
Check this paper by @sosa_valdes
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
Michael Breakspear retweeted
Our Perspective in @NatMentHealth!
nature.com/articles/s44220-0…
We propose a shift from autism subtypes to embracing idiosyncrasy via dynamical systems. Proud to collaborate with & learn from @DrBreaky & L. Mottron. @CAMHnews @UofTPsych
Read here: bit.ly/4bhp4Mr
#Autism
Michael Breakspear retweeted
How does the hippocampus functionally age?
We introduce an interpretable 3D CNN framework that models voxel-wise hippocampal functional connectivity for brain-age prediction.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01411
Michael Breakspear retweeted
Future @OHBM meeting dates just annouced:
* 2027 - Toronto, Canada
* 2028 - Yokohama, Japan
ohbm-com.com/blog/futuremeet…
Michael Breakspear retweeted
Introducing NeuroSTORM, a foundation model for fMRI. Pretrained with 28.65 million fMRI frames (>9,000 hours) collected from over 50,000 subjects, spanning multiple centers and covering ages 5 to 100.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11167
github.com/CUHK-AIM-Group/Ne…
The Hippocampus as a Latent Diffusion Engine for the Brain
... with @DavidJonesBrain
Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tn…
Michael Breakspear retweeted
This work is led by Matthew Greaves (@matthewdgreaves) together with Leonardo Novelli (@novelli_leo), Michael Breakspear (@DrBreaky) and myself.
Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Michael Breakspear retweeted
Please help us map current practices & guide future methodological standards.
@matthewdgreaves @DrBreaky @novelli_leo
Also attached is the QR code.
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Michael Breakspear retweeted
Just gonna park this here.
To be fair
It’s hard to find the spare change for the CSIRO when you’re giving around half of Australia’s gas away royalty free to multinational gas export giants, and not making them pay PRRT.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Michael Breakspear retweeted
📢 We are seeking postdoctoral candidates to join @BrainlatUAI's multiple projects, with expertise in data science/harmonization and machine learning. Knowledge of omics or neuroimaging is desirable but not required. Interested candidates please send their CV to me.
Michael Breakspear retweeted
Brain clocks are modulated by disease, exposome, genetics, & whole-body health. But what are the underlying mechanisms? Clocks estimate biological age, not the underlying processes. We tackle this through biophysical modeling in aging and dementia🧵1/5: doi.org/10.1038/s44220-025-0… @NatMentHealth @carlosmig_12
Michael Breakspear retweeted
Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome?
Then check out our new preprint, lead by @_francisnormand with a stellar team showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Peep the 🧵
Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms?
Thrilled to see this work led by @phogat_richa hit the public domain - see below for a walk through of the theory, implementation, validation and code!!
New preprint alert 🧠
Ever wondered how the cortex and hippocampus communicate during health and what changes during disease?
With @DrBreaky and an amazing team, we built the first geometry-aware model of cortico-hippocampal interactions to answer this.
[biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…]
Michael Breakspear retweeted
What changes and what stays the same as you scale from single neurons up to local populations of neurons up to whole brains?
Michael @DrBreaky and Mac @jmacshine on the systems approach to study brains across scales.
braininspired.co/podcast/220…
Michael Breakspear retweeted
In the latest episode of Brain Inspired, @DrBreaky and @jmacshine describe a scale-free property of brain activity conserved across diverse species, suggesting a universal principle of activity underlying cognition.
thetransmitter.org/brain-ins…
Michael Breakspear retweeted
We are looking for a PhD student interested in studying the brain-immune axis, to understand the interaction between the brain and the immune system in ageing and psychiatric disorders. Large-scale brain imaging biobanks and in house collected datasets will be analysed.
Michael Breakspear retweeted
🔥ATTENTION!🔥
Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!
Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.
Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6
Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
Michael Breakspear retweeted
✨✨We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting!🧠🇦🇺
📢Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (submissions close September 15th 5pm)
📍Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/202…
We hope to see you there! 🤩
Michael Breakspear retweeted
All the paperwork linking Imaging Neuroscience into PubMed Central is now sorted.
All papers (previous and new - 680 to date) are fully indexed:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/journal…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%…