Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ BWH Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics | I use causal methods and psychological theory to make better TMS anxiety protocols.
Joined July 2020
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Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
Too many in Silicon Valley believe that "success" for humanity means controlling the largest possible share of matter and energy in the universe, which is a task that seems well beyond human limits, and because of this they gradually collapse into being successionists. If instead they understood success in human existence as coming from our inner lives, relationships, creativity, cooperation, and the greatness we can exhibit in the struggle to overcome our limitations, maybe they would not be so pessimistic.
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
3-day intensive #fMRI course *live online* Sept 9-11, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with
@vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
torwager.github.io/mindfmric…
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
... AI lacks the confidence to step back and let the ideas engage the reader. Its motto is Always Be Closing, and the effect is cloying. It's a strange thing to say about AI writing, but it's too needy to be enjoyable.
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
New in @AmJPsychiatry — personally I think this is my best paper so far. Highest statistical rigor, strongest causal inference (via a series of natural experiments), and multiple clinical applications.
Thanks @KJBinSTL and team tagged below.
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.…
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
What’s the optimal TMS target for smoking addiction? @SK__PhD @Brain_Circuits and @tweetnicolepete @UCLA found that connectivity of 243 TMS sites to a lesion-based addiction remission circuit led to better response. Out now in @APAPubJournals
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Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
Incredible work Sanaz and team! 👏🏾👏🏾
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Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
A wave of new papers discuss the merits and limitations of lesion network mapping.
By @avaskham
thetransmitter.org/brain-ima…
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
We develop a new TMS targeting algorithm and test it in an open label trial in a treatment-resistant depression population with high comorbidities. Preprints by @rubykong92 @Torphernchern
1. doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.15.6…
2. doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.11.…
Our new approach ...
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
The brain–heart axis: effects of cardiovascular disease on the CNS and opportunities for central neuromodulation — a Review by Valerie Y. H. van Weperen & Marmar Vaseghi
nature.com/articles/s41583-0…
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
Tomorrow, oct 15 8am speaker @rubykong92 ; bsky.app/profile/desmondoath…
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
To allow a big timezone difference, our virtual speaker series next week will be on Wed October 15 at 8am EST starring @rubykong92 . The title will be: "Individual-specific brain parcellations for brain stimulation." DM me your email if not already on our list for the Zoom link.
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
Join our 15th event on September 23! We're thrilled to welcome Dr. @rubykong92 from National University of Singapore to introduce their work on "Individual-specific Brain Parcellations for Clinical Applications". Scan the QR code to participate for free!
@UBC_Psychiatry
@UBC_IMH
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
"Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do."
As someone searching for purpose, Feynman's words stopped me in my tracks. Maybe the purpose isn't some distant title, it's in the relentless curiosity to understand how the brain and our treatments actually work
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
Imagine fighting depression for decades…
Every treatment failed.
Then, this. 🌱
This is what hope looks like. 💡
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see paper, thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5c3b…
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
In this correspondence, authors recommend 🧠 stim studies target positive & negative nodes of an anxiosomatic circuit using varied stimulation frequencies & 🧠states to refine anxiosomatic protocols before clinical trials
nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
Check out our recent piece describing one of the first attempts to reverse translate causal network mapping findings to the laboratory. Thanks to @shansiddiqi and @NicholasBalders. nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
Ryan Webler, PhD retweeted
Check our latest preprint!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We present the first population-specific brain charts for China, developed through the Chinese Lifespan Brain Mapping Consortium (Phase I) using high-quality MRI data from 43,037 participants (aged 0-100 years,384 sites). (1/6)
