LachlanWebb

Biostatistician and PhD student at QIMR Berghofer.
Computational neuroscience 🧠
Sleep modelling 😴
Spends all his money on coffee

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

WATCH 🧠🧬 Researchers have discovered nearly 300 previously unknown #genetic links to #depression, helping scientists to better predict risk for developing the condition. @EdinburghUni @KingsCollegeLon @UQ_News @BrainMind_Usyd @nhmrc @DepressionAu #mentalhealth #researchforgood

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

Dr Nathan Stevenson and Kartik Iyer's #AI tool to monitor children's #brain #development: https://t.co/gztM6l5blV

[Sean W Cain @circadian247]

Our latest study! Published in Nature Mental Health today, we show that bright days and dark nights are of fundamental importance for mental health. Individual light exposure data from >85,000 people…14 million hours of light data. Epic!

Led by @anguscburns with @circadianumbers, Dan Windred, and a great team!

https://t.co/gf4eDpJ6Fx

[Michael Breakspear @DrBreaky]

Symptoms of OCD are distressing & disabling but 1/2 of people with OCD do not remit with current therapies

7 years ago, @LucaCocchi78 & I embarked on a sham-controlled RCT to assess prefrontal TMS in reducing OCD symptoms & frontostriatal connectivity

https://t.co/ET4R3ifEph

[Nature Mental Health @NatMentHealth]

♨️ off the press: A new clinical trial by @LucaCocchi78 et al. shows no difference between targeted frontal pole 🧠 stimulation and sham in reducing #OCD symptoms or frontostriatal connectivity 👇
@FunctionOfL @AndrewZalesky @BjornBurgher @DrBreaky
https://t.co/QZdPGiAMa0

[LachlanWebb @FunctionOfL]

Back in Australia after #cns2023 @CNSorg in Leipzig and a few days in Berlin. Now back to finishing the thesis, as it unfortunately didn't finish writing itself while I was gone

[OCNS @CNSorg]

Third Keynote talk today by Prof. Alain Destexhe "Mean-field approach to biophysical models of spiking networks."

[Dr Philip Mosley @DrPhilipMosley]

Teamwork makes the dream work!

Testing our fMRI paradigm for our @nhmrc funded Ideas study: imaging participants with severe #OCD with implanted #deepbrainstimulation devices.

With @LucaCocchi78 @jnvandermeer @lachie_of_ham @ConorNRobinson & @MetroNorthHHS

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

Some worldwide media coverage of
@DrPhilipMosley's research!
🧠
Cannabis reduces Tourette syndrome tics, clinical trial reports https://t.co/mFyikdFJQr… via

@journalcourier

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

Medicinal #cannabis — or tetrahydrocannabinol and #cannabidiol — has been proven to reduce symptoms of #Tourette Syndrome.
Findings from the ground-breaking clinical trial have been published in the US-based @NEJMEvidence: https://t.co/WKLpT8excR

[Dr Philip Mosley @DrPhilipMosley]

Absolutely thrilled that this was published in @NEJMEvidence on International #TourettesAwarenessDay & that we have provided methodologically robust evidence that cannabinoids are an efficacious treatment option for #Tourette syndrome!

https://t.co/f5pbyZVdCv

Summary... 👉👉👉

[NEJM Evidence @NEJMEvidence]

Just published! Original Article: “Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol in Tourette Syndrome,” by @drphilipmosley et al. https://t.co/lSjs0IEvXI

#TouretteSyndrome #ClinicalTrials #PsychTwitter @qimrberghofer @lambert_usyd @wesleyresearch @iainsmcgregor

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

One of the most fascinating things about infant sleep patterns is that they go straight into #REMsleep before moving into NREM sleep.

Fourth year PhD student Lachlan Webb, from the Brain Modelling Group, used mathematical modelling to find that an increased ...

@FunctionOfL

[Mathematics and Statistics at UniSQ @UniSQMathsStats]

Happy International day of Women in Maths!!

[Dr Philip Mosley @DrPhilipMosley]

With @LucaCocchi78 & @QIMRBerghofer we are going to give #OCD a good kicking this year.

Watch this space for THREE exciting new trials.

Queensland researchers at QIMR Berghofer find likely cause of OCD https://t.co/WahMzGSFLo via @ABCaustralia

[Dr Philip Mosley @DrPhilipMosley]

Raising awareness of #OCD thanks ⁦@UNSWMedicine⁩ & ⁦@DrLizzieManning⁩

⁦@QIMRBerghofer⁩ we lead trials of #deepbrainstimulation & #ultrasound for severe OCD & advocate for access to DBS for OCD in Australia.

https://t.co/hCxYbJOZeJ https://t.co/ERC9uQoVZK

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

Researchers at #QIMRBerghofer have harnessed the power of #artificialintelligence to rapidly track how preterm babies are developing in neonatal intensive care: https://t.co/M69JfUHkuV

[Maarten van Smeden @MaartenvSmeden]

How did we come to live in a world where sums of squares are too abstract and boring to teach while models with multiple hidden layers and millions of parameters are business as usual

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

Seven of our incredible scientists awarded @nhmrc Grants to support their vital #research. Congratulations @Vicki_Whitehall, Prof Grant Ramm, Prof Sudha Rao, @DrPhilipMosley, @Edwards_Stace, @HackerElke, and @Dr_JasonLee
Read more: https://t.co/xAA3iI3YqT
#NHMRC #IdeasGrant

[QIMR Berghofer @QIMRB_Institute]

Our incredible Head of Mental Health and Neuroscience