Svenja Caspers

Neuroscientist working on brain connectivity & aging | Director & Professor for Anatomy Institute for Anatomy I @hhu_de | Group leader 'Connectivity'@fz_juelich

[EBRAINS @EBRAINS_eu]

More than 160 researchers, clinicians, infrastructure experts, patient associations, the private sector as well as policymakers from 24 countries gathered in Munich on 21–22 May for the EBRAINS Roadmap Symposium, a milestone in shaping the EBRAINS Roadmap 2026–2036 and the future direction of European digital neuroscience.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/oLBSdoXzjp

[EBRAINS @EBRAINS_eu]

Would you like to start using EBRAINS for your research? Hear from other scientists about how they use the infrastructure!

In this new testimonial, PD Dr. Christiane Jockwitz explains how she uses EBRAINS to understand the aging brain 👇

[Juergen Dukart @DukartJuergen]

🔬 New preprint: We introduce NEOFC—a framework linking brain connectivity to neurotransmitter systems. Reveals robust neurochemical signatures, strong noradrenergic effects, and sensitivity to drugs & psychosis.

📄 https://t.co/zRZTmHtPkJ

#Neuroscience #Neuroimaging

[EBRAINS @EBRAINS_eu]

Just a few days until our 'Multiscale Brain Simulations in EBRAINS: from the Neuron to the Patient' webinar!

Join us on Thursday at 09:00 CET for presentations by Viktor Jirsa, Chief Science Officer of EBRAINS, and Egidio D’Angelo, Director of the Neurophysiology Unit at the University of Pavia.

Together, they will introduce how multiscale brain simulations on EBRAINS enable the integration of data and models across different levels of brain organisation, bridging cellular mechanisms and whole-brain dynamics.

Register here: https://t.co/e7icddd22R

[EBRAINS @EBRAINS_eu]

🧠 Webinar | Multiscale Brain Simulation with #EBRAINS

📅 5 Feb 2026 | 9:00–10:00 CET
From single-neuron models to whole-brain simulations, with @ViktorJirsa & Egidio D’Angelo.

🔗Learn more and register: https://t.co/ouyRd9IVjQ

[EBRAINS @EBRAINS_eu]

Towards precision #neuroscience!
EBRAINS researchers release Virtual Brain Inference (VBI) toolkit.
Find out how It makes whole-brain simulations more accurate and clinically relevant - advancing personalised medicine in epilepsy, #Alzheimer’s & more.
👉 https://t.co/kjBRhHYqNX
#VBT project

[Andreas Vlachos @VlachosLab]

Our new paper in @eLife: The interplay between homeostatic synaptic scaling and homeostatic structural plasticity maintains the robust firing rate of neural networks https://t.co/k1bBYISG9q

[kurt.schilling @kurtschilling5]

(1/3) New work from our lab and @MASI_Lab creating White matter brain charts across the lifespan. Brain charts for 72 pathways, both microstructure (DTI) and macrostructure (volumes, lengths) - using data from >40 harmonized population studies
https://t.co/Nrf9wZtAwR

[Masoud Tahmasian, MD. PhD. @MasoudTahmasian]

Finally out in "Sleep Medicine Reviews":

Neural correlates of #insomnia with #depression and #anxiety from a #neuroimaging perspective: A systematic review

https://t.co/30qa4lRCo4

#Sleep #Brain @fzj_inm7 @INM7_ISN @jchen_ML_Psy

[Andreas Vlachos @VlachosLab]

🧠 Just out in @brainstimj: Our review explores how rTMS modulates microglia, influencing neuroinflammation, plasticity, and brain repair. Ready to explore the immune dimension of neuromodulation ?! #Freiburg #Neuroanatomy
👉 https://t.co/qrQN91jKpX

[GeroScience @GeroScienceAGE]

📢New Open🔓 Access Article in GeroScience
Bilingualism and “brain reserve” in subregions of the hippocampal formation by Katharina Peitz & Svenja Caspers (@LabCaspers) et al.
https://t.co/FHAXY9b1zy
#aging #bilingualism #hippocampus #graymatter #brain

[Thomas Yeo @bttyeo]

While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! https://t.co/ijlAcpFtVA

Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike deep neural nets), but the dirty secret ... 1/N

[GeroScience @GeroScienceAGE]

📢New Open🔓 Access Article in GeroScience
Association between night shift work and markers of metabolism, cardiovascular and immune system in a population-based German cohort by Nora Bittner & Svenja Caspers (@LabCaspers) et al.
https://t.co/fvgk584eSb
#anthropometric #metabolism, #cardiovascular #Immunesystem #nightshiftworker #health

[Svenja Caspers @LabCaspers]

@pascal_grumbach Happy to see this out there now! Thanks to the colleagues of the Psychiatry Department of @UniklinikDUS for a successful collaboration!

[Flavio Dell'Acqua @flaviodellacqua]

📢 We are excited to announce that the Handbook of Diffusion MR Tractography is finally out! 🎉

Huge thanks to all the authors and the ever growing tractography community at IST @tractography and DSG-ISMRM @DiffusionISMRM !!

From @flaviodellacqua, @maxdescoteaux, @Alex_Leemans

[acatech @acatech_de]

25 neue Impulse aus der #Wissenschaft für #acatech: Wir heißen unsere 25 neuen Mitglieder herzlich willkommen. Sie bringen ihre Expertise mit #Technologie-Bezug in den Dialog mit #Politik und #Gesellschaft ein. 📷acatech/Svea Pietschmann
https://t.co/Jcb4KIaSIo

[Rob Smith @Lestropie]

After @MRtrix3 was a finalist at the Australian Museum @eurekaprizes ceremony, I conducted an interview with @ARDC_AU to speak about my involvement with that project and my opinions on the research software ecosystem.

[Andreas Vlachos @VlachosLab]

🧠 Just published in @BrainComms! Our latest study explores the structural and functional properties of superficial pyramidal neurons in the adult human neocortex. Age-related changes of synaptic properties… Freiburg #Neuroanatomy
https://t.co/SUoaRvfvVD

[Svenja Caspers @LabCaspers]

Congratulations!

[Tom Luedde @tom_luedde]

Very proud of Christian Weigel who won the #dgvs teaching award for transforming teaching in Gastroenterology into the digital future. ⁦@HHU_de⁩ ⁦@MedHHU⁩ ⁦@DGVSJuGa⁩ ⁦@asta_hhu⁩

[Simon Eickhoff @INM7_ISN]

Great coverage on our recent work led by Sam Vickery

-> the relation between human brain aging and evolutionary expansion in @ScienceAdvances (https://t.co/qfqZeh0HK0 ):

-> "Humanity’s newest brain gains are most at risk from ageing" @Nature: https://t.co/zGYT0sN1vJ