Michael Breakspear

Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist, Physicist. he/him

@drbreaky.bsky.social

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

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
https://t.co/8BRCW6naxP

[Hsiang-Yuan Lin @HsiangYuanLin]

Our Perspective in @NatMentHealth!
https://t.co/blA7kSvVi8
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: https://t.co/GyiqbQKpJA
#Autism

[Jinglei Lv @JingleiLv]

How does the hippocampus functionally age?

We introduce an interpretable 3D CNN framework that models voxel-wise hippocampal functional connectivity for brain-age prediction.

https://t.co/0rheOoA4Dm

[Thomas Nichols @nichols.bsky.social @ten_photos]

Future @OHBM meeting dates just annouced:

* 2027 - Toronto, Canada
* 2028 - Yokohama, Japan

https://t.co/HiwpcAUEEz

[Jinglei Lv @JingleiLv]

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.
https://t.co/CYlFL6IjHM
https://t.co/7HDNOkou0m

[Michael Breakspear @DrBreaky]

The Hippocampus as a Latent Diffusion Engine for the Brain

... with @DavidJonesBrain

Updated preprint: https://t.co/Jo4GZUc2zq

[Michael Breakspear @DrBreaky]

@ScienceMagazine @gnomikos1 Artificial intelligence holds transformative potential for the care of people with mental health illnesses

Nils Opel & I explore key domains & emerging applications of AI in mental health, emphasizing the challenges to ensure safe, effective, & sustainable clinical integration

[David Jones @DavidJonesBrain]

🧵1/12 What if the DMN, limbic system, hippocampus, neural oscillations, gradients, dementia syndromes, mixed pathology, and aphantasia all fall out of the same generative brain computation? 🤯#endalz

Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @DrBreaky

[Adeel Razi @adeelrazi]

This work is led by Matthew Greaves (@matthewdgreaves) together with Leonardo Novelli (@novelli_leo), Michael Breakspear (@DrBreaky) and myself.

Preprint: https://t.co/gt9Fy7vKVu

[Adeel Razi @adeelrazi]

Please help us map current practices & guide future methodological standards.

@matthewdgreaves @DrBreaky @novelli_leo

Also attached is the QR code.

2/2

[Roderick Campbell @R_o_d_C]

Just gonna park this here.

[Agustin Ibañez @AgustinMIbanez]

📢 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.

[Agustin Ibañez @AgustinMIbanez]

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: https://t.co/hrnVqwfMZP @NatMentHealth @carlosmig_12

[Alex Fornito @AFornito]

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:

https://t.co/xKWm5R6x3N

Peep the 🧵

[Michael Breakspear @DrBreaky]

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!!

[RichaPhogat @phogat_richa]

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.
[https://t.co/oyC1HZKqvQ]

[Paul Middlebrooks @pgmid]

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.

https://t.co/JKUEQwFM4h

[The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter]

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.
https://t.co/bGENRd50Cg

[Ye Ella Tian @yetianmed]

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.

[Alex Fornito @AFornito]

🔥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:
https://t.co/Ft0sIg2IAP

Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

[OHBM Australia @OHBM_Australia]

✨✨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

https://t.co/He5jMHXdFb

We hope to see you there! 🤩