Narun Pat

cog neuroscientist, studying reward-processing & decision-making. Currently a psych faculty member @otago. Previously at @IRPatNIH, @NUSingapore, @NorthwesternU

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@HeblingVieira For our purposes, conceptualizing the brain as a mediator is more reasonable (though the manuscript was rejected by several top-tier journals). By analogy, in lung cancer research, one would expect a biomarker to mediate the relationship between smoking and cancer.

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

We did the mediation analysis you mentioned, published 4 years ago. [SES->Brain->IQ].

"Longitudinally stable, brain-based predictive models mediate the relationships between childhood cognition and socio-demographic, psychological and genetic factors" https://t.co/LmWyPDKhXz

[Bruno Hebling Vieira @bhvieira.bsky.social @HeblingVieira]

@ndosenbach @smarek0502 @DrDamienFair @ScienceMagazine Does the result allow one to distinguish between the confound model (IQ <- SES -> Brain) and others, e.g., the mediation model (SES -> Brain -> IQ)?

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@HeblingVieira btw, Sripada group also did a similar mediation, focusing mainly on rs-fMRI too.

https://t.co/jWh3l7ORlN
Brain-wide functional connectivity patterns support general cognitive ability and mediate effects of socioeconomic status in youth

[PNAS Nexus @PNASNexus]

You can’t infer cognitive abilities by simply looking at someone’s brain. But by “stacking” MRI data from many tasks and from brains at rest, AI can predict cognitive abilities with reasonable accuracy. In PNAS Nexus: https://t.co/22CV0Fa7H4

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

Proud mentor moment! My PhD student, Farzane, gave a presentation at @OHBM.

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

This work has now been published at @PNASNexus.
https://t.co/EvWyRPEU1U

@Alina_T_Brain just gave a talk on this at @OHBM's Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop.

I will touch on this in my talk at @TheRealSPR under the Big Idea symp, in October 15–18, 2025, Montréal, Canada.

[@parkvillegeek @ParkvilleGeek]

Improving Predictability, Test-Retest Reliability and Generalisability of Brain-Wide Associations for Cognitive Abilities via Multimodal Stacking | bioRxiv https://t.co/Wfs8EWsECV

[@parkvillegeek @ParkvilleGeek]

Improving Predictability, Test-Retest Reliability and Generalisability of Brain-Wide Associations for Cognitive Abilities via Multimodal Stacking | bioRxiv https://t.co/Wfs8EWsECV

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@ParkvilleGeek Thank you so much for sharing our work! 🙏

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@OHBM Irina Buianova
1102 Multimodal MRI Marker Captures the Relationship Between Cognition and Mental Health in UK Biobank
June 25, 1:15pm-3:15pm
June 26, 1:45pm-3:45pm

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

Excited for Pat's lab's first @OHBM conference—glad it's happening in this part of the world! We’ve got 1 talk & 5 posters lined up (see below). See you next week in Brisbane! Also, we're recruiting PhD students & a postdoc for a multi-site project across Aotearoa NZ

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@OHBM Alina Tetereva
0234 EEG Source-Space Functional Connectivity Predicts Cognition in Parkinson's Disease
June 25, 1:15pm-3:15pm
June 26, 1:45pm-3:45pm

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@LenaOestreich @jbmattingley @UQPsych @QLDMINDProject congratulations Lena. Fantastic.

[Martin Sellbom @MartinSellbom]

Want to move to beautiful New Zealand? The Department of Psychology at the University of Otago is hiring a new clinical psychology faculty member. (Lecturer = Assistant Professor in North American system). Feel free to contact me with any questions!
https://t.co/U6dOVAwxwj

[Thomas Yeo @bttyeo]

Wow, with the new @uk_biobank rules, the dataset has just become way too expensive for the kind of computationally intensive work my lab does...

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@kyleratner @otago How wonderful to meet you, Kyle. Hope our paths cross again soon. Safe travels!

[Abdel Abdellaoui @dr_appie]

Great job students and faculty of the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2024 in Boulder at @IBG_CUBoulder, what an amazing week as always 🧬❤️

Next year it's GWAS and sequence data analysis again, see you then: https://t.co/rRKyrkqAzf

[Narun Pat @nonnarun]

@MBIEsci @Cawthron_NZ @otago @MasseyUni @MBIEgovtnz congratulations @JohnNJReynolds!