Patrick A. McConnell @PAMcConnellPhD
UCSF NIDA T32 Postdoc | Neuroscience | Psychedelics & Meditation | Addiction Medicine | Carhart-Harris Lab | Pasquini Lab | Neuroscape linkedin.com/mwlite/in/patr… San Francisco, CA Joined September 2022-
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What does neuroscience really know about focused attention meditation? And what’s next? Focused attention meditation (FA) is a class of practice involving intentionally directing attention to a single object, such as the breath or bodily sensations, while consistently bringing…
🔥Finally out: Vital article laying the foundations for boarded specialties to support the deep end of human experience and potential. So grateful to Olivier Sandilands for his monumental work on this! 🙏🙂 @the_emergent @EBenefactors @FrontPsychol frontiersin.org/journals/psych…
Think that the #brain contains circuits for "fight and flight"? Think again. Congratulations to @AlexFischbach_ et. al on a careful and groundbreaking study. @affectivescilab #Neuroscience jneurosci.org/content/44/26/…
(3/13) BUT: Combining data across studies is a BIG challenge! Different assessments, multiple scanners, and discrepant processing pipelines (ugh!). RBC harmonizes everything for you – see below! We hope this allows everyone to do better work, at larger scale, MUCH faster.
"our final recommendations include pipelines both with and without GSR – although the latter is somewhat more prevalent among the very best-performing ones..." nature.com/articles/s4146…
Proud of this brief thought piece we just published in the leading psychiatry journal, World Psychiatry.
Proud of this brief thought piece we just published in the leading psychiatry journal, World Psychiatry.
I'm very excited to announce that I just signed a contract to postdoc at @UCSF doing psychedelic neuroscience research towards advancing addiction treatment.
April 12 is Fairy Day — the holiday when you can eat sweets for every meal. (Invented by my daughter when she was 4 years old.) Will you celebrate? #FairyDay #SocialReality youtube.com/watch?v=gw0-NM…
I’m thrilled to give this keynote at NIH, @NCCIH_Director ! I will be speaking about how we can generate upward spirals of positive affect and cognition to heal suffering and move towards the apex of meaning in life.
I’m thrilled to give this keynote at NIH, @NCCIH_Director ! I will be speaking about how we can generate upward spirals of positive affect and cognition to heal suffering and move towards the apex of meaning in life.
Development of a digital intervention for psychedelic preparation - DIPP App nature.com/articles/s4159…
just THRILLED to see this effort from the incredible @CieslakMatt and the team at #PennLINC now out. Using a massive set of 100% reproducible benchmarking analyses, he shows that both FSL's Eddy and QSIPrep's SHORELine are highly accurate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hb…
just THRILLED to see this effort from the incredible @CieslakMatt and the team at #PennLINC now out. Using a massive set of 100% reproducible benchmarking analyses, he shows that both FSL's Eddy and QSIPrep's SHORELine are highly accurate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hb…
Introducing NiChart v1: a multi-modal MRI brain chart built from over 50,000 individuals that provides imaging signatures of aging, neurodegenerative diseases, and neuropsychiatric disorders. neuroimagingchart.com A 🧵 [1/4]
This is a big deal indeed.
Where should we target brain stimulation to treat #addiction? New review led by @SoleimaniGhazal @EkhtiariHamed show many different lines of evidence converging on the frontopolar cortex. @Brain_Circuits
Where should we target brain stimulation to treat #addiction? New review led by @SoleimaniGhazal @EkhtiariHamed show many different lines of evidence converging on the frontopolar cortex. @Brain_Circuits
So excited to see this out!! XCP-D is a workhorse for fMRI post-processing!! Just BRAVO to all-stars @kahini_mehta @taylor_salo and our friends at @UMN_MIDB led by the only @DrDamienFair. Check out the software (>3k downloads already!) and let us know!

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