2025 Merit Abstract Awardees

Abnormal, distinct biases in normative/non-normative intrinsic systems across epilepsy syndromes    
-    Qirui Zhang

ADHD Symptom Trajectories: Cortical Thinning and Hippocampal Expansion as Neural Signatures    
-    Wenjie Hou

An MRI-Based Interpretable Deep Learning Model for AD Risk Screening and Progression Prediction    
-    Bin Lu

Beauty beyond categories: A domain-general neural signature of visual aesthetics    
-    Xinyu Liang

Beyond the Resection: Surgical White Matter Transections Structurally Alter Preserved Brain Anatomy
-    Philip Pruckner

Biotype Identification Based on Topological Deviations of Morphometric Similarity Network in ADHD    
-    Nanfang Pan

Charting the velocity of brain growth and development    
-    Johanna Bayer

Comprehensive profiling of anaesthetised brain dynamics across phylogeny    
-    Andrea Luppi

Convergently evolved arcuate fasciculus in marmosets with humans    
-    Yufan Wang

Differing mechanisms drive regional tau distribution and load in Alzheimer's disease    
-    Yu Xiao

Disrupted activity flow during declarative memory states in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy 
-    Donna Gift Cabalo

Effects of 12 weeks High Intensity Interval Training on brain plasticity in cannabis use disorder    
-    Suzan Maleki

Electrophysiological Correlates of Reinforcement Learning in the Human Ventral Tegmental Area    
-    Arjun Ramaswamy

Generative models of brain maps    
-    Vincent Bazinet

HippoGenes Toolbox: Transcriptomic and Cellular Mapping of the Human Hippocampus
-    Alexander Ngo

Impact of Chemotherapy on Glymphatic Pathway, Inflammation and Cognitive Function in Breast Cancer    
-    Xiaoyu Zhou

Individualized Functional Connectome Enhances Severity Prediction in Major Depressive Disorder    
-    Liangfang Li

Intrinsic effective connectivity as the basis of functional localization in the cortex
-    Younghyun Oh

Mental Health in the UK Biobank: An Updated Roadmap for Brain-behavior Associations
-    Xuqian Li

MMM-BNF: multi-atlas,multi-modal,multi-site dynamic brain network fusion for schizophrenia diagnosis    
-    Yixin Ji

Multimodal Brain Imaging and Plasma Proteins Reveal Links Between Depression and Physical Diseases    
-    Zhengxu Lian

Music-Induced Analgesia in the Brain    
-    Eui-Jin Jung

Predicting Mental Health&Mortality: Insights from Functional Connectivity&Cross-Dataset Validation    
-    Thuan Tinh Nguyen

Propagating Cortical Waves Coordinate Sensory Encoding and Memory Retrieval in The Human Brain    
-    Yifan Yang

Psychedelics disrupt hierarchical propagations in the default mode network of humans and mice    
-    Adam Pines

Reproducible Brain Charts: An Open Data Resource for Mapping the Developing Brain and Mental Health    
-    Golia Shafiei

Resistor-Capacitor Circuit Model for Predicting TMS Propagation in the Human Connectome    
-    Yihang Jiao

Self-navigated 3D Diffusion MRI using Simultaneous Multislab with multiband blipped-CAIPI    
-    Yi Xiao

Spatial accuracy of Allen Human Brain Atlas tissue samples and its effects on neuroimaging studies    
-    Yohan Yee

Spectral Normative Modeling (SNM) for High-Resolution Brain Abnormality Inference
-    Sina Mansour L.

Stimulation mapping and whole-brain modeling reveal gradients of excitability in cortical networks    
-    Davide Momi

Structural Bias on the Assessment of Periventricular Flow as Revealed by Post-mortem Human Brain    
-    Sihui Li

TReND: Transformer derived features and Regularized NMF for Delineation of Functional Networks    
-    Sovesh Mohapatra

Unsupervised Fetal Brain MRI Quality Assessment based on Orientation Prediction Uncertainty    
-    Mingxuan Liu