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Rebecca Saxe
@rebecca_saxe
Cognitive Neuroscientist at MIT. 🇨🇦. She/her.
Mar 26, 2020 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
We posted a preprint today: “The need to connect: Acute social isolation causes neural craving responses similar to hunger.” Lead author @livia_tomova.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A thread on what we did, what we found, and the story behind it.
1/25 More authors: Kim Wang, Todd Thompson, Gillian Matthews @ga_matthews,, Atsushi Takahashi, Kay Tye @kaymtye. Thanks, Team!
Sep 12, 2019 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
My MRI Mother and Child has become the focus of a controversy this weekend.

Here’s the story.

Thread. 1/14 A few years ago, I was doing an fMRI study of infant brains. The scientific questions we were asking (with amazing grad student @bmhdeen) were about the organization of functional activity in infant brains when viewing meaningful visual images, like faces and natural scenes.