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David Baranger
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Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. 🧀
Substance use, neuroscience, genetics, & development. 🧠🧬🍺
Rock climber & dad. He/him. 🧗
Opinions my own. 🤔
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November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Most people use MID contrasts (eg Big Win > Neut), which would be less reliable than any of these estimates.

I'm also surprised by how low the PET reliability is, but I'm less familiar with that literature.
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thanks Nicola! Given that they're looking at activation relative to an implicit baseline, and not a contrast, the ICC here is around what I would expect. Certainly longer time between measurements lowers reliability in many of the adolescent samples. Harder to say if there are age effects.
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Lol thanks!!!
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Also, I will be at #SRP this week if anyone wants to chat!
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Current projects in the lab include longitudinal neuroimaging of substance use at different time-scales, family-based studies of casual and genetic effects, and the development of new ML models for task fMRI. This is a funded position with up to 3 years of funding available.
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thanks! I was able to create an educator account on datacamp, which lets me give trainees access for free if then enroll in my 'class'. So far it looks like a useful supplement, particularly for programming concepts that might be new
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For sure. I guess my point is that a generative epistatic model with uncentered effects is equivalent to a centered model with large additive effects with the means added in after the data are generated. So the increasing additive effects you're seeing at higher MAF are expected.
August 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM