That last part is the reason for building it. The labgas GitHub organisation holds two dozen repositories — two carrying reusable methods, the rest study-specific code released alongside papers — with no index and no entry point. Useful code that nobody outside the lab could find, and that new lab members learned by asking someone.

The pipeline documentation now walks through a study from raw scanner output to archived result reports: BIDS conversion and prep, first-level modelling, second-level analysis with the CANlab batch system, and our PLS-DA, PLSR and Elastic Net pipelines, plus PET, MR spectroscopy, connectivity and atlas tooling.

Throughout, we have tried to be explicit about what is ours and what is not. Our neuroimaging code sits on top of the toolset built by the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab — CanlabCore, Neuroimaging_Pattern_Masks, and the second-level batch system. LaBGAScore is a layer, not a replacement, and the docs link out to the CANlab material rather than restating it.

The Tools page indexes every repository in the organisation, and includes a table setting out which layer of the stack comes from where.

Corrections and additions are welcome at lukas.vanoudenhove@kuleuven.be.

Butyrate and fear extinction memory

Molecular Psychiatry, 2026 — The HDAC inhibitor sodium butyrate moderately enhances long-term fear extinction memory retrieval in humans.

Part of the MoodBugs programme, testing whether a short-chain fatty acid produced by gut bacteria acts as an epigenetic modulator of fear memory in humans. It follows earlier work showing that colonic butyrate administration modulates fear memory without altering the acute stress response, and that variability in threat processing tracks endogenous butyrate levels.

Interoception across organ domains

Biological Psychology, 2026 — Comparison of interoceptive abilities across the respiratory, esophageal and cardiac domain: a pilot study.

Interoceptive accuracy is often treated as a single trait, largely because it is usually measured in one modality — typically the heart. This pilot compares abilities across three domains in the same participants, which is the design needed to ask whether interoception is one ability or several.

Representations in the insula

Nature Communications, 2026 — Convergent and selective representations of pain, appetitive processes, aversive processes, and cognitive control in the insula.

A collaboration using multivariate approaches to ask what the insula — a region implicated in almost everything, and therefore explained by almost nothing — actually represents distinctly versus in common across pain, appetite, aversion and cognitive control.

For the complete and always-current record, see ORCID or the FRIS research portal.