Proud husband! Ivana Gavric's new single is out m.youtube.com/watch?v=OegD...

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

The brain's priors have been found! They were hiding everywhere: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... So if this is true for "simple" decisions, it should also be true for more complex ones, like, say, emotions, right?

🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty @shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

… Link here: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... ... (2/15)

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry

Still open!

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#neurojob #psychiatry @rcpsych.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

New position alert! This is an exciting position for a Specialty Doctor to take a leading role in developing the North London Mood Disorders Research Clinic in a national network of Mental Health Mission research clinics apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7.... @noclor.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Here we go. #cpconf2025 is over. Thank you all for a superb conference and in particular @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and Susan Fischer!

Introducing our fantastic RELMED Team! 🧠 [Part 1] @docqhuys.bsky.social @nikkisingh.bsky.social

The bar is high!

@roelandheerema.bsky.social at #cpconf2025 talking about a new task linking specific emotional appraisals to computational states.

Jiazhou Chen at #cpconf2025 on generalisation of MEG signatures of emotional states.

The RELMED team @docqhuys.bsky.social @hylu.bsky.social @muzhiwang.bsky.social is presenting our study at #CPC2025 in Tübingen, Germany this week! Come find us at Poster Session 3 on Wednesday 16th July at poster number 3.24 and 3.26!

Can we quantify mental states using LLMs? What are the limits? When does it and when does it not work and why? Jakub Onysk talking #cpconf2025

Since Davies & Read review of 2019 Sameer Jauhar and I have been trying to get closer to the truth about AD discontinuation. It’s entered guidelines as FACT: 50% will experience difficulty stopping. So we completed the DEFINITITIVE meta-analysis of trial data. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

V important meta-analysis doi.org/10.1001/jama...: Discontinuation symptoms 1 week post stopping antidepressants was below the threshold for clinically significant discontinuation syndrome. Later worse mood is likely depression relapse @jfhayes.bsky.social @sameerjauhar.bsky.social.

Come visit us at stall 48 to learn more about RELMED and get a personally drawn postcard from our friendly lab robotic arm 🤖🦾

Deadline today - looking forward to the applications!

@yanivabir.bsky.social and Zeguo Qiu are presenting exciting new behav & eeg battery of reinforcement learning tasks developed to see if different rl processes are selectively engaged by DA and 5HT. #BAP2025 @bapsych.bsky.social

"substantially" is notable given this is in people with treatment-resistant depression, i.e. when there is a depression that has not responded to at least two other antidepressants.

@mikebrowning.bsky.social‬'s paper on pramipexole in treatment-resistant depression is now out - very encouraging results authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S....

Early registration is OPEN for the next #BrainConference! 🧠 🇬🇷 For the first time ever, the Brain Conference is heading to Fodele Beach in Crete, Greece, and you’re invited! 🌟 Register by 10 July 2025 👉 https://loom.ly/ei_yabg#BrainConference! @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @brainprize.org

Thank you @santhouse.bsky.social for this exploration of the blurry line between healthy and ill, of how cultural norms affect our views of who is ill. It highlights challenges when we get this wrong - like raising awareness without having sufficient answers. A very curageous and necessary book!

Delighted to announce this position www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/current-vaca.... It's part of the Mental Health Mission Mood Disorders Research Clinic Network, aiming to support clinical trials in mood disorders in the UK. Should be very interesting! oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/mhm/mood-dis...

Super to see this out! Pavlovian biases have shown predictive power a surprising range of settings, e.g. long-term course of alcohol use. Here, we find that Pavlovian biases are engaged by therapy; and that this engagement medicates outcomes in NHS setting. Congratulations @liobanause.bsky.social!

NEW DEADLINE: Friday 20th June 🚨 MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more! Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/

This was hard work, but ultimately there is support in the literature that engagement of different RL processes by serotonergic and dopaminergic/noradrenergic pharmacological interventions may be a promising route to follow. The @relmed.bsky.social study will do just that.

Same for peer review methinks - let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. www.science.org/content/arti...

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 UCL Neuroscience Symposium is now sold out! The symposium is UCL's flagship cross-faculty neuroscience event with hundreds of neuroscientists expected to attend. We look forward to seeing all those who registered next Wednesday!

RELMED.ac.uk is now open to recruitment. This @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded study wellcome.org/research-fun... will ask whether reinforcement learning tasks are differentially sensitive to dopaminergic and serotonergic antidepressants.

Thank you @clairelavalley.bsky.social and @rssmith.bsky.social. Striking to see aversive pruning altered in people with methamphetamine use, particularly given the results in depression (dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003...).

Looking forward to giving a pintofscience.co.uk talk on the mathematics of healthy emotions next week Tuesday evening pintofscience.co.uk/event/from-e....

New John Slate chair in psychiatry at Exeter: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Christian Volkmann and Subat Abulikemu's new analysis examining the relationship between depression and discontinuation symptoms after antidepressant discontinuation dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004... with excellent thread here: x.com/CVolkmannMD/.... Short summary: the details do matter.

📢 We have an opportunity for students to join our PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning this September. Application deadline is 27 May 2025. Information & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

If you missed the initial deadline, this is your chance to join us — but don't wait too long: Late submissions will be accepted until 4 May, or until all available slots are filled. Due to limited space, abstracts will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis. (2/3)

Final chance!!!

Congratulations @toshi-frkw.bsky.social, this is a real tour de force! Maybe, finally, dodo the bird can get some rest. Differential treatment effects for different outcomes, including also interesting insights into different psychotherapy control conditions.

Looking forward to reading @santhouse.bsky.social's new book! What indeed is health and what is normal?

Congratulations Jenny!

Fully funded MSc in clinical research delivery: oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/fully-funded...

Congratulations on a great piece of work!

This is a great study, if I may say. We have had a lot of data showing correlations between subjective assessments and behaviour between individuals. With this study, we are starting to see how they interact over days within individuals. Congratulations @samuelhewitt.bsky.social!

Couldn't agree more! Excellent and timely point.