So happy to announce that my MPhil student and Friederike Hedley is awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship and will start her PhD journey this fall at Cambridge, UK. www.hku.hk/press/press-...

This letter from Hyman is 🔥🔥🔥 I love the way he writes, and here he offers withering criticism of any serious consideration of mental illness as discrete categorical “diseases.” How anyone could hold that view in 2024 is beyond me given the wealth of data. Same goes for direct clinical experience.

Check out our new work by @fehedley.bsky.social 👀 In this paper, we draw upon uncertainty decomposition in Bayesian Decision Theory to present a conceptual structure of uncertainty for cognitive and clinical sciences, in particular, anxiety research... doi.org/10.1111/bjop...

Thank you, Aidan. Looking forward to working with this amazing journal!

Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp

Teaching Q: Could someone recommend an up-to-date comprehensive and thoughtful paper on using projective tests in clinical and forensic settings, especially with children? Review/meta-analysis/convincing in any other ways.

We will present our collaborative project #BTSCON2023 as a panel discussion: Open Science in Developing Countries: A Collection of Practical Solutions in Psychological Science

Check out our new work. A small step testing out applying DCM on modeling symptom data.

Check out our latest work published in Computational Psychiatry, which uses Dynamic Causal Modeling to characterize course patterns for depression, mania, and psychosis! Empirical data showed that DCM accurately captured symptom trajectories. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10.... #ComputationalPskychiatry

#HiSciSky We are the Psychopathology, Affective Neuroscience, and Decision Making Lab from the University of Hong Kong. The goal of our research is to understand the psychological and neural mechanisms of affective experiences and related mental health issues, focusing on depression & anxiety. 1/

Learning from my brilliant lab member how to post a message on Bluesky properly :)

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