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Social learning Neuropharmacology
@Isnlab.bsky.social
Alumnus
@jungeakademie.bsky.social
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Can we learn about unpredictable threats via observation of others? Yes, temporally predictable and unpredictable threats are learned by distinct contributions of the amygdala and hippocampus. ALSO: We find higher activation in the amygdala and anterior insula to others' pain that serves learning.
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Resolving temporal threat uncertainty by observational learning involves the amygdala, hippocampus and anterior insula
While the neurobiological distinction between temporally predictable (cued) and unpredictable (contextual) threats has been well-characterized in direct learning using the NPU paradigm, it is poorly u...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.682164v1
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Valentin Riedl
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fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our
@natneuro.nature.com
paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
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funds
@erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence
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Elizabeth Goldfarb
17 days ago
How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and
@toddc.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dynamic brain mechanisms supporting salient memories under cortisol
The stress-related hormone cortisol alters dynamic brain networks predicting memory and arousal to promote emotional memories.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz4143
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Markus Wöhr
about 1 month ago
The party drug MDMA (“ecstasy”) shows promising efficacy as adjunct to psychotherapy. The psychostimulant with entactogenic properties is known to induce arousal and euphoria. We now studied the neurochemistry underlying the behavioral effects of MDMA in rats lacking serotonin in the brain.
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So cool to be included in this project showing that overgeneralization of threat responses learned by observation predicted higher anxiety symptoms in adolescents during wartime. All the credits go to Yoni Fishman and Tomer Shechner's Team
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Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2025.104934
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
27 days ago
😍 New work from A02! 😍 Marie Habermann and
@christianbuchel.bsky.social
from
@isnlab.bsky.social
found that controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations! 👉⚡ Read it here:
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Philipp Kanske
about 1 month ago
New paper out on "Empathy and validation in chronic pain couples: a systematic review" by Karolin Teichmüller et al.
journals.lww.com/painrpts/ful...
@anrei.bsky.social
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@tudresden.bsky.social
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https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/2025/12000/empathy_and_validation_in_chronic_pain_couples__a.10.aspx
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Nico Schuck
about 1 month ago
👏 Congratulations to
@uni-hamburg.de
for being rated Germanys most sustainable university. Glad to see that UHH has been committed to lead by example in this important area over the past years.
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The University of Hamburg Still Germany’s Most Sustainable University
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/presse/2025/pm51.html
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Marie Habermann
about 1 month ago
Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published! We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC. You can read the full version of the paper here:
rdcu.be/eQy6X
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Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations
Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...
https://rdcu.be/eQy6X
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
about 1 month ago
We also have some new affiliated projects! 🤩 First, we heard a great talk from
@jlaferton.bsky.social
on enhancing treatment expectations for knee replacement outcomes🦵😷 Then, Marcel Wilhelm and Gertraud Gradl-Dietsch presented a project on the impact of different treatment framing on depression ☹️
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
about 1 month ago
Last up is
@christianbuchel.bsky.social
telling us about all things wrong with our current publishing system and how new models (for example
@elife.bsky.social
) are trying to break these barriers! 💪 Of course featuring this gem of a video by
@glaucomflecken.bsky.social
:
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
about 1 month ago
Next up,
@tobikube.bsky.social
shows striking results of how positive vs. negative framing likelihoods of having a certain disease shapes the degree of people's concern about having this disease! 👩⚕️
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Starting the CRC „Treatment Expectation“ retreat.
@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social
Exciting to present our project on variance processing in observational learning
about 1 month ago
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Dan Quintana
about 1 month ago
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Tagging
@isnlab.bsky.social
@stefaniebrassen.bsky.social
@helenblank.bsky.social
@janhaaker.bsky.social
@christianbuchel.bsky.social
@aulenkamp.bsky.social
@wohrlab.bsky.social
@sheddenmora.bsky.social
@rief01.bsky.social
and all other CRC members! 😍 Starter pack:
go.bsky.app/TgjkCXL
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Laboratory of Biological Psychology
about 2 months ago
Another LBP story has reached the end: yesterday Laura Vercammen from Bram Vervliet’s lab successfully defended her PhD! Congrats, Laura!
@tombeckers.bsky.social
@lauraluyten.bsky.social
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Travelling back from beautiful Leuven after an excellent defense by Laura Vercammen on the reward processes in avoidance in rats. Congratulations to her and the proud supervisors Bram Vervliet,
@tombeckers.bsky.social
and Laura Luyten. And no, I am not travelling in that outfit
about 2 months ago
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
about 2 months ago
🎥 New
#SFB289
#webinar
is uploaded on our YouTube channel! 🎥 Yesterday, Wiebke Ghandi from CINN at the University of Reading presented her work on targeting uncontrollable pain and answered the question: is there a role of the reward system? (Re)watch it here:
youtu.be/ck-1UyuoACk
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Webinar: Wiebke Ghandi - Targeting uncontrollable pain: Is there a role for the reward system?
YouTube video by SFB-TRR 289 "Treatment Expectation"
https://youtu.be/ck-1UyuoACk
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You are on a train to be on a thesis committee and your calendar says „labmeeting“
about 2 months ago
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Ulrike Bingel
about 2 months ago
Bitte teilen und Werbung machen. Das ist das erste Lehrbuch dieser Art und relevant für ALLE, die im Gesundheitssystem arbeiten!
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
about 2 months ago
⭐ Today we have something from our
#scicomm
(SC) project! ⭐ This new book is aimed at healthcare professionals and shows how the
#placeboeffect
and
#treatmentexpectation
can be used positively when dealing with patients. 👩⚕️👨⚕️ Read it here (physical copy/ebook) ➡️
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Philipp Kanske
about 2 months ago
Join us for this talk by
@janhaaker.bsky.social
on "A functional view on how we respond to others’ pain: Empathy, threat learning and neuropeptides" 11 November, 1pm CET
tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...
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So cool, Lauren!
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about 2 months ago
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How can brain activity predict stock prices or viral videos? In today’s podcast, Stanford neuroeconomist Brian Knutson explores how brain signals shape choice, risk, and attention—bridging neuroscience, psychology, and economics. Listen now:
neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neurofo...
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Current Biology
about 2 months ago
Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation. Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and
@mattlongo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Kübra Fethiye Karataş
2 months ago
Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help? New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to
@drjocutler.bsky.social
and
@thepsychologist.bsky.social
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How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others
New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-helpful-brain/202510/how-dopamine-affects-our-motivation-to-help-others
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Matthew Apps
2 months ago
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the
@msnlab.bsky.social
in the
@thechbh.bsky.social
. Deadline 27/11. More info:
tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-computational-and-neural-dynamics-of-human-motivation-and-cognitive-control/?p189023
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Shawn Rhoads
2 months ago
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in
@natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵
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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
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Can we learn about unpredictable threats via observation of others? Yes, temporally predictable and unpredictable threats are learned by distinct contributions of the amygdala and hippocampus. ALSO: We find higher activation in the amygdala and anterior insula to others' pain that serves learning.
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Resolving temporal threat uncertainty by observational learning involves the amygdala, hippocampus and anterior insula
While the neurobiological distinction between temporally predictable (cued) and unpredictable (contextual) threats has been well-characterized in direct learning using the NPU paradigm, it is poorly u...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.682164v1
2 months ago
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Excited to try this! The waiting list makes me even more curious
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
2 months ago
Our new
@frontiersin.bsky.social
article focused on how learning strategies and
#open-label-placebos
(OLPs) can affect academic performance. This study tested a subgroup and explored if e.g. learning strategies could impact the influence OLPs hold on cognitive outcomes. What did we find? ⤵️
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Paul Sharp
3 months ago
1st Sharp Lab preprint! 🚨 We tested how anxiety affects task generalization—not how people generalize threat stimuli, but how they reuse action-outcome structures when planning in new contexts. Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat! 📄:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Such a great summer school with time for science and everything around it.
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3 months ago
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Ulrike Bingel
3 months ago
Wirkstoff Mensch, besser könnte es zu unserer Forschung nicht passen! Hört mal rein!
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SCAN Unit
3 months ago
Check out our new publication led by former member
@clamassaccesi.bsky.social
showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝
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Kim Doell
3 months ago
With
@epronizius.bsky.social
,
@monabielig.bsky.social
,
@clauslamm.bsky.social
,
@protzko.bsky.social
, Olena Vitkovska, and Celina Kacperski, we'll explore the ethical tensions, institutional constraints, and political risks of doing science across borders—especially in times of war or crisis.
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Karin Roelofs
@epanlab.bsky.social
talks on neuromodulation of fear responses to kick-off our summerschool
@rtg2753.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Great opportunity!
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Higher responses to observed (laboratory) stress is related to war related trauma (ptsd symptoms)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others’ stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others’ stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-025-03548-4
3 months ago
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Excellent opportunity! Inspiring research environment and Andreas is great.
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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg
3 months ago
Interested in VR research?
@martandreatta.bsky.social
and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience
Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432825003961
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE
3 months ago
[Admin] Hey @realscientists.de-Fans! Wir haben nächsten Monat eine spontane Lücke frei! Wenn ihr den Account schon immer mal eine Woche lang bespielen wolltet, ist das eure Chance! Meldet euch am besten einfach bei
@jensfoell.de
. Wir freuen uns auf euch!
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Neuroengineering
4 months ago
Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes.
#neuroskyence
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Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits - Nature Communications
Modulating deep brain structure can lead to therapies for neurological conditions. Here, the authors show a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) system featuring a 256-element helmet-shaped trans...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63020-1
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Brian Nosek
4 months ago
Blerg. Preregistration should elevate our understanding of the importance of exploration, not affirmative action our past bad habits that everything was always anticipated in advance.
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Oded Rechavi
4 months ago
Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
4 months ago
Online Now: The cognitive side of communication in social insects
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The cognitive side of communication in social insects
Social insects rely on multiple communication channels. These channels have traditionally been considered innate, eliciting stereotyped responses. However, recent research has shown that cognitive modulation occurs in communication contexts long assumed to be entirely genetically encoded, thus revealing a previously unrecognized cognitive plasticity in social insect communication.
http://dlvr.it/TN06GM
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4 months ago
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Ben Williamson
4 months ago
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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Imaging Neuroscience
4 months ago
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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PLOS Biology
4 months ago
How do catecholamines like
#noradrenaline
influence perceptual
#DecisionMaking
?
@degeelab.bsky.social
@donnerlab.bsky.social
&co show that higher
#catecholamine
levels reduce individual choice history biases by dampening bias in the accumulation of sensory evidence
@plosbiology.org
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plos.io/4mMmNNX
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Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft
5 months ago
#Forschung
ohne
#Paywall
? Diamond
#OpenAccess
macht’s möglich! Ohne Kosten für Autor*innen & Leser*innen. Wie das fair & gemeinschaftlich geht, zeigen wir am 27.8. beim ELADOAH-Abschlussevent mit
@verfassungsblog.de
. Ab 19 Uhr öffentliche Diskussion im
#DigitalerSalon
👉
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