I passed my PhD viva! 🙌✨ Thank you to the examiners @martynquigley.bsky.social and @cycology.bsky.social for a thoughtful discussion! Huge thank you to my supervisor @olijrobinson.bsky.social and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Lab for the amazing years - luckily I'm not going anywhere just yet

Diving into how #CBT tackles a wide range of mental health conditions in my new blog, reviewing @pimcuijpers.bsky.social and co new meta-analysis. If you care about evidence-based therapy and when to explore options beyond the basics, check it out on @thementalelf.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/DbNCq8k ☀️

My new blog covering @pimcuijpers.bsky.social and collegues paper on CBT's effectiveness across a wide range of mental disorders is out now on the @thementalelf.bsky.social ! Take a look below 👇

Got to share some exciting recent and upcoming work at #CPConf2025 this week. Such a fun conference - talks at a cinema in recliner seats with a tub of popcorn was a first, but I could get used to it. Also thrilled to have won a travel award, thank you and see you next time!

Thank you so much for a brilliant conference! Looking forwards to the next one already

#CPConf2025 is exploring multidimensional reward functions #RufusTempleOrchestra

In our preprint "Limited evidence for reduced learning rate adaptation in anxious-depression, before or after treatment", led by @stephsuddell.bsky.social and Lili Zhang, we fail to find a robust association between anxious-depression and learning rate adaptation osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check our latest work ‘Linking Subjective Experience of Anxiety to Brain Function using Natural Language Processing’. Our analyses link movie-evoked brain activity and subsequent interview recordings in a pediatric sample with and without anxiety disorders (doi.org/10.31234/osf...).

Published today in Nature Medicine. In one of the world’s largest RCTs of its kind (n=3,936), a smartphone app teaching 5 key cognitive-behavioral therapy skills improved subthreshold depression—and the effects lasted 6 months. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New systematic review and meta‐analysis looks at -harm reporting -risk of bias -action mechanism specification -incremental therapeutic effect size in psilocybin-for-depression RCT literature. I'll briefly summarize below. 🧵 🧪 #psychscisky #episky #medsky #psychiatry

Thank you Alex for chairing a brilliant session - so happy to have got to be a part of it!

At #2025SOBP this week! I was thrilled to present yesterday on bridging the translational gap between animal and human models in anxiety research with computational modeling. Introduced the RL task developed by @ymyymmr.bsky.social and the anxiolytic/anxiogenic manipulations we've been working on.

Got to present the work by Dr Yumeya Yamamori that I'm currently continuing concerning the impact of anxiety increasing (threat of shock) and reducing (benzodiazepine) study manipulations on avoidance at the @uclpals.bsky.social postgraduate group's weekly seminar this week🙌 next up SOBP in Toronto!

🧵 Wrote another blog for @thementalelf.bsky.social covering an interesting 5-year study comparing psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral therapies for chronic depression in those with experiences of childhood adversity 🧠💡 www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/ps...

Another blog I wrote for the Mental Elf just published:

A jolly time with our PhD programme at Cumberland Lodge in January - read about it below ⬇️

🚨New postdoc job alert!🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... ...we are looking for someone with an interest in computational psychiatry and/or naturalistic neuroimaging to work on a new ERC Advanced grant "The Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Anxiety Treatment Response (MECHANX)". (1/3)

Trying to make more of a habit of using Bluesky (we all know why)... So hey all! 👋🦋 Glad to see things here have picked up in the last few months!

I posted nearly identical threads on here & X/Twitter about why it's not bad to leave X/Twitter; check out the differences in engagement in the first ~24h. I expected this but not to this degree!

Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

🚨 Clinicians have noted for decades how planning & anxiety are linked. Yet, computational psychiatry thus far failed to show how. Here, I explain that we need to broaden how we model planning to reveal its *biases* in chronic anxiety. A 🧵 on the framework 1/n authors.elsevier.com/a/1kAJC4sIRv...