New #SocioPatterns study in PNAS: we studied how social behavior and psychological well-being evolve at Concordia Station in Antarctica during the extreme isolation and confinement of a 10-month overwinter mission. Lessons for deep-space crews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #NetSci #NetworkScience

Wie verändert sich das Miteinander in Teams unter Extrembedingungen? 🧊 Eine Studie zur Antarktis‑Station Concordia zeigt: Einsamkeit, Misstrauen & Konflikte steigen, Zusammenhalt & Leistungsgefühl sinken. Tragbare Sensoren könnten Risiken früh erkennen. 🚀 ▶️ sohub.io/lpud @waltherseb.bsky.social

How do team dynamics change under extreme conditions? 🧊 A study at #Antarctica’s #Concordia station shows rising #loneliness, #distrust and #conflict, while cohesion and perceived performance drop. Wearable sensors could help detect risks early. 🚀 ▶️ sohub.io/4uqo @waltherseb.bsky.social

Excited about our new paper: Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: A study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @andrea cantisani @jan schmutz team performance drops while loneliness or paranoia increase over time

Congrats to postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on leading this project in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open! 🎉 Across 800+ young adults, the team found that greater detection of faces and speech in ambiguous stimuli was associated with psychosis risk and perceptual abnormalities. doi.org/10.1093/schi...

Climate variability can alter the risk of armed conflict. A study maps how two major climate modes—the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole—influence conflict emergence. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Jz2350YZO5R

Judith L. Rapoport, former ACNP President and Fellow Emeritus, passed away on March 7, 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper alert! 🎉🎉🎉 The largest meta-analysis to date on physical activity & mood in daily life is out in Nature Human Behaviour. An amazing effort led by Johanna Rehder & Markus Reichert et al. (2026)!

Gestern endete der 6. DGBP/AGNP Kongress in Berlin. Grosses Finale mit vielen Posterpreisen für ECRs. Zora Schickard (Würzburg) und Sofie von Känel (Bern) gewannen die beiden ersten Preise. Danke an alle aktiven Teilnehmenden, wir hatten exzellente Poster!

Die nächste DGBP/AGNP Konferenz findet am 12.-14. Mai 2027 in Berlin statt. Mark your calendars and be part of the next joint conference May 12-14, 2027 in Berlin! Great science, lots of interaction, and good chances of getting an award. some pictures from these past exciting days

It's Europe Day! Today, we celebrate all that Europe stands for. And we celebrate all of us, the citizens of Europe. Because all together, we are Europe. Happy Europe Day!

Out now! "Speech as an objective measure of psychomotor dysfunction in Major Depressive Disorder: Validation from non-speech motor measures" E. Exton, D. Klemballa, @waltherseb.bsky.social, A. Letkiewicz, @keshet.bsky.social,@vijayamittal.bsky.social, S. Shankman authors.elsevier.com/c/1n2TlbZg7X...

psychomotor behaviors and the primary motor cortex 2023 we read about intereffector regions rdcu.be/fbYue 2025 we found specific features in patients with psychoses and psychomotor slowing. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Very similar to a 2026 report in parkinson's disease rdcu.be/fbYry

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Had to leave SIRS conference 2026 early @sirsofficial.bsky.social But it was again a wonderful conference with lots of exciting research and interactions. My highlight: The amazing talk by John McGrath on Psychosis Epidemiology And Florence 🇮🇹 is just an epic place to spend time

Happy to share our new work: A simple measure of motor control and fitness is very informative... Transdiagnostic Patterns of Grip Strength in Schizophrenia, Current Depression, and Remitted Depression url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Can we boost 🚀 psychotherapy effects with rTMS 🧲 in schizophrenia? Yes, we can: rdcu.be/eNM8h Combined treatment increased social functioning at the end of treatment - even persisting at 6 months follow-up. This encouraging finding will stimulate work optimizing the protocols.

The last 12 hours provided wonderful scenery. Just to interrupt the heavy rain.

How does the🧠create psychomotor abnormalities? Our recent article in @pnas.org offers some insight. Specific areas within the primary motor cortex seem to be altered in psychomotor slowing and linked to motor behaviors. These areas might become new treatment targets doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

New paper alert: Here we demonstrate a specific communication deficit in psychosis related to hand gestures. Further, gesture impairments seem to depend on the specific symptom profile of individuals related to negative symptoms or formal thought disorder. doi.org/10.1093/schb...

some weeks ago, we published this beauty: rdcu.be/eD5TA A simple behavioral test shows that patients with paranoia prefer larger interpersonal space. The new dataset replicates our 2016 finding, but now linked this also to dysfunctional stress regulation and poor outcome in 6 months.

Enjoying a fantastic meeting on neuroimaging in psychiatry: the BaCI 2025 in Munich ecnsweb.net/munich-ecns-... Meeting in rooms full of history and the spirit of psychiatry heroes...

The other place is now truly dreadful. So, let's try this bluesky again - back after one year. In the meantime, I started a new job. Working in Germany again after 20 years in Switzerland.

The 🦠 finally got a hold of me. Ruined all Christmas plans for everyone. After four days in bed, first walk outside today with lovely weather...

Nach einer unbeschwerten und pünklichen DB Reise von Ulm nach Bochum gestern, habe ich heute leider kein Bahnglück 😑. Die meisten Züge Richtung Schweiz fallen aus. In 20 Stunden soll meine Vorlesung in Bern starten. Schaffen wir das?

what a lovely Sunday walk. 🌞🥶

Proud moment: My team published a new paper on neural correlates of psychomotor disturbance in depression. Less movement = thalamocortical connectivity increased; more movement = higher pallidocortical connectivity. Data came from Marburg-Münster Affective Disorders cohort doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Alright, so Nature-Springer just got hacked and they stole my data... I guess this is a radically new approach to data sharing and open data...

Ich freue mich auf eine lange Bahnfahrt nächste Woche, auf der ich hoffentlich ungestört Manuskripte schreiben und editieren kann. Ist das jetzt schon Bahnvorfreude? 🤔

Friday night started with an Email announcing acceptance of an important manuscript. I love this start of the weekend 😀

Final call! Come work with us!

Exciting new paper in molecular psychiatry from collaborating with Igor Nenadic, Ahmad Abu-Akel and team: Hippocampal subfield volume and CBF are linked to an interaction of schizotypy traits with autism traits in a large sample of healthy subjects. doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Ich kenn die Geschichte so, dass ein Student seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr aus den verwinkelten Katakomben der Ruhr Uni Bochum herausfindet, aber diese Version ist auch gut (und vermutlich näher an der Wahrheit). #halloween #bochum #rub www.waz.de/staedte/boch...

on the other social media app, the NIMH recommended a publication of ours. makes me happy here's the paper in schizophrenia bulletin: doi.org/10.1093/schb...

Fresh off the press: Frauke Conring (not on X) and our team find specific resting state perfusion patterns in patients who experience auditory verbal hallucinations with strong emotional content. Amygdala perfusion increased only in this subgroup. doi.org/10.1016/j.ni...

Fall morning run without scenic mountain views.🏔️

Multiple assistant and associate professor positions at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ample opportunity to develop research at the Centre for Human Brain Health (@TheCHBH). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ767/a... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ765/a...

New start here. Moved over from the X