Sebastian Walther
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Prof. of Psychiatry @UniWürzburg, views are my own. Music, books, soccer. Keep calm and hike on
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Ciro Cattuto
3 days ago
New
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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
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Universität Bern
6 days ago
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
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Universität Bern
6 days ago
How do team dynamics change under extreme conditions? 🧊 A study at
#Antarctica’s
#Concordia
station shows rising
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, while cohesion and perceived performance drop. Wearable sensors could help detect risks early. 🚀 ▶️
sohub.io/4uqo
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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
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Mittal ADAPT Lab
6 days ago
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...
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Psychosis Risk Is Associated with Increased Multimodal Reports of Socially Salient Content in Degraded Stimuli
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Humans are adaptively tuned to detect faces and speech in noisy environments. While such detection is generally adaptive
https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgag021
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
17 days ago
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
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Neuropsychopharmacology
20 days ago
Judith L. Rapoport, former ACNP President and Fellow Emeritus, passed away on March 7, 2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Judith L. Rapoport, M.D. 1933–2026 - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Judith L. Rapoport, M.D. 1933–2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-026-02427-w
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Joshua Curtiss
23 days ago
🚨 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)!
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DGBP - German Society of Biological Psychiatry
23 days ago
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!
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DGBP - German Society of Biological Psychiatry
23 days ago
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
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Ursula von der Leyen
23 days ago
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!
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Matt Goldrick
26 days ago
Out now! "Speech as an objective measure of psychomotor dysfunction in Major Depressive Disorder: Validation from non-speech motor measures" E. Exton, D. Klemballa,
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, A. Letkiewicz,
@keshet.bsky.social
,@vijayamittal.bsky.social, S. Shankman
authors.elsevier.com/c/1n2TlbZg7X...
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psychomotor behaviors and the primary motor cortex 2023 we read about intereffector regions
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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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Oded Rechavi
about 2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
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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.
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Gesture deficits in psychosis and the combination of group psychotherapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation: A randomized clinical trial
Molecular Psychiatry - Gesture deficits in psychosis and the combination of group psychotherapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation: A randomized clinical trial
https://rdcu.be/eNM8h
7 months ago
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The last 12 hours provided wonderful scenery. Just to interrupt the heavy rain.
7 months ago
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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...
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
9 months ago
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
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www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg
9 months ago
🚨 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!
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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...
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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.
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Aberrant personal space is associated with paranoia, altered stress regulation, and unfavourable outcomes at 6 months’ follow-up in schizophrenia
Molecular Psychiatry - Aberrant personal space is associated with paranoia, altered stress regulation, and unfavourable outcomes at 6 months’ follow-up in schizophrenia
https://rdcu.be/eD5TA
9 months ago
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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...
9 months ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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...
over 2 years ago
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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?
over 2 years ago
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what a lovely Sunday walk. 🌞🥶
over 2 years ago
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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...
over 2 years ago
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Tobias Hauser
over 2 years ago
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...
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Ich freue mich auf eine lange Bahnfahrt nächste Woche, auf der ich hoffentlich ungestört Manuskripte schreiben und editieren kann. Ist das jetzt schon Bahnvorfreude? 🤔
over 2 years ago
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Friday night started with an Email announcing acceptance of an important manuscript. I love this start of the weekend 😀
over 2 years ago
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Tina Lonsdorf
over 2 years ago
Final call! Come work with us!
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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...
over 2 years ago
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Maike Luhmann 🇪🇺
over 2 years ago
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...
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Spuk in der Uni: Hier lebt der Ewige Student von Bochum
Der Ewige Student soll noch immer durch die Flure der Ruhr-Universität Bochum geistern. Das steckt hinter der Spuk-Geschichte.
https://www.waz.de/staedte/bochum/spuk-in-der-uni-hier-lebt-der-ewige-student-von-bochum-id239881179.html
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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...
over 2 years ago
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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...
over 2 years ago
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Fall morning run without scenic mountain views.🏔️
over 2 years ago
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Ole Jensen
over 2 years ago
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...
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Associate Professor in Psychology (Research and Education) x3 posts at University of Birmingham
Discover Associate Professor in Psychology (Research and Education) x3 posts jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ765/associate-professor-in-psychology-research-and-education-x3-posts
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New start here. Moved over from the X
over 2 years ago
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