New paper: From ‘Neurons to Nations’: Neurocognitive Foundations of Nationalism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Highlights Nationalism is rooted in shared neurocognitive capacities for memory, identity, and emotion. Collective memory & imagination shape national identity in the human brain.

Professor Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, School of Psychology, writes about footballer Troy Parrott in the Irish Times. Read the article here: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... #Psychology #Football #Soccer #TroyParrott #Opinion #Neuroscience #TrinityCollegeDublin #BoysInGreen

New Job Opportunity! – Research Assistant Deadline is Noon on the Thursday 27th November 2025 Please find the details here: www.tcd.ie/psychology/n... #psychology #researchassistant #job #employment #schoolofpsychology #opportunity #trinitycollegedublin #trinity #recentgraduates #university

Applications are now open for the Masters in Applied Behaviour Analysis! www.tcd.ie/psychology/c... It's an Association for Behaviour Analysis International Verified Course Sequence & Accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland youtu.be/op84JeApLHE

Prof. Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, School of Psychology, weighs in on AI on RTÉ's Primetime. The clip begins at 22:50. www.rte.ie/player/serie... #AI #Brain #Psychology #Neuroscience #MEG #TrinityCollegeDublin #dangersofai @ianhrobertson.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social

"With something like ChatGPT and language, there are possibly bigger implications" - Prof. Paul Dockree spoke to RTÉ's Primetime on the impact of AI on our brains. Watch it here: ow.ly/9zcw50Xqu4f #AI #Brain #Psychology #Neuroscience #MEG #TrinityCollegeDublin @trinityneuro.bsky.social

Prof Paul Dockree spoke to RTÉ's Primetime last night on the impact of AI on our brains. Read the article here: https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/1111/1543356-outsourced-thinking-experts-consider-ais-impact-on-our-brains/ TrinityNeuroscience #AI #Brain #Psychology #Neuroscience #MEG

Prof Ian Robertson was featured in the Irish Times: "A neuropsychologist on DJ Carey: Living through the eyes of others hollows a person out" - Read the full article here: @ianhrobertson.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Congratulations to @shanewriter.bsky.social & his colleagues at DCU, De Montfort Uni & Tilburg Uni, for being awarded a €10 million ERC grant to investigate "coercive and abusive interrogation practices." Here's an interview with Shane about the project: @erc.europa.eu youtu.be/QNn6Z3VSCEs

Congrats to @trinityneuro.bsky.social Professor Shane O'Mara and colleagues, on securing 10 million euro ERC Synergy Grant.

Delighted to announce with my colleagues Prof Yvonne Daly, Dublin City Uni; Prof Dave Walsh Walsh, De Montfort Uni; Prof Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg Uni, we have secured an ERC Synergy grant entitled JUSTICE (or ‘Joining Unique Strategies Together For Interrogative Coercion Elimination).

It was great to see everyone at the exhibition "How Music and Arts Support Neurodiversity"! Thanks so much to Rachel for the photos. #neurodiverse #neurosciences #psychology #art #neurodiversityireland @dancingresearch.bsky.social

Trinity’s Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) has acquired the country’s first wearable brain scanner and is featured in the University Times. Read the full article below: universitytimes.ie/2025/10/inst... With @redmondoconnell.bsky.social

The Trinity Centre for Global Health is delighted to partner with the Irish Global Health Network to invite you to the IGHNx EU: Empowering Women for a Healthier Europe Event! Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ighnxeu-empowering-women-for-a-healthier-europe-tickets-1544494286989?aff=Website

We’re delighted to share that our colleagues Prof. Ladislav Timulak and Dr. Daragh Keogh, Assistant Professor’s book, "Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy", originally published by the American Psychological Association in 2022, has now been released in Chinese! #psychology

"Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening" - Dr Claire Howlin, Assistant Professor, was featured in the Associated Press. Please read the full article below: @dancingresearch.bsky.social apnews.com/article/musi...

One of our undergraduates was featured in the Irish Times, speaking on the struggle of loneliness, please see the full article below: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

"Is the world as bleak as we think it is?" - Listen to Dr Dale Whelehan, Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, School of Psychology on Newstalk Radio. Dale Whelehan https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-newstalk-breakfast/is-the-world-as-bleak-as-we-think-it-is

New paper published "Transforming psychiatry with computational and brain-based methods" co-authored by Professor Claire Gillan, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience and School of Psychology. Please see the full paper below: Claire Gillan https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-025-00884-9

Great start to the evening course last night, there's still time to sign up, click on the link below! https://www.tcd.ie/psychology/courses/evening-course/

"Younger Brains, Sharper Minds: Global Study Reveals Creative Experiences Slow Brain Aging" - Research from the Global Brain Health Institute featured in the Science Magazine. #GBHI https://scienmag.com/younger-brains-sharper-minds-global-study-reveals-creative-experiences-slow-brain-aging/#

Join us at Trinity Business School on Oct 30 @ 2 PM for our Photovoice Exhibition on music, arts & neurodiversity. Free but limited tickets! Hosted by @dancingresearch.bsky.social Register below: www.eventbrite.ie/e/music-and-...

A global expert panel – including Prof Sven Vanneste – developed RATES, a checklist for reporting transcranial electrical stimulation #tES studies (including tDCS, tACS, tRNS). Sven Vanneste Please read the full consensus in Nature Protocols: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01259-0

There's still time to apply, the deadline is TOMORROW at noon.

🇮🇪 Brief pitstop to Dublin today to teach @tcdpsychology.bsky.social Final Year Project Students #PsychoPy !! Academic things did happen but the only photos I got were of food.

"Creativity could be prescribed to improve brain health, study suggests" - A new study by the Global Brain Institute is featured in the Irish Times. #Neuroscience The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/10/03/creativity-could-be-prescribed-to-improve-brain-health-study-suggests/

"Music, dance and visual arts along with gaming can slow brain aging, Irish researchers reveal" - Researchers from the Global Brain Institute discuss their research. https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/music-dance-visual-arts-along-36005205.amp

New guest lecture: "Translational Neurotransmitter Imaging in Parkinsonian Disorders" by Dr Johannes C Klein, Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre, University of Oxford on Oct 23rd at 12-1pm, Lloyd Building, LB 11

Job opportunity - Research Fellow position at the Centre for Innovative Human Systems, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. Please see this link: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ #psychology #job #ResearchFellow #newposition #career #humansystems #opportunity #newjob

NEW JOB POSTING - Research Fellow - School of Psychology - DEADLINE Noon Tues Oct 7th, see the full job spec here: https://www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ #Psychology #Humansystems #TrinityCollegeDublin #Jobs #ResearchFellow

“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social. By Natalia Mesa www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

New paper published: "Focused transcranial ultrasound stimulation: a breakthrough approach to treating brain disorders" - Co-authored by Prof Sven Vanneste. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17434440.2025.2563618 #Neuroscience #Psychology Sven Vanneste

New paper published: "Social exposome and brain health outcomes of dementia across Latin America" - Co-authored by Prof Sven Vanneste Sven Vanneste https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63277-6

To mark the award of the Broadbent prize to Ruth Byrne by the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Ruth will present her recent keynote lecture, which considers the central role of the imagination in cognition, illustrated by examples from different domains of thinking. @ruthbyrne.bsky.social

Curious about the science of behaviour and mind? Why not try something new this Autumn? Apply for the Evening Course in Psychology, for more see www.tcd.ie/psychology/c... #psychology #eveningcourse #behaviour #neuroscience

FREE ONLINE EVENT - EQUIPS : Getting started with funding for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety research and innovation! Wednesday 24 September 2025, at 1-3pm. @equips.bsky.social #Research #Innovation #funding www.eventbrite.ie/e/equips-get...

Photovoice Exhibition 29th - 31st October at Trinity Business school led by Dr. Claire Howlin. ‘How Music and Arts Support Neurodiversity’ will showcase photos and stories from neurodivergent adults about how creativity helps them thrive. Join us for the LAUNCH Oct 30th @dancingresearch.bsky.social

It was terrific to meet all the students yesterday at Irish Times Higher Options Fair in the RDS! Join us to talk Psychology at our booth today and tomorrow! @irishtimes.com #psychology #leavingcert #higheroptions higheroptions.irishtimes.com/home

New Event this Wednesday at 2pm in GBHI! - "Why Cultural Spaces Can Make a Difference to Your Brain Health". For more please see the link below. www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

A €2 million wearable brain scanner capable of picking up the earliest signs of epilepsy, dementia and ADHD has arrived at Trinity College Dublin. @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @irishtimes.com #neuroscience #psychology #MEG #adhd #dementia #epilepsy #medicine www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Congratulations to Ruth Byrne, professor of cognitive science. She has been awarded the 2025 Broadbent prize by the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. @ruthbyrne.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social

Trinity College unveils 'gamechanger' brain scanner. Watch the full interview with Professor Redmond O'Connell with RTE here: www.rte.ie/news/ireland... @redmondoconnell.bsky.social

Trinity College unveils 'gamechanger' brain scanner www.rte.ie/news/ireland... via @rte

Dr Claire Howlin, School of Psychology, speaks to the Belfast Telegraph about why lullabies work so well. @dancingresearch.bsky.social Read the full article here: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/family/...

To read Dr Kristin Hadfield’s full journal “The Relationship Between Environmental Sensitivity and Common Mental-Health Problems in Adolescents and Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, you can read it on Sage Journals below: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“The link between hearing loss and the risk of dementia” - Professor Ian Robertson, School of Psychology, discusses with Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio 1, listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Róisín Cunningham, PhD student, School of Psychology, is featured and quoted in the journal.ie about the team of researchers at TCD who ‘are looking into how messaging around handwashing during Covid-19 impacted people with obsessive-compulsive disorder’. www.thejournal.ie/a-trinity-re...

“People with sensitive personalities more likely to experience mental health problems” - Dr Kristin Hadfield, School of Psychology, is featured in a EurkAlert! Read the full article here: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

NEW JOB POSTING! - Postgraduate Co-Ordinator in the School of Psychology. Please see www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ for full Job Spec. Closing date is Sept 4th by 12:00.