We are at the National Student Psychiatry Conference at University of Kent, showing off extracurricular volunteer activities that psych trainees can engage in through the charity, to support mental health in the gaming community! @rcpsych.bsky.social @kmmsmedschool.bsky.social

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Tom's more thoughtful summary: drtompollak.substack.com/p/playing-wi... #AI #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #AIsafety #HCI #DigitalHealth #Governance

New Year, New(ish) Preprint! I'm delighted to share "Playing with the dials of belief: how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales" (with Quinton Deeley and Tom Pollak). osf.io/preprints/ps...

New Year, New(ish) Preprint! I'm delighted to share "Playing with the dials of belief: how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales" (with Quinton Deeley and Tom Pollak). osf.io/preprints/ps...

0.07% of ChatGPT users showing signs of psychosis or mania may sound low, but that amounts to ~560,000 people each week openai.com/index/streng...

Are you at #MCMComicCon and want to relax? Come to our Reset Room, a calm oasis where you can chill, do lo-fi activities, & re-energise before heading back to the show! We have mental health information too! Staffed by this cool crew. Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite! 🧠🎮

We're still at #MCMComicCon with our Reset Room! If you need to take a break for any reason, come by. It's quieter in here! We also have mental health information and lo-fi activities. It's run by today's awesome crew right here! 🧠🎮 Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite!

Gaming the Mind Conference Prof Paul Fletcher delivers the day's keynote. As a clinical neuroscientist sees the potential of games to measure stress responses from players, and to use biofeedback for training self-regulation - explored through The Insight Project with Ninja Theory

Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Victoria McCloud chairs a panel featuring @chellaramanan.bsky.social from @3foldgames.bsky.social, Dom Matthews from Ninja Theory, and Dr Andrew Howe

Gaming the Mind Conference Ninja Theory Studio Head Dom Matthews discusses the development of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. The studio worked with people with lived experience of psychosis, aiming to create a truthful representation of the symptoms in lead character Senua.

Gaming the Mind Conference @chellaramanan.bsky.social speaks about @3foldgames.bsky.social's Before I Forget, and depicting dementia in a non-cliched, respectful way. She and the team worked with psychiatrists for input, including our own Dr Donald Servant.

Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Andrew Howe, Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, speaks on Jungian archetypes in The Legend of Zelda, and using the mythology of games in psychological therapy. He guides us through active imagination based on Ocarina of Time 💭

Gaming the Mind Conference Malachi Gow showed us his game "i love me, i love me not", a relaxing game focusing on teaching mental health habits. He is the recipient of our first Independent Developer Award, and £1,000 for further development. 🏆 malgow.net

Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social Addictions Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Kaar on research looking at longitudinal research into gaming disorder. Evidence suggests young people with depressive, anxiety, ADHD symptoms are at higher risk of developing gaming disorder symptoms.

Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social @leonxiao.com on loot boxes and regulations related to odds disclosure, minimum age requirements, and advertising, as well as countries where they are recognised as gambling, and the myriad cases where games don't comply with regulations!

Gaming the Mind Conference at the @rcpsych.bsky.social Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones on the establishment of the gaming disorder diagnosis and the range of presentations seen at the The National Centre for Gaming Disorders.

Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Stone Hsieh on the neurological benefits of exercise. He and Bread Lab's ActiGamer project looks to see if active video games can reduce ADHD symptoms, and the feasibility if introducing this as an intervention.

Gaming the Mind Conference Elin Festøy delivers a talk about My Child New Beginnings, about raising a Lebensborn child dealing with trauma in a hateful environment. The game aims to build empathy with the child, to create a strong motivator for transformation.

Preparing for the launch of the first ever Gaming the Mind conference! Hosted at the @rcpsych.bsky.social Ready for a day talking about the exciting growing field of gaming and mental health!

Today I'll mostly be talking about videogames at the Royal College of Psychiatrists @gamingthemind.bsky.social conference #BeforeIForget @3foldgames.bsky.social

I'm glad to share our new retrospective cohort study in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots #MLSky #CompNeuro #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s42...

If you'd like to understand more about the recent phenomenon dubbed "AI/chatbot psychosis" by the media, you could do far worse than listen to @theguardian.com's Science Weekly Podcast where I explain what it is, why it happens, and what we can do about it www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

I must confess, the reason I rarely use this platform is that almost every time I try to share a link via the app, I receive some sort of error message

Now is the time! Early bird rates end on 1st September, so don't delay signing up for the Gaming the Mind Conference 2025! Will we see you there? Monday 29th September at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London. Details below!

Do you have kids with ADHD traits who'd like to participate in a study on the effects of exercise gaming on self-regulation skills? Join this study by our friends at BREAD Lab and you can advance scientific knowledge, and get £40 for your time! More details below. See thread for links!

New preprint: "Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)" osf.io/preprints/ps... substack.com/@drtompollak @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social @aldersonday.bsky.social

1/ 🧵 New preprint out now: "Delusions by Design? How Everyday AIs Might Be Fuelling Psychosis (and What Can Be Done About It)" We explore how LLMs may shape thinking in people vulnerable to psychosis, for better or worse. 📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...

novel neurocomputational model illustrates a putative pathogenesis of disorders related to sequelae of traumatic stress inc. PTSD and CPTSD with focus on: *biopsychosocial dynamics relevant to diagnosis & treatment *unimpaired vs. impaired neuromodulation, attention, perception, memory & sleep 🧠📈 🧪

Would you like to find out about the 4Pi Questionnaire, a new tool to help assess patient and public involvement experiences, including how this resource can be incorporated within your organisation? Catch up with a recording of our webinar held earlier this month. 👇#PPI vimeo.com/1095930151

1/ 🧵 New preprint out now: "Delusions by Design? How Everyday AIs Might Be Fuelling Psychosis (and What Can Be Done About It)" We explore how LLMs may shape thinking in people vulnerable to psychosis, for better or worse. 📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...

10/ Preprint here (open access): 🔗 ssrn.com/abstract=526... 📂Data: osf.io/85px3 🙏Funded by the NIHR, authored with lived experience voices. Let’s change how we care for people with HG. #HG #PerinatalMentalHealth #Psychiatry #MaternalHealth #OpenScience

Glad to have been able to see this excellent and important exhibition on the lived experiences of women with #HyperemesisGravidarum We need more research. We need better care pathways. And more importantly, we need to listen to women with #HG Do check it out! Last day on Sunday ⏳

🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab. ✅ 18+ ✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor) 📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... 📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI

🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters. 📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136 👇

🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters. 📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136 👇

We're still at #MCMComicCon with our Reset Room! If you need to take a break for any reason, come by. It's quieter in here! We also have mental health information and lo-fi activities. It's run by today's awesome crew right here! 🧠🎮 Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite!

Are you at #MCMComicCon and want to relax? Come to our Reset Room, a calm oasis where you can chill, do lo-fi activities, & re-energise before heading back to the show! We have mental health information too! Staffed by this cool crew. Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite! 🧠🎮

🧠 Want to learn more about neurotechnology? Join our global expert speakers at the Maudsley Neurotechnology Conference, Thursday 15 May, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Register here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/mauds... @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

What is the full potential of neurotechnology? For our latest KHP #BigHealthQuestions interview, we asked Dr Hamilton Morrin 'why do we need to develop new neurotechnology treatments?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvpJ...

It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by @kingshealth.bsky.social about our BRAVE-FND study exploring the use of BCIs and VR for rehabilitation in FND www.kingshealthpartners.org/latest/explo...

KHP News is out now, including: - an invitation to join the Mind & Body Improvement Network; - an AI project looking at interstitial lung disease; plus - the latest KHP events and opportunities! Read it here ▶️ enewsletters.tictocfamily.com/t/r-689A8125...

Yesterday I gave a different kind of talk. I was delighted to be invited to spend the morning with the Year 4 students at King Solomon Academy to discuss careers in psychiatry 👨‍🎓

Trying something new by running a 10k next month. Feel free to sponsor me as I raise money for @cancerresearchuk.org 🙏 www.winterrun.co.uk/s/64786/8726...

How much of Vampire Therapist is legit and how much of it is marketing crap? Find out in this @gamingthemind.bsky.social podcast! gamingthemind.org/2024/10/31/e...

Gaming the Mind's Hamilton Morrin spoke to The Thinking Mind Podcast about video games and mental health. Have a listen!

Delighted to have been invited onto the @ThinkingMindPod podcast to speak with Dr Alex Curmi about the psychology of video games 🎮 open.spotify.com/episode/1V6V... Also briefly discussed predictive processing, consciousness and neuropsychiatric disorders 🧠

I've put together a starter pack for the FND science community. Please repost to share the link and do let me know of folks I've missed so I can add them to the group. Thanks everyone 🙏 🧵 1/

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.