📝 New preprint: Causal effects of routine CBT on interpersonal problems (N = 687) We provide an estimate of the average treatment effect and test for potential heterogeneity of treatment effects. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Short 🧵 (1/5)

Is the link btwn Adolescent SSRI use & Bipolar Disorder causal? Our study suggests: 𝐍𝐨. When accounting for unmeasured confounding (e.g., depression severity) via Instrumental Variable analysis, the evidence for a causal link disappears. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1... #Psychiatry #MedSky

Large, well-conducted (at first glance) RCT finding no difference between 1.5 g of ω-3 fatty acids vs placebo in children and adolescents with moderate to severe pediatric major depressive disorder. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New study (n=6,125) finds that starting trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD while using psychotropic medication is linked to reduced therapeutic gains. The strongest negative associations appeared for antidepressants. doi.org/10.1159/0005...

"the first fully powered trial to assess the efficacy and safety of an immersive virtual avatar-based intervention [...] Challenge-VRT was significantly more effective than enhanced treatment-as-usual in reducing the severity of auditory hallucinations" New Article www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

What’s the most effective way to deliver exposure therapy for anxiety? We tested: 🔹 Behavioural experiments (BE) 🔹 Cognitive restructuring before exposure 🔹 Habituation-based approaches BE had the best outcomes. 🧠 How do you implement exposure? 🔗 bit.ly/3YTlR0n #mentalhealth #ClinPsy

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

"The most important aims of psychotherapy: to love, to work, and to find meaning" Even if the final naming of the clusters can be questioned, it is nevertheless an interesting approach to work out the underlying aims of the different schools of psychotherapy. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

tCBT New Paper: Using metaphor to facilitate cognitive detachment in cognitive behaviour therapies Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Preprint updated: Evidence that Tetris Reduces Immediate but Not Subsequent Daily Intrusions of a Trauma Film: A Multilab Replication Study osf.io/preprints/ps...

1. There is hardly any evidence on what happens after the end of depression treatments. Finally, Voderholzer et al. published their review on 19 such studies comparing antdepressant tx and psychotherapie or their combination. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Depression is preventable. Our individual participant data meta-analysis based on >7000 participants proved that psychological interventions reduce the incidence of depression within a year from 10% to 6%. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Question for #WorldSnakeDay: Is this a female adder? Could it be pregnant? 🐍 #herps #snakes

Learning during sleep in humans: A comprehensive overview of the history of sleep learning research, from its empirical beginnings in the 1940s to the present day.  www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"There’s good news for the ice sheet, which may withstand temporary breaches in 1.5C, but emissions must still drop quickly" - latest Nature study with PIK scientist Niklas Boers covered by Euronews. www.euronews.com/green/2023/1...

Lack of contextualization affects cognitive testing, but the problem is even broader. For example, one of the most common stress inductions prompted one of our puzzled Kenyan participants to remark: "Why are we being interviewed for a job by butchers?" www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/gs-...

Which brings my to the best paper I've read this year, by @samzhang.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social and colleagues.