Asylum Magazine is 40. One of the most consistently thought-provoking voices on mental health in the UK. Rooted in grassroots perspectives, unwavering in its commitment to featuring a diversity of opinion and critique that puts many academic debates to shame. Still a bit punk.

New from our Colombia-UK team: Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Does anyone use the Spanish version of the RBANS ("Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status")? If you are able to send us an original form, we would be happy to compensate you for it.

¿Alguien utiliza la versión en español del RBANS (“Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status”)? Si puede enviarnos un formulario original, con gusto le ofreceremos una compensación por ello.

Not a British Neuropsychiatry Association member but want to keep informed about our events? You can sign up to the announcements mailing list at the bottom of this page: bnpa.org.uk

🚨The programme for our March conference is now online bnpa.org.uk/agm/ Sessions on 🔹neuropsychiatry of epilepsy 🔹rethinking TBI 🔹functional cognitive disorder 🔹identity and memory 🔹fixation and forensic risk 🔹ultrasound as neurostim 🔹insight disorders and more!

Lots of headlines linking menopause to dementia this morning based on a study that doesn't link menopause to dementia www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Epic piece from @anilseth.bsky.social on The Mythology Of Conscious AI www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

Lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... via @drrickadams.bsky.social

The NIMH have seemingly set most of their RDoC videos to private www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGt... I've used an excerpt of that talk for teaching for about 10 years and it's suddenly gone. There's only a single video on their channel with mentions RDoC now www.youtube.com/@NIMHgov/sea...

What a magnificent book. Just recently finished @matthewcobb.bsky.social's The Idea of the Brain which is a wonderful history of neuroscience. I'll be straight, it's not gripping, it goes into too much detail but it is deeply enjoyable and absolutely epic in scope.

Reliably one of the most fascinating conferences of the year. Registration now open. See you there!

2026 British Neuropsychiatry Association Conference. Registration is open. Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation 📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026 🤝 Joint meeting with DoN Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/

I don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas: Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.

For a more nuanced view of C19th psychiatry in general, I have been spending years compiling this bibliography - it wasn't all restraints and stigma - www.lesleyahall.net/victpsyc.htm

Great round up

Misused therapy concepts absorbed into popular culture are making run-of-the-mill relationship problems harder to resolve www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/... Interesting @olgakhazan.bsky.social piece in The Atlantic Archived version: archive.is/P7Tf6

Full details for the 2026 ToM4AI Workshop @aaai.org are now live (ToM4AI.com) 100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics @nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social

Curious why we sometimes see minds where there are none? 🧠 Join us to uncover the foundations of attributed agency. Fully funded PhD for next year as part of DRIVE-Health, working with me, Adam Hampshire & @stefansarkadi.bsky.social Deadline: 12/1/26 Reach out for an informal chat!

New from us, led by the fantastic Keishema Kerr: A scoping review unpacking how neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology training looks like world-wide www.cambridge.org/core/journal... with Lauren Burns, Sheldon Benjamin, Eileen Joyce, Jasvinder Singh, @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social and Biba Stanton

The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Wonderfully titled and useful paper from Inés Abalo-Rodríguez and Ana Pinheiro

New from us, led by the fantastic @elisavetpappa.bsky.social: Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions karger.com/psp/article/...

Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Want a Refresher) 📅 This Wednesday, 8 Oct | ⏰ 9am–12pm UK | 📍 Zoom An exclusive online session for British Neuropsychiatry Association members. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neuropsych...

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

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Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j... He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness

One of the most important mental health books I've read in the last decade, Darren McGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex is absolute 🔥 www.penguin.co.uk/books/439534... Skip the subtitle, it's a much wider analysis of trauma and lived experience in mental health. Takes on lots of unquestioned dogmas

New from us, led by the fantastic Jess Lynch: Prevalence and moderators of apathy after traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Remember that academic event where you ended up debating ideas with colleagues, new friends, and even the speakers, long into the evening? The British Neuropsychiatry Association teaching weekend is one of those and it'll happen Dec 12-14 in Oxford. I'll be there. Do come and join us!

📢 The BNPA Teaching Weekend returns! 🗓 Dec 12–14, 2025 | St Anne’s College, Oxford ✨ All the essentials of neuropsychiatry 🎓Taught by leading clinicians and scientists 💷 £490 (includes board, breakfast + conference dinner) Join us: bnpa.org.uk/teaching-wee...

New from us: Understanding the countermovement to online presentations of psychiatric disorder that are perceived as "faked" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A huge online movement tries to identify people they feel are 'faking' mental illness for reasons of self-promotion.

Talks from our March 2025 annual conference are now up on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Latest on the neuropsychiatry of brain injury, impulse control disorders, sleep, functional neurological disorder, sensed presences, and pathologies of imagination among many talks

📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis #NeuroPsychSky

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

The British Neuropsychiatry Association Teaching Weekend at Oxford Uni (Dec 12–14, 2025). Join us at St Anne’s College for a captivating weekend learning the essentials of neuropsychiatry led by Prof Adam Zeman. £490 inc. board and conference dinner. bnpa.org.uk/teaching-wee...

🔔Our September newsletter, exclusive to BNPA members, has just gone out • The month in neuropsychiatry research • BNPA news, events and teaching weekend • Epilepsy Research Institute grants • Global Neuropsychiatry Group update • In the media #Neuropsychiatry #BNPA

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Fantastic @rachelaviv.bsky.social piece in The New Yorker

In this study, child mental health and mild traumatic brain injury strongly co-occurred but, apart from anxiety, those associations mostly disappear when prior mental health is accounted for.

New from us, led from the front by @gracerevill.bsky.social: Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry by Kenneth Kendler "describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A balanced take, amid a lot of polarisation 👇

How useful is the concept of disinhibition after brain injury? aeon.co/essays/how-t... Fascinating deep-dive in Aeon

Uncovering the 'exposome'. Interesting piece tracks how it is being transformed from buzzword to research program undark.org/2025/06/16/u...

Nature Mental Health's Research Briefing section covers our study, led by Jae Won Suh, on outcomes of stroke survivors with anxiety and depression treated with primary care psychological therapy. Full text of original study www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years worksinprogress.co/issue/brain-... Great deep dive into latest on using electronic brain implants as treatments

Interesting brief doco on the science and psychology of police interrogations www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj0x... with @drjuliashaw.bsky.social

What is the largest neuropsychiatry service in England? Counter-intuitively, it's probably NHS Talking Therapies. In a new study led by Jae Won Suh (posted here on her behalf), we tracked every stroke patient through NHS TT to look at treatment outcomes www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧵👇

What an amazing opportunity! Taught by the brilliant @vaughanbell.bsky.social and free for @bnpa.bsky.social members. BNPA is a wonderful society uniting psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists and psychologists. Join today

‘Why isn’t there a philosophy of neurology?’ – Thanks to UCL neuropsychologist Prof. Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social for his fascinating and well-delivered talk (part of the new Egenis Lectures here at Exeter).

I'm delivering a training day on 'neuropsychiatry for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists' in London on Fri 4th July 👇 Free to BNPA members, £70 to join if you're not a member