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

When Canada’s Most Famous Brain Surgeon Almost Killed His Own Sister thewalrus.ca/when-canadas...

The Atlantic reviews Valley of Forgetting, a new book on Lopera's pioneering Alzheimer's research in the mountains of Colombia www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv... Just audiobooking this at the moment and it's really good.

New from us: Armed conflict exposure types are not equally associated with access to psychosocial support: A study of over 8 million victims of the Colombian armed conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Work from a joint Colombian / UK team consisting of...

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony aeon.co/essays/how-t... Good piece from @pessoabrain.bsky.social

Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better domenic.me/fsrs/ Interesting from the online memory hacking and better learning community

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

Tailored neuropsychiatry training day for clinical psychologists: Mental health in ABI and epilepsy; FND; alcohol-related cognitive impairment Fri 4 Jul, Central London Free for BNPA members. Not a member? Register for the day below and join the BNPA for £70 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

New from Jennifer Foley and me: How could CBT for psychosis be usefully applied to psychosis in Parkinson's disease? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Need a Refresher) Upcoming training. Mark your diaries. 9am-12pm Wed 8th October. Online. Part 1 of our online course providing a grounding in neuropsychology and neuropsychological disorders. Registration will open soon!

Neuropsychiatry for Clinical Psychologists and Neuropsychologists training day. Fri 4 July, Central London. Free for BNPA members. Not a member? You can register for the training day below and then join the BNPA for £70 to attend www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

The first neuropsychiatry journals and international conferences happened in Latin America in the 1930s. Why is Latin America Missing from the History of Neuropsychiatry? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wrx... A talk from me (in English) at the Colombian Congress of Brain Health

Clinical psychologists: The British Neuropsychiatry Association are running a free training day on 'Understanding Neuropsychiatric Problems for Clinical Psychologists'. Fri 4 July, London You just need to be a BNPA member to attend and you can join for £70 👇

We have a training day on understanding neuropsychiatric problems for clinical psychologists, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 for BNPA members Fri 4 July, London Not a BNPA member? See the following tweet for details on how to join for £70... Already a member, register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterio...

When it comes to the genetics of intelligence, the line between mainstream and fringe can be hard to pin down undark.org/2025/03/26/u...

Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, the world's leading decision scientist emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice archive.is/OzXPh

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊

The birth of researchers studying the psychology of AIs is really fascinating to watch arxiv.org/abs/2503.01307

New preprint from us, led by the ace Jess Lynch: Prevalence and moderators of apathy after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Intrigued by veterans showing very low levels of apathy post-TBI. Training, selection, or k=2 noise?

Always a fascinating conference 👇

How a radical epilepsy treatment in the early 20th century paved the way for modern-day understandings of perception, consciousness, and the self www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... Just stumbled across this great piece from 2015

Migraine has been an area where lots of progress has been made very quickly and this is a great piece in Nature that covers the state of the field www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cognitive disorders in patients with neuroimmunological disease 🧐 1/7 A new paper by Miguel Restrepo, @vaughanbell.bsky.social & myself, just published in Current Opinion in Psychiatry 🤓 We focus on autoimmune diseases underlying cases of neurocognitive disorder... journals.lww.com/co-psychiatr...