Target Trial Emulation suggests that psychotropic co-medication worsens the outcome of trauma-focused psychotherapy.

8000 Artikel über zu viel "Wokeness" an den deutschen Unis; vornehmes Schweigen dazu, dass diese Unis gerade im Rahmen einer harten Austeritätspolitik abgewickelt werden.

🎓 DYNAMIC ECR-Retreat 2025: Early Career Researchers In The Spotlight! Our ECR-Retreat offered fresh input on network analysis, science communication, and grant writing. Grateful to all speakers and participants! ➡️ Read more in our press release: www.dynamic-center.net/announce-202...

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Excited to share our new research in Cognitive Therapy and Research led by my PhD student Kilian Stenzel! We explored how network models can help conceptualize student problems, comparing subjective, data-driven, and integrated networks.📄⏰

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

New paper in CPS 🎉: We developed and validated a novel trial-by-trial belief update task, which allowed us to examine the association with depression quite precisely: dep symptoms were related to a slower update of established negative beliefs following pos info. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👏🏼Congratulations🍾🥂on this fantastic award from us to 𝗜𝗿𝘆𝗻𝗮 𝗚𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘃𝘆𝗰𝗵, who is not only the🥇LOEWE top professor, but also involved in other LOEWE projects such as LOEWE @emergencity.de and @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social! @igurevych.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @royalsociety.org

🎙️ How brain networks help us understand mental disorders In our latest podcast episode, Dr. Marius Gruber (@mariusgruber.bsky.social) shares how neurobiological research can improve early prediction of mental health problems. ➡️ www.dynamic-center.net/publications... Photo: Fotostudio Köster

🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

Beeindruckender Vortrag von Isabel Dziobek mit einigen erschreckenden Zahlen: -42% der Therapeut*innen halten es für möglich dass Impfungen Autismus verursachen, - 34% sehen Ursachen in „kalten“ Bezugspersonen #ptk2022 🫣

Massively effective interventions are relatively easier to provide evidence for. Failure to produce that evidence can only delay wider acceptance of what *you* are already certain works. So what are you waiting for? Could it be that your pet intervention isn't quite as amazing as you think? 🤔

The final paper of my dissertation has just been published in Psychometrika (@pmetricsoc.bsky.social). Many thanks to @bsiepe.bsky.social and @danielheck.bsky.social, who co-authored it with me. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨Finally out in AMPPS🚨: Proud to share a new tutorial (led by the fabulous @tkaiser.science 💫) on conformal prediction - a model-agnostic, distribution-free method for generating prediction intervals with guaranteed marginal coverage. 🔮 #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

🆕LOEWE-DYNAMIC startet unter dem Titel „Vernetzt Denken, Vernetzt Behandeln“ mit dem #Wissenschaftspodcast – erste Folge heute „𝗦𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗿ü𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗻? 𝗪𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘇𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗱“ mit Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social. #MentalHealth Mehr➡️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Next article of our special issue published in BRAT, examining the role of childhood maltreatment (CM): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Adults with CM history showed impaired belief updating when interacting with strangers and such deficits moderated the association of CM and PTSD symptoms.

🔥OUT NOW IN JCCP🔥: Over the moon to share a new conceptual piece in which Carmen McLean and I propose a potential #deimplementation framework targeting unsupported⚠️, proven ineffective⛔️, and potentially harmful therapies☠️. 1/3 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

People seem to be discussing multiverse analysis again! I haven’t read the latest piece but will use that as an opportunity to share a blog post of mine with a title of which I’m still proud (although I probably shouldn’t) www.the100.ci/2021/03/07/m...

𝗪𝗼𝘄, 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗵ö𝗻𝗲, 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗴𝗲𝗳ü𝗹𝗹𝘁𝗲+𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗟𝗢𝗘𝗪𝗘-𝗧𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗺 23.-24.🍂𝗢𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗺🐮𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝗶 𝗟𝗢𝗘𝗪𝗘-𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗿𝘆, 𝗶𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗴-𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 + 𝗯𝗲𝗶 𝗟𝗢𝗘𝗪𝗘-𝗔𝗗𝗠𝗜𝗧, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (𝗧𝗛𝗠) 𝗚𝗶𝗲ß𝗲𝗻! @jlugiessen.bsky.social 📸Katrina Friese, Leonie Dittrich+ProLOEWE

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Does anyone know a workaround for modeling residual correlations in multivariate models in {brms}? It only works for Gaussian and Student distributions right now, but maybe someone has a hack… #RStats (Maybe @solomonkurz.bsky.social?)

🚨NEW PUB🚨: Excited to share a new paper on the prevalence of #PTSD, #GAD, and #depression following recent community trauma (i.e., violent repression of protests during Woman, Life, Freedom movement + gas-poisoning attacks on girls’ schools in 2022) in a sample of Iranian adolescent girls (N=395).💥

In Sweden, PhD students have similar rates of psychiatric medication use to a matched sample before starting their PhD; psychiatric medication use increases sharply during the PhD, but then drops after graduation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧠 Important progress toward responsible #AI in mental health. Congratulations to UKP Lab (@ukplab.bsky.social, TU Darmstadt) & IIT Delhi on their new Nature Computational Science paper on privacy-aware mental health AI models and data protection challenges.

Special Issue 'Personality Dynamics'! We are happy to share this special issue from the Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie looking at interpersonal dynamics, motivational conflicts, and personality functioning in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

Happy to share this new article with @saskiascholten.bsky.social, providing proof-of-principle evidence for biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms using ecological momentary assessments. Part of the special issue on belief updating in BRAT. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Affektive Störungen und Raumfahrt

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now. "Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ok, please school me. I can take it. I need a better way to do this: data |> group_by(x) |> mutate(n = n()) |> ungroup() |> mutate(x = reorder(factor(x), n)) #rstats

Dear journal editors, I urge you to establish or expand author-friendly submission guidelines that avoid unnecessary time-consuming formatting work. Although some journals have already made progress in this area, there is still much room for improvement. A plea based on a few painful experiences 👇.

Happy to share the first meta-analysis on biased belief updating in depression, published in Clin Psych Rev. Across 29 studies, depression was related to a reduced belief update following positive information, but not to an increased update following neg info. 👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lsBL~0r1z...

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

++++ Ausschreibung für eine Professur für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie mit Schwerpunkt Psychodynamische Psychotherapieforschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. +++ Das ist eine sehr spannende Stelle mit viel Potenzial. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 08.10.2025. Gerne teilen!

New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I once saw a (very interesting) talk about sleep in which the speaker started by saying that we don't really know how to define sleep, and then proceeded to operationalize sleep in flies as basically periods when they are still for a long time. This got me thinking...

* Honest, open dialogue between differing perspectives is a core value worth preserving. * The form of such dialogue, without the honesty or openness, has been co-opted by bad-faith actors as a cynical strategy to garner respectability. * There are plenty of suckers eager to fall for the ruse.

Therapy methods as Warhammer 40k factions! Psychoanalysis: Humans. Trying their best to keep the corpse of their god emperor alive. Use very old technology with great conviction and remarkable effects.

📝 How do experiences of discrimination affect trust in psychotherapy? Our study is looking for participants aged 18 and older - with or without a migration background. Take part now, share your perspective and support research! 👉 www.dynamic-center.net/study-how-do...

Is the assumption of human existence evidence-based?

Calling out political extremists for being hypocritical (“they claim to value free speech, but actually try to censor speech they don’t like!”) is like calling out a football team for playing both offense and defense. They’re not trying to embody fixed standards, they’re just trying to win.

Männer sind lieber Vampire anstatt zur Therapie zu gehen.

🚨New paper (preprint, accepted at @psychscience.bsky.social journal AMPPS, with @herzog.bsky.social): a tutorial on conformal prediction, a distribution-free method for quantifying the uncertainty of predictions from statistical methods. Short 🧵 below! osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky

Nice thread summarizing a great new paper led by a brilliant scientist! 💫👇🏻

I really enjoyed this interview with @ploederl.bsky.social by @awaisaftab.bsky.social on the evidence that antidepressants prevent suicide (or lack thereof).

I will be reviewing applications for Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. The research streams of my lab are summarized on the department website: www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/psyc...

🥳🎉New article on a comparison of episodic vs. persistent (i.e., chronic) depression. Key finding: people with persistent depression have lower treatment expectations and more difficulty to adjust them in response to new information. Open Access in Psychological Med: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨HOT OFF THE PRESS 🚨: Ein FAQ zur dissoziativen Persönlichkeitsstörung #DIS.👇🏻 www.spektrum.de/news/die-wic...

RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.