Big (r = .65) association between externalizing bias on a source memory task and severity of auditory hallucinations (AHRS score) in a sample of psychosis patients (N = 35) - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Perspective piece on self-report and task measures of psychological constructs, with related letters here - www.nature.com/articles/s44... - and here - www.nature.com/articles/s44... ...

No effect of self-guided meta-cognitive therapy (versus waitlist) for distressing AVH in this - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - RCT (N = 78).

Interesting paper on tactile hallucinations in Lewy Body Dementia - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Reported by about 7% of patients. Associated with visual and conversational hallucinations. Despite N = 147, the hallucinating group (n = 10) is pretty small, though.

A review of 20 yeras of aberrant salience and pschosis research at this - psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1... - link. Notes that "the data do not suggest the particular link [from aberrant salience] to delusions that Kapur posited"...

Another new publication from ECHR members: In this - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - longitudinal study, Marks et al. found that delusional ideation prospectively predicted their measure of social network. But their measure of social network did not prospectively predict delusional ideation.

Several new publications from ECHR members! On co-occurring eating disorder and psychosis: jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... ...

Possibly a v good opportunity from some ECHR folks. Editorial fellowhsips for ECRs at a series of APA journals, inc some clinically-relevant ones. Fellows serve a 12-month terms beginning January 1, 2026. Includes a $1,000 honorarium.

New blog from our co-chair @dremmaclaire.bsky.social on her recent paper on tone-matching and psychotic experiences.

Looking through this - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... - recent review of links between atypical autobiographical memory and psychotic experineces/psychosis...

Paper from the US showing highest rates of suicidal thoughts (past two weeks) in at-risk mental state patents versus those with first-episode psychosis and those with long-standing psychosis - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Really good metascientific article from a couple of years ago on power in psychosis (and depression and anxiety) RCTs. Median power of 0.37 to detect a medium effect size 😬 But things do seem to be improving a little bit - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By @maddipow.bsky.social

Psychological and social interventions could play a crucial role in early intervention of anxiety, depression and psychosis for young people.      However, we need a better understanding of which interventions are effective in real-world settings — and how best to implement and scale them.

Paper from an Austrlian early psychosis service finds that about one in five patients had hallucinations that "contained a matching sensory–perceptual element to an experience of trauma or a posttraumatic intrusion". psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Apologies for the recent radio silence - I've been busy marking exams, going on summer holidays, and then marking resit exams…

A bit of a surprising result re: clozapine versus other second gen antipsychotic med's in this - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... - meta-analysis.

New publication alert. It is an interesting (in my opinion!) study trying to understand what happens when people view images they find soothing (and not so soothing!) It was great to work as an RA on Project Soothe - I miss it dearly. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really interesting study with valuable qual data on non-clinical hallucinatory experiences in Qatari participants: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Hello! The Early Career Hallucination Research (ECHR) group is linked to the @theichr.bsky.social and is led by Emma Palmer-Cooper (University of Southampton, UK) and Catherine Bortolon (University of Grenoble-Aples, Fr). Posts on here by @davidesmailes.bsky.social ...