Happy to say that our overview of how to modify your taVNS setup for safe use in the MR scanner is now published! dx.doi.org/10.1111/jon.... There are more details in the thread below but next to lower temperatures 🌡️, we also saw better signal-to-noise ratio with the modification 📶 #neuroskyence

I am pleased to announce that our new book on "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications" is now published by @springernature.com ! A collection of 17 chapters over 325 pages on #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Philosophy #Psychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🔈 Our edited volume "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications", co-edited with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social and Bert Heinrichs, is out. url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9P5mCROAEn... #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy

📆Save the date: new lecture series [1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.

My first post into the bsky void, the first preprint of my PhD! A novel task to bridge learning and effort decision-making. Of course, we find that effort choice is sensitive to prior learning, but this integration of beliefs into action is affected by anhedonia. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📣 Excited to share that my first paper is now published! 📄"Metabolic state shapes cortisol reactivity to acute stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of metabolic and hormonal modulators" You can find the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

So glad to have been part of the #ECNP2025 conference! It was a great opportunity to present my poster on how different oral contraceptive states affect physiological and neural stress reactivity, and discuss new perspectives on mental health and well-being 🧠

1st Sharp Lab preprint! 🚨 We tested how anxiety affects task generalization—not how people generalize threat stimuli, but how they reuse action-outcome structures when planning in new contexts. Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat! 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 1/12

Published now (after long last & 10 citations). Although tVNS does not alter food reward ratings in healthy people, it acutely improved liking ratings in patients with MDD (also correlated with anhedonia). #neuroskyence 🩺 Work w/ @akuehnel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Second day of the conference of Experimental endocrinology in Freising! 🥨 Really enjoyed the talk by Henrik Oster on circadian appetite regulation which gave a lot of food for thought: should I really give this dessert in the evening a go? 💭

I came across a terrific interview with Peter Dayan, always a delight to listen to. Peter's speed of mind and talk is possibly unsurpassable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cttx...

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health? Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Mental and metabolic health are closely linked - but what drives this connection? In our new theory paper, we (w/ @camillanord.bsky.social & @hugofleming.bsky.social g.bsky.social) propose dysregulation of interoceptive energy allostasis as a key mechanism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵 1/n

Big congrats to Marishka on this. I know how much time and effort went into it. Really happy to see it out! For those interested, she replicated prior longitudinal results using an approach-avoidance conflict task and showed how model parameters afforded out-of-sample clinical prediction.

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In our new paper 📖🔥, we conducted a pooled analysis (n=443; 5 studies) to test if state affect (momentary mood) or trait dispositions (approach/avoidance) predict cortisol reactivity beyond biological & contextual factors. (1/4) #neuroscience #Neuroskyence #cogpsyc #AffectSci #psychscisky

We recently reported higher variability of reinforcement learning in obesity and BED, but what about neural representations? In our new preprint, we show higher variability in NAcc responses to reward cues in obesity and disinhibited eating www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @nbkroemer.bsky.social

When we encounter the same reward repeatedly, we show variable responses; is this just noise? In our new preprint, we replicate the association of BMI and disinhibited eating with variability of NAcc signals to reward. #neuroskyence 🩺 W/ @akuehnel.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The German government is investing €120 million in expanding the German Center for Mental Health (DZPG). Glad to join Thomas Nickl-Jockschat @jockschat.bsky.social and Daniela Dieterich with our project on cognitive flexibility and uncertainty in mental health. www.dzpg.org/aktuelles/pr...

Continuing the general thread, Peter Dyan does a very nice summary of Berridge's liking/wanting distinction, the evidence for it, and how it links to RL and interoception here (21:30): www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLA7...

One of the last projects of my PhD looking into insular functional segregation in depression is finally out as a preprint 🙏👇 Have a look and let us know what you think! #neuroskyence

If you are interested in using functional neuroimaging and neuromodulation to improve key symptoms of depression, we are still looking for PhD students: Official ad (in German, B2 level or better is required): karriereamukb.de/jobs/doktora...

New preprint...and this one is truly EPIC 🚨. Using a large group of patients with depression and healthy controls (N>800), we show differences in the functional segregation of insular subnetworks. And we can use it to classify! Led by @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺 osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications". Our new edited book due to appear in @springernature.com later this year! @carstenmurawski.bsky.social #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network-level activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670358v1

🚀 We’re creating a PsychoPy Cheat Sheet to help students get started fast! If you could give a new user one tip for their first 30 minutes with PsychoPy, what would it be? We’d love your ideas! (They might even join our PsychoPy tips in the app 😉 ) 💡👇

While our official job ad is on the way, we are seeking PhD students to join @neuromadlab.bsky.social for projects running in Bonn. The candidate will lead projects on body-brain interactions using brain stimulation to improve core symptoms of depression: www.neuromadlab.org/jobs #neurojobs

This paper is now published in Computational Psychiatry :) cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

📣Call for applications We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...

Wanna know about *internal* reinforcement learning? We'll show you seemingly random switches during perceptual multistability is a form informational foraging, is task-modulated & how RL explain them all! Poster B71, Wed 2-5pm, talk to @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...

Finally out on Nat Comms 🚀 We show that an intrinsic motivational learning signal (information gain) is encoded through synergistic and higher-order functional brain interactions and is broadcast to prefrontal reward circuits.

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Out now. Our new preprint shows that glucose robustly increases stress-induced cortisol release, whereas sex hormones show less congruent associations to date. First paper led by the fab @mkoerdel.bsky.social with @akuehnel.bsky.social and @mariame.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺

To the biosensor crowd ⌚. Have you used the Withings Scan Watch 2 in your research, and were you happy with the data and the service? We are using Corsano Cardiowatch Bracelets, but their recent price hikes prompted (forced?) us to explore alternatives. #neuroskyence #interoception

Trauma-predictive brain network connectivity adaptively responds to mild acute stress www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

NEW PREPRINT OUT! Being in a state of pain changes how we decide. 📄 Altered Decision-Making Across Acute and Chronic Pain States 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A 🧵 below 👇

If you‘re at #CPConf2025 today, come visit our posters :)

If you are at #CPConf2025 today come by my poster 2.07 to learn more about our follow-up work exploring how the metabolic state measured with continuous glucose monitoring affects learning across 60 runs of RL. We also check how these effects translate to a lab-based setting with concurrent fMRI.

#CPConf2025 is refreshing mind and body... 🍦🍨

#CPConf2025 looking forward to seeing you at our symposium tomorrow on cognitive map biases across psychopathology. The design choice is a combination of first-year PI + addressing post-lunch fatigue. Here you go...! with the inimitable @mgarvert.bsky.social, @carocharp.bsky.social & Matt Nour.

Is risk-taking shaped by decision-making or by learning? In new work, we show that in experience-based risk-taking, very little variance is explained by decision-making (top), but a lot is explained by learning (bottom). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

There are still spots available! Don't miss your opportunity to learn from Dr. Signe Penner-Goeke. Register: www.ispne.net/early-career... #ISPNE #WebinarSeries #Research #Science #Psychoneuroendocrinology

📅 Next week, we are excited to welcome Dr. @yoavlivneh.bsky.social from Weizmann Institute of Science. He will share his research on the #insular #cortex. 🥳 As always, everyone is welcome to join us at our Institute, and registration is not necessary! All info here: www.psych.mpg.de/events/40140...