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...

Want to learn about dynamic modeling for daily diary, experience sampling, ecological momentary assessment data? 😎 Register for our online course ‘Modeling the dynamics of intensive longitudindal data’ which starts in October 2025! 🤩 utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

New blog post! Let's say you've measured two variables repeatedly and want to investigate how one affects the other over time. Here are some recommendations for how to do that well. www.the100.ci/2025/06/25/r...

I'm very excited that this is out as preprint. In this study, 370 participants completed up to 30 runs of reward learning. We see that BMI and and Binge eating are associated with distinct RL patterns. Includes hierarchical models using Stan (+ many hours of sampling) and MRI data of an effort task

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

Our big behavioral precision mapping preprint is out. Based on 1,486,950 observed choices in a reward learning task, we show that BMI is associated with higher and more variable learning rates. Binge eating was associated with lower reward sensitivity. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to see this published open-access in Behavior Research Methods now 🤗 #neuroskyence doi.org/10.3758/s134...

🎉I am super excited and extremely grateful for having received an ERC Advanced grant #ERCAdG 🎉🎉 🎉 Thanks so much to my team, at Radboud and the #donders institute, my collaborators and all who have helped me. I can’t wait to get started! 🥰 @dondersinst.bsky.social @erc.Europe.EU #horizonEU

My brilliant collaborator @marieeikemo.bsky.social is hiring! Do your PhD in an excellent interdisciplinary group & be my colleague in lovely Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our meta-analysis showed tVNS-induced pupil dilation (neuromadlab.shinyapps.io/tVNSPupilmeta/). We wanted to replicate with right-sided tVNS, but when accounting for sensation (even with initial matching) there was no effect compared to sham in our sample (N=94). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...). We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills. Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Do you work with #hormones? 🚶‍♂️🐁 🧫 Have you ever tried to share your data or worked with datasets and encountered challenges? #NODES aims to develop a standard data format for hormones to remedy this. Participate in our Delphi study to let us know what should be considered (open until mid June). ⬇️

Please consider participating in this study if you work with hormone data 👇Also, please repost for wider reach, thank you so much 🤩

Interested the neurobiology of negative affective traits? Our new preprint included many favorites (amygdala, salience network, validated neural signatures) and a machine learning multiverse of 1200 models and 14 traits! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... What did we learn? #neuroscience #psychology

What a great start to the week 🤩 Thrilled to share that a @dfg.de grant proposal with Julia Schüler & @wanjawolff.bsky.social got funded! This gives us time and resources to explore the interplay of cognitive and physical effort. 🎉

We are hiring ⚡🧠! Our postdoc @akuehnel.bsky.social was awarded a grant to investigate if pulsed tVNS alters approach and avoidance behavior (in collaboration with @bachlab.bsky.social). The official ad is in German (B2 level is required to run sessions) #neurojobs karriereamukb.de/jobs/doktora...