Review paper arguing that the #brain has a built-in mental brake that stops unwanted thoughts. Via a fronto-temporal pathway, it relies on GABA to calm mental loops. Weak brakes may underlie #PTSD, #OCD, anxiety, and #depression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing #RegisteredReport led by Sumaiyah Raza from @mrccbu.bsky.social. We (again) found evidence against a memory benefit of spatial novelty. However, this time we did find a retroactive benefit of rest, which highlights that more work is needed here. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

To my complete surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see earlier tweet. bsky.app/profile/memo... @mrccbu.bsky.social #neuroskyence #memory #ptsd

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This looks shockingly useful. Thanks, on behalf of the field!!

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought — a Review by Michael C. Anderson, Maite Crespo-Garcia & S. Subbulakshmi @memorycontrol.bsky.social‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital [email protected] sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Congratulations to Ken Paller, this year's recipient of the George Miller Award at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeeting! Superb talk on his work on sleep and memory. @cogneuronews.bsky.social @paller.bsky.social @neurosky.bsky.social

Should the Medical Research Council end sustained funding for its internationally renowned scientific units? 600 scientists don't think so.The UK needs sustained investment in basic science and challenge-led investments. #Neuroskyence @mrccbu.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...

Suppressing memories promotes resilience! Terrorist attack survivors who recovered from PTSD showed normalised inhibitory control of the hippocampus during retrieval stopping before intrusive memory declines, mitigating hippocampal atrophy. #memory #PTSD #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A nice piece by @sciam.bsky.social on @harrington-mo.bsky.social's recent work showing that sleep loss impairs the control of intrusive thoughts; useful comments by @marwimber.bsky.social and @zarabergstrom.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...

Can someone forget much of their life? Yes! In Psychogenic amnesia, extreme stress leads to the loss of years of memories, including all the people the patient knows. Why? Read about what we have discovered in @laura-marsh.bsky.social‬ 's new paper or in the outstanding thread below #neuroskyence

Sleep much? I hope so! A new fMRI study with @harrington-mo.bsky.social and @sacairney.bsky.social shows how inducing sleep loss impairs the prefrontal cortex's ability to suppress unwanted memories, and suggests that REM sleep restores this function.Congrats Marcus! @sleepdiplomat.bsky.social

Are you a fan with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit? If so, read this Science story and then join the 500 scientists (inc two Nobels and two former Royal Society heads), who are asking the MRC to adjust course by signing the Open Letter linked in the story. www.science.org/content/arti...

Hello Bluesky world. I am renewing my commitment to this platform, prompted in part by the New York Times article today on this subject!

Our paper with showing that memory control improves immediate emotions of autobiographical memories just got published. Massive thanks to @robinhellerstedt.bsky.social, @memorycontrol.bsky.social and @zarabergstrom.bsky.social 🙏😁 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great journal club article by my friend and colleague Linn Petersdotter about @memorycontrol.bsky.social's review paper on active forgetting. Worth reading and worth following what she's up to in the future!

Interested in how people control unwanted memories? Davide Nardo and I published a detailed guide to the Think/No-Think task in Behavior Research Methods with best practice advice, including a training package with videos, spreadsheets and code. rdcu.be/dzbwA

The final version of @memorycontrol.bsky.social and my article "Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control" is now featured in the current version of TiCS www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Downloadable version here: wessellab.org

Not that anyone here needs a reason to ditch twitter, BUT...I only just noticed that my twitter timeline is full of posts by people I don't follow. This is because, as of March, Musk introduced an algorithm to do this, based on what I have liked. Aggravating. I had liked my self-curated newsfeed.

Incredibly pleased to have @janw.bsky.social as a joint Chaucer/Zangwill club speaker here at the MRC CBU, co-sponsored with Cambridge Psychology!

Stunning. I would not have guess this would be possible.

This is interesting and creative! The general approach of using deep learning to independently quantify different varieties of prediction error on a continuous basis opens a lot of doors. Very cool!

Gees..Michael Eisen, editor of Elife, just got sacked by the board due to "behaviour" (having to do with leadership and social media posting, it says). Anybody have a clue?

Has Mastodon gone extinct? I confess that I like the feel of BlueSky more, and it seems like people have taken to it enthusiastically. But I wonder whether people are persisting with Mastodon or not, and why?

Wow, that's a harsh article, but also well targeted. I don't agree with every critique the writer offers (some are weak), but in the balance, I agree. Did you see this @kevinvschie.bsky.social?

Hello everyone. I have decided to give BlueSky a try. Any neuroscience folks out there?