Fantastic presentation by @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-J...

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Looking forward to our academic meeting tomorrow. Thanks @drharrycostello.bsky.social @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social for sharing their clinical and reaearch experience with us. Hope to see many of you. Please register your interest. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Accuracy: validity? Precision: reliability?

I wholeheartedly recommend the work of @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social. Here is an upcoming seminar "Phenomenology in Literature and Neuropsychiatry" with Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Have you checked out the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science?

For psychologists and psychiatrists reading papers on FEP, Shannon's entropy, etc. Yes, there are different kinds of entropy, however, this intro is a much better simplification than simply "measure of disorder." www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2...

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TWO WEEKS AWAY! Dr. Ramirez-Bermudez will lead our next seminar on Tuesday, January 18th, 7 – 8:30 PM EST 📖 He will teach us how narratives shape identities 🤓 Make sure to read his fascinating article –> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Don't forget to register! harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Our self-domestication might have potentiated the cognitive features of the human phenotype with an impact on language acquisition & use. It might have facilitated the creation of the cultural niche that favors the complexification of languages via a cultural mechanism."

New paper from us 👇 Great to see this out.

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

I think this is in conflict with the scientific evidence about a lateralized linguistic network in the brain that leads to aphasia after brain lesions. The discussion about boundaries is valuable, of course. But we should acknowledge that some brain areas contribute to language only indirectly

Cognitive disorders in patients with neuroimmunological disease 🧐 1/7 A new paper by Miguel Restrepo, @vaughanbell.bsky.social & myself, just published in Current Opinion in Psychiatry 🤓 We focus on autoimmune diseases underlying cases of neurocognitive disorder... journals.lww.com/co-psychiatr...

1️⃣ February 18th, 7 – 8:30 PM EST Phenomenology in Literature and Neuropsychiatry with Dr. Ramirez-Bermudez @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social 2️⃣ COOKING PRACTICUM! February 27th, 7 – 8 PM EST Neuroculinary Care with Chef Duskin @oligoclonalband.medsky.social @adinawisemd.bsky.social

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least) www.nature.com/articles/s41... (h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence

What about these functional gradients in cerebral cortex? From perceptual to executive memory, from sensori-motor to semantic/conceptual memory? Do you find this map to be consistent with clinical facts and neurocognitive research?

A summary of the brain’s functional specialization for social affective cognition: 1) The emotion regulation network, 2) the embodied simulation network, 3) the mentalizing network, 4) the subcortical parenting network

My Cambridge Element on Irrationality is out, and open access for a month! In it I discuss akrasia, conspiracy beliefs, self-deception, delusion, and implicit bias. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Book Review: Roll Back the World by Deborah Kasdan An unflinching memoir of the personal and familial impact of schizophrenia, failures of the healthcare system, and the tremendous difficulty of finding a life worth living under the circumstances. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

Ventral and dorsal pathways connecting the amygdala with the septal nuclei & the hypothalamus. Also, the fibers connecting the hypothalamus & the midbrain are depicted Hendelman's Atlas of Functional Neuroanatomy 🧠

How do specific brain regions contribute to fear and anxiety? Although this approach is common, I propose we think of brain circuits instead. This is because brain regions are so richly interconnected that one can think of 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁. #neuroscience

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"A model is a compositional, whole brain state, combining information from multiple specialised brain systems into a structured description of entities in the model and their roles and relationships. The default mode network may play an organizational role." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The relationships between memory & varieties of #consciousness following Tulving. Noetic consciousness requires semantic memory & autonoetic consciousness requires episodic memory. What about anoetic consciousness? Is it a basic form of sensorimotor awareness requiring procedural memory?

doi.org/10.3171/2024... Thrilled to unveil our multicenter study—featuring Bern, Hannover, Innsbruck, Milan, Oxford, & Toronto—mapping thalamic #DBS response regions for central post- #stroke #pain. A step forward in understanding and treating this challenging condition! @lead-dbs.org

Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness Conference Review by Joshua Richardson ( @schizosemia.bsky.social ) cc: @jfeyaerts.bsky.social @wtrax.bsky.social www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/too-mad-to...

We use the term "anosognosia" in the context of neurological conditions, e.g. Anton syndrome, (a blind person who says that they can see). Is there a similar problem in schizophrenia? Anosognosia in Schizophrenia | CNS Spectrums | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4fSIzLW

"Sleep problems & intrusive memories play an important role in the onset & maintenance of mental health disorders. Here, we show that depriving healthy participants of sleep disrupts their ability to keep intrusive memories at bay. Using functional neuroimaging, we reveal...

1/4 Lynch et al: "Using precision functional mapping and several samples of deeply sampled individuals, we found that the Frontostriatal Salience Network is expanded nearly twofold in the cortex of most individuals with #depression." nature.com/articles/s4158…

The Editor's Perspective 🤭

some fun discussion here 🧠📈 #cogSci #psychology #PhilMind #PhilNeuro #PhilCogSci

New from us: People with delusions sometimes feel that the world is unreal. Here, we explain this in terms of prediction errors, with Kamin blocking behavioral and computational data from patients, psychics, and controls www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Allostasis: a framework linking the level of chronic psychological stress with the level of dysfunction of interoceptive & predictive mechanisms leading to allostatic overload. This contributes to the high comorbidity between mental health problems & general medical conditions

Question: Should First-Rank Symptoms be reintroduced as Core Criteria of Schizophrenia? Towards the DSM-6: Results of a Survey of Experts on the Reintroduction of First-Rank Symptoms as Core Criteria of Schizophrenia and on Redefining Hallucinations academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Severe disturbances in bodily self-awareness can be seen after lesions of the right hemisphere. Below, the MRI of a 64 year old man with asomatognosia & misoplegia: an extensive vascular lesion of the right hemisphere is present in frontal, insular, temporal & parietal cortices #Neuropsychiatry

Reflections on “Psychiatry at the Margins” with comments from Peter Zachar, Nicole Rust, Jim Phelps, Sofia Jeppsson, and Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez “margins are also where we can scribble out insights to augment what is already on the page” Zachar www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/reflection...

For #neuropsychiatry #neurology #madness birds in the bluesky, I received this wonderful rare book in the post, Liveing's 'On Megrim, Sick-Headache...Pathology of Nerve-Storms' from Klaas Arts, signed by and with correspondence from the maestro, my hero #OliverSacks. Thanks Klaas! What a sheer gem!

Very thought provoking article on how critiques of psychiatry may, in fact, be ableist. By @samdylanfinch.bsky.social everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/5-wa...

Psychiatric Comorbidities in Persons With #Epilepsy Compared With Persons Without Epilepsy. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis What can we learn from this study? 1/3 🧠⚡🧑‍⚕️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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A patient with acute cognitive disturbance, characterized by agraphia, acalculia, left right disorientation, and digital agnosia. The so-called Gertsmann syndrome. Any comments on this MRI? Does it contribute to the explanation of the cognitive disorder? What about etiology?

An excellent comment on the neuroscientific research on consciousness, with some skeptical arguments towards integrated information theory, by @neddo.bsky.social 👌🏼

My Word Cloud 😉! Check yours: scholargoggler.com?s=09

In this paper, we provide examples of complex cases that require studying the interaction between neuropathological & psychological factors within sociocultural contexts, leading to intricate clinical patterns that demand a multidisciplinary approach to clinical care

I'm happy to share our Review article, "Cognitive Maps and Schizophrenia", synthesising evidence for representation-level abnormalities in the condition, and proposing directions for future work. Out now in Trends in Cognitive Science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...