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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 1d

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
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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 6d

** 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.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

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Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · 12d

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? 💭

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 15d

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...

Peter Dayan: How to study the brain from a computational view | Q-Learning, Memory, Decision Making

YouTube video by Neuroscience and Beyond

www.youtube.com

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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 17d

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

An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health

Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.

www.science.org

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 18d

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...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Sara Mehrhof @saramehrhof.bsky.social · 17d

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

An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health

Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.

www.science.org

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Ryan Smith @rssmith.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Computational Psychiatry @cpsyjournal.bsky.social · 27d

New paper in CPsy - 'Computational Mechanisms of Approach-Avoidance Conflict Predictively Differentiate Between Affective and Substance Use Disorders' from Marishka Mehta and the group of @rssmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...

Computational Mechanisms of Approach-Avoidance Conflict Predictively Differentiate Between Affective and Substance Use Disorders | Computational Psychiatry

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29d

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...

"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility

“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

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dennis hernaus @dhernaus.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

Unpacking cortisol stress reactivity: Associations with psychological state and trait data in a pooled data sample

Prior research suggests that cortisol responses to acute stress induction paradigms (i.e., “cortisol stress reactivity”) likely arise from complex int…

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Anne Kühnel @akuehnel.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Sep 8

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 figure depicts the study rationale and procedures. We anticipated differences in reward sensitivity across groups varying in symptoms of binge eating, specifically in the variability.

Patients with binge eating disorder (BED) have a higher variability in food wanting ratings during the effort allocation task in the behavioral session.

Participants with a higher body mass index (BMI) show elevated variability of anticipatory cue responses in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc).

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Markus Fendt @mfendt.bsky.social · Sep 5

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...

Start der Ausbauphase am DZPG: Mehr Forschung, mehr Vernetzung, mehr Wirkung

Heute beginnt an allen sechs Standorten des Deutschen Zentrums für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG) offiziell die fünfjährige Ausbauphase. Das Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (B...

www.dzpg.org

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

Peter Dayan: The Marriage of Natural and Engineered Reinforcement Learning

YouTube video by Reinforcement Learning Conference

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Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 30

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...

Graphical summary of the analysis pipeline

Decreased similarity within the anterior insula cortex drives group differences between patients with MDD and healthy control participants. This difference is illustrated by shift functions and compared to control regions in the temporal cortex.

Patients with depression can be robustly classified based on functional connectivity profiles, and the accuracy improves with increasing symptom severity.

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 30

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...

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Aug 25

"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...

Decision Making

This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.

link.springer.com

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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

Trigonometric functions and a unit circle

A bivariate change model with structured residuals

A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20

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)

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · Aug 18

🚀 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 😉 )

💡👇

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Aug 14

This paper is now published in Computational Psychiatry :)

cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣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...

PhD Researcher (f/m/d) Women’s Mental Health

jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

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