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Jane Boissiere
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Former GP & SAS Psychiatrist, Past President British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH), Royal Society of Medicine, Hypnosis Section, Council member
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 1d
𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗫
By Mars and Passingham
"Understanding anthropoid foraging challenges may thus contribute to our understanding of human cognition"
Going to the top of the reading list!
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#neuroskyence
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Jane Boissiere @edinpublishing.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely wonderful project. Trained (1 month) Community Grandmothers and a Community park bench. Brilliant way forward. We all have skills to help each other!!! Brilliant idea 🙏😊👍
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 2d
In Zimbabwe, Prof Dixon Chibanda lost a patient to suicide over a $10 bus fare. This inspired @friendshipbench.bsky.social, which has now helped hundreds of thousands.

Through global partnerships, King’s is improving access to mental health care. #WorldMentalHealthDay

www.kcl.ac.uk/zimbabwe-to-...
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations to Professor Mark Edwards! He was awarded the Stanley Fahn Presidential Lecture award by International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders @movedisorder.bsky.social for his extensive work at the interface of mind-body research

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Mark Edwards awarded the prestigious Stanley Fahn Presidential Lecture award by International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders | King's College London
Award is the highest honour that recognises an outstanding scholar and role-model clinician in the field of Movement Disorders.
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 2d
In Zimbabwe, Prof Dixon Chibanda lost a patient to suicide over a $10 bus fare. This inspired @friendshipbench.bsky.social, which has now helped hundreds of thousands.

Through global partnerships, King’s is improving access to mental health care. #WorldMentalHealthDay

www.kcl.ac.uk/zimbabwe-to-...
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Devin Terhune @devinterhune.bsky.social · 13d
Excellent opportunity to pursue a PhD on dissociative states with @susannahpick.bsky.social and me at the IoPPN @kingsioppn.bsky.social Reach out to us with any questions
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Dr Susannah Pick @susannahpick.bsky.social · 16d
Applications opening on 8th October for our @kingsioppn.bsky.social MRC DTP PhD studentships for 2026 entry - lots of great projects being offered including one from me and @devinterhune.bsky.social on transdiagnostic dissociative states/symptoms kcl-mrcdtp.com/apply/projec...
Projects - MRC DTP
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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 9d
Today's post is of course about #metaphor, but also about #alchemy, about the history of science and about what we can learn from it for today's #genomic talk and #scicomm makingsciencepublic.com/2025/10/03/m...
Metaphor, alchemy and lessons from the 17th century
Philip Ball has just published a magnificent book on the history of alchemy: Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science. This made me think about metap…
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Mena Farag @drmfarag.bsky.social · 16d
Amid this week’s huge milestone in #HD treatment, I’m excited to share part of my PhD thesis + our paper published today in @movedisorder.bsky.social on CSF #PENK predicting striatal atrophy decades before clinical motor diagnosis 🔗 movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cerebrospinal Fluid Proenkephalin Predicts Striatal Atrophy Decades before Clinical Motor Diagnosis in Huntington's Disease
Background Huntington's disease (HD) is characterized by early, selective, progressive vulnerability of striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs). Proenkephalin (PENK), a precursor of opioid peptides abu...
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Dr Susannah Pick @susannahpick.bsky.social · 16d
Applications are also open for the @kingsioppn.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social PhD programme in mental health research for healthcare professionals. I'm in the supervisor pool and welcome enquiries about projects kclmentalhealthphd.co.uk/apply
Funding, Eligibility & How to Apply — PhD Programme in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 16d
One of the most important mental health books I've read in the last decade, Darren McGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex is absolute 🔥
www.penguin.co.uk/books/439534...

Skip the subtitle, it's a much wider analysis of trauma and lived experience in mental health. Takes on lots of unquestioned dogmas
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Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social · 26d
Cannae believe the tour is kicking off next week. I'd love it if you could join me to launch POYUMS ANNAW!! Tickets are available for most events here 👇

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 27d
A Kantian take on Integrated Information Theory - newly published in Philosophical Explorations by our very own @robertchisciure.bsky.social - and its #OpenAccess too 🎉👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13869795.2025.2550245
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Anna Ciaunica @annaciaunica.bsky.social · Sep 12
New preprint 🎉😎!

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Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and Malika Auvray
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Sep 11
It was an honour to be able to give this key note at the Neuroscience of the Everyday World conference in Boston

Thank you @swathikiran.bsky.social & @mstangl.bsky.social for inviting me and being such an excellent hosts!
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Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU @swathikiran.bsky.social · Sep 10
Hugo Spiers' keynote presentation, Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean, from the 2025 Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference is now live on the CBR YouTube channel. @hugospiers.bsky.social
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N.E.W. Conference 2025 | Hugo Spiers (Keynote): Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
YouTube video by Boston University Center for Brain Recovery
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · Sep 12
Fantastic work by @tessamdekker.bsky.social investigating how “what we know” influences “what we see” across development, including both young and aging populations
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FND Ireland @fndireland.bsky.social · Sep 8
📢 Meet our Speakers at our #FNDIreland Conference!

Roisin Vance, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Neurology will present 'Physiotherapy Approaches to Management in FND'. Join us on October 18th for this in person event on #FND. Scan to book.💚🧡
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Image description: A white and green poster for the FND Ireland Conference speakers. The text reads: "Meet Our Speakers: Roisin Vance, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Neurology in Beaumont Hospital. Roisin specialises in movement disorders with a special interest in Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). She is an honorary lecturer in RSCI school of physiotherapy and lectures at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in FND, Spasticity and Parkinson’s Disease. Roisin is an active committee member at FND Ireland and has research projects underway aimed at improving service provision to those with FND and improving FND education. FND Ireland Conference 2025 Date: Saturday 18th October, Location: Maldron Hotel Tallaght, Dublin." There is a headshot photo of Roisin in the top left of the poster. She is a person with brown hair and is wearing a white top with a blue lanyard. There is a QR code to book tickets to the conference in the bottom left of the poster.
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The McPin Foundation @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social · Sep 8
Training announcement! 📢

Want to learn how you can use patient & public involvement (PPI) in your research in a more inclusive way?

We’re running a course of 3 online PPI training sessions in Nov & Dec 2025.

Don't miss out - find out more & register here 👉 www.mcpin.org/work-with-us/training/
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Alasdair MacLullich @amaclullich.bsky.social · Sep 6
"The principles of dementia-friendly design should be incorporated into hospital environments. This includes good signage, appropriate lighting and noise levels, and creating a calming and reassuring atmosphere."

— Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · Sep 7
Good morning!

📷: Portobello Beach, Edinburgh, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland 🤗
Just before sunrise, a calm beach scene with puffy clouds coloured peachy pink.
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Steve @qvakeroats.bsky.social · Sep 6
www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
The appalling neglect of mentally ill people in Britain | Letters
Letters: Two parents recount the traumatic experiences of their daughter and son respectively. Plus a letter from David Kitchen on medication
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · Sep 5
Whistler visited Venice in 1879 after losing all his money with his famous libel suit against John Ruskin. This scene is superbly arranged: smoke from coloured flares adds to the drama of night-time view of the Grand Canal and the Santa Maria della Salute.
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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · Sep 6
Smiling tremor: a rare twist in essential tremor or possibly task specific tremor. I recently learned about a man whose cheeks would tremble every time he smiled. This paper just dropped in Movement Disorders Clinical Practice by Chen and colleagues on the topic. @sfn.org
Smiling Tremor in a Patient with Essential Tremor
Click on the article title to read more.
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · Sep 6
New from our CNTRACS collab: Santiago Castiello finds that people with schizophrenia false alarm speech in sine wave stimuli, and benefit more greatly from the templates - particularly if they are voice hearers osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · Sep 1
Do you know the 'why' behind Nobel Prize winner Stanley Prusiner's discovery of prions? Watch the lead off talk for the DBS Think Tank XIII Tomorrow Sept 2nd.
Join us virtually from Sept 2-4 for DBS Think Tank XIII. We will highlight "The Evolving Landscape of DBS: New Indications, New Goals".
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Scott C Anderson @scottcanderson.bsky.social · Aug 22
Studies by John Cryan and Ted Dinan have demonstrated that beneficial microbe can cause epigenetic effects in the brain, favoring the growth of new nerve cells and enhancing cognition. Amazing science!
scottcanderson.substack.com/p/epigenetic...
Epigenetics and Development
If your genes represent the blueprint, epigenetics represent the construction crew.
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