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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 11h

6/6 The goal is to strengthen the computational psychiatry's capacity to address the social aspects of mental health -- ideally leading to better explanations, predictions, & interventions with regards to the interpersonal facets of psychiatric disorders.

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 11h

5/6 We also advocate for more rigorous task designs: including non-social controls, considering whether tasks really require social cognition, and using ecologically valid interactions to bridge findings in the laboratory with real-world social experiences.

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 11h

4/6 This is also not about committing to specialized neural function or architecture. It is more about building/testing theory-driven computational models that capture social cognitive processes when our questions are about socially-relevant symptoms.

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 11h

3/6 We propose building models that explicitly capture social cognition (such as inferring others' beliefs, emotions, and intentions) along with contextual factors like fairness norms or controllability, while also incorporating domain-general processes like attention biases or prediction errors.

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 11h

2/6 Symptoms like social avoidance, mistrust, callousness, and paranoia are about other people. Yet many current models are based on non-social tasks, risking the loss of key features needed to understand how people actually reason about others.

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 11h

1/6 Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T

Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @xiaosigu.bsky.social, @joebarnby.com, & I call for cognitive models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms🧵

Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com · 3d

🚨To celebrate #WorldMentalHealthDay, our October issue includes a Focus that examines the advances in computational psychiatry and the challenges of developing computational models to address mental health disorders. #mentalhealthresearch #Psychiatry

➡️ nature.com/collections/...

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A robot on a chair sits next to a patient against a backdrop of a medical report. Credit: mathisworks / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Images

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Angela Radulescu @angelaradulescu.bsky.social · 3d

Curious how cognitive computational models might shed light on question in mental health? Come dive into hands-on tutorials, modeling, and clinical applications during our 3-day workshop 👾 🧠

Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 3d

⌛️ Only 3 days left to apply for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10–12)! Don’t miss your chance to learn about methods in computational psychiatry. Apply now!

👉 form.jotform.com/252448781112...
More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025

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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 3d

⌛️ Only 3 days left to apply for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10–12)! Don’t miss your chance to learn about methods in computational psychiatry. Apply now!

👉 form.jotform.com/252448781112...
More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025

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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 5d

Shoutout to @bshev.bsky.social for presenting his amazing research titled "Distinct food attribute representations emerge across binge-type eating disorders" at the 2025 Society for Neuroeconomics meeting this past weekend! 🧠💡 #SNE2025
@lauraaberner.bsky.social @kiante.bsky.social

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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 7d

🌟We are so excited to share that Dr. @lauraaberner.bsky.social has been named a 2025 One Mind Rising Star!

This award will support her work using neurofeedback and smartphone interventions to enhance self-regulation in bulimia nervosa.

Congratulations Dr. Berner! ✨

The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · Sep 8

EXCITING NEWS! The Dept. of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine's Dr. Laura Berner receives an @onemindorg.bsky.social Rising Star Award for her work on "Advancing Brain-Based Treatments for #BulimiaNervosa"! A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Laura Berner!💫🎉 Learn more 👉 onemind.org/award-recipi...

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 7d

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

codec lab

codec-lab.github.io

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Laura A. Berner @lauraaberner.bsky.social · 18d

A big thank you to @pbs.org's Emmy-nominated "Healthy Minds" for highlighting neurocomputational research in eating disorders. Such a pleasure to be interviewed by Dr. Jeff Borenstein, who always asks the best questions. @bbrfoundation.bsky.social

The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 18d

How does self control, either too much or too little, effect people w/ an eating disorder? In this episode of @pbs.org's "Healthy Minds", host Dr Jeffrey Borenstein has fascinating discussion w/ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's Dr Laura Berner! NOT TO MISS✨ www.thirteen.org/programs/hea...

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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 12d

🎉Belated congrats to Dr. @xiaosigu.bsky.social on launching the Yale Computational Psychiatry Unit! Your vision continues to inspire, & we’re so grateful for the community you built at SinaiCCP. Proud to cheer you on & excited for continued collaborations!
👉 www.neurocpu.org

Home | neurocpu

www.neurocpu.org

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 12d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Nadja Ging Jehli @nadjagingjehli.bsky.social · 13d

Our #ComputationalPsychiatry review paper is published in #Neuropsychopharmacology! 🎉
We outline how to move beyond single constructs, and what’s needed for real clinical impact, with ADHD as a key case example. Toward adaptive, precision psychiatry👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry

www.nature.com

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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 19d

🚨Exciting opportunity for trainees 🚨

Join us at @sinaiccp.bsky.social for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop, a 3-day course (Nov 10-12) for learning methods in computational psychiatry 🚀🧠💻

Apply by Oct 13: form.jotform.com/252448781112...

More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 21d

#s4sn2025 #sans2025 #sne2025 #cpconf2025

Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 21d

We are also considering applications from undergraduate students and Master's students in the local New York City area!

Please check out our website for more information on how to become involved: sinclaboratory.com/apply

Apply

SOCIAL INTERACTION &<br>NEURAL COMPUTATION LAB. The SINC Lab examines the neural and computational basis of social cognition and interaction. We are particularly interested in understanding how social...

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 21d

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

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Alisa Loosen @alisaloosen.bsky.social · 27d

📢 NEW PREPRINT 📢 We show a metacognitive paradox (not blanket deficit!) in OCD: confidence is persistently lower, but fluctuations track evidence more tightly and are nearer Bayes-optimal.

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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The metacognitive paradox of OCD: confidence is globally reduced but shows increased sensitivity to local evidence

Confidence is a critical metacognitive signal that guides performance. Biases in confidence, such as excessive doubt, are hallmark features of mental health disorders, especially obsessive- compulsive...

www.researchsquare.com

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jeanette-mumford.bsky.social @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social · Sep 12

Do you ever wish you could just use python to pull together the files and code for running FSL's randomise? Me too! I made this: github.com/jmumford/ran... It will even replace the numbers in the file outputs with contrast names of your choosing (and replace corrp with 1minusp).

GitHub - jmumford/randomise-prep: Generate design matrices, contrasts, and scripts to set up FSL randomise analyses.

Generate design matrices, contrasts, and scripts to set up FSL randomise analyses. - jmumford/randomise-prep

github.com

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · Sep 10

🤖After a fantastic debut in 2025, the Theory of Mind in AI workshop at AAAI is back for 2026!

We invite submissions on ToM in artificial & biological intelligence—across comp sci, cog sci, comp psych, psychiatry & more.

CFP 👉 tom4ai.github.io/AAAI2026/cal...

2025 procs 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.03770

Call for Papers - ToM4AI Workshop@AAAI 2026

tom4ai.github.io

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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · Sep 8

EXCITING NEWS! The Dept. of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine's Dr. Laura Berner receives an @onemindorg.bsky.social Rising Star Award for her work on "Advancing Brain-Based Treatments for #BulimiaNervosa"! A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Laura Berner!💫🎉 Learn more 👉 onemind.org/award-recipi...

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

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