Nazia Jassim
naziajassim.bsky.social
Nazia Jassim
@naziajassim.bsky.social
🧠 Cognitive neuroscience postdoc, Cambridge Uni | Computational modelling, neuroimaging, visual perception, mental health & neurodiversity | Likes 🐈‍⬛🐈, horror films, spicy food, 90s rock

Website: naziajassim.github.io
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This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉

Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6

Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
Proud to be part of this amazing lab which maintains a truly optimal ratio of research papers to Colin the Caterpillars! 🐛🍰🍩
I've been pretty absent from social media for a while, mostly for my own sanity. But my lab have had a run of amazing outputs lately, and it feels like the right moment to shake off the cobwebs and share what they've all been up to. I'm genuinely so proud of this team. Separate posts to follow!
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This one was featured in the @natcomms.nature.com editors highlights page - a lovely recognition of the quality and importance of this work. Well done team!
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Then we have a new paper led by Nazia Jassim @naziajassim.bsky.social on the neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing and links to trait anxiety: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry - Nature Communications
Using computational modelling and neurochemical analysis, this study shows how motor cortex excitatory signals guide belief updating and adaptive learning in uncertain environments.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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First up, this paper led by Bronagh McCoy: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

When noise and volatility are independently manipulated people behave differently depending on their anxious traits.
The relationship between anxious traits and learning about changes in stochasticity and volatility
Author summary Adapting to changes in our environment is a daily endeavour. To do so, humans and animals alike make use of feedback to guide future actions. Uncertainty in the environment can arise fr...
journals.plos.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉

Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6

Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If you're interested in computational psychiatry, come chat with me about the neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing at poster A10 #BAP2025
June 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Exciting guest lecture by Angela Roberts on anhedonia and anxiety #BAP2025
June 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New preprint alert! How do we process uncertainty, and how do neurometabolites shape this?🧠Here we combine computational modeling + 7T MRS to answer these questions: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With Peter Thestrup Waade, Chris Mathys, Frederike Petzchner, @beckyneuro.bsky.social & others! 🧵(1/4)
Neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing in humans
How individuals process and respond to uncertainty has important implications for cognition and mental health. Here we use computational phenotyping to examine individualised 'uncertainty fingerprints...
www.biorxiv.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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October 25, 2024 at 11:48 AM