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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 7d

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 23d

Proud husband! Ivana Gavric's new single is out
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OegD...

Dora Pejačević Erinnerung (Remembrance) Op 24

YouTube video by Ivana Gavrić

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · Sep 3

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Sep 4

The brain's priors have been found! They were hiding everywhere: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... So if this is true for "simple" decisions, it should also be true for more complex ones, like, say, emotions, right?

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making - Nature

Brain-wide recordings in mice reveal that prior expectations are distributed through recurrent loops across all levels of cortical and subcortical processing.

www.nature.com

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 28

Amazing news, many congratulatins @behrenstimb.bsky.social

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Aug 20

🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty

@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social

Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20

… Link here: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... ... (2/15)

Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network-level activity

The amygdala is a core region changed in depression, a disorder characterized by compromised emotion, motivation and learning processes. However, lesion studies in humans examining amygdala function h...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wonderful to have you here! I hope you stay...

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 18

Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry

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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 18

Still open!

Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

New position alert! This is an exciting position for a Specialty Doctor to take a leading role in developing the North London Mood Disorders Research Clinic in a national network of Mental Health Mission research clinics apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7.... @noclor.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social

Specialty Doctor- Mood Disorders Research Clinic | Job advert | Trac

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

#neurojob #psychiatry @rcpsych.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

New position alert! This is an exciting position for a Specialty Doctor to take a leading role in developing the North London Mood Disorders Research Clinic in a national network of Mental Health Mission research clinics apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7.... @noclor.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social

Specialty Doctor- Mood Disorders Research Clinic | Job advert | Trac

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

New position alert! This is an exciting position for a Specialty Doctor to take a leading role in developing the North London Mood Disorders Research Clinic in a national network of Mental Health Mission research clinics apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7.... @noclor.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social

Specialty Doctor- Mood Disorders Research Clinic | Job advert | Trac

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 10

Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

Here we go. #cpconf2025 is over. Thank you all for a superb conference and in particular @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and Susan Fischer!

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relmed.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social · Jul 16

Introducing our fantastic RELMED Team! 🧠 [Part 1]
@docqhuys.bsky.social @nikkisingh.bsky.social

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

The bar is high!

Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Jul 15

#CPConf2025 is exploring multidimensional reward functions #RufusTempleOrchestra

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

@roelandheerema.bsky.social at #cpconf2025 talking about a new task linking specific emotional appraisals to computational states.

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

Jiazhou Chen at #cpconf2025 on generalisation of MEG signatures of emotional states.

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relmed.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social · Jul 15

The RELMED team @docqhuys.bsky.social @hylu.bsky.social @muzhiwang.bsky.social is presenting our study at #CPC2025 in Tübingen, Germany this week! Come find us at Poster Session 3 on Wednesday 16th July at poster number 3.24 and 3.26!

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 15

Can we quantify mental states using LLMs? What are the limits? When does it and when does it not work and why? Jakub Onysk talking #cpconf2025

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Prof Joseph F Hayes @jfhayes.bsky.social · Jul 9

Since Davies & Read review of 2019 Sameer Jauhar and I have been trying to get closer to the truth about AD discontinuation. It’s entered guidelines as FACT: 50% will experience difficulty stopping. So we completed the DEFINITITIVE meta-analysis of trial data.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Incidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms

This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the presence and incidence of discontinuation symptoms in individuals who stop taking antidepressants.

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