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Prof Rick Adams
@drrickadams.bsky.social
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Psychiatrist & Future Leaders Fellow at UCL, head of the Translational Computational Psychiatry lab: https://www.tcplab.org/. Working on psychosis, brain imaging, computational models of the brain. Co-Ed-in-Chief of @cpsyjournal.bluesky.social
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 20d
New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neuromodulation enhances dynamic sensory processing in spiking neural network models
Neuromodulators allow circuits to dynamically change their biophysical properties in a context-sensitive way. In addition to their role in learning, neuromodulators have been suggested to play a role ...
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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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d
You will be based in www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/icn, a fun place with lots of v talented researchers 🥸 incl @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @jonroiser.bsky.social, @olijrobinson.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, @jameskilner.bsky.social, Sophie Scott and many more... 5/5
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
We focus on research into the human mind and brain.
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d
The project is led by Oliver Howes at KCL, this job will be supervised by me, also @pgarner.bsky.social (who built the model) and @vaughanbell.bsky.social. Patient studies involve @mitulamehta.bsky.social, Kelly Diederen and others! 4/5
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d
Second, it will also involve using a spiking neural network 🤖 model of speech perception 🗣️ to understand how hallucinations might come about in both physiological and computational terms - a super interesting question! 3/5
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d
The job will involve 2 main tasks - first, modelling EEG 🧠 data from people with psychosis with/without auditory hallucinations, to try to see how cortical excitability⚡ affects hallucinations; 2/5
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 9d
Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 16d
This study of intelligence in the UK Biobank is typical of a lot of current social science genomics. Impressive technically, and not over-interpreted. But still, a main result gets lost in the sauce. Within-families, the direct-effect polygenic score explains no more that 1-3% of the variance. /1
Imputation of fluid intelligence scores reduces ascertainment bias and increases power for analyses of common and rare variants
Studying the genetics of measures of intelligence can help us understand the neurobiology of cognitive function and the aetiology of rare neurodevelopmental conditions. The largest previous genetic st...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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Computational Psychiatry @cpsyjournal.bsky.social · 23d
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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Computational Psychiatry @cpsyjournal.bsky.social · 23d
New paper in CPsy 📢 - from Mostafa Abdou, @raziasahi.bsky.social, Thomas Hull, @eriknook.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social - cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 22
Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social

#compneuro #neuroskyence

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Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS
Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...
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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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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
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 30
I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health
Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...
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Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social · Jul 23
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Jul 8
Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Attractors are usually not mechanisms
The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals
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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · Jul 6
Clinical research in England is wild! 3+ years, 20+ meetings, 200+ documents, 500+ emails is what it can take to open a fully funded, observational non-CTIMP study.

Thank you @chrischirp.bsky.social and colleagues for calling attention to this urgent, solvable crisis!

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Health research in England is grinding to a halt
Wes Streeting, the UK health and social care secretary, announced in 2024 that “the NHS is broken” against a background of ballooning waiting lists, delays in disease detection, and reduced staff prod...
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Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social · Jul 2
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
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Michael Browning @mikebrowning.bsky.social · Jun 30
Our new study published in TheLancetPsych! We found that pramipexole augmentation substantially reduced depressive symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression over 48 weeks of treatment. This is an important advance in how we treat depression! 1/6
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Pramipexole augmentation for the acute phase of treatment-resistant, unipolar depression: a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial in the UK
In this trial involving participants with treatment-resistant depression, pramipexole augmentation of antidepressant treatment, at a target dose of 2·5 mg, demonstrated a reduction in symptoms relativ...
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · Jun 30
Congrats Mike! Great work
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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · Jun 11
Looking forward to #RLDM2025!

🌀 I'll be talking about why we get caught in repetitive negative thinking patterns like rumination and worry at the Thursday poster session (poster #21) — come say hi if you're around!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · Jun 5
I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Jun 2
Fundamental work that everyone should read!
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Jun 2
Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot:

"Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"

(by Balaban & me)

relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
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