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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

Prof Paul Fletcher delivers the day's keynote.

As a clinical neuroscientist sees the potential of games to measure stress responses from players, and to use biofeedback for training self-regulation - explored through The Insight Project with Ninja Theory

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

Dr Victoria McCloud chairs a panel featuring @chellaramanan.bsky.social from @3foldgames.bsky.social, Dom Matthews from Ninja Theory, and Dr Andrew Howe

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

Ninja Theory Studio Head Dom Matthews discusses the development of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. The studio worked with people with lived experience of psychosis, aiming to create a truthful representation of the symptoms in lead character Senua.

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

@chellaramanan.bsky.social speaks about @3foldgames.bsky.social's Before I Forget, and depicting dementia in a non-cliched, respectful way. She and the team worked with psychiatrists for input, including our own Dr Donald Servant.

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

Dr Andrew Howe, Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, speaks on Jungian archetypes in The Legend of Zelda, and using the mythology of games in psychological therapy. He guides us through active imagination based on Ocarina of Time 💭

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

Malachi Gow showed us his game "i love me, i love me not", a relaxing game focusing on teaching mental health habits.

He is the recipient of our first Independent Developer Award, and £1,000 for further development. 🏆

malgow.net

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social

Addictions Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Kaar on research looking at longitudinal research into gaming disorder. Evidence suggests young people with depressive, anxiety, ADHD symptoms are at higher risk of developing gaming disorder symptoms.

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social

@leonxiao.com on loot boxes and regulations related to odds disclosure, minimum age requirements, and advertising, as well as countries where they are recognised as gambling, and the myriad cases where games don't comply with regulations!

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference at the @rcpsych.bsky.social

Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones on the establishment of the gaming disorder diagnosis and the range of presentations seen at the The National Centre for Gaming Disorders.

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

Dr Stone Hsieh on the neurological benefits of exercise. He and Bread Lab's ActiGamer project looks to see if active video games can reduce ADHD symptoms, and the feasibility if introducing this as an intervention.

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 9d

Gaming the Mind Conference

Elin Festøy delivers a talk about My Child New Beginnings, about raising a Lebensborn child dealing with trauma in a hateful environment. The game aims to build empathy with the child, to create a strong motivator for transformation.

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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 10d

Preparing for the launch of the first ever Gaming the Mind conference! Hosted at the @rcpsych.bsky.social

Ready for a day talking about the exciting growing field of gaming and mental health!

Auditorium at the Royal College of Psychiatrists

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 10d

Today I'll mostly be talking about videogames at the Royal College of Psychiatrists @gamingthemind.bsky.social conference
#BeforeIForget @3foldgames.bsky.social

A light-skinned Black woman (Chella) with a curly fringe and glasses and a black puff-sleeve top on is smiling.

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

#HyperemesisGravidarum #PerinatalMentalHealth #WomensHealth #ObGyn #Psychiatry #PerinatalPsychiatry

Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

Many thanks to my brilliant co-authors for making this possible: Yasmeen Abdel Bari, Katharine Lynch-Kelly, Danish Hafeez, @liviaasan.bsky.social, Mark J Edwards, Gertrude Seneviratne,
Thomas A Pollak

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

We suggest that this finding highlights the importance of integrated physical and mental healthcare for all those suffering with HG, regardless of physiological severity.

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

Interestingly, cases of hyperemesis gravidarum with metabolic disturbance displayed a significantly lower risk of depression and postpartum depression compared with those without metabolic disturbance.

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

We also saw significantly increased risk in rare but serious outcomes such as:
- Wernicke's encephalopathy 2.39 (1.25 - 4.56)
- Puerperal psychosis 1.80 (1.48 - 2.20)

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

In the first year following diagnosis we found ⬆️ cumulative incidence risk ratios in a number of outcomes including:
- Any mental, behavioural, or neurodevelopmental disorder 1.96 (1.93 - 1.99)
- Postpartum depression 2.70 (2.61 - 2.79)
- Eating disorders 2.06 (1.85 - 2.89)
- PTSD 1.77 (1.69 - 1.86)

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

With 476,857 individuals across 18 different countries (propensity score matched 1:1 with pregnant controls), this is the largest study to date in this historically underserved population.

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14d

I'm glad to share our new retrospective cohort study in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum: a retrospective cohort study

Our study suggests that although hyperemesis gravidarum is associated with higher risk for poorer mental health outcomes compared with pregnancy without the condition, the relationship between hyperem...

www.thelancet.com

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Sep 2

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots

#MLSky #CompNeuro #NeuroAI

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots - Nature Machine Intelligence

AI copilots are integrated into brain–computer interfaces, enabling a paralysed participant to achieve improved control of computer cursors and robotic arms. This shared autonomy approach offers a pro...

www.nature.com

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you'd like to understand more about the recent phenomenon dubbed "AI/chatbot psychosis" by the media, you could do far worse than listen to @theguardian.com's Science Weekly Podcast where I explain what it is, why it happens, and what we can do about it

www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · Sep 2

I must confess, the reason I rarely use this platform is that almost every time I try to share a link via the app, I receive some sort of error message

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