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“You don’t like AI therapists because they’re a threat to your income”

No, I don’t like AI therapists because they are harmful!

Excited to be in Frankfurt today, presenting at the Heinrich-Hoffmann-Saal at the Department of Psychiatry! Will show off some of our latest computational and psychophysical tools for measuring interoception, as well as some shiny new results! Thanks to @neurometabolic.bsky.social for hosting!!

Tolle Vorträge, neue Gesichter+innovative Impulse, das war der Jahresauftakt beim DYNAMIC-Retreat vom 13.-14.Januar 2025 auf Schloss Rauischholzhausen, wo die teilnehmd. Wissenschaftl.👩‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬an den Projektzielen zur Erforschung psychischer Erkrankungen arbeiteten: www.dynamic-center.net/mitteilung-2...

I probably missed a lot. What were your favorite ones?

And finally, @leaschumacher.bsky.social , Elisabeth Schramm, Levente Kriston and others showed in World Psychiatry that person-specific symptom networks strongly improved the accuracy of the prediction of psychotherapy response: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Employing data from the ENIGMA consortium, Foivos Georgiadis, Matthias Kirschner and many others showed that the heterogeneous pattern of cortical alterations can be traced back to common brain circuits:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Back to brains, a study by @amiklos.bsky.social, Zhi-De Deng, Chris Abbott and many others from the GEMRIC consortium showed that changes in causal depression networks after electroconvulsive therapy relate to treatment outcome in MDD patients. This was published in Molecular Psychiatry:

For an overview of symptom network analysis, please read this great piece by @briganti.bsky.social, Denny Borboom, @eikofried.bsky.social, @tfblanken.bsky.social and Richard McNally and others published in the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research:

Back to symptom networks, Omar Ebrahimi, denny borsboom, Andrea Cipriani and colleagues demonstrated most MDD patients within the same depressive symptom severity group displayed differential symptom dynamics. This was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In line, a new approach to study the extent of involved regions in functional brain networks based on repeated longitudinal measurements showed marked differences in salience network regions in MDD. This work by Charles Lynch, Conor Lyston and others was published in Nature Medicine:

Next, a study on different brain subnetworks by @leotozzi.bsky.social, Leanne Williams and colleagues on brain subnetworks that relate to different symptom dimensions and treatment outcomes in major depressive disorder (MDD) published in Nature Medicine: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Theory: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Practical Implications: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

First, a two-part review on the theory and application of A Dynamical Systems View of Psychiatric Disorders written by Marten Scheffer, Barnaby Nelson, @clbockting.bsky.social, Denny Borsboom and others in JAMA Psychiatry:

which focuses on leveraging changes in dynamic network properties across these levels to improve our understanding and treatment of mental disorders. With that in mind, I wanted to share some of the most exciting papers I read in 2024 that explore brain or symptom networks in some capacity.

Highlights in Network Science and Mental Disorders!
I’ve been fascinated by the application of network analysis in mental disorder research, particularly in exploring brain connectivity networks and symptom networks. Currently, we’re part of a large consortium called DYNAMIC www.dynamic-center.net,

Wikipedia is a great achievement of our era, and (of course) it’s under attack by the far right. If you use it frequently like I do, consider donating: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

Well deserved, congratulations to Udo and his amazing team 👏👏👏👏

This is exactly how you push back against biased articles based on outside opinions (!) in psychiatry. Great job, again, @awaisaftab.bsky.social. 👏This is a must-read not only for journalists in UK, but everyone interested in the debate worldwide: www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...