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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry

www.medsci.ox.ac.uk

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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 13d

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?

Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health

Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.

www.science.org

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

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Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · Sep 4

These, and other, studies show that you can decode task-related signals from many brain areas.

But wouldn't we need causal manipulations to conclude that the brain "uses" them?

For example, maybe we can decode equally well from two areas. But, only one impacts behaviour when inactivated.

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 27

Couldn't agree more with this

Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

We must go beyond the "resting state". We have to do the difficutl work of manipulating emotion, arousal, and interoception directly, and understand how this dynamic process informs self-appraisal, to mapping how maladaptive narratives are formed and informed by interoception. No more rest!

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)

www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

New at the university: Prof. Weber!

Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 20

So proud of, and excited about, this project with the brilliant @johalgermissen.bsky.social, @mirunarascu.bsky.social, and @mkflugge.bsky.social + an amazing team of collaborators. Check out Johannes' summary thread 👇 #tFUS #amygdala

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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Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼

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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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Jun 13

Looking forward to this!

ccnberlin.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social · Jun 13

June 16th at 16:00 (4:00pm Berlin time) Lilian Weber from
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity will present @CCBNBerlin Seminar Series @FU_Berlin @fupsych
Title of Talk: Neural Mechanisms of Control in Emotional Decision-Making
For abstract: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jun 10

Are you coming to @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025?
Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫

w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

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danasmall.bsky.social @danasmall.bsky.social · Jun 11

For the past couple of years I met weekly with 3 amazing younger scientists @lilweb.bsky.social @debyee.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social to share ideas and teach each other. No agenda. It was often the favorite part of my week. Then we started writing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning

Rewards play a crucial role in sculpting all motivated behavior. Traditionally, research on reinforcement learning has centered on how rewards guide l…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Feb 20

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

forms.gle

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Apr 28

Two days left for contributed talks submissions 🤖💫

sites.google.com/view/game-on...

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement:

"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"

Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd

Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · Apr 28

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social
@hugofleming.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Sören Krach @soerenkrach.bsky.social · Apr 15

📣 Exciting announcement for the summer term:

Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself.

The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement:

"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"

Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd

Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Nov 26

Interesting paper from Millridge et al: Reward Bases: A simple mechanism for adaptive acquisition of multiple reward types

Do DA neurons encode gradient of reward dimensions, i.e some encode food predicting cues, others fluid etc.?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#compneurosky #neuroskyence

journals.plos.org

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · Nov 22

My 15' talk "the modern EEG regression toolkit: rERPs, TRFs, mixed models, and more" is now on youtube youtu.be/vnlbVDarRUc?...

thanks @cuttingeeg.bsky.social for an awesome #EEG conference!

CuttingEEGX - Evolving Methods

YouTube video by cutting EEG

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Nov 19

Yes!!! The review I've been looking for! Rapid-acting antidepressants like ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy, and noninvasive stimulation (TMS) are thought to work by enhancing plasticity, but how, exactly? Grateful to @alexkwan.bsky.social and team for summarizing the evidence in this review.

Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · Nov 19

There are many nuances regarding the structural neural plasticity associated with antidepressant drugs. 💊🧠

We share our thoughts here in a Nature Reviews Neuroscience article, led by Clara Liao with co-authors from Conor Liston’s lab at Weill Cornell.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Review article on neural plasticity and antidepressant interventions

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Oct 21

Check out this👇 amazing new python tool for Bayesian modelling, lead-developed by @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social - it includes (among many other things) all elements of the generalised HGF (arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937) for you to use and apply. Can't wait to see what the community will do with it! 🚀

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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · Aug 13

Eli Sennesh, Hao Wu, Tommaso Salvatori
Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · Sep 15

We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry.

I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 14

The cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612221v1

Interoception refers to the sensing of the internal state of the body and encompasses various bodily

www.biorxiv.org

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Sep 11

Can we use macronutrients to understand altered food reward in depression? Our new preprint shows that patients with MDD report lower wanting & liking for foods rich in fat or protein (vs. carbs). #neuroscience 🩺

W/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social @neuromadlab.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Altered food liking in depression is driven by macronutrient composition of the depicted food. We analyzed wanting and liking ratings of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and matched healthy control participants. Patients with MDD reported lower food wanting, whereas food liking was primarily associated with symptoms of anhedonia. We then evaluated whether the macronutrient composition of the food accounted for differences in ratings. This led to a substantial improvement in models and showed that patients with MDD show specific deficits for food rich in fat and protein.

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Sep 6

This has been a long haul – the main work was done as part of my PhD at the #TNU @ethzurich.bsky.social , with Klaas and Chris. Years later, @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social, Peter and Anna came onboard and created shiny toolboxes from our initial codebase. First preprint May 2023. Glad to finally share!

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Sep 6

We also provide some examples for the kinds of models you can now build within the HGF framework – from global volatility beliefs, multimodal inference, multisensory cue combination over time, etc etc – check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937

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