Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Livia Asan

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

1 2 2

Reposted by Livia Asan

Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · Jun 29

In psychotherapy, treatment expectations matter. But even more powerful? ➡️ How they change over time. Our new paper shows that updating expectations during psychotherapy for MDD predicts depression outcomes. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRBWU...
#depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating

Dynamic expectancies: The independent role of within-person change in outcome expectancy in predicting overall treatment outcomes in psychotherapy for depression

Dynamic changes in patients’ outcome expectancy have been increasingly recognized as important for psychotherapy success. However, whether expectancy change predicts treatment outcomes independentl...

www.tandfonline.com

2 9 27

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 26

💯💯🙌

1

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 26

@8minutesold.bsky.social and others - cool project - and check our the page! Maybe a cool Sci Fi story from #cosmicchoreographies?!

Science & Fiction @scienceandfiction.net · Jun 26

This project now has a Ko-Fi page where you can donate to keep the project alive! 💙 This helps for example to pay for yearly domain costs and upkeep.

There are also some limited stickers available to buy! 🌟

Have a look and support ➡️ ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...

Support Science and Fiction

ko-fi.com

1 1 3

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 24

@helenahartmann.com sounds cool!

1 2

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 17

SIPS snippet #4:
It's so important to study patients directly to understand pain. So far, patient data seem to challenge the bayesian integration principles in pain. But we need a clearer picture - just as the work from Eleonora Camerone is striving to do! #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

1 2

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 17

SIPS snippet #3:
Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out

2 4

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 16

SIPS snippet #2:
Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!

2 7

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 15

SIPS snippet #1:
Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia.
#SIPSplacebo2025

4 8

Reposted by Livia Asan

SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · Jun 15

One Saturday afternoon, we started with @winstontan.bsky.social and @liviaasan.bsky.social presenting the new SIPS ECR network. 🙌

Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️

Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨

1 5 14

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Jun 14

Amazing! Congratulations Helena

1 1

Reposted by Livia Asan

Devin Terhune @devinterhune.bsky.social · Jun 11

Our new paper is out in BP:GOS. A large team including @lillianwieder.bsky.social‬, @susannahpick.bsky.social‬, ‪@sunjeevkamboj.bsky.social‬. We found that #dissociation can be reliably induced using a range of methods and drugs, most notably #mirror-gazing and #ketamine. t.ly/qOme3 t.ly/cK-YI

The Induction of Dissociative States: A Meta-Analysis

Plain Language SummaryWe conducted a meta-analysis of studies that measured state dissociation (e.g., feeling detached from one’s environment) in different clinical groups and in response to different...

www.bpsgos.org

1 6 7

Reposted by Livia Asan

tspisak.bsky.social @tspisak.bsky.social · May 30

As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately.

Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI!

First in a series - stay tuned!

Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle

Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...

arxiv.org

2 6 18

Reposted by Livia Asan

Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab.

✅ 18+

✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor)

📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI

1 9 16

Reposted by Livia Asan

SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · Jun 10

✨ Best team ever!!! ✨

The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐

Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️

1 3 11

Reposted by Livia Asan

Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · Jun 7

🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters.
📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136
👇

1 4 6

Reposted by Livia Asan

Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · May 15

🎉🥳 New article in BRAT:
Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's the content of the feedback that matters, not the person giving it: An experimental study on change of negative performance expectations

Previous research on biased expectation change has mainly focused on the mechanisms underlying the deficient processing of novel positive information …

www.sciencedirect.com

2 1 10

Reposted by Livia Asan

Alberto Espay @albertoespay.bsky.social · May 17

Functional neurological disorder (#FND) remains a research orphan at NIH. FND is among the costliest and least funded sources of neurological disability (see graph). The latest NIH review cycle was no exception: zero FND-based grants were funded.

www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

2 6 11

Reposted by Livia Asan

Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · May 16

The @zeit.de wrote a really nice (German) article about our new @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social paper: www.zeit.de/2025/20/plac...

3 6

Reposted by Livia Asan

Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · May 20

NEW FND FILM !- 'Recognising Functional Seizures'🎥

neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd...

This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/

2 8 10

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Apr 3

Great input from a great webinar! Many implications for funct. sens. and motor symptoms. Sensory processing relies on feedforward modeling of sensory consequences of own actions. Many things could go wrong here & produce prediction errors as basis for aberrant sensations or invol. movements.

SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · Apr 3

⭐ New #SFB289 webinar on YouTube! ⭐

This time, Christian Bellebaum presented his research on expectations and action (outcome) processing 👀

Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryPg...

Webinar: Christian Bellebaum - Effects of expectancy in the processing of actions and their outcomes

YouTube video by SFB-TRR 289 "Treatment Expectation"

www.youtube.com

2

Reposted by Livia Asan

SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · Apr 3

We're looking for a PhD student in Essen!

The project (A11): Effects of sickness symptom expectations and dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness

Job ad:
🇩🇪 treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo...

🇬🇧 treatment-expectation.de/en/projects-...

Please share widely!

A11

treatment-expectation.de

1 2

Reposted by Livia Asan

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 29

This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ
). The post reads: "Federal immigration authorities detained a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University. The government hasn’t filed any charges against Rumeysa Ozturk, who was in the U.S. on a student visa, her lawyer said. Read more: on.wsj.com/3E3AM0b." Below the text, there is an image showing a person in a hoodie detaining another person in a white coat and headscarf outside an apartment, with a car and another person in a cap nearby. The image caption reads: "off-campus apartment."

210 1K 4.5K

Livia Asan @liviaasan.bsky.social · Mar 25

Today is #FND awareness day!
I was lucky to learn a lot from people with FND and leading scientists within the last six months here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social.
If you don't know about FND - here's a great read!

FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · Mar 25

Today is FND Awareness Day (UK)!

FND is a common, painful, and disabling disorder.

It remains under-studied and stigmatized, but we’re making progress.

Here’s my in-depth personal essay on how we got here.

medium.com/@fndportal/c...

Cadenza for Fractured Consciousness

A Personal History of the World’s Most Misunderstood Illness

medium.com

1 1 4