we are still recruiting!

healthy uk adults based in #london, come get your #eeg measured while inhaling #nitrousoxide or medical air

@devinterhune.bsky.social and I have a new invited paper out in the #IJCEH. if you're interested in #psychedelics, #hypnosis, #suggestion, #placebo or #nocebo effects—this is worth a read 🤓

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had a great time at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social 2025 w/ my supervisor @devinterhune.bsky.social 🥳 i presented two meta-analyses on responsiveness to verbal suggestions (REVS) in #placebo and #nocebo responding & one experiment looking at suggestion effects & REVS in placebo #psychedelic responding.

Applications are open for the Plasticity Lab summer internship at the University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social 🦾 Work with an interdisciplinary team on motor augmentation and wearable tech, exploring enhancement of movement capabilities 🧠 Apply by April 15th: plasticity-lab.com/internship

Five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic - & we’re still learning from its legacy. This review was led by @alexfmartin.bsky.social & synthesised evidence from 36 studies examining how #selfisolation impacted #wellbing in adults. Very important work!

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

we have another new #meta-analysis out now in Personality & Individual Differences. 🎉 Hopefully this work will put to rest ongoing debates about the nature of #hypnotic vs non-hypnotic #suggestibility.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm giving a talk on #suggestion and #suggestibility next week at the University of Ljubljana as part of a series on #DemandCharacteristics. Should be really fun and is being hosted by the Laboratory of Empirical Phenomenology. 😊

If you're based in #Ljubljana feel free to stop by!!

🧠 Help Us Understand Pain Perception in FND! 🧠

Looking for volunteers with & without #FND for a study in London @kingsioppn.bsky.social. Single lab visit testing pain perception with electrical stimulation.

Interested? Please message me: [email protected] ✉️

Thanks for sharing!

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

We’re doing a lot of cool #nitrousoxide research #KCL to better understand the #neural basis of #perception!

We started an instagram account, please give it a follow! We’ll follow back other studies 🤓

www.instagram.com/kcln2ostudy?...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Out today! We conducted a multi-level meta-analysis that included ~400 effect sizes, allowing us to make fine-grain distinctions between different nocebo induction methods. In particular, we were meticulous when defining different types and modes of suggestions. Hope you enjoy!! tinyurl.com/mwmeetuz

Elaine: You've never felt remorse.

Jerry: I know. I feel bad about that. #Seinfeld #Seinfeldism

I have airport disease.
My doctor says it's terminal.
I'll stop now.

we are running another #n2o study in #london, this time with eeg! it would be really helpful if you could spread the word :)

In my video about this I made the case that knowing there’s a 3% chance an asteroid will hit us is amazing news because at any other point in history we would have no idea at all.

But it also sucks: modern life is too full of things to worry about that, previously, we just wouldn’t know existed.

Miałem ogromną przyjemność porozmawiać o placebo i bólu z nieco innej perspektywy niż zazwyczaj i - chyba po raz pierwszy - o psychoterapii bólu. Dziękuję za zaproszenie i ciekawą (przynajmniej dla mnie) rozmowę!

Do posłuchania na różnych platformach:
www.joannagutral.pl/placebo-i-ps...

Excited to share our new paper led by Renata Sadibolova in Cognition (t.ly/EfeDD). In two experiments, we show that by applying bifactor modelling to time perception data, we identify two latent factors that conceptually align with Bayesian models of time perception. @timingresforum.bsky.social

We have a new #preprint up! #COVID-19 was rough for everyone, but especially healthcare workers (HCWs)--we hope this systematic review provides insights into how to assess and protect HWCs wellbeing during self-isolation in future infectious disease outbreaks.

Karl Friston is giving a talk on predictive coding and neuropsychiatry next week (28 Jan @ 6:30 GMT), delving a bit more into philosophical implications. Should be interesting. The talk is online and free to attend but you have to register. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/predictive...

I'm speaking about Instrumental #psychedelics research at @ucl.ac.uk on 28 Jan at 6:30PM. I'll be discussing some of our perception research using N2O. Ever the contrarian, I'll also be talking about the challenge of suggestion & placebo effects in this field. www.uclsap.com/events/sugge...

our meta-analysis looking at #suggestibility as a predictor of the #nocebo response is now available open access!