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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 7d

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · 28d

🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social
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DM @yanivabir.bsky.social (Th 11th Sep, 2.00 pm UK time) #compsy #compneuro
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Aug 20

Overall, the results challenge the idea that motivational symptoms universally impair decision-making.

In the paper, we discuss potential reasons for this surprising finding.

We are very happy to hear your thoughts, and please share!

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Aug 20

🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty

@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social

Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Jul 6

We are soooo excited to see you all in one week in Tübingen! Looking very much forward to hear about the newest findings in #ComputationalPsychiatry! #CPConf2025

Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Jun 15

Less than a month to go!
Register now for the Computational Psychiatry Conference in Tübingen:
www.cpconf.org
Lots of exciting keynotes, tutorials, and symposia are awaiting you!
#CPConf2025

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Yaniv Abir @yanivabir.bsky.social · Jun 30

Presenting our patient-friendly, reliable RL task battery today at #BAP2025 — come find our poster in the first session!

We developed this battery for RELMED, a new clinical trial exploring how reinforcement learning contributes to antidepressant efficacy.
@relmed.bsky.social @bapsych.bsky.social

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relmed.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social · Jul 3

Come visit us at stall 48 to learn more about RELMED and get a personally drawn postcard from our friendly lab robotic arm 🤖🦾

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congratulating Ulman Lindenberger, co-Director of our Centre, for his election to The Royal Society (UK)! A great recognition of his great achievements and his contribution to UK science via the establishment of our Centre. royalsociety.org/people/ulman...

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Dr Matthew Nour @mattnour.bsky.social · May 28

🚨 Job adverts LIVE! 🚨

We want to understand how the brain supports abstract cognition in psychosis, using cutting-edge neuroscience.

Non-Clinical RA:
lnkd.in/eva-Zzfj

Clinical RA:
lnkd.in/eSgdad_F

Postdoc:
lnkd.in/eid8gtbR

Oxford University
Due June 23

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · May 19

🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social‬
DM @yanivabir.bsky.social (Th 22nd May, 2.00 pm UK time)
#compsy #compneuro @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · May 6

🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social: "Metacontrol is guided by task structure”.
DM @yanivabir.bsky.social to join (Th 8th May, 2.00 pm UK time)
#compsy #compneuro
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Noam Goldway: "Correspondence between reinforcement learning phenotypes and transdiagnostic clinical symptomatology across development". DM @yanivabir.bsky.social to join. #compsy #compneuro @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Apr 22

Late Abstract Submissions Now Open – Limited Space Available!
We are now accepting late abstract submissions for the 2025 Computational Psychiatry Conference in Tübingen!
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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨Today's Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Jonathan Nicholas @jonathannicholas.bsky.social
Episodic memory facilitates flexible decision making via access to individual events and their details.
2pm London UK time. DM @yanivabir.bsky.social to join.

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Mar 19

Across 3 studies (1 preregistered), combined n>600, using 2 different RL tasks, we found that performance was positively correlated with anhedonia symptoms.

General depression effects were mixed, but no correlations were negative.

These results are unexpected so we look forward to feedback!

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Mar 19

We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:

'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)

@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

OSF

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · Mar 17

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Mar 17

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by @uclpals.bsky.social researchers.

How the brain uses ‘building blocks’ to navigate social interactions

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · Mar 17

Fantastic results for @mkwittmann.bsky.social‬
and @cormacd.bsky.social on their work supported by Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research and COMP2PSYCH!!

Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Mar 13

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

www.nature.com

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · Mar 13

Congratulations to @seowxft.bsky.social , Sir Henry Wellcome post-doc fellow @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

New research from @uclqsion.bsky.social reveals that underconfidence is linked to anxiety and depression, while overconfidence is linked to compulsivity. Understanding these connections can help improve mental health treatments.

Underconfidence linked to anxiety-depression and overconfidence linked to compulsivity in new study

A new study from UCL researchers has found that metacognitive biases in anxiety-depression and compulsivity extend across perception and memory.

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mpc-comppsych.bsky.social @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social · Mar 13

Congratulations to @seowxft.bsky.social , Sir Henry Wellcome post-doc fellow @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

New research from @uclqsion.bsky.social reveals that underconfidence is linked to anxiety and depression, while overconfidence is linked to compulsivity. Understanding these connections can help improve mental health treatments.

Underconfidence linked to anxiety-depression and overconfidence linked to compulsivity in new study

A new study from UCL researchers has found that metacognitive biases in anxiety-depression and compulsivity extend across perception and memory.

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are very excited to announce Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social as the opening speaker for the 2025 Computational Psychiatry Conference #CPConf2025
www.cpconf.org/speakers
@tueneurocampus.bsky.social

Line Up — #cpconf2025

www.cpconf.org

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Mar 3

The UCL Computational Psychiatry Prize is for UCL early career researchers who want to apply theory to clinical problems. It starts with a speed dating event where clinicians and theoreticians meet to form interdisciplinary teams. acplab.org/2025/03/03/u...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Feb 26

Great work by @sucharit.bsky.social suggesting that one failure mode in maintaining low self-esteem is the failure to integrate experiences of high confidence into self-esteem. Would be great to develop the intervention/therapeutic potential further.

Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Feb 23

Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan

Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Feb 21

Excited to see this now out in the world!

We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition

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

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