Noham Wolpe
@noham-wolpe.bsky.social
Researcher @TelAvivUni & visiting scholar at @Cambridge_Uni. Formerly @noham_wolpe. Prog rock & Man Utd fan, believe it or not. He/him
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Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
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If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
September 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
extremely proud of this work by @xiaoboweneddie.bsky.social showing how people value progress feedback in a goal-directed decision-making task, even though feedback can lead to increased effort perception and less efficient movements
My pre-PhD work with @noham-wolpe.bsky.social is finally out! doi.org/10.1037/mot0000411
How does progress feedback influence effort-based decision-making? Our study involved a novel effort manipulation designed for online testing and mouse-tracking. The results came with a twist on apathy… (🧵1/3)
How does progress feedback influence effort-based decision-making? Our study involved a novel effort manipulation designed for online testing and mouse-tracking. The results came with a twist on apathy… (🧵1/3)
APA PsycNet
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
extremely proud of this work by @xiaoboweneddie.bsky.social showing how people value progress feedback in a goal-directed decision-making task, even though feedback can lead to increased effort perception and less efficient movements
Very proud of this work with the excellent @rhens.bsky.social and bsky-less Daniel Harlev and Eyal Bergmann as part of @camcan-2010.bsky.social project.
New CamCAN paper led by @noham-wolpe.bsky.social shows that older adults’ tendency to see facial expressions as more positive may not be the adaptive “rose-coloured glasses” we thought, but could signal early cognitive decline and neurodegeneration: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40854689/
August 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Very proud of this work with the excellent @rhens.bsky.social and bsky-less Daniel Harlev and Eyal Bergmann as part of @camcan-2010.bsky.social project.
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Many protestors hold up pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza as well as those of kidnapped Israeli hostages. If we have no empathy for the suffering of others, what is left of our humanity?
August 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Many protestors hold up pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza as well as those of kidnapped Israeli hostages. If we have no empathy for the suffering of others, what is left of our humanity?
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Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (U. Birmingham, 3-5 November)
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Deadline: August 17
A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging
Pls share!
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Deadline: August 17
A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging
Pls share!
LinkedIn
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July 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (U. Birmingham, 3-5 November)
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Deadline: August 17
A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging
Pls share!
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Deadline: August 17
A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging
Pls share!
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I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health
Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...
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July 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
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🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning.
Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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August 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning.
Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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New mental health funding open for applications!
We’re supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of social and psychological interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.
Wellcome’s Kim Donoghue explains more ⤵️
wellcome.org/research-fun...
We’re supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of social and psychological interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.
Wellcome’s Kim Donoghue explains more ⤵️
wellcome.org/research-fun...
July 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New mental health funding open for applications!
We’re supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of social and psychological interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.
Wellcome’s Kim Donoghue explains more ⤵️
wellcome.org/research-fun...
We’re supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of social and psychological interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.
Wellcome’s Kim Donoghue explains more ⤵️
wellcome.org/research-fun...
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We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology
actcompthink.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
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Always encouraging when your research resonates with researchers you admire.
Please read this excellent commentary on our paper - ‘Beyond a syndrome: a mechanism for #depression in #Parkinson’s disease.’
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Please read this excellent commentary on our paper - ‘Beyond a syndrome: a mechanism for #depression in #Parkinson’s disease.’
academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
Beyond a syndrome: a mechanism for depression in Parkinson’s disease
This scientific commentary refers to ‘Impaired reward sensitivity in Parkinson’s depression is unresponsive to dopamine treatment’ by Costello et al. (http
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May 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Always encouraging when your research resonates with researchers you admire.
Please read this excellent commentary on our paper - ‘Beyond a syndrome: a mechanism for #depression in #Parkinson’s disease.’
academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
Please read this excellent commentary on our paper - ‘Beyond a syndrome: a mechanism for #depression in #Parkinson’s disease.’
academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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Very important work by @hashimsat.bsky.social showing a lack of effects of trait anxiety/internalizing on learning rates in change point tasks.
🚨 New preprint alert!
Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Absence of Systematic Effects of Internalizing Psychopathology on Learning Under Uncertainty
Difficulties in adapting learning to meet the challenges of uncertain and changing environments are widely thought to play a central role in internalizing psychopathology, including anxiety and depres...
www.biorxiv.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Very important work by @hashimsat.bsky.social showing a lack of effects of trait anxiety/internalizing on learning rates in change point tasks.
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Super interesting work with a computational model of how auditory hallucinations may arise:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience #compneuro
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience #compneuro
Impaired motor-to-sensory transformation mediates auditory hallucinations
Can the absence of inhibition lead to auditory hallucinations? This study shows that the impairment of motor-based sensory predictions causes erroneous monitoring of imprecise internal auditory repres...
journals.plos.org
May 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Super interesting work with a computational model of how auditory hallucinations may arise:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience #compneuro
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience #compneuro
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PhD studentships ⬇️
Great opportunity for someone here - please consider applying eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
NIHR Applied Mental Health PhD Studentships | University of Essex
Find out more about our NIHR Applied Mental Health PhD Studentships
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May 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
PhD studentships ⬇️
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Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Who is going to dare attending SfN next year? Nobody from NIH and very few from outside of the US? This is potentially going to be a very little crowd and probably the end of the SfN meeting as we knew it.
That's not going to motivate me to visit the US for a conference (or anything else) in a near future
You can be denied entry because you don't like Trump and say it publicly...
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You can be denied entry because you don't like Trump and say it publicly...
www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fr...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Who is going to dare attending SfN next year? Nobody from NIH and very few from outside of the US? This is potentially going to be a very little crowd and probably the end of the SfN meeting as we knew it.
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🚨job alert!
Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR?
Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health?
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/
1/3
Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR?
Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health?
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/
1/3
March 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🚨job alert!
Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR?
Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health?
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/
1/3
Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR?
Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health?
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/
1/3
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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
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March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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
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academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Computational signatures of exertion and rest underlie moment-to-moment dynamics of subjective perceptions of effort and fatigue: http://osf.io/9etsc_v1/
March 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Computational signatures of exertion and rest underlie moment-to-moment dynamics of subjective perceptions of effort and fatigue: http://osf.io/9etsc_v1/
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A big thank you to all those who have been so positive about my new book. It's about how neurological patients can tell us so much about our selves, how personal and social identities are forged by different cognitive functions, and what it means to belong.
February 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A big thank you to all those who have been so positive about my new book. It's about how neurological patients can tell us so much about our selves, how personal and social identities are forged by different cognitive functions, and what it means to belong.
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❗RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES❗
We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust.bsky.social project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠
Tackled at multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks.
Opportunities for 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀
We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust.bsky.social project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠
Tackled at multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks.
Opportunities for 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀
💥 Some POST DOC JOB news 👀... I'm very happy to say that @melgaby.bsky.social, @mattnour.bsky.social, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and I have been awarded funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social to look at how planning 📝and mental models of the world 🌍 are affected by psychosis...
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
❗RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES❗
We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust.bsky.social project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠
Tackled at multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks.
Opportunities for 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀
We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust.bsky.social project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠
Tackled at multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks.
Opportunities for 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀
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Hello BlueSky - sorry it has taken us so long to move here from less-blue skies. Anyway please follow us if you're interested in healthy ageing of brain and cognition, including scientific outputs and news from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (www.cam-can.org).
Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience – The Science of Ageing
The Science of Ageing
www.cam-can.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hello BlueSky - sorry it has taken us so long to move here from less-blue skies. Anyway please follow us if you're interested in healthy ageing of brain and cognition, including scientific outputs and news from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (www.cam-can.org).
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They have the potential to transform how and when mental health interventions are delivered.
But there are barriers impacting research and clinical use.
We commissioned a report to identify what these are and propose solutions to overcome them ⤵️ [2/2]
datacc.dimesociety.org/mental-healt...
But there are barriers impacting research and clinical use.
We commissioned a report to identify what these are and propose solutions to overcome them ⤵️ [2/2]
datacc.dimesociety.org/mental-healt...
Advancing the Use of Digital Measures for Mental Health - DATAcc by DiMe
Together, we are using a consensus approach to identify the key aspects of early symptom development in people with mental health and provide insight into which sDHTs are the most appropriate for capt...
datacc.dimesociety.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
They have the potential to transform how and when mental health interventions are delivered.
But there are barriers impacting research and clinical use.
We commissioned a report to identify what these are and propose solutions to overcome them ⤵️ [2/2]
datacc.dimesociety.org/mental-healt...
But there are barriers impacting research and clinical use.
We commissioned a report to identify what these are and propose solutions to overcome them ⤵️ [2/2]
datacc.dimesociety.org/mental-healt...
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I am excited to share our latest paper @Nature where we construct a hi-res spatial map of the human hypothalamus, the brain region central in appetite control. It is a collaboration between @IMS_MRL @Cambridge_Uni & @MPI_Metabolism
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus - Nature
HYPOMAP integrates single-nucleus RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomic data to create a comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus.
www.nature.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I am excited to share our latest paper @Nature where we construct a hi-res spatial map of the human hypothalamus, the brain region central in appetite control. It is a collaboration between @IMS_MRL @Cambridge_Uni & @MPI_Metabolism
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...