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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 4h

Shoutout to @bshev.bsky.social for presenting his amazing research titled "Distinct food attribute representations emerge across binge-type eating disorders" at the 2025 Society for Neuroeconomics meeting this past weekend! 🧠💡 #SNE2025
@lauraaberner.bsky.social @kiante.bsky.social

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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 2d

🌟We are so excited to share that Dr. @lauraaberner.bsky.social has been named a 2025 One Mind Rising Star!

This award will support her work using neurofeedback and smartphone interventions to enhance self-regulation in bulimia nervosa.

Congratulations Dr. Berner! ✨

The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 29d

EXCITING NEWS! The Dept. of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine's Dr. Laura Berner receives an @onemindorg.bsky.social Rising Star Award for her work on "Advancing Brain-Based Treatments for #BulimiaNervosa"! A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Laura Berner!💫🎉 Learn more 👉 onemind.org/award-recipi...

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 2d

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

codec lab

codec-lab.github.io

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Laura A. Berner @lauraaberner.bsky.social · 13d

A big thank you to @pbs.org's Emmy-nominated "Healthy Minds" for highlighting neurocomputational research in eating disorders. Such a pleasure to be interviewed by Dr. Jeff Borenstein, who always asks the best questions. @bbrfoundation.bsky.social

The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 13d

How does self control, either too much or too little, effect people w/ an eating disorder? In this episode of @pbs.org's "Healthy Minds", host Dr Jeffrey Borenstein has fascinating discussion w/ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's Dr Laura Berner! NOT TO MISS✨ www.thirteen.org/programs/hea...

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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 6d

🎉Belated congrats to Dr. @xiaosigu.bsky.social on launching the Yale Computational Psychiatry Unit! Your vision continues to inspire, & we’re so grateful for the community you built at SinaiCCP. Proud to cheer you on & excited for continued collaborations!
👉 www.neurocpu.org

Home | neurocpu

www.neurocpu.org

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 6d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Nadja Ging Jehli @nadjagingjehli.bsky.social · 8d

Our #ComputationalPsychiatry review paper is published in #Neuropsychopharmacology! 🎉
We outline how to move beyond single constructs, and what’s needed for real clinical impact, with ADHD as a key case example. Toward adaptive, precision psychiatry👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry

www.nature.com

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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 14d

🚨Exciting opportunity for trainees 🚨

Join us at @sinaiccp.bsky.social for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop, a 3-day course (Nov 10-12) for learning methods in computational psychiatry 🚀🧠💻

Apply by Oct 13: form.jotform.com/252448781112...

More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 15d

#s4sn2025 #sans2025 #sne2025 #cpconf2025

Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 15d

We are also considering applications from undergraduate students and Master's students in the local New York City area!

Please check out our website for more information on how to become involved: sinclaboratory.com/apply

Apply

SOCIAL INTERACTION &<br>NEURAL COMPUTATION LAB. The SINC Lab examines the neural and computational basis of social cognition and interaction. We are particularly interested in understanding how social...

sinclaboratory.com

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 15d

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

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Alisa Loosen @alisaloosen.bsky.social · 21d

📢 NEW PREPRINT 📢 We show a metacognitive paradox (not blanket deficit!) in OCD: confidence is persistently lower, but fluctuations track evidence more tightly and are nearer Bayes-optimal.

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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The metacognitive paradox of OCD: confidence is globally reduced but shows increased sensitivity to local evidence

Confidence is a critical metacognitive signal that guides performance. Biases in confidence, such as excessive doubt, are hallmark features of mental health disorders, especially obsessive- compulsive...

www.researchsquare.com

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jeanette-mumford.bsky.social @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social · 26d

Do you ever wish you could just use python to pull together the files and code for running FSL's randomise? Me too! I made this: github.com/jmumford/ran... It will even replace the numbers in the file outputs with contrast names of your choosing (and replace corrp with 1minusp).

GitHub - jmumford/randomise-prep: Generate design matrices, contrasts, and scripts to set up FSL randomise analyses.

Generate design matrices, contrasts, and scripts to set up FSL randomise analyses. - jmumford/randomise-prep

github.com

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 28d

🤖After a fantastic debut in 2025, the Theory of Mind in AI workshop at AAAI is back for 2026!

We invite submissions on ToM in artificial & biological intelligence—across comp sci, cog sci, comp psych, psychiatry & more.

CFP 👉 tom4ai.github.io/AAAI2026/cal...

2025 procs 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.03770

Call for Papers - ToM4AI Workshop@AAAI 2026

tom4ai.github.io

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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 29d

EXCITING NEWS! The Dept. of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine's Dr. Laura Berner receives an @onemindorg.bsky.social Rising Star Award for her work on "Advancing Brain-Based Treatments for #BulimiaNervosa"! A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Laura Berner!💫🎉 Learn more 👉 onemind.org/award-recipi...

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Sep 3

"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved

A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · Sep 3

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project

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Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

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Ava Ma de Sousa @avamadesousa.bsky.social · Aug 28

So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in
@commspsychol.nature.com
🎉

In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(1/4)

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Aug 20

I think it's time to retire the idea that oxytocin is exclusively a 'social' hormone.

In our latest preprint, led by @kjerstimw.bsky.social, we argue that oxytocin should be reframed as a behavioral flexibility hormone osf.io/preprints/os...

Abstract

Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that has historically been recognised for its role in childbirth, lactation, and sexual reproduction. Subsequently, research expanded its influence to include social bonding and behaviors, emphasising its role in facilitating interpersonal relationships. More recent studies, however, have revealed its broader influence, extending to non-social behaviors and cognitive processes, underscoring its ability to modulate a diverse array of behavioral and mental functions. This evolving understanding calls for a critical re-evaluation of oxytocin’s classification as a “social” hormone. The Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin, which integrates both psychological and physiological dimensions, provides an alternative framework that accounts for how oxytocin modulates both social and non-social behaviors. At the core of this framework is behavioral flexibility, which is essential for adapting to dynamic environments. In this review, we explore the role of oxytocin in facilitating behavioral and cognitive flexibility using mechanistic, survival, and evolutionary perspectives. Additionally, we focus on the interactions between oxytocin and other signalling systems that influence behavioral flexibility. Collectively, our findings underscore the benefits of reframing oxytocin’s function in behavior within a broader framework that encompasses both social and non-social aspects. This more expansive perspective not only deepens our understanding of oxytocin’s multifaceted roles but also opens avenues for novel research approaches.

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Kianté @kiante.bsky.social · Aug 15

New preprint🔊🧓: Why do we trust our friends more? We show that people are more efficient at evaluating information when making trust decisions about friends. This is preserved across the adult life span. W/ @jjfcastrellon.bsky.social . Feedback welcome: osf.io/tkpmv_v1

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · Aug 13

@mgkumar138.bsky.social presented our work at #CCN2025 from this year’s Conference Proceedings

We examined attractor dynamics in RNN-based RL agents and found that the number of unstable fixed points is linked to suboptimal decision-making in more volatile contexts

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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