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Valerie Karl

@valeriekarl.bsky.social

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PhD fellow @UniOslo | 🧠 studying emotion circuits in the brain, child & parent mental health | symptom-brain-networks | former CANDLab visiting grad student @Yale

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks Dylan!☺️☺️

Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jun 26

I’ve started my clinical training now but am really happy to stay part-time in research and look at brain changes during pregnancy🤗🤰🏽🧠

Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jun 26

PhDone 🥳 this happened last week and turns out the imposter syndrome doesn’t leave with a title ☺️ still beyond grateful for my supervisors @cktamnes.bsky.social
@danibeck.bsky.social and the amazing people I got to know during this journey🤍

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Jan 15

Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking

Journal Club by Valerie Karl

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jan 20

Here is the link to the original article:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting

The positive affect of rewards is an important contributor to well-being. Reward involves components of pleasure ‘liking’, motivation ‘wanting’, and l…

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jan 20

This work builds on Kent Berridge’s invaluable contribution to the field and has inspired me to integrate clinical psychology with affective neuroscience in my PhD.

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jan 20

I believe this distinction is crucial for understanding pathological behavior and offers new avenues for treatment.

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jan 20

The authors describe how liking and wanting are dissociable on a neural level: liking is rooted in small hedonic hotspots, whereas wanting involves dopamine-related mesolimbic circuitry.

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jan 20

Atypical wanting and liking can be observed in addiction (e.g. craving a drug, despite not liking it) and depression (e.g. lacking motivation to pursue a reward despite liking it).

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Jan 20

The dissonance between wanting and liking has always fascinated me. I recently wrote about Nguyen et al.’s (2021) review on the neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking - Nature Reviews Psychology

Nature Reviews Psychology - Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking

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Christian K. Tamnes @cktamnes.bsky.social · Dec 20

Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Nov 21

Such a fun project, discussing network analyses in clinical psychology and neuroscience with @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social and @ludvigdb.bsky.social !

Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Nov 21

New Preprint and my final PhD paper🥲! We combined symptom and brain networks to look at symptom-specific associations between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Nov 19

I’d love to be added as well if that’s still possible. Thank you!!☺️

Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Nov 19

I’d also love to be added if that’s still possible! Thank you!☺️

Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Nov 19

That’s really nice of you all, thank you!☺️

Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hey! I would love to be added as well, if there’s still spots. Thank you!

Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · Nov 19

Thank you!