There is no mental health condition that is 'mild' in and of itself. Some people with depression or anxiety have milder symptoms (as with physical conditions: immune, metabolic, etc.). But many are severely affected. What happened to mental health parity? theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Hosting Elsa Fouragnan as our Chaucer Club speaker at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit yesterday. What a joy it is to be so inspired by someone’s scientific achievements — even more so when they are such a generous, supportive (etc.) person. Science can be so great.

📣 London-based research participants needed for RaISE! RaISE is a trial of non-invasive neuromodulation for those with anorexia. Participants will receive 20-sessions of iTBS. Email [email protected] / more info below👇
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Out today Brain Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe’s thesis work on our CAPR consortium data - using two tasks and computational analysis to dissect the mechanisms of delusions with different contents academic.oup.com/brain (1)

🎉 Excited to share our latest preprint! 🫁 Using interoceptive psychophysics and quantitative MRI in 200+ people, we find that individual differences in respiroceptive sensitivity & precision correlate with distinct patterns of cortical microstructure. t.ly/m98O1

As explained in this paper, it appears no stake-holder in brain stimulation (tDCS, TMS) argues for this regulation. Rather, its universally condemned as based on misguided claims & so detrimental to research & patients. For example:
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Very excited to be at this event - insights from integrating video games with psychiatry & lived experience Ninja Theory Cam Neuroscience

any trainee psychiatrists out there who'd like to come and work in my group for the next 3 years? Exciting job opportunity below!👇

Finally out in Nature Communications!

Great team effort with Elsa Fouragnan

In this new work we show that cardiac fluctuations can influence learning-related internal representations

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A valuable review, but be wary of labels - they may be misleading as to mechanism.

Example 1? socially inappropriate behaviour may not be due to disinhibition at all - in Semantic Dementia and some bvFTD it may reflect loss of knowledge for social norms.

I’ve now finished this book by Prof Pete Etchells, and would really recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the latest psychological research into the effects of screens, smartphones and social media

my strange year continues…

the back page of this week’s The New Statesman

Henry Shevlin Future Intelligence Thomas Cope Athena Demertzi [email protected] Université de Liège Thermo Fisher Campden Instruments 🧠 Nikon UK & Ireland Thorlabs Science Magazine Cairn Research Prof Amy Milton Nina Rzechorzek MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Zanna Voysey Moataz Assem MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Emmanuel A Stamatakis Cam Neuroscience Jess Harding Dr Joanne Kenney Dvija Mehta Ilina Moitra Alexandra Woolgar Tristan Bekinschtein Sepiedeh Keshavarzi | سپیده کشاورزی PDN Cambridge Our second speaker for this session is Camilla Nord from MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit giving a talk on “Bodily beliefs: neurocomputational approaches to body-brain disruptions in mental health disorders” #CamNeuro2024

*Thrilled* to be sent an early copy of Dr Lucy Foulkes’ new book, COMING OF AGE.

Couldn’t be more excited to relive my teenage trauma 💁‍♀️ 📖

Come and work with us this summer! We are currently advertising for a (paid) summer intern via the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit's internship scheme. Project will be looking at the overlap between reward learning, metabolism & mental health (see below). Link to apply is here: mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/summ…

Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain! Our new study reveals how perceptions of pain can emerge from the interplay between thermal sensations, expectations, and uncertainty. Check out our thread for all the details! 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Had the absolute BEST time speaking at University of Melbourne meeting friends, collaborators (& koalas). Special thanks to Caitlin Hitchcock who is the best possible version of both. And for the first time in >3 yrs, 2 supervisors in person with brilliant MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit PhD student Alicia Smith

Neuroscientist Camilla Nord explores how the gut doesn’t just respond to emotional feelings. It influences them, too
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🎉 The Balanced Brain: Join neuroscientist Camilla Nord as she provides a new perspective on mental health with the New Statesman’s Sophie McBain at Cambridge Literary Festival on 18 April.

Use the code NSDIGITAL24 for 20% off tickets

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Join Brain and Mental Health Hub for the next event in their 2024 Seminar Series, and hear Dr Camilla Nord present her talk 'Neurocomputational approaches to body-brain disruptions in mental health'.

📅 27 March, 2 - 3pm
📍 University of Melbourne
⬇ Register
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