Running vs. Antidepressant (SSRI) for Depression/Anxiety: -Similar remission rates (45% vs 43%) over 16 weeks -Compared to SSRIs, the running group had ⬇️ weight, waist circumference, and blood pressure 1/12

🚨New preprint!🚨 in this Review we explore how the computational framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us understand social media use and its wellbeing outcomes, and even inform mental health interventions: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Had a great time at the UCL PaLS PPG conference this week at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park! Stunning venue and surroundings and a great chance to get to know fellow UCL Psych & Lang Sci PhD students. And my first poster presentation during the PhD ✨

So much fun presenting and chatting about our research alongside old and new friends at the UCL PALS conference in beautiful Windsor 🧠🏰💕

Choosing a PhD project is like flat hunting in London?! I wrote a blog about my reflections of first year of the UCL-Wellcome PhD in #mentalhealth & the struggles/joys of narrowing down research interests (… which I still haven’t) mentalhealthscience.org/blogs/5vzugs7u…

🔽A new blog with Eiko Fried, Jon Roiser 🟣 and JB Pingault CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health on our recent paper combining polygenic scores and network analysis.

Computational psychotherapy 💫 A packed audience for Quentin Dercon’s #BAP2024 talk on how computational modeling might reveal the mechanisms of psychological therapy - and in future, who might respond to different therapies. Work with Agnes Norbury & Quentin Huys

Come join our lab! 👋 ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

“New Age / psychedelic culture evolved from Romanticism and shares a tendency to fetishize ‘the natural’ and ‘the Noble Savage’ while seeing the modern, civilized and man-made as corrupt, materialist and bad.” Jules Evans

This is the big thing we need to collectively acknowledge, then get on with the renaissance: FIBUS: False Insights & Beliefs under Psychedelics Out now in nature’s @commspsychol ( 🧵) Hugh McGovern, Hilary Grimmer, Manoj Doss not exist, Brendan Hutchinson, Chris Timmermann, Aidan, Phil Corlett

Our office view ✨ nae bad!

🚨I'm looking for a postdoc! The role will be focused on building computational models of learning and decision-making, and understanding the role of these processes in anxiety Get in touch if you want to know more! See job advert here for details: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecruit…

Prof. Jon Roiser 🟣, UCL ICN sheds light on the complexities of emotional numbness in The Guardian’s latest article, explaining how joy is not a linear process, but is split up into phases. UCL Psych & Lang Sci #neuroscience bit.ly/4dBFXBO

Across replications, threat-of-shock during encoding impairs emotional face recognition; a mega-analysis across studies implicates increased BOLD activity in anterior and posterior cingulate cortex in the process. Sarah Katharina Buehler UCL ICN nature.com/articles/s4427…

Systematic review & meta-analysis of severe adverse events (SAE) in psychedelic trials finds (1) ~4% of people with mental health problems experience SAE (2) true rates are possibly (much) higher because of a lack of systemic reporting in the literature. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Greetings from Zürich from the Computational Psychiatry Course at ETH Zurich #CPCZurich CPC Zurich Agatha Anet Sarah Katharina Buehler

An increase in amygdala reactivity was associated with risk of relapse after antidepressant discontinuation and may represent a functional neuroimaging marker that could inform clinical decisions around antidepressant discontinuation. ja.ma/4e0dmWN