What do we talk about when we talk about "curiosity"? 🤔 In our new paper in Trends in Neurosciences (with Kacper Kondrakiewicz, Gerstner Lab & Sebastian Haesler), we address this question by reviewing the behavioral signatures, neural mechanisms, and comp. models of curiosity: doi.org/10.1016/j.tins…

🚨Out in Nature Human Behaviour🚨 Effort is costly--how can we learn to value doing effortful things? Reward effort, not outcomes/performance! Our registered report (w/ Hause Lin Andrew Westbrook) shows people can learn to prefer doing effortful tasks doi.org/10.1038/s41562… /1

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UCL holds one of the largest neuroscience research communities in the world. Join us for the UCL Neuroscience Symposium 2024 to hear talks on the cutting edge research at UCL and connect with the community. 🗓️Thursday 20 June 2024 🗺️Logan Hall, IOE, UCL eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neurosci…

🧠 Exciting opportunity! Join our newly founded Social Computational Neuroscience lab UCL Experimental Psychology as research assistant! 🔬 Combine ultrasound brain stimulation, neuroimaging, computational modelling to study social decision-making. 📒 tinyurl.com/y7ua23rp ⏳ 16 July 🔁 Please RT

A paper by Patrizia Pezzoli, Weili Zhai, Joan Marsh & Essi Viding, funded by the Centre for Equality Research in Brain Sciences, investigates 'Inclusiveness in mental health research: a survey of attitudes, awareness, and actions among journal editors' bit.ly/45tqaS4

We were glad to be able to contribute to one of these reports considering explore/exploit decision-making as a transdiagnostic target for anxiety, depression and psychosis. You can find our full review here: link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Conduct disorder is associated with heightened action initiation & reduced learning from punishment but not reward osf.io/preprints/psya…. We use a computational psychiatry approach in a large sample (n=1418), led by Ruth Pauli with SCAN Lab Inti Tobias Hauser + many!

Since 2011, more than half of the local authority youth clubs in England have closed their doors. London youth organisation Mentivity is working to change this, starting on the Aylesbury Estate. #london #walworth #aylesburyestate #youthclubs #summerholidays

Shocking rise in the number of school exclusions. My thanks to Amario for speaking about his experience of being kicked out of three schools in one year, and contributors, Kiran Gill and Gerry Robinson news.sky.com/story/lost-lea…

The children losing the most learning are those facing the greatest challenges in their lives. Our analysis has also found a £1.6 billion cost to the state over a lifetime for just a single cohort of permanently excluded children. Proud to have co-authored this report🎒

Upcoming Lunch hour Lecture! Join Dr Keri Wong as she presents her research on how better assessments of mental health in children and young people can pave the way to reducing community health inequalities overtime. 1 Oct - 1pm to 2pm ucl.ac.uk/events/events/… UCL Workplace Wellbeing

Congratulations to Dr Dr Alice Wickersham whose PhD paper, supported by NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), has been commended by SIPS SIPS (Account Archived - See Bio), for involving a Young Person's Mental Health Advisory Group in the statistical modelling process. Read more CAMHS Digital Lab buff.ly/47pUeiy

New paper on psychopathic traits and learning from pain during decision-making, led by Dimana Atanassova. Read all about it below! 👀👇🏾 #SAMBAlab Radboud Center for Decision Science Communications Psychology

Announcing Kwajo Tweneboa!📣 Kwajo is a housing activist from south London who uses social media to influence policy. Catch him at Disagreeing Well across Generations on 23 Oct. ucl.ac.uk/events/events/… #UCLDisagreeingWell

Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions? In our Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health debate piece, @drlucyfoulkes and I argue that it's time to move towards more effective alternatives. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ca… Follow on Bluesky for the thread!