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Ever felt less motivated to take on effortful tasks? Our latest study sheds light on a key mechanism behind that choice: lactate levels in the brain’s dmPFC/dACC Great work by @ClairisN and A Barakat in the lab EPFL Brain Mind Institute NeuroLéman EPFL Life Sciences Link: doi.org/10.1038/s41380…

At #BACN24? Interested in Interoception and emotion? Please check out poster #47 where ⁦Beth Longley⁩ will be describing the protocol which forms part of our Em-Body ⁦Wellcome⁩ grant with ⁦Camilla Nord⁩ and team

Brad Treeby (1) persisting for 11 years (2) shaving his head and (3) making a scanning tank out of a wheelie bin really makes me question everyone else’s commitment to their experiments Brainbox Ltd #BBI2024

New lab paper out in Nature Human Behaviour showing ppl build cognitive maps of social networks to track how information flows. How are these maps built? A replay-like mechanism reshapes them over night😴, making them more abstract, which helps with hardest social navigation problems

One of the best examples of what neuroscience can contribute to psychiatry is the SAINT TMS protocol - a neuroscience-driven treatment for depression that appears more effective than all other comparable treatments & the first (only?) FDA-approved use of fMRI Derrick Matthew Buchanan PhD Neuroscience

Really interesting to see that UKRI's policy for genAI is not stringent for applicants - grants written using AI are allowed as long as not wrong/plagiarised/etc. - but very strict for reviewers, who are forbidden from using AI at any point (or speculating re: applicant use)

"Are we looking in the wrong place for answers to Britain's mental health crisis?" - me, for The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/are-we…

I was interested in the psychotherapy in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy before it became mainstream. This summer I joined two of the psychotherapy researchers I respect most (@pimcuijpers and @joarhalvorsen) to write this viewpoint out now JAMA Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Sometimes mental health researchers get accused of me-search but if I was doing me-search I would 100% run the below study on why I love spicy food so much 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️

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I 🙏 this cohort study is onto something but… In 2020 this study found that diabetes treatment with #GLP-1 receptor agonists was associated with >50% reduction in the risk of #Parkinson’s disease: academic.oup.com/brain/article/… 4 years later & the phase III trial was negative…

Extremely into this body-wandering idea. Accords completely with what our Wellcome lived experience experts tell us about the role of intrusive bodily signals for their mental health, including the bladder! (Findings forthcoming with LydiaJHickman Gabriel Mackie Sarah Garfinkel)

this is such a common theme in public health. You need a term in your equation for the fact that people enjoy things – drinking, eating sweets, whatever – or they look like pure costs with no benefit whatsoever, so the seemingly correct thing to do will always be to reduce them

Loved talking to Lucy Fry about why antidepressants worked for her - including telling her about Oxford PERL Lab's discoveries - and why despite what some might think, there is nothing inherently contradictory about antidepressants & psychotherapy. inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

Bridging gaps in the balanced brain… Toby Engelking reviews the book 'The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health' by Camilla Nord (Allen Lane). bps.org.uk/psychologist/b…

Patient priorities for interoception research, just out in Lancet eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science 🧠🫁🫀 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ — the first pub from our Wellcome Mental Health Award Led by the brilliant Gabriel Mackie & Lydia Hickman

Breaking through the mind-body divide: patient priorities for interoception research This broad scoping study establishes new, transdiagnostic, patient-led priorities for the developing field of #interoception in #psychiatry thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

This week’s issue, featuring our Summer Books list; Camilla Nord on mental illness; Peter Geoghegan on mass protest; Dinah Birch on literary influencers; Catherine Taylor on teen-centric novels; Darra Goldstein on war and food; Regina Rini on Musk–Trump – and much more