The great Daniel Dennett has died. Terribly sad news. He was a wonderful philosopher and a wonderful human being. I will miss him greatly as I know so many others will too. dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

Insightful new piece as always by my friend and collaborator Clara Humpston 💯 tomasz baniak

thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Wonderful, in-depth review of one of the first histories of the science of sleep lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

The ever-interesting Mike Jay on 'Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep' by Kenneth Miller for the London Review of Books

Real FOMO from missing #SIRS2024 this year, but the consolation is our work has now found a home
Nature Mental Health 🎉

nature.com/articles/s4422…

We test the computational mechanisms of D2 dopamine role in social representation and inference during interpersonal exchange

New pre-print from us!

Association between paediatric mild traumatic brain injury and two-year psychiatric outcomes largely explained by pre-existing mental health problems🧠
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Vaughan Bell Anthony David norman poole Christina Carlisi

I wrote about the very common experience of seeing a loved one after they have died: on a crowded street, at the grocery store, turning a corner up ahead.
psyche.co/ideas/why-so-m…

🌟 New Preprint! 🌟
One before the holidays:

'The impact of #COVID19 on #physical activity and #mentalhealth : A #mixedmethods approach' by Dr Tammy Hung & co-supervised with Vaughan Bell!

Preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Spin-off data GlobalCovidStudy 💙 UCL Global Engagement

Happy to share that my first first-author paper is out The Lancet!

Here, we present a case of PMO, a striking neurological condition of visual perception that causes faces to appear distorted, and the first photorealistic visualizations of how these distortions are seen.

Daniel Kahneman has left the building nytimes.com/2024/03/27/bus…

It's not too late to sign up to our 2024 meeting! March 14th & 15th at the Royal College of Physicians with an excellent list of speakers including JNNP lecture by Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez and our BNPA Medal Lecture by Belinda Lennox! Link 👇

Reduced ticket rates to this superb meeting ends 11.30pm on Tues 5th

Always best meeting of the year so join us if you can!

Pls RT🙏
Vaughan Bell Valerie Voon Alan Carson Anthony David Robert Howard American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) UCL Neuropsychiatry RCPsych Neuropsychiatry Faculty Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez Global Neuropsychiatry Group

Interesting BBC Radio 4 doco about 'mental health washing' - where coporations use mental health as a fig leaf for commercial aims bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… via Ashley Frawley

New work from us! 📜

'Overly deep hierarchical mentalising produces paranoia: a new formal theory'

Here we show the advantages and pitfalls of recursive beliefs, and how miscalibrations can lead to paranoia -

Excellent explainer thread from talented first-author nitay alon 👇👇