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Alec Jamieson

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Postdoc investigating alterations in functional brain connectivity for those with mood disorders

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Alec Jamieson @alecjamieson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Our latest work is now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We examined the role of the basal forebrain and its influence on intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... @psychunimelb.bsky.social, @mbciu.bsky.social, #UnimelbMDHS
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Altered basal forebrain regulation of intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders - Nature Mental Health
Using 7T resting-state functional MRI data, the authors investigate the effective connectivity of basal forebrain areas in a transdiagnostic sample of patients with anxiety and depression and healthy ...
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Matthew Greaves @matthewdgreaves.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🚨 Out now in Nat. Commun! Led by Po-Han (Terry) Kung & Trevor Steward (not @ Bluesky). 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... The habenula—a tiny midbrain hub—is implicated in restructuring negative self-beliefs. #7TfMRI #Habenula #DCM @cgdavey.bsky.social @drkimfelm.bsky.social @alecjamieson.bsky.social
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Habenula contributions to negative self-cognitions - Nature Communications
Self-related cognitions are central to identity and wellbeing. Using 7-Tesla MRI, Kung et al map a dynamic network centred on the habenula demonstrating its role in encoding self-directed thinking and...
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Kelly Kirkland @kellykirkland.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Australian universities are facing some tough times—poor funding rates, job cuts, and declining student enrolments. I discussed with @drjr.bsky.social how early-career researchers are being deeply hurt by these challenges in this @natureportfolio.bsky.social piece: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Falling enrolments and funding cuts force Australian universities to take stock
The Australian Universities Accord offers a roadmap for reform, but there are major challenges ahead.
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm recruiting a 23-month postdoc! If you're interesting in #ComputationalPsychiatry or #EatingDisorders research please apply and/or get in touch - very happy to have informal chats with potential applicants, and put you in touch with existing members of my lab. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Alan Carson @alancarson15.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This essay has been long overdue. Chapeau to Tom Pollock for writing it. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine)
Thomas Pollak explores the emergence of a new worldview which attempts to explain all manner of ills as the result of inflammation or immune dysfunction. H
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