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Camilla Nord

@camillanord.bsky.social
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, PI of Mental Health Neuroscience Lab, science writer ✍️📕 www.penguin.co.uk/books/446402/the-…

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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 17h
Addiction has become the default framework for interpreting problematic social media use. It shapes how it is measured, discussed, regulated, and what support young people are offered. But does it match the experiences of young people who report feeling addicted to social media? 🧵(1/7)
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I include this overview from @camillanord.bsky.social and @sarahgarf.bsky.social in all my lectures as an overview what is considered interoceptive and what is still debated (based on colour coding)
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Hugo Fleming @hugofleming.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One explanation for somatic symptoms is that patients develop strong prior expectations of discomfort that outweigh the sensory information and dominate their perception. To test this, we built a new task that used Pavlovian conditioning to probe how tactile perceptual beliefs are acquired.
A depiction of bayesian inference showing how the prior belief and evidence combine to generate a distribution over posterior beliefs
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Hugo Fleming @hugofleming.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New paper alert! 📣📣 In this work, we investigated the origins of somatic symptoms – a common and debilitating feature of anxiety and depression. 'Anxiety is associated with the persistence of conditioned somatic sensations over time'
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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 24/07/2026
Does problematic social media use involve the same dopamine-related reward mechanisms as addiction? That’s the question motivating the research I presented at the @bapsych.bsky.social Summer Meeting, involving a dopaminergic manipulation to probe the involved mechanisms. #BAP2026
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Gabriel Mackie @gabmackie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Honoured to receive a Poster Prize at #BAP2026 for my project investigating the Effects of Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS) on Interoceptive Attention. I'm grateful to everyone who worked on this project, @camillanord.bsky.social and Veronica Forslund, who were at the conference, and...
Me standing next to my posterMe with my award with my collaborators Veronica (left) and Camilla (right)Nord Lab Group Photo
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
#TWiNPP Finally, Mehrhof et al., metabolic dysfunction is linked to an energy-conserving motivational phenotype that may overlap with neuropsychiatric symptoms @camillanord.bsky.social @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide
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Sara Mehrhof @saramehrhof.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Excited to share our new paper asking a simple question: Why do mental and metabolic health so often go hand in hand? We (@camillanord.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social) tested whether shared neurocognitive signatures play a role in this relationship www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…
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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 30/04/2026
🚨 Does social media use show established neurocognitive signatures of addiction? Concerns about social media addiction are widespread, yet whether platforms' design features actually engage the same neurocognitive pathways as established addictions has remained untested. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We are now recruiting for new philanthropically funded fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity at the University of Edinburgh, in INCR and @edinunineuro.bsky.social 🎉 There are two non-clinical posts and one clinical elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please repost!
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KJCF Quest Research Fellow in Brain Health and Multimorbidity
The appointment of KJCF Quest Research Fellows in Brain Health and Multimorbidity is an exceptional opportunity for motivated individuals to develop their research career at a world-class University a...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What a brilliant commentary by @glassybrain.bsky.social on our paper- it’s been exciting to work w @hugofleming.bsky.social on how metabolic processes might influence learning computations & mental health… and as every scientist knows, validating that at least one other person is interested too ;)
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British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Join us in Brighton this September! www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Symposium submissions due 31 March.
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Current, Future and past meetings — BACN
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📺"What is now an institution in the top 10 elite list of universities started off as an up-start" BBC London report on @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary, featuring Prof @profginab.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social and UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hats off to the great Anne "I don't do fancy" Treisman!
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Hugo Fleming @hugofleming.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
How does metabolic learning shape human behaviour? In our recent study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we found that it shapes flavour preferences but, surprisingly, not action. Thread 🧵
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Reminder that Ritalin floods the brain with dopamine & norepinephrine for 10-14 hrs. Any neuron anywhere in the brain with any of the subtypes of DA or NE receptor is gonna feel it regardless of arbitrarily assigned network
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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
Image illustrating sensor placement. The reference sensor is placed on the xiphoid process (just under the sternum), the ground is placed on the left costal margin (just under the bottom rib), and sensors one through four are place over where the stomach would be. Sensor 3 is midway through the umbilicus (navel) and the reference sensor. Sensor 4 is roughly three centimetres from sensor 3 to participant-right. Sensors 2 is also roughly three centimetres away from sensor 3, but along a 45 degree angle upwards and to participant-left. Sensor 1 lies 3 centimetres further from sensor 2, along the same 45 degree line.Two-panel image showing a processed electrogastrogram. The left panel shows five minutes of raw data from four different leads (measured from the four sensors in the previous image and their common reference). The right panel shows the same signal in frequency space, illustrating the typical normogastric peak at 3 cycles per minute.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 17/12/2025
You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…
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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It is hugely fun & we are very lucky to do science for the sake of science. But it is amazing to see work we and many others I admire have done turn into public awareness thanks to excellent science writing. (see also www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...)
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Mapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside
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Kate Merritt @katemerritt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Today was the last day of our module on the new BSc in Human Neuroscience @uclbrainscience.bsky.social I really recommend giving books as prizes and letting students pick between a few (Mark Solms and @camillanord.bsky.social) Receiving a book from a mentor can sometimes open up whole new worlds
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Madeleine Kördel @mkoerdel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
📣I’m excited to share our new preprint on how our body’s energy supply shapes everyday stress experiences: 📄𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Higher glucose levels buffer against everyday stress load
Adaptive stress responses are dependent on the availability of energy and the body's effectiveness in metabolizing glucose as fuel. However, it is not well understood if glucose levels contribute to t...
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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Michael Browning @mikebrowning.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon! If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!
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Prof. Rebecca Lawson @beckyneuro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Then we have a new paper led by Nazia Jassim @naziajassim.bsky.social on the neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing and links to trait anxiety: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com
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Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry - Nature Communications
Using computational modelling and neurochemical analysis, this study shows how motor cortex excitatory signals guide belief updating and adaptive learning in uncertain environments.
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Prof. Rebecca Lawson @beckyneuro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
First up, this paper led by Bronagh McCoy: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... When noise and volatility are independently manipulated people behave differently depending on their anxious traits.
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The relationship between anxious traits and learning about changes in stochasticity and volatility
Author summary Adapting to changes in our environment is a daily endeavour. To do so, humans and animals alike make use of feedback to guide future actions. Uncertainty in the environment can arise fr...
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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 11/11/2025
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
screenshot from the paper, stating that no causal claims (like they did in the title) should be made.paper title
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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I spoke to The Economist @economist.com about dopamine detoxes - thank you @ainsliejstone.bsky.social for the write-up! www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Can a dopamine detox reset your brain?
Taken literally, the idea makes no sense. But it might still be good for you
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Elsa Fouragnan @efouragnan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
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Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder
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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health? Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
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An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health
Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.
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xavier roberts-gaal @xrg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.
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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 15/07/2025
Brilliant work by @saramehrhof.bsky.social on shared neurocognitive signatures of psychiatric and metabolic disorder at #cpconf2025
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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New preprint! People vary in healthy food preferences, with some veering towards obsessive. We found #orthorexia associated with disgust-like facial responses to unhealthy foods. BUT: also with appetitive stomach responses! Is it an interoceptive self-control mechanism? doi.org/10.1101/2025... (1/7)
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Orthorexia is associated with a paradoxical appetitive gastric response to unhealthy foods
Orthorexia involves an obsessive tendency towards "healthy" foods. It is a risk factor for eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and the proposed "orthorexia nervosa") and psychological distress, but its...
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Finally, the amazing Professor Camilla Nord presents on interoception - including some cool lived experience work on body sensations, and work on disgust and gastric rhythms, alongside work on energy conservation. #BAP2025
Camilla presenting on all of the exciting implications of her interoception work!
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
It’s #BAP2025 time! Kicking us off is Dr Megan Jackson, the winner of the junior non-clinical award talking about animal models of apathy and motivation. Key quote: ‘as scientists, we love a tight error bar’. @bapsych.bsky.social
Image of Megan Jackson presenting slides validating a novel apathy task
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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Today at #BAP2025 we heard from both lived-experience and pharmacology experts that clozapine,“Britain’s most dangerous drug” is lifesaving for people with treatment-resistance— with current thresholds for discontinuation racially unequal (some people have naturally lower but safe neutrophil levels)
Newspaper articles including the headline “Britain’s most dangerous prescription drug”Shows how some ethnicities have benign neutropaenia, which is not a risk factor itself but can lead to treatment cessation or burden of extra tests Summary that clozapine is underused and life-saving, despite known risks
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
'Mental health diagnoses are not just misapplied, but invented.' Camilla Nord on the mental illness epidemic
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Are you hurting?
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Summer Books 2025; the mental illness epidemic; teen-centric novels; mass protest in the modern era; a philosophy of eating – and much more www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I'm so grateful to write my first magazine article with Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... It features our preprint on 🫁 'Body-Wandering' 🫀 with invaluable guidance from @micahgallen.com and @themindwanders.bsky.social : biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 18/06/2025
My favorite genre of horrifying but fascinating interoception research - Modification of Human Gastric Acid Secretion with Operant-Conditioning Procedures - Whitehead et al, 1975 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Harry Costello @drharrycostello.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨 New paper out in JAMAPsych: 🦣 project led by the brilliant @anahitm.bsky.social & @docqhuys.bsky.social ’ group. Our meta-analysis found that #dopamine & #serotonin have distinct effects on reinforcement learning. A step toward biomarker guided treatment? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Dopamine and Serotonin in Reward and Punishment Processes in Humans
This systematic review and meta-analysis compares the association of dopamine and serotonin in reinforcement learning.
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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
There is also good news embedded in the report. We find that taVNS briefly purturbs the correlation of the pupil dilation trace of the left and the right eye. This novel marker is not as strongly associated with sensory ratings. But it makes sense since we stimulate one side of the vagus.
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Lydia Hickman @lydiajhickman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My new paper with Jennifer Cook sets out potential reasons for high rates of Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis in the autistic population: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mrccbu.bsky.social @thechbh.bsky.social 🧵1/n
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High rates of Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis in the autistic population: true co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?
Older autistic adult literature is sparse, and little is known about the aging autistic population. However, recent evidence suggests an increased pre…
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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Academic life, and sometimes life in general, can feel chock-full of disappointments. But not today, satan! 😈
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Look what came in the mail! Looking forward to getting into @camillanord.bsky.social ‘s “The Balanced Brain.” 🥳 I’ve heard good things…
A book displaying the title “The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health” by Camilla Nord
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