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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn

@drdanielcm.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at the University of Sussex researching and teaching about emotion and social motivations with psychology and neuroscience.

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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How does the brain respond to news of human lives at risk? For money, the brain responds more with the amount that could be lost. For human lives, the response collapses, and a life lost abroad doesn't hit like one at home. The wiring behind compassion fade: doi.org/10.1093/scan...
Headline image of neural response to home country deaths generating anterior insula response, but this effect is absent for abroad country deaths.
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George Tertikas @gtertikas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/10 Happy to share that our paper, "Acute Anxiety Selectively Enhances Value-Free Random Exploration Through Frontoparietal Engagement", has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience. 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Paper PDF available upon request.
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Acute Anxiety Selectively Enhances Value-Free Random Exploration Through Frontoparietal Engagement
Motivational decision-making is most adaptive when exploitation of known rewards is effectively balanced against exploration of uncertain alternatives. Trait anxiety influences this balance across ind...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The human amygdala in threat learning and extinction
Ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories.
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
100 of 140 unis in the UK will be deciding who will lose their job in 2025. It's the small/mid-range Unis. Sussex will lose 12%. If you review a grant for these faculty, please be kind. This is not the time to be competitive or clever. If it is great, just say so. It could be their last shot.
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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
How do DA and 5HT drugs alter reinforcement learning? Join us next Wednesday for talks by @anahitm.bsky.social, Diego Pizzagalli, Michael Browning, Roshan Cools, Emma Robinson, Yael Niv, Cath Harmer, Isabel Berwian, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Anne Collins. Links etc: acplab.org/2024/11/15/r...
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RELMED Workshop 20th Nov 2024 – Applied Computational Psychiatry Lab
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Over the MOON with class feedback this term for Social Neuroscience 🌙. I've revamped the material and tried some new things that have worked. Feels good.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Academics in their forties
guy pointing at himself in the mirror meme, saying "you are still an early career scholar"
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
I just realised I need to be more specific! Papers of processing other people's faces and OTHER people's bodies 😂
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
What's your favourite face or body processing paper? I am trying to think of a paper about face or body processing for teaching my Social Neuroscience Masters class. Something in the last 10 years, not too complicated but interesting and cool. Any suggestions, hive mind?
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
I'll be @bacn.co.uk this week if you or anyone you know might be interested in this and want to chat
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/06/2024
Got a bad gut feeling 😖? In a new study, led by the brilliant @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Ignacio Rebollo, we combined fMRI & electrogastrographic (EGG) imaging in more than 200 participants to uncover links between the gastric-brain axis and mental health.  www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...  🧵👇
A complex figure showing an overview of our stomach-brain to psychiatric symptom fingerprinting pipeline.
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
We are published!! An SSRI changes neural responses to #interoception and its links to anxious states. This changed how I think about #serotonin, internal sensation, and #anxiety. W/ James Livermore @sarahgarf.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social, Hugo Critchley + more www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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General and anxiety-linked influences of acute serotonin reuptake inhibition on neural responses associated with attended visceral sensation - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - General and anxiety-linked influences of acute serotonin reuptake inhibition on neural responses associated with attended visceral sensation
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Miss the PhD deadline? There's a NEW round of PhD scholarships available at Uni of Sussex Psychology, 4 open to international students, 1 for a candidate from a UK BAME background. Loads of supervisors to choose from. Contact me for social cognition/neuroscience projects. tinyurl.com/dpvtzwtz
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Psychology Doctoral Research Studentships (UK and International) : University of Sussex
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Is there a consensus on the benefits and costs of task based multi-echo fmri (multi-band multi-echo, ME-ICA etc)? Is it still considered experimental? Does anyone use it routinely? I am thinking about it for a event-related paradigm.
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Would journals please take longer to review my paper? I need more time to not think about it and get the rest of my life in order.
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