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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"AI hallucinations” may be the wrong metaphor. In our new European Psychiatry Viewpoint, Umberto Volpe and I argue that confabulation better captures how generative AI produces fluent, plausible—but false—outputs, and why terminology matters. tinyurl.com/yc5dxrup #GenerativeAI #Psychiatry
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Confabulation, Not Hallucination: Rethinking False Outputs in Generative AI | European Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Confabulation, Not Hallucination: Rethinking False Outputs in Generative AI
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New from our group in PNAS: race-neutral CentileBrain models show robust accuracy across ethnoracially diverse samples defined by self-report or genetic ancestry. A step toward equitable, generalisable brain-based tools. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Delighted to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. We critically appraise 18 neuroimaging-based clustering studies in schizophrenia and ask whether brain-derived subtypes are reproducible, biologically valid and clinically meaningful. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The European Psychiatric Association Leadership Academy offers early-career professionals a unique opportunity to build leadership skills, connect with peers, and shape the future of mental health. Apply now 👇 www.europsy.net/leadership-a...
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Leadership Academy - European Psychiatric Association
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just out in Biological Psychiatry: Using the CentileBrain models (centilebrain.org) in 3,711 participants, the ENIGMA #MDD and #PTSD Working Groups found childhood maltreatment influences age- and sex-specific deviations from normative neuroanatomical patterns tinyurl.com/abh6xtb5
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Thank you to the Committee for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, for the opportunity to share thoughts on mentorship and leadership in #psychiatry tinyurl.com/2bpfn2fj Hope it’s useful to others navigating similar paths. #women #neuroscience
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Missed the @translationalni.bsky.social event on "Deep Learning for Personalized & Interpretable fMRI"? Now available on the youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-7C...
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#17 Deep Learning for Personalized and Interpretable fMRI Analysis
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Excited to share our new paper in Frontiers in Neuroscience lead by Tonya White, mappig sex-differences in global brain metrics across the lifespan tinyurl.com/dp65k6wa #Neuroscience #BrainDevelopment
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Frontiers | Sex differences in global metrics of brain size across the lifespan
IntroductionWhile global brain volume differences between males and females have been shown to manifest during prenatal life, it is unclear whether global di...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Join us in NYC at the #SOBP2026 Annual Meeting on April 29, 2026 (sobp.societyconference.com/v2/) for a free workshop on "AI Foundations for Biomedical Researchers in Psychiatry", with practical workflows for #LLMs, neuroimaging, and target trial emulation. #ArtificialIntelligence; #Psychiatry
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Excited to have collaborated on this new paper in Frontiers Child Adolesc Psychiatry using ABCD data to show how environmental context shapes mental health risk in youth with a family history of substance use. doi.org/10.3389/frch... #addiction #youthmentalhealth
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Frontiers | Environmentally derived subgroups of preadolescents with family history of substance use exhibit distinct patterns of psychopathology and reward-related behaviors: insights from the ABCD s...
BackgroundFamily history of substance use (FHSU), along with sociodemographic and psychosocial factors, has been identified as a key risk factor for adolesce...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Pleased to share our new paper in collaboration with William Hopkins, University of Texas, showing that the brain age gap is associated with cognitive abilities in captive chimpanzees www.nature.com/articles/s41... 26062-5 #brainage #chimpanzees
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Brain age gap is associated with cognitive abilities in captive chimpanzees - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Brain age gap is associated with cognitive abilities in captive chimpanzees
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
If you would like to explore ways of contributing, please add your contact details so that we can follow up with you: tinyurl.com/y8upy2rv
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Don't miss out! Register for free for Oct 21 www.translational-neuro.org/event-detail...
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Mitigating Bundle Tractography Variability with Streamline Density Normalization (SDNorm) & Implications for Tractometry | Translational-Neuro
This presentation covers the following points: 1. Streamline Density Normalization (SDNorm) method and demo; 2. Using SDNorm for improving reproducibility of bundle reconstructions and tractometry pro...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Excited to share a new paper from our collaboration with Danish Bipolar Illness Onset Study. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BipolarResearch #BIOStudy #Neuroscience #Psychiatry
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Longitudinal Trajectory of Cognition, Brain Morphometry, and Brain Predicted Age in Unaffected First‐Degree Relatives of Patients With Bipolar Disorder
Introduction Prior research suggests structural brain abnormalities and cognitive difficulties in patients with bipolar disorder. Although there is some evidence that similar structural and cognitiv...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
In case you missed this www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv1t... Subscribe for free
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#15 Individual-specific Brain Parcellations for Clinical Applications
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Free Virtual Talk | Tue, Oct 21 by the Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program Title: Streamline Density Normalization (SDNorm) for Tractometry 🖥️ Register free: www.translational-neuro.org/event-detail... #Neuroimaging #BrainMapping #ClinicalNeuroscience
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Mitigating Bundle Tractography Variability with Streamline Density Normalization (SDNorm) & Implications for Tractometry | Translational-Neuro
This presentation covers the following points: 1. Streamline Density Normalization (SDNorm) method and demo; 2. Using SDNorm for improving reproducibility of bundle reconstructions and tractometry pro...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Interested in how AI is shaping scientific writing? Check out these perspectives: 🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🔗 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #AI #ScientificWriting #MedEd #AcademicTwitter #Research #MedicalPublishing #AIinMedicine
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Stay up to date with the Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program! Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free access to recorded workshops, talks, and resources in #neuroimaging and #clinicalneuroscience. 👉 www.youtube.com/@Translation...
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Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program
Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program is nested within the Lifespan Working Group of the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta‐Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium. It hosts expert lectures an...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Free Virtual Talk | Tue, Sept 23 by the Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program on :Individual-specific brain parcellations for clinical applications" 🖥️ Register free: www.translational-neuro.org/event-detail... #Neuroimaging #BrainMapping
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Individual-specific brain parcellations for clinical applications | Translational-Neuro
This talk will cover the following: 1.How to use the Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) to report neuroimaging findings 2.The behavioral relevance of individual-specific functional parcellations 3.R...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
AI in Scientific Writing & Publishing A viewpoint in European Psychiatry by Sophia Frangou, Umberto Volpe & Andrea Fiorillo calls for critical engagement: AI tools can improve efficiency but human oversight and transparency are indispensable. #AcademicWriting #AIethics tinyurl.com/AI-in-scient...
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AI in scientific writing and publishing: A call for critical engagement | European Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
AI in scientific writing and publishing: A call for critical engagement - Volume 68 Issue 1
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Don't miss "DeepPrep: Accelerated MRI Pipeline" presented by the Translational Neuroimaging Program. register for free at tinyurl.com/4bx2swsx
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DeepPrep: Accelerated MRI Pipeline and its Applications in Personalized Functional Circuit-guided Neuromodulation | Translational-Neuro
This presentation will cover : 1. Recent advancements in deep learning for MRI preprocessing 2. The development and performance of DeepPrep 3. Clinical application of DeepPrep in personalized function...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
New Preprint tinyurl.com/mvjybsh5tory Adults with depression show differences in brain aging based on lifestyle. Those with balanced habits had the lowest mood symptoms and brainAGE, while those with poor diet and inactivity showed the highest. #BrainHealth #Depression #BrainAGE
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Lifestyle and BrainAGE in Adult Depression
Background: This study tested whether lifestyle and fitness features that influence brain health in the general population differentially affect adults with a history of depression. Brain health was a...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🎨✨ Scientists, Show Us Your Creative Side! ✨ Submit your AI generated artwork to the Neural Palette SOBP Exhibition and WIN a FREE SOBP Membership 🏆 Submit it here: sobp.societyconference.com/v2/ Entry is open and free for everyone. Deadline’s coming fast—don’t miss your shot! ⏳
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Join us for another exciting presentation for Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program, where we explore advances in data-driven neuroimaging biomarkers for precision mental health. More details at tinyurl.com/mtphp2m4 or catch-up at any time at: www.youtube.com/@Translation...
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Data-driven Neuroimaging Biomarkers Empower Precision Mental Health | Translational-Neuro
This presentation will cover key approaches for precision diagnosis and personalized treatment of mental disorders using complex brain imaging data, including: 1. Latent-space biomarker quantification...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🧠 New preprint alert! We show that data patterns—not just algorithms—drive performance in ML-based patient stratification for brain disorders. Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2503.12066. #AI #Neuroimaging #MachineLearning #Biotypes
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Impact of Data Patterns on Biotype identification Using Machine Learning
Background: Patient stratification in brain disorders remains a significant challenge, despite advances in machine learning and multimodal neuroimaging. Automated machine learning algorithms have been...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excited to share The Psychosis MRI Shared Data Resource (Psy-ShareD)—an open-access neuroimaging dataset for psychosis research! 🧠📊 published in HBM onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Huge thanks to our incredible collaborators for their dedication in advancing open science in research!
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The Psychosis MRI Shared Data Resource (Psy‐ShareD)
The Psy-ShareD database will host pre-existing structural MRI data collected at different sites across Europe, North, Central and South America, Asia and Australia that will be suitable for region of...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Join us for another exciting presentation for Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program, where we explore advances in data-driven neuroimaging biomarkers for precision mental health. More details at tinyurl.com/mtphp2m4 or catch-up at any time at: www.youtube.com/@Translation...
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Data-driven Neuroimaging Biomarkers Empower Precision Mental Health | Translational-Neuro
This presentation will cover key approaches for precision diagnosis and personalized treatment of mental disorders using complex brain imaging data, including: 1. Latent-space biomarker quantification...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Honored and humbled to receive the 2025 Pascal-Boyle Prize! 🏆 Grateful to the European Psychiatric Association community and my incredible colleagues for their support.
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🎨✨ Scientists, Show Us Your Creative Side! ✨ Submit your AI generated artwork to the Neural Palette SOBP Exhibition and WIN a FREE SOBP Membership 🏆 Submit it here: sobp.societyconference.com/v2/ Entry is open and free for everyone. Deadline’s coming fast—don’t miss your shot! ⏳
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
✨Not to be missed! Free Public Lecture on “Powering the Brain: Metabolism & Mental Health” on April 23rd, 2025🧠 Space is limited-Register now: tinyurl.com/2e4xpmjm #BrainHealth #MentalHealth #Metabolism #Neuroscience
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚀 Ready to bridge neuroimaging and machine learning without heavy coding? Join us for "Junifer and Julearn: From Neuroimaging to ML Models Without Expert-level Coding Skills" 🎓🧠 organised by Translational Neuroimaging Program. It is free but you need to register at 🚀https://tinyurl.com/7jacsf5e
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Junifer and Julearn: From Neuroimaging to Machine Learning Models Without Expert-level Coding Skills | Translational-Neuro
This presentation covers the following points: 1. When and how to design analysis to uncover brain-behaviour associations using Machine Learning 2. How to easily extract relevant information from neur...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New from our Translational #Neuroimaging Program on #TMS : www.translational-neuro.org/event-detail...
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Combined TMS and fMRI Approaches in Psychiatric Research: From Technical Innovations to Informed Treatment Choices | Translational-Neuro
This 1-hour presentation will cover the following points: 1. How can we combine TMS with fMRI? 2. How could they aid each other? 3. How to apply therapeutic theta burst protocols inside an MRI 4. Pote...
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Exciting News from #SOBP! 🎨 We invite your AI-assisted art submissions to be showcased at our annual meeting in Toronto, April 24-26, 2025! Check out the details on the submissions page of our meeting dashboard: sobp.societyconference.com/v2/ Unleash your creativity and join the fun!!!
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Call for papers for European Psychiatry on AI in mental health tinyurl.com/pyr7c4mx
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Sophie Frangou @frangoulab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New paper in collaboration with Natalie Rasgon and her group: Metabolic Status Modulates Global and Local Brain Age Estimates in Overweight and Obese Adults. More details at pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39615789/
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Metabolic Status Modulates Global and Local Brain Age Estimates in Overweight and Obese Adults - PubMed
Suboptimal metabolic status is linked to accelerated brain aging, particularly in brain regions rich in insulin receptors. These findings highlight the importance of metabolic health in maintaining br...
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