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Graham Davey

@grahamcldavey.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof of Psychology at Uni of Sussex - posting stuff on mental health, psychology, clinical research, and the occasional rant about almost anything

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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In both seasons 2019-20 and 2020-21 #lcfc came 5th in the Premier League with #mcfc above them in both cases - the estimated loss to #lcfc not being in the Champions League in those 2 seasons is a minimum of £50m - get on the phone to the lawyers Top!
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We are so missing this today - “Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize the flaws, corruption, or foolishness of individuals, institutions, or society” - more of this please it’s one of society’s necessary regulatory processes
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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60% OFF The Catastrophic Worrier: Why You Worry and How to Stop
Do you turn all your molehills into insurmountable mountains? This accessible and engaging book will guide you along the path to stop catastrophizing so that you can reclaim control, achieve your goal...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Psychopathology | Graham Davey
The manuscript for the 4th Edition of Psychopathology is complete and will go into production in the next couple of weeks for publication in Jan/Feb 2027 It’s fully updated, and in the same format, b...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If I was allowed to have my own music genre competition (which I won’t be) then it would be Rap and Trad Jazz battling for the wooden spoon 😁
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An English joke from the 15th century: “Why change kings so often?” “To keep the executioners employed.” Never a truer word
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Manchester United have appointed an interim manager, to take charge before appointing a caretaker manager, who will take charge before appointing a full-time manager - what? 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Manchester United caretaker manager: Talks held with Darren Fletcher, Michael Carrick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Manchester United hold talks with former players Darren Fletcher, Michael Carrick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer about becoming the club's caretaker manager.
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Study 3 provides support for a causal effect from increased fruit intake to the increased likelihood of anxiety" 🤔 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Triangulated evidence provides no support for bidirectional causal pathways between diet/physical activity and depression/anxiety | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Triangulated evidence provides no support for bidirectional causal pathways between diet/physical activity and depression/anxiety - Volume 55
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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50% OFF The Catastrophic Worrier: Why You Worry and How to Stop
Do you turn all your molehills into insurmountable mountains? This accessible and engaging book will guide you along the path to stop catastrophizing so that you can reclaim control, achieve your goal...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
ifs.org.uk/publications... “More than half of the rise in disability benefit claims since the pandemic is due to more claims relating to mental health” Well, is it (1) overdiagnosis (2) greater awareness (3) normal -ve emotions being classed as MH problems or (4) too loose diagnostic categories
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The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Is the working-age population less healthy since the pandemic? What role is changing health playing in rising health-related benefit claims?
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I’m now working on a new 4th Edition of my textbook Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology If you’ve used the book as a teacher, student or clin psych please let me have your feedback Any new topics? Thanks to all of you who supported the book over the years
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Had coffee and cake at a local cafe this morning then Sigmund Freud appeared on my cappuccino 😮 - the id be with you 😁
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Spotted this today - why can’t they just put a bollard in front of it 🤔
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder - Results support the view that ERP can be tailored to treat disgust symptoms and highlight the relevance of evaluative conditioning, inhibitory learning, and CBT" ERPhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364925000363
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Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Clinician perspectives in a survey study
Exposure plus response prevention (ERP) emphasizes fear-reduction strategies, yet many patients have OCD symptoms driven by emotions other than fear—p…
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"Psychotherapy practitioners are curiously complacent about the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence competition. Their passivity reflects ignorance about the power of chatbots, denial of their likely impact and arrogance regarding their capacities" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Warning: AI chatbots will soon dominate psychotherapy | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Warning: AI chatbots will soon dominate psychotherapy
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"We describe 10 generic competences that can support therapists to deliver the strongest possible outcomes in CBT across different forms of psychopathology" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ten generic competences to improve outcomes of cognitive behaviour therapy: Evidence, postulated processes, and clinical implications
In the 18 years since higher-order, generic competences (metacompetences) were first identified to guide the implementation of cognitive behaviour the…
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"The mainstream strategy [in developing new psychiatric diagnoses] has been conservative and iterative, retaining current nosology until something better emerges. However, this has led to stagnation. " www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New diagnosis in psychiatry: beyond heuristics | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
New diagnosis in psychiatry: beyond heuristics - Volume 55
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"AI tools appeared to be accurate in detecting, classifying, and predicting the risk of mental health conditions as well as predicting treatment response " www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Artificial intelligence in mental health care: a systematic review of diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention applications | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Artificial intelligence in mental health care: a systematic review of diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention applications - Volume 55
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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50% OFF The Catastrophic Worrier: Why You Worry and How to Stop
Do you turn all your molehills into insurmountable mountains? This accessible and engaging book will guide you along the path to stop catastrophizing so that you can reclaim control, achieve your goal...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Humans only evolved language once Why? Sadly, probably so they could lie to each other more effectively www.newscientist.com/article/2484...
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Ancient humans only evolved language once, but why?
There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"The interplay between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and OCD symptoms depends on the degree to which people with OCD exhibit a fear of losing control and engage in transdiagnostic response styles (e.g., depressive rumination)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How is Being Uncertain Linked to OCD Symptoms? Do Beliefs About Losing Control and Transdiagnostic and Disorder-Specific Coping Responses Matter? - Cognitive Therapy and Research
Purpose While intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is recognized as a contributing factor in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), further research is needed to elucidate the underlying mechanisms linking t...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Something we've always suspected - the fear factor! Negative affect predicts populist attitudes in vote shares at elections in Europe, Brexit voting in the 2016 U.K. referendum, & vote shares for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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APA PsycNet
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview "Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is by far the best examined type of therapy (52%), but not necessarily more effective than other therapies" psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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APA PsycNet
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"When people feel bad, how much effort should they invest to make themselves feel better? Should they try harder, or might this even make matters worse? " journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Critical (and Neglected) Role of Effort in Emotion Regulation - Danfei Hu, Tony Gutentag, Iris B. Mauss, Maya Tamir, 2025
When people feel bad, how much effort should they invest to make themselves feel better? Should they try harder, or might this even make matters worse? In other...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is a very sad story - academics get promoted up the management chain but are often never good senior managers - we can probably expect more stories like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dundee University bosses quit after damning report into financial collapse
A report into Dundee University says its financial crisis was caused by a
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"The global pooled prevalence estimate for Complex PTSD was 6.2% - prevalence is highest in clinical, domestic and/or sexual abuse, and military samples" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Prevalence of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) pooled prevalence across global and specific p…
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Inflammation appears to play a significant role in the pathophysiology of suicidal behavior, offering promising avenues for biomarker development and novel therapeutic strategies" annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Inflammatory markers and suicidal behavior: A comprehensive review of emerging evidence - Annals of General Psychiatry
Background Suicidal behavior represents a significant public health challenge, and identifying biological markers associated with its risk is critical for prevention and intervention. Emerging evidenc...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
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Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses
Objective To develop a clinician-guided, research-based guideline for adult outpatient psychotherapy for complex presentations of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Methods We used state-of-the-art...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Thousands of UK students caught cheating using AI Is acquired knowledge and critical thinking an HE thing of the past? More unseen exams? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/FE4FCnONBc...
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Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI — The Guardian
Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"High rates of trauma exist in those with eating disorders" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Trauma and eating disorders: an integrated umbrella and scoping review
This comprehensive mixed-method review synthesised the trauma-eating disorder (trauma-ED) research across six objectives addressing; prevalence and ri…
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"Early onset, depression as the polarity of the first mood episode, lifetime suicide attempts, comorbid anxiety and alcohol use disorders, and family history of bipolar disorder were associated with significantly longer undiagnosed or untreated bipolar disorder" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Duration of untreated or undiagnosed bipolar disorder and clinical characteristics and outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Duration of untreated or undiagnosed bipolar disorder and clinical characteristics and outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"The studies suggest that ECT causes autobiographical memory loss in patients with depression. Results also suggest that lost memories are not regained." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Autobiographical memory after electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Autobiographical memory after electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"CBT is an effective and acceptable treatment for sleep problems in people with and at risk of psychosis" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cognitive behavioural therapy for sleep problems in psychosis: systematic review of effectiveness and acceptability | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Cognitive behavioural therapy for sleep problems in psychosis: systematic review of effectiveness and acceptability
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Remembering my parents Ray and Betty on the anniversary of VE Day - Both made their own personal contributions to winning the war - And let’s not forget why it was fought - to preserve democracy, freedom and justice for ALL people
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m sure Donald Trump will have something totally inappropriate to say about an American becoming the new pope ☹️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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New pope live: Robert Prevost to appear on Vatican balcony
Watch live to see the moment the new pope will step out onto the balcony overlooking St Peter's Square.
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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50% OFF The Catastrophic Worrier: Why You Worry and How to Stop
Do you turn all your molehills into insurmountable mountains? This accessible and engaging book will guide you along the path to stop catastrophizing so that you can reclaim control, achieve your goal...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Small to large effect sizes were found for positive, negative, and affective symptoms. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effects of mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions for individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A systematic meta-review
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions (MBIs/ABIs) for persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) aim to cultivate purposeful attent…
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Using models spanning over 18 years, associations between religious-service attendance and mental health were mostly nonsignificant" "The results suggest a need to question the assumption that religious-service attendance provides mental health benefits" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"Clinically significant change analysis showed that 57% to 77% of participants were categorised as recovered from GAD 2 to 8 years post-CBT" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Long-term efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A 2–8-year follow-up of two randomized controlled trials
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders globally, with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) being one of the most common among them. W…
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Our data provide little evidence that relapse has a detrimental effect in the long term in people with schizophrenia and recurrent psychosis." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The association between relapse and the outcome of schizophrenia and recurrent psychotic disorders | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
The association between relapse and the outcome of schizophrenia and recurrent psychotic disorders
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Let’s be clear about this - Trump made promises to the American electorate that he was never going to be able to keep - this is just one of them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump says US will 'pass' on Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon
Trump's comments came hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the US could abandon talks.
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Implementation of the Zero Suicide model was associated with a reduction in suicide attempt rates in 3 of 4 health systems jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Zero Suicide Model and Suicide Attempt Rates in Outpatient Mental Health Care
This quality improvement study evaluates whether implementing the Zero Suicide model in outpatient mental health care is associated with lower suicide attempt rates among individuals aged 13 years or ...
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"Our findings stress the need for addressing social functioning when treating hoarding. Depression, integrally related to hoarding and social functioning, also needs to be considered." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Social networks in the context of hoarding disorder: A cross-sectional study
Hoarding disorder is characterised by distress and difficulty in discarding items, leading to excessive accumulation. People with hoarding disorder ex…
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"The identification of specific dysfunctional beliefs associated with negative symptoms is essential for the development of precision-based cognitive-behavioral interventions in schizophrenia" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The cognitive model of negative symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the dysfunctional belief systems associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders | Psychologica...
The cognitive model of negative symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the dysfunctional belief systems associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders - Volume 55
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Relationship between doses of moderate to vigorous physical activity and depression www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Optimal dose and pattern of physical activity to prevent diagnosed depression: prospective cohort study | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Optimal dose and pattern of physical activity to prevent diagnosed depression: prospective cohort study - Volume 55
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The name Nero comes to mind www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jets-o...
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Trump Jets Off to Watch Golf as U.S. Economy Goes Up in Flames
The stock market is in free fall, but the president is headed to Florida.
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Meta have used the LibGen pirated books database to train their AI - That pirated database includes some of my own books - check here to see if your books or journal articles have been ripped off too www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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NHS billions wasted as bipolar patients left ‘forgotten and failed’
Exclusive data shows how neglect of this common mental health condition costs the UK nearly £10bn a year.
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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Wow - where did that time go? whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/03/30/e...
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Eric Clapton is 80
Yes. they say that age is “just a number,” but it isn’t in one sense: the bigger the number, the closer we are to taking The Big Nap. But in the birthday/anniversary sense, yes, i…
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