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The Department of Imaging Neuroscience, home of the Functional Imaging Laboratory (The FIL), is part of the Institute of Neurology, UCL

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, September 25th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Yousef Mohammadi giving a talk entitled "Cortical sensitivity to statistics of natural sounds". In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 We are back! This Friday, September 4th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Kamil Uludag giving a talk entitled "Laminar fMRI modeling - from neural activity to the BOLD signal and back". In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Events — Department of Imaging Neuroscience
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, July 10th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Chetan Gohil giving a talk entitled "Leveraging Large-Scale Datasets for Dynamic Brain Network Modelling". In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, July 3rd, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Marta Garrido giving a talk entitled "Towards a mechanistic understanding of the emergence of positive psychotic symptoms". In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, June 26th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Meaghan Spedden giving a talk entitled "Imaging movement from brain to spinal cord" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Lots of exciting science being presented this week at #OHBM2026 by researchers at the UCL Department of Imaging Neuroscience! A thread... [1/n]
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, June 12th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Herberto Dhanis giving a talk entitled "Brain dynamics of Parkinson's disease" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, June 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Sarah Yip giving a talk entitled "Using brain-behavior modeling to elucidate mechanisms" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Only ONE day left! 🚨⌛ Register today and claim your place on SPM For MEG/EEG 2026!
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, May 15th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Marco Wittmann giving a talk entitled "Neural mechanisms of social structure learning and their behavioural consequences" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events/3fqib...
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Brain Meeting - Marco Wittmann — Department of Imaging Neuroscience
Speaker: Marco Wittmann (Assistant Professor, MRC Career Development Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology. Group Leader, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry & Ageing Resear...
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This Brain Meeting will now be given online only via Zoom. The Zoom link is provided below. Join Zoom Meeting: ucl.zoom.us/j/9435386136...
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Deadline Approaching! ⌛🚨 Register before the 14th of May and secure your place in the SPM For MEG/EEG course for 2026! Link to Register ➡️ onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
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Course schedule - SPM Documentation
Documentation of the SPM Software for neuroimaging
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, May 8th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Nachum Ulanovsky giving a talk entitled "Neural codes for natural behaviors in bats" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, May 1st, the Brain Meeting speaker will be David Richter giving a talk entitled "What's in a prediction error?" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, April 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Karin Shmueli giving a talk entitled "Simultaneous Structural and Functional MRI Electromagnetic Tissue Properties Mapping in the Human Brain" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, April 17th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Olivia Kowalczyk giving a talk entitled "A primer on spinal cord imaging" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, March 20th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Jennifer Bizley giving a talk entitled "How does the brain map sounds into the world?" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, March 13th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Leonie Koban giving a talk entitled "Social influences on drug and food craving: from behavior to brain signatures" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We are pleased to announce that the SPM for MEG/EEG course hosted by University College London will take place from Monday, May 18th to Thursday, May 21st, 2026! Registration is now open via the UCL Online Store:
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D07 Statistical Parametric Mapping For MEG/EEG 2026 | UCL Online Store
The course will provide a detailed introduction to the analysis of EEG and MEG data. The first three days will combine theoretical presentations with pract
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, March 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be James R Booth giving a talk entitled "Does IQ matter for the brain basis of reading skill?" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, February 27th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Roland Zahn giving a talk entitled "Translational cognitive neuroscience of mood disorders: implications for novel treatments and stratification" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We are delighted to see departmental alumni Eleanor Maguire, and her former PhD student Sir Demis Hassabis, honoured in the UCL Faces project, as part of UCL’s bicentenary celebrations. Read about their valuable contributions on the UCL Faces webpage. www.ucl.ac.uk/about/search...
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The human brain reimagined: Eleanor Maguire, transforming understanding of neuroscience
Eleanor Maguire transformed our understanding of human memory and how we approach neuroscience research, inspiring generations of scientists and paving the way for some of our biggest breakthroughs.
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, February 13th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Oiwi Parker Jones giving a talk entitled "Decoding speech non-invasively" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, February 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Maria Herrojo Ruiz giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in decision-making and motor learning in anxiety" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Prof. Vladimir Litvak @vlitvak.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Preprint alert!!! We recorded directly from the human ventral tegmental area (VTA), the principal source of cortical dopaminergic innervation, while patients performed an instrumental learning task. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, January 30th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Michael Browning giving a talk entitled "Mechanisms and actions of dopaminergic agonists in the treatment of depression" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, January 23rd, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Ayelet Landau giving a talk entitled "Rhythmic attention negotiates competition along the visual hierarchy" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, January 16th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Janneke Jehee giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in perceptual decision-making" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We are pleased to share that Peter Kok has been awarded the Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)! www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/news/blog-po...
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EU funding awarded to Imaging Neuroscience PI — Department of Imaging Neuroscience
European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant awarded to Peter Kok
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, December 12th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Mathias Pessiglione giving a talk entitled "Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, December 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Andrew MacAskill giving a talk entitled "A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Congratulations 👏👏👏 to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social who has been selected as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience, 2025! ⭐️🧠🌏🤩💫 www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, November 14th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Adrien Doerig giving a talk entitled "LLMs as models of high level perceptual processing" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, November 7th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Simon Van Gaal giving a talk entitled "Linking global state fluctuations and recurrent processing to conscious perception in humans" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, October 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Terence Sanger, MD, PhD. This talk will be online only. 12 Queen Square Seminar room (4th Floor) will be available if you need a space to watch the stream. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🗞️ Front page news of The Express today: @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists have developed a method for producing “ultra-fast” MRI scans, slashing the time patients need to spend in the machine from 20-30 minutes to less than 7 minutes. @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
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Major dementia breakthrough could turbocharge UK diagnosis rates
EXCLUSIVE: Scientists have found a way to dramatically accelerate one of the key tests used to diagnose the condition.
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, October 17th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Prof Andreas Nieder giving a talk entitled "From Monkeys to Humans: The Neurons Behind Our Sense of Number" All welcome, in person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! This Friday, October 3rd, the brain meeting speaker will be Prof Li Su giving a talk entitled "Digital twin models that talk the talk and walk the walk" All welcome, in person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In this video, Andy Jahn discusses the latest developments in #SPM, the latest release #SPM25 and our recent #SPM Homecoming with the wonderful @corticalpete.bsky.social, @liviasimela.bsky.social and @johmedr.bsky.social. youtu.be/VqzvUPV7pk8?...
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SPM Homecoming & SPM25 | Prof. Peter Zeidman, Dr. Olivia Kowalczyk & Dr. Johan Medrano
YouTube video by Andy's Brain Tube
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Peter Bandettini notes SPM “catalyzed more progress towards understanding the human brain than perhaps any other discovery or methodological advance in neuroimaging”. He also urges continuous revisiting of assumptions and their validity. Excellent food for thought as our #SPM Homecoming kicks off!
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Klaas Enno Stephan notes “Three decades is an unusually long period for a purely academic software to exist, enjoy enormous popularity, and stay at the top of the game”. Go #SPM, go #MethodsTeam members, past and present, from all around the world! 🧠🌏
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In an associated commentary Ed Bullmore notes that #SPM “achieved scientific impact on an unprecedented scale” and “was a leader in open science before open science was a thing”. Thank you, Ed! 🤩🧠
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
“From mapping to explaining brain function: the generative theoretical ambition of SPM” - our article in Cerebral Cortex forms part of our 30(ish) year celebration of SPM. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
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SPM—30 years and beyond
Abstract. This paper marks the 30th anniversary of the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) software and the journal Cerebral Cortex: two modest milestones
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Charlotte Reese Marshall @tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Absolutely delighted to be at @meguki2025.bsky.social at lovely Mary Ward house, London. Really enjoyed talk by Stephanie Mellor (Zurich/UCL) about ambulation with OPMs. The tech is evolving fast! Thanks to hosts @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social for organising. Looking forward to this 🙂
A busy conference room with many delegates seated around tables, several screens positioned around the sides of the room and a female speaker standing at the front next to a lectern giving a presentation.
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Lots of exciting work being showcased by the SPM Team and other Fellows from the UCL Department of Imaging Neuroscience at #OHBM2025 this week! A thread 🧵 ... [1/7]
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MEGUKI 2025 @meguki2025.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
NEW DEADLINE: Friday 20th June 🚨 MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more! Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
How do you tell if something is real or imaginary? 💭 Dr @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social‬ (@uclqsion.bsky.social‬) speaks to the New Scientist about how brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we can believe what we're seeing. buff.ly/k2Cs2OD
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We've figured out how our brains sort imagination from reality
Two brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we are seeing something real, or merely a product of our imaginations - and understanding them further may help treat visual hallucinations
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MEGUKI 2025 @meguki2025.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The moment we've all been waiting for... 🥁 📋 FULL SCHEDULE IS HERE! Incredible speakers from every corner of the globe are ready to blow your minds! 🤯 ⚠️ URGENT: Only 3 days left to join us! Check it out → meguk.ac.uk/programme/
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