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Leonhard Schilbach

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Psychiatrist, interaction researcher & social neuroscientist. Private account.

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SINe Lab @sinelabdtu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
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Pascal Grumbach @pascal-grumbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Excited to see this work published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧠📊 In-vivo evidence of E/I alterations underlying functional changes in individuals with autism in the large ABIDE1 dataset AND replication in the independent ABIDE2 dataset.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I think it's time to retire the idea that oxytocin is exclusively a 'social' hormone. In our latest preprint, led by @kjerstimw.bsky.social, we argue that oxytocin should be reframed as a behavioral flexibility hormone osf.io/preprints/os...
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Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that has historically been recognised for its role in childbirth, lactation, and sexual reproduction. Subsequently, research expanded its influence to include social bonding and behaviors, emphasising its role in facilitating interpersonal relationships. More recent studies, however, have revealed its broader influence, extending to non-social behaviors and cognitive processes, underscoring its ability to modulate a diverse array of behavioral and mental functions. This evolving understanding calls for a critical re-evaluation of oxytocin’s classification as a “social” hormone. The Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin, which integrates both psychological and physiological dimensions, provides an alternative framework that accounts for how oxytocin modulates both social and non-social behaviors. At the core of this framework is behavioral flexibility, which is essential for adapting to dynamic environments. In this review, we explore the role of oxytocin in facilitating behavioral and cognitive flexibility using mechanistic, survival, and evolutionary perspectives. Additionally, we focus on the interactions between oxytocin and other signalling systems that influence behavioral flexibility. Collectively, our findings underscore the benefits of reframing oxytocin’s function in behavior within a broader framework that encompasses both social and non-social aspects. This more expansive perspective not only deepens our understanding of oxytocin’s multifaceted roles but also opens avenues for novel research approaches.
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Cognitive emotion regulation enhances aversive prediction error activity while reducing emotional responses sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Cognitive emotion regulation enhances aversive prediction error activity while reducing emotional responses sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Imaging first impressions: Distinct neural processing of verbal and nonverbal social information sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Imaging first impressions: Distinct neural processing of verbal and nonverbal social information sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Young adolescents with autism show abnormal joint attention network: A gaze contingent fMRI study sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Young adolescents with autism show abnormal joint attention network: A gaze contingent fMRI study sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization
Reciprocal altruism-based cooperation is ubiquitous among humans and plays a crucial role in the survival and evolutionary trajectories of human being…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization
Reciprocal altruism-based cooperation is ubiquitous among humans and plays a crucial role in the survival and evolutionary trajectories of human being…
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The annual Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries – closing date the 15th August. Please share this with your colleagues and students! royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
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Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition | Royal Society
Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science.
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The annual Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries – closing date the 15th August. Please share this with your colleagues and students! royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
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Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition | Royal Society
Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The NIH announced a plan to pour $50 million into data science projects investigating autism’s causes, but the initiative’s short timeline and lack of details have prompted questions about how the work will progress. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/nih...
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NIH Autism database announcement raises concerns among researchers
The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced a plan to pour $50 million into data science projects intended to investigate the condition’s causes, but the initiative’s short timeline and other…
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Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. verkündete, dass er Wissenschaftlern, die öffentliche Forschungsgelder erhalten, verbieten will, in den führenden medizinischen [Peer-reviewed-]Fachjournalen zu publizieren. Stattdessen will Kennedy eigene Fachzeitschriften herausgeben” www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/us-re...
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USA: Kennedy will Publikationen in medizinischen Fachzeitschriften untersagen
Die US-Regierung will Forschern, die öffentliche Gelder erhalten, das Publizieren in führenden Medizinjournalen verbieten. Wissenschaftler sind entsetzt.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2025
"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/05/2025
Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study
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Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study
Survey of 164 primates in Rwanda shows how impact of being close to others is affected by group size and sex Human friendship groups are complex – and often fraught – but a study of mountain gorillas has found that their societies can also be head-scratchingly complicated. The study, which took in 20 years of health data involving 164 gorillas in Rwanda, discovered that the costs and benefits of being close to others changed depending on the size of groups and differed for males and females. Continue reading...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/05/2025
This Thursday I will give a talk on (causal) mediation analysis -- happy to have finally worked out what I want to tell people. And happy to pilot a new mode of slide sharing: just putting them on my website (juliarohrer.com/resources/)
Title slide: Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysisDecision flowchart "So you want to conduct a mediation analysis"
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 29/04/2025
The medial #PFC is involved in economic & social #DecisionMaking in humans. @zhilinsu.bsky.social l @sdnl.bsky.social &co show that dorsal mPFC is causally implicated in susceptibility to social influence, while ventral mPFC is involved in temporal discounting @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3GwXqQ7
Top: Damage to dmPFC (area 9) enhances susceptibility to impulsive social influence. Left: Permutation-based, whole-brain, nonparametric voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) showed that damage to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC, area 9) was associated with heightened susceptibility to impulsive relative to patient social influence. Right: Plotting the ranked contrasts between susceptibilities to impulsive and patient social influence, separately for participants with damage or no damage in the areas identified by the VLSM analysis. N = 26 for this analysis where data from patient and impulsive was present. Bottom: Damage to vmPFC and ventral striatum increases temporal impulsivity. Left: Permutation-based, whole-brain, nonparametric voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) showed that the areas 13 and 25 in the vmPFC as well as ventral striatum where damage was correlated with increased temporal impulsivity. Right: Plotting the ranked self baseline discounting preferences, separately for participants with damage or no damage in the areas identified by the VLSM analysis (N = 33).
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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Jedes Gehirn tickt anders #ADHS #Autismus
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ADHS und Autismus sind mehr als Modethemen auf TikTok und Instagram.
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Soon available at a toy store near you… 😂 Happy Easter everyone!
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Soon available at a toy store near you… 😂 Happy Easter everyone!
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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New paper in @pnasnexus.org: we study how collective decisions emerge via sensorimotor coordination between multiple neuroinspired artificial agents. Successful consensus requires balanced internal neural dynamics, environmental coupling & social interactions. #SocialNeuroAI #Alignment #MultiAgents
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Collective decision making by embodied neural agents
Abstract. Collective decision making using simple social interactions has been studied in many types of multiagent systems, including robot swarms and huma
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Francesco Papaleo Lab @labpapaleo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our new paper is out!! 🥳😊. Emotional Self-Experience Modulation of Reaction to Others Emotions (in mice)! @ IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Self-experience of a negative event alters responses to others in similar states through prefrontal cortex CRF mechanisms - Nature Neuroscience
Maltese et al. show in mice that experiencing an adverse event affects future interaction with others experiencing the same stressor. These self-experience socioemotional reactions are orchestrated by...
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study - BMC Psychiatry
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments of social interaction and communication as well as repetitive, stereotyped behaviour. Previous r...
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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"providing and receiving help do not always produce positive outcomes"--authors calling for "more research on how helping promotes negative perceptions of the self or others and when and how it perpetuates inequality and hampers learning" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autism-relevant
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The Unintended Negative Consequences of Help in Childhood - Jellie Sierksma, Kristin Shutts, 2025
Exchanges of help in childhood produce many positive consequences, such as increasing academic success, promoting happiness, and fostering positive peer relatio...
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study - BMC Psychiatry
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments of social interaction and communication as well as repetitive, stereotyped behaviour. Previous r...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/04/2025
Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.
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RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong.
The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Computational rationality and developmental neurodivergence www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Computational rationality and developmental neurodivergence
The role of behaviour – choices, actions, and habits – in shaping neurodivergent development remains unclear. In this forum article we introduce computational rationality as a framework for understand...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Heini Saarimäki, Juha M. Lahnakoski, et al: Cerebral topographies of perceived and felt emotions doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 31/03/2025
During deep sleep, exercise and other select times, our blood-brain barrier creaks open to let in just the right molecules. Scientists are increasingly seeing the barrier as a dynamic system. (From 2023) www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brai...
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New paper available online: "Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study" rdcu.be/ee55t
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Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New paper available online: "Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study" rdcu.be/ee55t
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Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Oxytocin release deficit and social cognition in craniopharyngioma patients onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> | BSN Journal | Wiley Online Library
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide known to affect social behaviour and cognition. Craniopharyngioma patients are considered to have an oxytocin-release-deficit caused by a rare tumour affecting the pituitar...
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Using interaction-based phenotyping to assess the behavioral and neural mechanisms of transdiagnostic social impairments in psychiatry link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Using interaction-based phenotyping to assess the behavioral and neural mechanisms of transdiagnostic social impairments in psychiatry - European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Using interaction-based phenotyping to assess the behavioral and neural mechanisms of transdiagnostic social impairments in psychiatry link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Using interaction-based phenotyping to assess the behavioral and neural mechanisms of transdiagnostic social impairments in psychiatry - European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Oxytocin release deficit and social cognition in craniopharyngioma patients onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> | BSN Journal | Wiley Online Library
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide known to affect social behaviour and cognition. Craniopharyngioma patients are considered to have an oxytocin-release-deficit caused by a rare tumour affecting the pituitar...
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Study: Ritalin improves numeric memory but not overall cognition in non-ADHD adults
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Study: Ritalin improves numeric memory but not overall cognition in non-ADHD adults
A new study finds that low-dose methylphenidate offers minimal cognitive benefits for healthy adults, challenging its growing reputation as a “smart drug.
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Eva-Lotta Brakemeier @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Psychische Gesundheit jetzt! 🌍🧠Mit Vertreter:innen aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft & Zivilgesellschaft konkrete Empfehlungen erarbeitet👉Mentale Gesundheit zentral für Resilienz & Wettbewerbsfähigkeit📢Appell an Politik: In den Koalitionsverhandlungen einbeziehen! @projecttogether.bsky.social
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Rainer Woratschka @worrius.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Irgendwas ist kaputt in diesem Land und seiner Arbeitswelt. www.tagesspiegel.de/gesundheit/r...
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Riesiger Sprung innerhalb eines Jahres: Fehltage wegen Depressionen steigen um 50 Prozent
Immer mehr Menschen fallen wegen psychischer Erkrankungen bei der Arbeit aus. Nach Zahlen der DAK gibt es bei der Diagnose Depression innerhalb nur eines Jahres einen gewaltigen Sprung.
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry - a biological perspective www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry -a biological perspective
PDF | While modern diagnostic classification systems aim to nosologically structure psychiatric disorders, they typically do not align with the genetic,... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry - a biological perspective www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry -a biological perspective
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Differential Patterns of Dysconnectivity in Mirror Neuron and Mentalizing Networks in Schizophrenia academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
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Differential Patterns of Dysconnectivity in Mirror Neuron and Mentalizing Networks in Schizophrenia
Abstract. Impairments of social cognition are well documented in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ), but the neural basis remains poorly understood. In ligh
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Differential Patterns of Dysconnectivity in Mirror Neuron and Mentalizing Networks in Schizophrenia academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
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Differential Patterns of Dysconnectivity in Mirror Neuron and Mentalizing Networks in Schizophrenia
Abstract. Impairments of social cognition are well documented in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ), but the neural basis remains poorly understood. In ligh
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Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Synchrony Across Brains: Review article published together with Elizabeth Redcay in Annual Reviews of Psychology www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Synchrony Across Brains | Request PDF
Request PDF | Synchrony Across Brains | Second-person neuroscience focuses on studying the behavioral and neuronal mechanisms of real-time social interactions within single and across... | Find, read ...
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