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Sean James Fallon

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Results from a large clinical trial, from IoPPN, @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, finds a trigeminal nerve stimulation device approved by the US FDA in 2019, is not an effective tool in reducing symptoms of #ADHD Read the full story: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/title-b...
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Brain stimulation device cleared for ADHD in the US is overall safe but ineffective | King's College London
A large multicentre clinical trial led by King’s College London with 150 children and adolescents has shown that a device cleared by the US FDA to treat ADHD is not effective in reducing symptoms.
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Michael Browning @mikebrowning.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
RA jobs in Oxford working on a Wellcome Trust funded grant. Neuroimaging, neurostimulation, computational modelling-- what's not to like! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence
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PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
Image illustrating sensor placement. The reference sensor is placed on the xiphoid process (just under the sternum), the ground is placed on the left costal margin (just under the bottom rib), and sensors one through four are place over where the stomach would be. Sensor 3 is midway through the umbilicus (navel) and the reference sensor. Sensor 4 is roughly three centimetres from sensor 3 to participant-right. Sensors 2 is also roughly three centimetres away from sensor 3, but along a 45 degree angle upwards and to participant-left. Sensor 1 lies 3 centimetres further from sensor 2, along the same 45 degree line.Two-panel image showing a processed electrogastrogram. The left panel shows five minutes of raw data from four different leads (measured from the four sensors in the previous image and their common reference). The right panel shows the same signal in frequency space, illustrating the typical normogastric peak at 3 cycles per minute.
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Sean James Fallon @seanjf.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
To be fair to the Bold signal, I was also past my best after 35 years
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Eelke Spaak @eelkespaak.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Sean James Fallon @seanjf.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Excited to see how this develops www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
@Veronicabreira @jonstoneneuro @AlanCarson15 report on a novel digital self-help functional cognitive disorder intervention. The CBT–based programme led to symptom improvement in 62% of participants and boosted quality of life and more. Read at buff.ly/jD4JbCF
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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Brain Communications welcomes applications for the next editor in chief 🤓. Please find further details here buff.ly/TI1o606 😃 #editorinchief #applications #recruiting
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Payam Piray @payampiray.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New paper with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social in Nature Communications: an RL model that builds a successor map compositionally. The new model plans as well as the best models, and it links components of the map used for planning to neural codes in the medial entorhinal cortex. rdcu.be/eAofi
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Reconciling flexibility and efficiency: medial entorhinal cortex represents a compositional cognitive map
Nature Communications - How the brain creates compositional cognitive maps that support both flexible and efficient planning remains poorly understood. Here, authors propose a...
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Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...
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Psychology Jobs in All Otago, Job Vacancies - Aug 2025 | SEEK
Find your ideal job at SEEK with 104 Psychology jobs found in All Otago. View all our Psychology vacancies now with new jobs added daily!
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This study shows that deep 🧠 stimulation of the nucleus accumbens selectively enhances long-term memory encoding in 🐀 without affecting recall, working memory, motor function, or stress behaviors www.nature.com/artic...
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NAc-DBS selectively enhances memory updating without effect on retrieval
Neuropsychopharmacology - NAc-DBS selectively enhances memory updating without effect on retrieval
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Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
interesting work from Paul @paulmasset.bsky.social and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social see the commentary: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How dopamine neurons devalue delayed rewards
Reinforcement learning in the brain relies on different dopamine neurons discounting rewards at different rates.
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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Heather Burrell Ward, MD @heatherwardmd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This was such a fun Research Highlights piece to write for @npp-journal.bsky.social! I basically got to 👏 the impressive 🧲 🧠 work of @npetersen.bsky.social 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One step at a time: use of single-session rTMS to test novel targets for substance use disorders - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - One step at a time: use of single-session rTMS to test novel targets for substance use disorders
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Brain @brain1878.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Vascular health has an impact on brain health New Editorial in this month's Brain: tinyurl.com/3xdu562p
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Brain @brain1878.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Kazazian et al. review the use of neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, detailing key methods (fMRI, EEG, PET) and imaging paradigms that can be used to improve diagnosis and prognosis. tinyurl.com/57tme2fc
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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Are you looking for a new job? The University of Bristol is looking for you! There are two open Lecturer (Assistant Professor) positions: Social Psychology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ511/l... More general, but with preference for mental health, wellbeing, and/or PPI: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ582/l...
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Clinical research in the UK is under threat, partly because it takes so long to get a study or trial approved. Here are some of my suggested solutions in this BMJ Opinion piece @nihr.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ukri.org www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨 Fantastic new study led by Dr Martin Osugo of Prof. Oliver Howes group at Kings college: "Striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor regulation of human reward processing and behaviour" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor regulation of human reward processing and behaviour - Nature Communications
Osugo et al show in healthy humans that sustained dopamine D2/D3 receptor antagonism impairs motivated behaviour, hedonic experience, and emotional expression, and that this is related to blunted stri...
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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Will we choose to – divide et impera – divide and conquer, or will we continue to clump all cases of Parkinson's? Substantia nigra and locus coeruleus are early brain regions affected by PD? These regions are important to learning and cognitive (thinking) functions, but in very different ways.
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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Great fun this week at BRIC Plymouth @bricplymouth.bsky.social as we begin collecting data on a combined fMRI/EEG/Theta-burst study of pre-SMA contributions to inhibitory processing with our MSc Human Neuroscience students. #neuroskyance #neuroscience #neuropsychology #brain #neuroimaging
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plymouthpsychology.bsky.social @plymouthpsychology.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Congratulations to Elsa and her team @bricplymouth.bsky.social for securing funding to do groundbreaking focused transcranial ultrasound.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
If you use BOLD based fMRI in your research, take a moment to wish Seiji Ogawa a happy 91st birthday on Sunday, Jan 19th. His research launched thousands of careers and provided an invaluable to look inside our brains.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Three psychology lecturer jobs at the University of Bath, UK. Closing date: 19th January Especially seeking researchers in the areas of: - Addiction - Autism - Artificial Intelligence - Environmental Psych - Pain Psych - Youth Mental Health #PsychJobs #Psychology #UKHE #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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CH12294 Lecturer - Jobs at Bath
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Andrea Pisauro @andreapisauro.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
www.science.org/content/arti... Boring is interesting (and so is boredom for that matter)
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As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings
Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community
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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Nice review highlighting the associations between neuropsychiatric conditions and #cerebrovascular deficits doi.org/10.1111/eci.... #BloodBrainBarrier #Psychiatry
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Neurovascular dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: Underlying mechanisms and therapeutic approaches
The neurovascular unit (NVU) is present in both brain and retinal barriers and consists of endothelial cells, basement membrane, pericytes, glial cells (astrocytes and microglia) and neurons. Barrier...
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de Gee lab @degeelab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I would like to share new work that focusses on non-invasive manipulations of (noradrenergic) arousal during human cognitive behavior.
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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Do we ever get used to disgust? Work in a care home for long enough, and you just might! Healthcare assistants show no disgust avoidance for care-related stimuli, and this habituation even generalises to unrelated yuck. Paper in @plos.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #psychology #disgust
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Long-term disgust habituation with limited generalisation in care home workers
Countless workers handle bodily effluvia and body envelope violations every working day, and consequentially face deeply unpleasant levels of disgust. Understanding if and how they adapt can help info...
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Prof Kate Watkins @kateewatkins.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Useful reading list on neurodiversity from @iammirela.bsky.social and colleagues elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity
A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...
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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Pigeons navigate along idiosyncratic routes that improve between generations. Cumulative cultural evolution? This study shows that the same cumulative route improvements spontaneously emerge in simple artificial agents. Paper in @plosbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1371/jour... (1/4; video at end!)
The "is this a butterfly?" meme in which a man looks at object and asks "Is this a ...?" In this case, the man is looking at a graph of inter-generational route improvements in pigeons and asking "Is this cumulative culture?"Figure with four panels. The top panels both show five generations of navigator pairs. They follow idiosyncratic curves, but each generation gets a closer to a straight line from start to finish. The left panels says "Artificial navigators" and the right "Pigeons", and look qualitatively similar. The bottom panels show a mixture model: four Von Mises distributions plotted in a radial plot (bottom-left) or a regular plot (bottom-right). Each is associated with a different navigational component: towards the goal, towards the other bird (labelled "social"), towards the next landmark in memory, and straight ahead (labelled "continuity"). Each component has their own weight and precision (i.e. narrow or wider spread). The sum of the four components is shown in the bottom-right panel, as a probability density function.
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Please repost this open PhD studentship.
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