š Congratulations to @RakoenMaertens, who was awarded The Brenda Milner Best Paper Prize by a PhD or MPhil Student in the Cambridge Department of Psychology
If you can afford to donate to charity this Christmas and are wondering which to support, consider a hospice. They rely on donations for most of their funding.
Hereās an article (which I have posted before) about why itās vital to support hospices
archive.is/2024.12.12-011708ā¦
A must listen!
The wonderful Professor Mark Williams is interviewed on Leading podcast @RestIsPolitics
Focusing on mindfulness, depression, faith and finding peace in the chaos
open.spotify.com/episode/0hcā¦
Hugely importat piece: There is no such thing as "implicit racial bias" or if there was one, it does not predict any kind of behaviour. This is scandalous given how much money is spent on implicit bias trainings and other nonsense
1. New adversarial collaboration on implicit racial bias and racial discrimination including >2k White American subjects, four measures of implicit bias, four measures of explicit attitudes, and four measures of racial discrimination, now in press at JPSP: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5nā¦
What does it mean to be both animal and thinker? Join @MoatazAssem and John Duncan on 25 November at Murray Edwards College for the launch of Johnās new book āThe Animal and the Thinkerā. Get your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-animaā¦
āNew Episode of MQ Open Mindā
in which I talk with @suicideresearch
about the teenage brain, myths about adolescence and how neuroscience can reshape how we support young people
youtube.com/watch?v=xy7jkcSlā¦
Free online 2-day training course for NHS staff on Cognitive Therapy for PTSD in children & YP; same therapy in the NIHR-funded DECRYPT trial (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦) 19th-20th Nov 2025 10am-4pm on Teams. Sign up: forms.microsoft.com/e/xjvF3Rā¦. Feel free to share.
I'm standing for RCPsych President in next March's election. I'm still speaking and listening to friends and colleagues, but you can learn about me and what I would want to do if successful in the election here: profrobhoward.com
NIHR-funded DECRYPT trial now out (ow.ly/JYci50WWHBQ); for youth (8-17) with PTSD after multiple traumas, Cognitive Therapy was superior to treatment-as-usual at 11-month follow-up & improved anxiety/depression @UEA_ClinPsyD@uniofeastanglia@KingsIoPPN@mrccbu
New paper! By @livia_tomova, Emily Towner, Kirsten Thomas, Stefano Palminteri, Lei Zhang
Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents.
nature.com/articles/s44271-0ā¦
Now out in @NatureNeuro
What happens to the brainās body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after undergoing an arm amputation, we discovered the brainās body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
nature.com/articles/s41593-0ā¦
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We always welcome those joining for the first time, you can contribute as little or as much to discussions, ideas, and stuff we are working on! If you want to get a bit of an idea what we get up to, have a look at our other posts. Meeting link will be shared nearer the time.
*New Paper* How genes for IQ shape brain organisation. Amazing work led by Alicja Monaghan @mrccbu reveals 2 ways. First, theyāre associated w/ the ācostsā of network formation. Second, they define āhigh valueā areas within the network. How she did itā¦š§µ
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.31
Deadline for this funded PhD to work with me and @DuncanAstle is soon! 26 July.
The student must be a woman (because the studentship is based at Newnham College Cambridge) and eligible for UK home fees.