Alex Lloyd

We think these findings highlight the bidirectional links between social relationships and emotion processing for conferring risk for mental health problems in adolescence. They might also be used to identify active ingredients for future transdiagnostic interventions

The profiles were also associated with mental health symptoms that were not restricted to traditional diagnostic boundaries

The clusters displayed distinct patterns of responses on questionnaire and task-based measures of social and emotion processing suggesting they captured distinct profiles

Using a type of unsupervised machine learning and cluster analysis, we were able to identify reliable clusters of socio-affective functioning 🤖

New preprint from the @resetproject.bsky.social! Here we identify profiles of socio-affective functioning in adolescents at heightened risk for mental health problems 👇

It’s #YouthMentalHealthDay today. So Josh and I thought we would talk to students at @UCL and get their thoughts about the rising cases of mental health disorders in young people aged 8-25. What do y... TikTok video by ReSET

We just posted our very first TikTok to raise awareness for #YouthMentalHealthDay 🧠💛 We decided what better way to discuss the topic of youth mental health than to talk to the youth themselves? Let us know what you think! #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #UCL www.tiktok.com/@reset.proje...

Today is Youth Mental Health Day with the theme “Shared Support” highlighting the power of connection.

Peer support is vital during adolescence, reducing depression and anxiety.

The takeaway? Be that person for someone you know! More info below...

#YouthMentalHealthDay #ShareSupport

Co-producing an interdisciplinary, preventative mental health intervention: development of the building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET) programme Adolescence is a developmental period of increased susceptibility to mental health problems. In response to rising rates of psychopathology in this age group, there have been calls to develop new o...

How do we work with young people to develop new mental health interventions that draw on different disciplines? In this new paper, we outline our approach in developing the @resetproject.bsky.social programme, a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for young people 👇

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🙌 Team Spotlight! 🙌 Our post-doc @dralexlloyd.bsky.social presented his research on Transdiagnostic Approaches and Socio-Affective Risk factors at the FLUX conference in Dublin last week 🎉 A link to the poster can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1g6pw... #MentalHealthResearch #ReSETproject

New Project: ‘Explore-Exploit’ Paradigm and Mental Health in Adolescents – The ReSET Project – Building resilience through socio-emotional training Building resilience through socio-emotional training

Does young people's decision-making impact their wellbeing?

We just posted a blog offering a deep dive into an exciting new project led by @dralexlloyd.bsky.social that looks at how the 'Explore-Exploit paradigm' relates to young people's mental health. Click to find out more! buff.ly/KZHlafL

Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

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Our 2025–2026 Seminar Series is ready to begin 🎓✨
We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond.
Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐
Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

New paper! Excellent work by @bignardi.bsky.social and @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, who leads the Oxwell study

The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England

Out soon. Preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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).

Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry

New paper just out (open access) 📣

How do early adversity and war trauma shape children’s decisions under uncertainty?

We tested Syrian refugee kids (7–12) in Amman vs. Jordanian peers across a set of learning/foraging tasks.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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).

📢 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/...

🧠🏫 AWARE and INSPIRE?
School mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms.

The Education for Wellbeing programme tested universal mental health approaches with 30k+ pupils.

Some benefits, but also unexpected harms, especially for vulnerable students.

🧵 THREAD

New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health

To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why*

We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations

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Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

CDS Summer School Program Registration Schedule Directions 8th – 12th September, 2025 The Center for Decision Sciences will be hosting a summer school during the second week of September, 2025 and taking place…

Registration is open for the Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences, 8–12 Sept

Join us in London for a week of cutting-edge research on decision-making, AI, cognitive science and more!

(free, register by 11Aug)

center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s...
#PsychSciSky 🧠 #neuroskyence🧪

Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
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Are you a UK-based mental health research ECR? Are you looking for a transformative programme to help you meet amazing peers whilst also getting career support? This opportunity is for you! Check out the GROW 2025 Researcher Development Programme.

I wouldn’t be where I am today without it!

A feasibility study of a preventative, transdiagnostic intervention for mental health problems in adolescence: building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET) - Child and Adolescent Psychi... Background Adolescence is a developmental period during which an estimated 75% of mental health problems emerge (Solmi et al. in Mol Psychiat 27:281–295, 2022). This paper reports a feasibility study ...

Read the paper here: capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New publication from the @resetproject.bsky.social! We assess the feasibility of delivering a selective intervention for young people at increased risk of mental health problems. Lots of learning about how we can provide group-based, preventative mental health interventions in schools

Scoping review: potential harm from school-based group mental health interventions Carolina Guzman-Holst, Rowan Streckfuss Davis, Jack L. Andrews, Lucy Foulkes

🚨NEW PAPER from my group: Scoping review of potential harm from group-based CBT and mindfulness interventions in schools

Our research question was essentially this: How often do school mental health interventions make things worse?

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Join our team at an exciting point for the
@resetproject.bsky.social as we disseminate the findings from our school-based, preventative mental health intervention for adolescents!

📢 Are you an accredited therapist, psychologist, or counsellor? University College London (UCL) is conducting a study on the psychological link between childhood maltreatment & domestic abuse and the therapeutic approaches that foster safe relationships. 📩 Sign up here: bit.ly/41lGXon

Thank you for sharing Maria!