Tim Kaiser

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Just a small reminder to fellow researchers, PubMed Europe is still functional and seems to be updating materials. Thank you to them! europepmc.org

My @sprofficial.bsky.social water bottle from the Denver conference (that I unfortunately lost at the Dublin conference😢)

Die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung ist noch immer nicht geregelt. 2500 Absolvierende stehen jährlich vor verschlossenen Türen. Die Zukunft der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung ist in Gefahr! Kommt am 24.10.25 um 15 Uhr nach Köln oder Bochum zur Demo, werdet laut für die Finanzierung!

To all the people who contacted me from a GMail address: you probably didn’t hear back from me for weeks or even months. That’s because I got a lot of academic spam from GMail accounts and marked them. This led to many false positives.

Apropos of recent open science conversations - this paper is an awesome primer for grad students and faculty who want to learn more: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Heute Dreh von „ARD Wissen“ zum Thema Glück 🍀. Wir sprechen u.a. darüber, wie glücklich Kinder und Jugendliche aktuell sind, welche Rolle Social Media spielt und wie Glück gefördert werden kann. Sendung kommt am 15. Dezember 🗓️.

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Thomas von der Osten-Sacken: Mordaufruf gegen Betreiberinnen des Berlin Bajzel Von Tunis nach Teheran (Mittwoch, 1 Oktober, 2025; 17:25)

Solidarität mit dem Bajszel!

Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Substance Use Disorder This randomized clinical trial evaluates the effects of second-generation heart rate variability biofeedback on negative affect, positive affect, craving, and alcohol and other drug use in adults with...

Really excited to share the results from our recent Randomized Clinical Trail of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for those in early SUD recovery just published in JAMA Psychiatry led by the intrepid David Eddie.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Development of an Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are most people really social addicts? - Behavior Research Methods A growing number of self-report measures aim to define interactions with social media in a pathological behavior framework, often using terminology focused on identifying those who are ‘addicted’ to engaging with others online. Specifically, measures of ‘social media addiction’ focus on motivations for online social information seeking, which could relate to motivations for offline social information seeking. However, it could be the case that these same measures could reveal a pattern of friend addiction in general. This study develops the Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ) by re-wording items from highly cited pathological social media use scales to reflect “spending time with friends”. Our methodology for validation follows the current literature precedent in the development of social media ‘addiction’ scales. The O-FAQ had a three-factor solution in an exploratory sample of N = 807 and these factors were stable in a 4-week retest (r = .72 to .86) and was validated against personality traits, and risk-taking behavior, in conceptually plausible directions. Using the same polythetic classification techniques as pathological social media use studies, we were able to classify 69% of our sample as addicted to spending time with their friends. The discussion of our satirical research is a critical reflection on the role of measurement and human sociality in social media research. We question the extent to which connecting with others can be considered an ‘addiction’ and discuss issues concerning the validation of new ‘addiction’ measures without relevant medical constructs. Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures.

Had missed this absolutely brilliant paper. They take a widely used social media addiction scale & replace 'social media' with 'friends'. The resulting scale has great psychometric properties & 69% of people have friend addictions.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Well, there were other positions on this conference ;)
Also pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28841086/

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Research Methods Academy: Seminar - The Importance of Sample Size for the Development and Evaluation of Clinical Prediction Models. After registering, you w... Led by Professor Richard Riley Join this Online Seminar on clinical prediction models estimate individual risk for outcomes from disease. Many studies lack rigorous design; this session will focus o...

Giving a talk today which anyone can watch online: 1pm - 2pm
"The Importance of Sample Size for the Development and Evaluation of Clinical Prediction Models"
- intended for a broad audience (anyone doing or using prediction model research)
imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited to share that I’ll be the incoming Editor of AMPPS. My first priority is building a diverse team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. If you’re interested, DM me or add your name via this super simple survey.
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EMDR Therapy in Persons With Personality Disorders This multicenter randomized clinical trial investigates the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for patients with personality disorders, with and without comorbid po...

"In this randomized clinical trial of 159 patients with [personality disorders], EMDR therapy led to significant reduction in PD symptoms, with 30 (44.1%) achieving remission."

ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable Exploring the relationship between ADHD and boredom

ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-bored...

I think the reply was blocking him

This interaction lives rent-free in my head.

But wouldn't that be true even for the best available treatments?

Not a fan of waitlist either but, AFAIK, current interpretations of the declaration allow them if risks are low, the delay is short, and eventual access to treatment is ensured. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

SO excited to be able to get exposure therapy into the hands of more therapists who work with clients with eating disorders!

I voiced my concerns here.

The first RCT on LLM-based "chatbot" therapy did that. While using the baseline score as inclusion criterion. Published in an NEJM journal…
ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

bsky.app/profile/zabong69.bsk...

The Borderline Personality Disorder Checklist (BPD-CL) can be used for self-assessment in various languages because it is a reliable and valid measure of symptoms of BPD in its Dutch, English, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish version.

Comparing depressive symptom representation between individuals with cancer, non-cancer controls and healthy individuals: A network approach Individuals affected by cancer are vulnerable to depression, but prevalence rates vary greatly between studies. The preponderance of somatic rather th…

proud of judith hirschmiller who led this massive effort: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we compared the depressive symptom structure in people with & without cancer & other physical illness; for the first time based on a representative cohort with highly standardized medical assessments ⬇️

Pope Leo refuses to authorise an AI Pope and declares the technology 'an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about' "There's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line."

I never would have thought that I would live to see the Pope become a voice of reason.

Does meta-analytic evidence support inter-identity amnesia in dissociative identity disorder? A commentary and corrected analysis for

"Despite patient reports of inter-identity amnesia, the lack of objective evidence to substantiate this report has implications for conceptualizing the nature of amnesia in DID."

tCBT New Paper: Evolving perspectives on CBT-E for eating disorders: clarifying ten key points – misconceptions and communication gaps explored

Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Psychology Post-Doctoral Scholar The Treatment Innovation for Psychological Services (TIPS) Research Group in the Psychology department of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, KY is seeking a fu...

👋🏻 I am so excited to announce that I'll be hiring a postdoc at the University of Kentucky!

We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization.

ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...

More details in the 🧵 👇🏻