Bhisma Chakrabarti

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Comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessment through non-specialists: Validation of the STREAM digital platform in India and Malawi Background: Children in low-resource settings often lack access to culturally appropriate and feasible neurodevelopmental assessments. Existing tools are costly, require specialist training, and were ...

Our latest preprint on the STREAM project to measure neurodevelopment using a digital platform in ~4000 kids in low resource settings www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies - Nature Although the number of participants is important for phenotypic prediction accuracy in brain-wide association studies using functional MRI, scanning for at least 30 min offers the greatest cost effect...

9/ Check out the actual study for many more analyses, e.g., phenotypic variation, scan parameters, signal to noise ratio, etc! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Thank you to the editor @meharpist.bsky.social and anonymous reviewers for the many helpful suggestions, which greatly improved the study.

Involving young people with lived experience in advancing mental health science: an exploratory qualitative study from Pakistan and India - BMC Psychiatry Background Meaningful involvement of young People with Lived Experience (PWLE) in co-designing youth mental health interventions has been much emphasized globally. However, there is a scarcity of evid...

What mental health issues matter most to South Asian youth? Our new paper dives into their priorities for future research, led by a brilliant global team of Usman Hamdani and Amy Finlay Jones and others @wellcometrust.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A treat to hear the brilliant Isabel Dziobek speak about psychotherapy and social robotics - starting off the second day at Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25

Prof Ioannis Patras starts the final talk of the day, on multimodal AI for emotion recognition in context #ReadEmo25

It's finally here! Looking forward to two days of immersion in facial expressions research from around the world at Reading Emotions 2025 sites.google.com/site/reading...
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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Autism, empathy and psychopaths Why society must rethink the damaging stereotypes about autistic people and low empathy.

There are a few misconceptions about autism and empathy in the public discourse. It was great to be part of this podcast in trying to dispel some of these notions - alongwith colleagues across the world. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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Register now for the 14th annual Reading Emotions on 26-27 June with a stellar interdisciplinary line-up of speakers to discuss “Facial expressions of emotion”. Submit abstracts for short talks and apply for travel grants sites.google.com/site/reading.... We look forward to seeing you at #ReadEmo25

YouTube video by The Coffee House Experience CHE#57 | Bangla Podcast | Autism in India - From Denial to Empathy | Bhismadev Chakrabarti

For Bangla speakers amongst us, here's a recent freewheeling chat on Autism, Empathy, and India - with The Coffee House Experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIfx...

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During the first 2 years of the Covid pandemic, I offered multiple, online epidemiology courses for health & science journalists

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My Forbes piece is on my big take-aways: www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Welcome back, Dean!

Interesting, look forward to reading it. Particularly interested to see the component of the similarities that can not be accounted for by similarities in diet within a community.

Looking forward to being back in my old lab, to talk about what we've been up to. If you're around in Cambridge, do pop by! talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr

Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.

List of psychology-related starter packs!
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Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology
by @drboothroyd.bsky.social

Hi Fiona, good to see you here!

Behavior can be decoded across the cortex when individual differences are considered Abstract. Group-level analyses have typically linked behavioral signatures to a constrained set of brain areas. Here, we show that two behavioral metrics—reaction time (RT) and confidence—can be decod...

Everything is everywhere all at once.

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More recently, we have been looking at the interrelationship of empathy and emotion regulation. Key papers: psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-... link.springer.com/article/10.1... (5/5)

A longstanding area of our interest is empathy. One strand has examined the role of reward in shaping empathy related processes, and implications for autism. Key papers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... (4/5)

The GutBrain project examines gut microbiota in relation to behaviour and brain function, with a focus on GABA. This project owes its origin to a lunchtime chat about bacteria producing GABA in the gut.. (and we found one in an in-vitro study too) academic.oup.com/jambio/artic... (3/5)

STREAM is a digital platform made of observation and game based assessments to measure aspects of social behaviour, cognition, motor function, and sensory interests. The platform has been used in studying ~4000 children in India and Malawi bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/6... (2/5)

Since we're starting over, it might be a good idea to introduce some of the stuff we've been working on. We have a mix of lab-based projects (in UK) and community based projects (India, Malawi) - looking at measuring individual differences related to autism. (1/5)

I would love to be added to this list - thanks!

Thanks for starting this - would love to join this list!

Thank you for setting up this list - I would love to join!

Thanks for leading this initiative - would love to join this list!