Devin Terhune

Really nice work by @madelinestein.bsky.social and colleagues on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers' well-being. A neglected but super important issue, particularly when thinking about future outbreaks.

Alpha oscillations support task-relevant and irrelevant form of stimulus independent cognition | King's College London Guest speaker Dr Jaana Simola shares her research magnetoencephalography, EEG and eye-tracking to study cognition and perception.

Very pleased to host Jaana Simola for a talk at @kingsioppn.bsky.social on 3 Dec @ 4PM in seminar room 3 (main IoPPN building). Jaana will be talking about "Alpha oscillations support task-relevant and irrelevant form of stimulus independent cognition" t.ly/SlsA0

Our new Insights article out now in European Neuropsychopharmacology

We argue that poor control conditions in digital therapeutics trials risk misleading efficacy claims.

Let’s raise the bar for DTx trial design.

🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1l-8p,L21E...

@ecnp.eu
#DTx #MentalHealth #ClinicalTrials

New paper on heterogeneity among highly suggestible individuals in Int Rev Neurobiol. They're assumed to be a uniform group but the evidence goes against this assumption. I describe the central methodological issues, different models of heterogeneity, lines of evidence and implications t.ly/LbX3t

Excellent opportunity to pursue a PhD on dissociative states with @susannahpick.bsky.social and me at the IoPPN @kingsioppn.bsky.social Reach out to us with any questions

Experimenter evidence unmasking as a confound in optional stopping - Behavior Research Methods Optional stopping refers to the practice of repeatedly performing a statistical analysis on a dataset as new data are collected until a pre-specified decision criterion is reached. This procedure is often adopted because of its effectiveness in optimizing data collection. Discussions of optional stopping to date have primarily centred around statistical issues, with relatively little consideration of any methodological implications of this procedure. Building on recent work drawing attention to methodological biases arising from the use of optional stopping, we highlight experimenter awareness of the current evidence state during data collection (experimenter evidence unmasking) as a salient methodological confound of optional stopping. We argue that experimenter evidence unmasking has the potential to influence an experimenter to implicitly or explicitly modify their behaviour in ways that can reduce the internal validity of an experiment. We conclude by offering recommendations for circumventing this confound and for the transparent reporting of experimenter evidence masking procedures.

New paper (t.ly/6ZkaU) by Renata Sadibolova and myself in Behavior Research Methods. Building on previous papers by Beffara Bret et al. (t.ly/Tfvxk) and Elsey et al. (t.ly/8wR0f), we highlight experimenter evidence unmasking as a salient confound in optional stopping (BFs and frequentist)
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This talk in the Ruhmer Seminar Series at Istanbul Medipol University by Prof Amanda Barnier from Macquarie University on 30 Sept @ 12 (TR) should be excellent. Free to attend but you need to register to get a link.

There is a now a room listing for this super interesting talk on dissociative identity disorder on 3 Sept at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/disso...

Dissociative identity disorder: History, aetiology, phenomenology, controversy Guest speaker, Professor Martin Dorahy, will present the history, aetiology and phenomenology of dissociative identity disorder, and some of the historical and current controversies associated with it...

This talk on September 3 at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social on dissociative identity disorder by Martin Dorahy should be excellent. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The RSM - Royal Society of Medicine Our vision: better healthcare for better lives

This upcoming online symposium on suggestion, expectancy and imagery in stroke (and functional stroke) rehab (11 September) looks really good: www.rsm.ac.uk/event-bookin...

Really sad to hear about the passing of @andreaevers.bsky.social An absolutely towering figure in the study of placebo effects. A huge loss for the field. placebosociety.org/home

Dissociative identity disorder: History, aetiology, phenomenology, controversy Guest speaker, Professor Martin Dorahy, will present the history, aetiology and phenomenology of dissociative identity disorder, and some of the historical and current controversies associated with it...

This talk on September 3 at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social on dissociative identity disorder by Martin Dorahy should be excellent. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Really excellent work by @nayapol.bsky.social on this project in @psychscience.bsky.social Incredibly important implications for how we measure mind wandering and think about the link between performance and experiential state reports (whether mind wandering or other types of introspective reports).

In this paper led by @madelinestein.bsky.social we outline how suggestion effects can act as a salient confound in psychedelic experiments/trials (eg one certain NEJM trial ... see paper). We also note how suggestion effects can be harnessed in valuable ways in this domain.

Hristo’s presenting his poster today and tomorrow at #NCMPan25! Come and check out his work on information content in sensorimotor cortex in controls and people with amputations at 2-F-72 @ncmsociety.bsky.social

6 Arms, 3 Thumbs: I Tested The Future of Robotic Limbs | Superhuman | WIRED Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Great video by @wired.com showcasing the Third Thumb! 👍👍👍We're super grateful to be able to work with the amazing Dani Clode and investigate how our brains 🧠 accomodate motor control of an extra robotic finger! The segment on the Third Thumb starts at 6:02 - you can watch here: rb.gy/t8gdhs

Check-out our latest research! 🧠 @lucydowdall.bsky.social's PhD work looking at the sensory representation of an artificial limb is now up on bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.16.658246 🦾 see her thread below highlighting some of our key findings

Nancy, France

🧠New postdoc position - come work with us in France! 🥐👩‍🔬

Two-Year Postdoc Position on the Role of Temporal Integration in Visual Attention Using Human Intracerebral Recordings | EURAXESS euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/351721

📆Starting Date: October 2025
⏱️Application deadline: 31 Aug 2025

Our lab had a fantastic time this week presenting our current work at @uksensorimotor25.bsky.social in Oxford 🧠

Having a great time in Utrecht at #BRNet2025! Today, our very talented postdoc @celiafoster.bsky.social and amazing PhD student Ema Jugovic presented their posters. Really great work showcasing our new Third Thumb studies 🧠

Our PhD students @maggieszymanska.bsky.social and Julien Russ ready to present their posters today at #BRNet2025! Find them in the poster room at 2pm, talking about phantom limb pain and using EMG to control the Third Thumb 🧠

Thrilled to share our most recent work led by our brilliant PhD student @mariamolinasan.bsky.social, exploring generalisation of motor learning with a robotic limb, featuring The Third Thumb 🦾

Exciting day at the fascinating UN #AIforGood summit! @daniclode.bsky.social presented on designing for augmentation and the Third Thumb, Tamar then presented our research looking at the neural embodiment of robotic limbs! Smashing it 🦾

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The balance between neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I) shapes cognition, development and brain-based disorders. Electroencephalography and magnetic resonance spectroscopy allow non-invasive quan...

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Can humans use artificial limbs for body augmentation as flexibly as their own hands?
🚨 Our new interdisciplinary study put this question to the test with the Third Thumb (@daniclode.bsky.social), a robotic extra digit you control with your toes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hi everyone! I’m researching how people with functional seizures understand & cope with their condition.

If you're 18+, UK-based, diagnosed by neurologist (no additional epilepsy), please take 20-30 mins to complete this survey:
nclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#functionalseizure#fnd

🎉 Stefanie Meeuwis, who used to be a postdoc in my lab, has just received the @sipsplacebo.bsky.social Early Career Award! Huge congratulations – so well deserved! 👏🥳

Thank you to @przemekbabel.bsky.social and the organising comittee for a great #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025. As was announced at the closing ceremony, we'll be hosting SIPS 2027 in Sydney, Australia!

Follow us for updates, news, and more! ⭐️

@sipsplacebo.bsky.social

Huge thanks to my amazing Pain Research Group from @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @filozoficznyuj.bsky.social for all the hard work and dedication in organizing the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social — couldn’t have done it without you! 💪🧠👏 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025