Julian Koenig

A crowdsourced megastudy of 12 digital single-session interventions for depression in US adults Nature Human Behaviour - An online experiment compared 12 brief online interventions for depression. Most improved mental health immediately, but these gains decreased over time, with only two...

Our crowdsourced megastudy comparing a diverse set of 12 single-session interventions for depression is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/e6pzz (no paywall)

We also published a brief non-academic piece about the study today: theconversation.com/free-10-minu...

Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.

Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

Childhood post-adoption experiences and the long-term trajectories of deprivation-specific neurodevelopmental problems: a longitudinal study of the English and Romanian adoptee cohort - European Child... European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - Early institutional deprivation is associated with a co-occurring constellation of deprivation-specific problems (DSPs), including autism, ADHD,...

New research publication: Childhood post-#adoption experiences and the long-term trajectories of deprivation-specific neurodevelopmental problems: a longitudinal study of the English and Romanian adoptee cohort by Rodriguez-Perez
et al:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ECAP #openaccess

📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a

📣 Calling: Alle Eltern

Wir planen psychotherapeutische Gruppen für Eltern von Säuglingen mit Regulationsschwierigkeiten, um zu entlasten & stärken.

Sagt uns, was ihr euch wünschen würdet:
www.soscisurvey.de/saeuglingsgr...

Danke fürs Mitmachen & Teilen! 🙏✨

@tudresden.bsky.social

Registration open 🎉

MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep

www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know."

We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd
Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor
Sessions on:
memory processes
sleep & replay
analysis and stimulation techniques
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...

plz rp

Females have shorter scalp-to-cortex distances and receive stronger TMS electrical fields: Implications for clinical treatment Neuropsychopharmacology - Females have shorter scalp-to-cortex distances and receive stronger TMS electrical fields: Implications for clinical treatment

Biological sex impacts TMS intensity because ♀️ typically have shorter scalp-to-cortex distances than ♂️

While these differences are widespread, they are absent in the motor cortex—the site usually used to determine clinical dosage

Leiter*in (m/w/d) der zentralen Core Facility MR I... Mit der Entwicklung der zentralen, fakultätsübergreifenden Core Facility MR Imaging baut die Universität Bielefeld unter Beteiligung der Naturwisse...

Awesome opportunity as head of an MRI core facility in Bielefeld: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/471...

Reminder on the postdoc call: Applications need to get in contact with us before submitting their application. We are interested in the effects of touch by significant others and its stress-buffering effects on a neurobiological level 👩‍🍼💑🫂🫀🧠. Project #35 @hlsalliance.bsky.social 👇

Job Alert! The Sprenger Lab is looking for a Postdoc!

www.age.mpg.de/job-9f350f6e...

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌

Applications due: Feb. 26
Start date: flexible, as early as June
More 👇
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Altered body representations are central to many neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. At the 8th Annual BRNet Meeting, we’ll explore these questions under the theme “The Uncanny Body.”

Poster deadline: 20.02.2026
Registration: 30.03.2026

bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...

Predicting suicide attempts in a high-risk clinical cohort of adolescents using machine-learning - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - While suicide prevention is a major global health priority in youth, it remains challenging to identify those at risk for future suicidal behavior. This...

New research publication: Predicting suicide attempts in a high-risk clinical cohort of adolescents using machine-learning by Hertel et al in our #ECAP journal:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#youthmentalhealth #suicideprevention

@koeniglab.bsky.social

Cracking the code of gut–brain sensing — a Journal Club article by Lihua Ye

#neurocience #neuroskyence

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

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Call for PostDoc applications: Find the project on Social Touch during Stress by @fbublatzky.bsky.social and myself as #35.
Please reach out to us for any questions and to discuss your thoughts on the project. Colleagues, please repost or forward to candidates. 🧠🫂👇

📢 Postdoctoral Position (2 years) – Social Neuroscience / Psychophysiology

@monikaeckstein.bsky.social & myself invite applications from an outstanding early-career PostDoc to join a new project on social touch, stress, and health at the CIMH in Mannheim and Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me.

🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026
Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning)

⬇️ Call for Papers
tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

Prenatal paracetamol exposure and child neurodevelopment: a systematic review and meta-analysis Current evidence does not indicate a clinically important increase in the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, or intellectual disability in children of pregnant individuals who use paracetam...

We all knew Tylenol didn’t cause autism.

Now the data in the @thelancet.com confirm it—no increased risk of autism, ADHD, or Intellectual Disability when used as directed in pregnancy.

Misinformation from HHS keeps failing the science test.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In den vergangenen Tagen wurde auf verschiedenen Social-Media-Plattformen über die Vorankündigung diskutiert, dass die DFG zukünftig unter bestimmten Rahmenbedingungen die Nutzung von KI in der Begutachtung ermöglichen wird. Mehr⏬

New paper from our STAR Consortium “Self-Injury: Treatment, Assessment, Recovery” now published in ECAP!

Join my lab and collaborate with excellent scientists Magdalena Schlesinger or Anette Frank at University of Heidelberg! We offer topics on replay in humans and rodents or neurobiologically inspired AI, respectively.

Deadline 31st March.

Apply here: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

Multinational and Translational Research Projects in the European Partnership for Brain Health

Two joint #CallForProposals for multinational & translational research projects in the new "European Partnership for Brain Health".
Call 1: Neurological, mental, and sensory disorders
Call 2: Neurodegenerative disorders
Proposals should combine basic and clinical approaches. More🔽
sohub.io/dith

We are back online and are wishing everyone a happy New Year!
In case you missed this during the holidays: The December issue of our #ECAP journal is now available:

www.escap.eu/ecap-journal...

Nach 11 Monaten Arbeit findet morgen die Konsensuskonferenz der
S2K-Leitlinie Long-/Post-COVID statt.
Die Mandatsträger:innen stimmen nun über die Empfehlungen der einzelnen Kapitel ab.
Das ist der zentrale Schritt auf dem Weg zur finalen Leitlinie.

#PostCovid #MECFS #PEM
#PEMistnichtVerhandelbar

Very much looking forward to this great conference!

Image illustrating sensor placement. The reference sensor is placed on the xiphoid process (just under the sternum), the ground is placed on the left costal margin (just under the bottom rib), and sensors one through four are place over where the stomach would be. Sensor 3 is midway through the umbilicus (navel) and the reference sensor. Sensor 4 is roughly three centimetres from sensor 3 to participant-right. Sensors 2 is also roughly three centimetres away from sensor 3, but along a 45 degree angle upwards and to participant-left. Sensor 1 lies 3 centimetres further from sensor 2, along the same 45 degree line.

Two-panel image showing a processed electrogastrogram. The left panel shows five minutes of raw data from four different leads (measured from the four sensors in the previous image and their common reference). The right panel shows the same signal in frequency space, illustrating the typical normogastric peak at 3 cycles per minute.

Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you!

In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260