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Sebastian Walther

@waltherseb.bsky.social

Prof. of Psychiatry @UniWürzburg, views are my own. Music, books, soccer. Keep calm and hike on

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red line is the combined treatment, blue line is sham rTMS plus real psychotherapy, green line is sham psychotherapy

01.11.2025 10:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gesture deficits in psychosis and the combination of group psychotherapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation: A randomized clinical trial Molecular Psychiatry - Gesture deficits in psychosis and the combination of group psychotherapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation: A randomized clinical trial

Can we boost 🚀 psychotherapy effects with rTMS 🧲 in schizophrenia? Yes, we can: rdcu.be/eNM8h

Combined treatment increased social functioning at the end of treatment - even persisting at 6 months follow-up.

This encouraging finding will stimulate work optimizing the protocols.

01.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The last 12 hours provided wonderful scenery. Just to interrupt the heavy rain.

29.10.2025 07:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How does the🧠create psychomotor abnormalities?
Our recent article in @pnas.org offers some insight. Specific areas within the primary motor cortex seem to be altered in psychomotor slowing and linked to motor behaviors. These areas might become new treatment targets

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

26.10.2025 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
ERC Starting Grants were awarded to (clockwise): Jerome Beetz, Mona Garvert, Beatrice Baragli, Jake Greenfield, Jens Hör, and Jacqueline Degen. (Photos: Robert Emmerich / Kerstin Flake / Daniel Hanoch / Chris Weiss / Nik Schölzel / Thomas Hovestadt)

ERC Starting Grants were awarded to (clockwise): Jerome Beetz, Mona Garvert, Beatrice Baragli, Jake Greenfield, Jens Hör, and Jacqueline Degen. (Photos: Robert Emmerich / Kerstin Flake / Daniel Hanoch / Chris Weiss / Nik Schölzel / Thomas Hovestadt)

We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

04.09.2025 10:10 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 3
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🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

04.09.2025 11:55 — 👍 17    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1

New paper alert:
Here we demonstrate a specific communication deficit in psychosis related to hand gestures. Further, gesture impairments seem to depend on the specific symptom profile of individuals related to negative symptoms or formal thought disorder.

doi.org/10.1093/schb...

04.09.2025 09:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Aberrant personal space is associated with paranoia, altered stress regulation, and unfavourable outcomes at 6 months’ follow-up in schizophrenia Molecular Psychiatry - Aberrant personal space is associated with paranoia, altered stress regulation, and unfavourable outcomes at 6 months’ follow-up in schizophrenia

some weeks ago, we published this beauty:
rdcu.be/eD5TA

A simple behavioral test shows that patients with paranoia prefer larger interpersonal space. The new dataset replicates our 2016 finding, but now linked this also to dysfunctional stress regulation and poor outcome in 6 months.

04.09.2025 09:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoying a fantastic meeting on neuroimaging in psychiatry: the BaCI 2025 in Munich

ecnsweb.net/munich-ecns-...

Meeting in rooms full of history and the spirit of psychiatry heroes...

04.09.2025 09:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The other place is now truly dreadful. So, let's try this bluesky again - back after one year.

In the meantime, I started a new job. Working in Germany again after 20 years in Switzerland.

14.01.2025 20:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 🦠 finally got a hold of me. Ruined all Christmas plans for everyone. After four days in bed, first walk outside today with lovely weather...

25.12.2023 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nach einer unbeschwerten und pünklichen DB Reise von Ulm nach Bochum gestern, habe ich heute leider kein Bahnglück 😑. Die meisten Züge Richtung Schweiz fallen aus.

In 20 Stunden soll meine Vorlesung in Bern starten. Schaffen wir das?

14.12.2023 10:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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what a lovely Sunday walk. 🌞🥶

03.12.2023 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Proud moment: My team published a new paper on neural correlates of psychomotor disturbance in depression. Less movement = thalamocortical connectivity increased; more movement = higher pallidocortical connectivity. Data came from Marburg-Münster Affective Disorders cohort

doi.org/10.1038/s413...

03.12.2023 10:00 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Alright, so Nature-Springer just got hacked and they stole my data... I guess this is a radically new approach to data sharing and open data...

27.11.2023 20:13 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

Ich freue mich auf eine lange Bahnfahrt nächste Woche, auf der ich hoffentlich ungestört Manuskripte schreiben und editieren kann. Ist das jetzt schon Bahnvorfreude? 🤔

26.11.2023 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Friday night started with an Email announcing acceptance of an important manuscript. I love this start of the weekend 😀

03.11.2023 20:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Final call! Come work with us!

30.10.2023 14:09 — 👍 11    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Exciting new paper in molecular psychiatry from collaborating with Igor Nenadic, Ahmad Abu-Akel and team:

Hippocampal subfield volume and CBF are linked to an interaction of schizotypy traits with autism traits in a large sample of healthy subjects.
doi.org/10.1038/s413...

27.10.2023 09:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spuk in der Uni: Hier lebt der Ewige Student von Bochum Der Ewige Student soll noch immer durch die Flure der Ruhr-Universität Bochum geistern. Das steckt hinter der Spuk-Geschichte.

Ich kenn die Geschichte so, dass ein Student seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr aus den verwinkelten Katakomben der Ruhr Uni Bochum herausfindet, aber diese Version ist auch gut (und vermutlich näher an der Wahrheit).

#halloween #bochum #rub

www.waz.de/staedte/boch...

27.10.2023 05:39 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

congratulations. This will be great

27.10.2023 06:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

these activate my baroreceptors... 🫣

23.10.2023 08:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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on the other social media app, the NIMH recommended a publication of ours.

makes me happy

here's the paper in schizophrenia bulletin:
doi.org/10.1093/schb...

22.10.2023 13:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fresh off the press: Frauke Conring (not on X) and our team find specific resting state perfusion patterns in patients who experience auditory verbal hallucinations with strong emotional content. Amygdala perfusion increased only in this subgroup.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ni...

22.10.2023 07:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fall morning run without scenic mountain views.🏔️

17.10.2023 08:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Associate Professor in Psychology (Research and Education) x3 posts at University of Birmingham Discover Associate Professor in Psychology (Research and Education) x3 posts jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Multiple assistant and associate professor positions at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ample opportunity to develop research at the Centre for Human Brain Health (@TheCHBH).
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ767/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ765/a...

13.10.2023 11:55 — 👍 32    🔁 41    💬 0    📌 3
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New start here. Moved over from the X

14.10.2023 13:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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