Sean James Fallon

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Excited to see how this develops www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@Veronicabreira @jonstoneneuro @AlanCarson15 report on a novel digital self-help functional cognitive disorder intervention. The CBT–based programme led to symptom improvement in 62% of participants and boosted quality of life and more. Read at buff.ly/jD4JbCF

Brain Communications welcomes applications for the next editor in chief 🤓. Please find further details here buff.ly/TI1o606 😃 #editorinchief #applications #recruiting

Reconciling flexibility and efficiency: medial entorhinal cortex represents a compositional cognitive map Nature Communications - How the brain creates compositional cognitive maps that support both flexible and efficient planning remains poorly understood. Here, authors propose a...

New paper with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social in Nature Communications: an RL model that builds a successor map compositionally. The new model plans as well as the best models, and it links components of the map used for planning to neural codes in the medial entorhinal cortex.
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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Psychology Jobs in All Otago, Job Vacancies - Aug 2025 | SEEK Find your ideal job at SEEK with 104 Psychology jobs found in All Otago. View all our Psychology vacancies now with new jobs added daily!

If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...

NAc-DBS selectively enhances memory updating without effect on retrieval Neuropsychopharmacology - NAc-DBS selectively enhances memory updating without effect on retrieval

This study shows that deep 🧠 stimulation of the nucleus accumbens selectively enhances long-term memory encoding in 🐀 without affecting recall, working memory, motor function, or stress behaviors

www.nature.com/artic...

interesting work from Paul @paulmasset.bsky.social and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
see the commentary:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience

osf.io/preprints/ps...

This was such a fun Research Highlights piece to write for @npp-journal.bsky.social! I basically got to 👏 the impressive 🧲 🧠 work of @npetersen.bsky.social 🤩
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vascular health has an impact on brain health

New Editorial in this month's Brain: tinyurl.com/3xdu562p

Kazazian et al. review the use of neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, detailing key methods (fMRI, EEG, PET) and imaging paradigms that can be used to improve diagnosis and prognosis. tinyurl.com/57tme2fc

Are you looking for a new job? The University of Bristol is looking for you! There are two open Lecturer (Assistant Professor) positions:

Social Psychology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ511/l...

More general, but with preference for mental health, wellbeing, and/or PPI: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ582/l...

Clinical research in the UK is under threat, partly because it takes so long to get a study or trial approved. Here are some of my suggested solutions in this BMJ Opinion piece
@nihr.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ukri.org
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor regulation of human reward processing and behaviour - Nature Communications Osugo et al show in healthy humans that sustained dopamine D2/D3 receptor antagonism impairs motivated behaviour, hedonic experience, and emotional expression, and that this is related to blunted stri...

🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨
Fantastic new study led by Dr Martin Osugo of Prof. Oliver Howes group at Kings college:
"Striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor regulation of human reward processing and behaviour"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Will we choose to – divide et impera – divide and conquer, or will we continue to clump all cases of Parkinson's? Substantia nigra and locus coeruleus are early brain regions affected by PD? These regions are important to learning and cognitive (thinking) functions, but in very different ways.

Great fun this week at BRIC Plymouth @bricplymouth.bsky.social as we begin collecting data on a combined fMRI/EEG/Theta-burst study of pre-SMA contributions to inhibitory processing with our MSc Human Neuroscience students. #neuroskyance #neuroscience #neuropsychology #brain #neuroimaging

Congratulations to Elsa and her team @bricplymouth.bsky.social for securing funding to do groundbreaking focused transcranial ultrasound.

If you use BOLD based fMRI in your research, take a moment to wish Seiji Ogawa a happy 91st birthday on Sunday, Jan 19th. His research launched thousands of careers and provided an invaluable to look inside our brains.

Three psychology lecturer jobs at the University of Bath, UK.

Closing date: 19th January

Especially seeking researchers in the areas of:

- Addiction

- Autism

- Artificial Intelligence

- Environmental Psych

- Pain Psych

- Youth Mental Health

#PsychJobs #Psychology #UKHE #AcademicSky #PhDSky

As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community

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Boring is interesting (and so is boredom for that matter)

Neurovascular dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: Underlying mechanisms and therapeutic approaches The neurovascular unit (NVU) is present in both brain and retinal barriers and consists of endothelial cells, basement membrane, pericytes, glial cells (astrocytes and microglia) and neurons. Barrier...

Nice review highlighting the associations between neuropsychiatric conditions and #cerebrovascular deficits doi.org/10.1111/eci.... #BloodBrainBarrier #Psychiatry

I would like to share new work that focusses on non-invasive manipulations of (noradrenergic) arousal during human cognitive behavior.

Long-term disgust habituation with limited generalisation in care home workers Countless workers handle bodily effluvia and body envelope violations every working day, and consequentially face deeply unpleasant levels of disgust. Understanding if and how they adapt can help info...

Do we ever get used to disgust? Work in a care home for long enough, and you just might! Healthcare assistants show no disgust avoidance for care-related stimuli, and this habituation even generalises to unrelated yuck.

Paper in @plos.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #psychology #disgust

Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...

Useful reading list on neurodiversity from @iammirela.bsky.social and colleagues elifesciences.org/articles/102...

The "is this a butterfly?" meme in which a man looks at object and asks "Is this a ...?" In this case, the man is looking at a graph of inter-generational route improvements in pigeons and asking "Is this cumulative culture?"

Figure with four panels. The top panels both show five generations of navigator pairs. They follow idiosyncratic curves, but each generation gets a closer to a straight line from start to finish. The left panels says "Artificial navigators" and the right "Pigeons", and look qualitatively similar. The bottom panels show a mixture model: four Von Mises distributions plotted in a radial plot (bottom-left) or a regular plot (bottom-right). Each is associated with a different navigational component: towards the goal, towards the other bird (labelled "social"), towards the next landmark in memory, and straight ahead (labelled "continuity"). Each component has their own weight and precision (i.e. narrow or wider spread). The sum of the four components is shown in the bottom-right panel, as a probability density function.

Pigeons navigate along idiosyncratic routes that improve between generations. Cumulative cultural evolution? This study shows that the same cumulative route improvements spontaneously emerge in simple artificial agents.

Paper in @plosbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1371/jour... (1/4; video at end!)

Please repost this open PhD studentship.