Valerie Karl

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I’ve started my clinical training now but am really happy to stay part-time in research and look at brain changes during pregnancy🤗🤰🏽🧠

PhDone 🥳 this happened last week and turns out the imposter syndrome doesn’t leave with a title ☺️ still beyond grateful for my supervisors @cktamnes.bsky.social
@danibeck.bsky.social and the amazing people I got to know during this journey🤍

Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking

Journal Club by Valerie Karl

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Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting The positive affect of rewards is an important contributor to well-being. Reward involves components of pleasure ‘liking’, motivation ‘wanting’, and l…

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This work builds on Kent Berridge’s invaluable contribution to the field and has inspired me to integrate clinical psychology with affective neuroscience in my PhD.

I believe this distinction is crucial for understanding pathological behavior and offers new avenues for treatment.

The authors describe how liking and wanting are dissociable on a neural level: liking is rooted in small hedonic hotspots, whereas wanting involves dopamine-related mesolimbic circuitry.

Atypical wanting and liking can be observed in addiction (e.g. craving a drug, despite not liking it) and depression (e.g. lacking motivation to pursue a reward despite liking it).

The dissonance between wanting and liking has always fascinated me. I recently wrote about Nguyen et al.’s (2021) review on the neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children

Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Such a fun project, discussing network analyses in clinical psychology and neuroscience with @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social and @ludvigdb.bsky.social !

New Preprint and my final PhD paper🥲! We combined symptom and brain networks to look at symptom-specific associations between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Associations between parental psychopathology and youth functional emotion regulation brain networks Parental mental health is associated with children’s emotion regulation (ER) and risk for psychopathology. The relationship between parental psychopat…

Associations between parent’s mental health and youth’s functional emotion regulation networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shared Patterns of Cognitive Control Behavior and Electrophysiological Markers in Adolescence Abstract. Behavioral parameters obtained from cognitive control tasks have been linked to electrophysiological markers. Yet, most previous research has investigated only a few specific behavioral para...

Shared Patterns of Cognitive Control Behavior and Electrophysiological Markers in Adolescence
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