📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a
Deadline extended!
Submit your work by 31 March 2026 to our Special Issue: Language in psychosis: a multidisciplinary approach
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
We look forward to your contributions.
How is genetic risk for inflammation linked to mental disorders?
Our new study applies transdiagnostic network analysis to uncover symptom-level associations beyond categorical diagnoses. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I’m excited to announce that Bielefeld will soon (in 2026) be home to a research-dedicated 3-T MRI The scanner will be run as a central research core facility, and we’re seeking a scientific leader (TV-L E15, permanent) to help build and shape it. MR physicist ads to follow. tinyurl.com/mryhaxed
📢Out now! @codingfisch.bsky.social and colleagues present deepmriprep, a tool that leverages neural networks to enable 37x faster Voxel-based Morphometry preprocessing of MRI data than existing methods. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneurosky
"deepmriprep: VBM preprocessing via deep neural networks" is published in Nature Computational Science 🧠💻
🔗 Paper: rdcu.be/e1t4N
VBM preprocessing in ~10 seconds per #brain image 🚀
🔗 GitHub: github.com/wwu-mmll/deepm…
Install via "pip install deepmriprep"
How are mental representations formed, structured, and updated?👉 www.inlibra.com/de/document/...
Dimensions of mental representations in psychiatry: An example from speech and gesture processing in schizophrenia
doi.org/10.5771/0072-1492-2025-2-235
#CognitiveNeuroscience #MentalRepresentation
Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
During last week's retreat, we awarded #posterprizes to the best 3 of ~70 excellent #ECR posters.
🎉 Congratulations to winners Vera Ludwig, Alina Nostadt, Claudia Förster Ribet, Tung Anh Nguyen & Theresa Kolb - thank you to all ECRs for presenting your research and engaging in lively discussions!
New fMRI evidence shows altered neural dynamics in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: temporal recalibration of action-outcome predictions engages the middle frontal gyrus and cerebellum differently in patients vs controls. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New evidence challenges a usual assumption of exposure therapy: instructed increases in fear activation during exposure did not enhance treatment outcomes for anxiety disorders (e.g., social anxiety/panic) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧠 Our CRC/TRR 393 consortium outlines key mechanisms of affective disorders — focusing on emotion regulation, expectation, social cognition, and cognitive-behavioral rhythms.
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
@kanske.bsky.social @markuswohr.bsky.social @lisaleehr.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social
📣 The ENIGMA study “Regional brain morphology and current antidepressant use” explores how antidepressant medication correlates with structural brain differences in Major Depressive Disorder across age and sex, drawing on data from 32 international cohorts. 🧠
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
A new publication, “Transdiagnostic alterations in white-matter microstructure associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium”, by ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts & Behaviours Consortium (Translational Psychiatry www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
🧠 New paper investigated how childhood maltreatment shapes structural brain connectivity across affective and psychotic disorders.
Now out in European Neuropsychopharmacology:
🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#Neuroscience #Psychiatry #BrainConnectivity #ChildhoodMaltreatment
😊 New publication!
Joy Beyond Fear: Positive Emotions After Exposure in Patients with Anxiety Disorders and Their Link to Threat Expectancy and Treatment Outcome
Now out in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
#AnxietyDisorders #ExposureTherapy #PositiveEmotions #Expectancy
🧩 New article!
Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated to treatment outcome in anxiety disorders
Now published in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
#AnxietyDisorders #Expectancy
🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
The CRC/TRR 393 aims to unravel trajectories of depression & bipolar disorder by combining mobile assessments, neuroimaging, -omics & interventions in >1500 participants.
A 12-year effort to decode mechanisms of recurrence & remission.
Overview:
🔗 rdcu.be/eGtBy
🥳 Our study led by @edwardody.bsky.social from the @tnm-lab.bsky.social is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. Take a look if you are interested in action-perception transition, readiness potential, and voluntariness of action!
📍https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70236
Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠 New paper out!
Rashid, Kircher & Straube (2025) investigate temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active vs. passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
📄 Schizophrenia:
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & psychische Gesundheit begeistern dich?
Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (www.theadaptivemind.de) bis zum 17.08.:
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1...
#Job #Promotion #fMRI #Psychologie
🧠🗣️ I’m co-editing a Neuropsychologia Special Issue:
“Language in Psychosis – A Multidisciplinary Approach”
We welcome contributions on:
• neural mechanisms
• predictive processing
• cognitive, computational & clinical perspectives
📅 Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas SA Wallis, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @tsawallis.bsky.social
Feeling excluded can distort your decisions!
New study shows tDCS can buffer against the effects of social exclusion on decision-making.
🔗 academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
#neuroscience #tDCS #socialexclusion #mentalhealth
New manuscript! Together with Junqing Huang & @straubeb.bsky.social, we used an innovative paradigm & DDM to show that gesture's processing hierarchy from a behavioral perspective!
Gestures are visual—but they’re also layered, structured, and unfold like language. 🧠🖐️
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osf.io/r5nb9_v1
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
🧠✨ New publication in Brain Communications!
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders & motor preparation:
Aberrant pre-movement fMRI patterns in insula, putamen, cerebellum & angular gyrus
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai...
#Schizophrenia #fMRI #ActionAwareness #CognitiveNeuroscience #Psychiatry