@vaughanbell.bsky.social
Neuropsychologist and professor at UCL. Clinical psychologist in the NHS. Occasional writer. Interested in people. Views my own.
Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Want a Refresher)
📅 This Wednesday, 8 Oct | ⏰ 9am–12pm UK | 📍 Zoom
An exclusive online session for British Neuropsychiatry Association members.
Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neuropsych...
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building
dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j...
He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness
As someone who has been the figurehead for 'lived experience of trauma' for years, he has some tough questions about how we understand the role of lived experience, how it gets co-opted, how it goes unquestioned, and the impact of public testimony on the practitioners themselves.
26.09.2025 09:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of the most important mental health books I've read in the last decade, Darren McGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex is absolute 🔥
www.penguin.co.uk/books/439534...
Skip the subtitle, it's a much wider analysis of trauma and lived experience in mental health. Takes on lots of unquestioned dogmas
Open data and analysis code freely available on the github archive github.com/lynchjess/Ap...
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New from us, led by the fantastic Jess Lynch:
Prevalence and moderators of apathy after traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Remember that academic event where you ended up debating ideas with colleagues, new friends, and even the speakers, long into the evening?
The British Neuropsychiatry Association teaching weekend is one of those and it'll happen Dec 12-14 in Oxford.
I'll be there. Do come and join us!
📢 The BNPA Teaching Weekend returns!
🗓 Dec 12–14, 2025 | St Anne’s College, Oxford
✨ All the essentials of neuropsychiatry
🎓Taught by leading clinicians and scientists
💷 £490 (includes board, breakfast + conference dinner)
Join us: bnpa.org.uk/teaching-wee...
To better understand lay controversies in mental health, we used topic modelling to analyses over 850,000 forum posts to identify their concerns.
From me, @Rhiannon white and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
New from us:
Understanding the countermovement to online presentations of psychiatric disorder that are perceived as "faked" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A huge online movement tries to identify people they feel are 'faking' mental illness for reasons of self-promotion.
Talks from our March 2025 annual conference are now up on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Latest on the neuropsychiatry of brain injury, impulse control disorders, sleep, functional neurological disorder, sensed presences, and pathologies of imagination among many talks
📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis
#NeuroPsychSky
Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
The British Neuropsychiatry Association Teaching Weekend at Oxford Uni (Dec 12–14, 2025).
Join us at St Anne’s College for a captivating weekend learning the essentials of neuropsychiatry led by Prof Adam Zeman.
£490 inc. board and conference dinner.
bnpa.org.uk/teaching-wee...
🔔Our September newsletter, exclusive to BNPA members, has just gone out
• The month in neuropsychiatry research
• BNPA news, events and teaching weekend
• Epilepsy Research Institute grants
• Global Neuropsychiatry Group update
• In the media
#Neuropsychiatry #BNPA
Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Fantastic @rachelaviv.bsky.social piece in The New Yorker
In this study, child mental health and mild traumatic brain injury strongly co-occurred but, apart from anxiety, those associations mostly disappear when prior mental health is accounted for.
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New from us, led from the front by @gracerevill.bsky.social:
Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry
by Kenneth Kendler
"describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A balanced take, amid a lot of polarisation 👇
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How useful is the concept of disinhibition after brain injury? aeon.co/essays/how-t... Fascinating deep-dive in Aeon
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Uncovering the 'exposome'. Interesting piece tracks how it is being transformed from buzzword to research program undark.org/2025/06/16/u...
23.06.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating study Joe!
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Nature Mental Health's Research Briefing section covers our study, led by Jae Won Suh, on outcomes of stroke survivors with anxiety and depression treated with primary care psychological therapy.
Full text of original study www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years
worksinprogress.co/issue/brain-...
Great deep dive into latest on using electronic brain implants as treatments
