Vaughan Bell

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

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.

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Evidence that mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) causes psychiatric problems in children has been mixed. Investigating this issue has been difficult due to the lack of representative long...

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 the ‘myth of Phineas Gage’ affects brain injury survivors | Aeon Essays The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors

How useful is the concept of disinhibition after brain injury? aeon.co/essays/how-t... Fascinating deep-dive in Aeon

Uncovering the Exposome: An Emerging Field Casts a Wide Net Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.

Uncovering the 'exposome'. Interesting piece tracks how it is being transformed from buzzword to research program undark.org/2025/06/16/u...

Fascinating 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

YouTube video by Times Originals Criminal Psychologist Reveals Secrets Of Police Interviews I Interrogators

Interesting brief doco on the science and psychology of police interrogations www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj0x... with @drjuliashaw.bsky.social

Fantastic Camila. Congrats!

Unknowns: the benefits for stroke survivors who were never referred or never referred themselves. Cognitive or language impairments may have 'counted out' some potential patients.

Regardless, NHS Talking Therapies seems useful for many stroke survivors.

Although improvement and recovery rates were high, stroke survivors were less likely to recover and more likely to deteriorate than non-stroke patients, partly due to physical comorbidities.

Timing mattered: patients who started therapy within 6 months of their stroke were more likely to recover than those who waited over a year.

Using NHS data, the study looked at 7,597 stroke survivors who accessed NHS Talking Therapies.

On average, therapy led to moderate improvements in depression and large improvements in anxiety.

What is the largest neuropsychiatry service in England? Counter-intuitively, it's probably NHS Talking Therapies.

In a new study led by Jae Won Suh (posted here on her behalf), we tracked every stroke patient through NHS TT to look at treatment outcomes www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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What an amazing opportunity! Taught by the brilliant @vaughanbell.bsky.social and free for @bnpa.bsky.social members. BNPA is a wonderful society uniting psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists and psychologists. Join today

Many thanks for the invitation Adam. Very honoured to be asked.

Thanks Peter and really appreciated the fascinating conversations afterwards.

‘Why isn’t there a philosophy of neurology?’ –
Thanks to UCL neuropsychologist Prof. Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social for his fascinating and well-delivered talk (part of the new Egenis Lectures here at Exeter).

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I'm delivering a training day on 'neuropsychiatry for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists' in London on Fri 4th July 👇

Free to BNPA members, £70 to join if you're not a member

When Canada’s Most Famous Brain Surgeon Almost Killed His Own Sister | The Walrus The brutal operation they didn’t mention in Wilder Penfield’s Heritage Minute

When Canada’s Most Famous Brain Surgeon Almost Killed His Own Sister thewalrus.ca/when-canadas...

A Different Way to Think About Medicine’s Most Stubborn Enigma A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.

The Atlantic reviews Valley of Forgetting, a new book on Lopera's pioneering Alzheimer's research in the mountains of Colombia www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Just audiobooking this at the moment and it's really good.

Fantastic colleagues Charlotte Constable Fernandez, Alida Acosta-Ortiz, María Camila García Durán, Rob Saunders, @francescasolmi.bsky.social, William Tamayo-Agudelo, Fabio Idrobo and me

Armed conflict exposure types are not equally associated with access to psychosocial support: A study of over 8 million victims of the Colombian armed conflict - Charlotte Constable Fernandez, Alida A... Background: The Colombian armed conflict has endured for almost 60 years. Colombia has a national psychosocial support service, called PAPSIVI, which is the lar...

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Armed conflict exposure types are not equally associated with access to psychosocial support: A study of over 8 million victims of the Colombian armed conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Work from a joint Colombian / UK team consisting of...