🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Isabel Berwian: Using computational approaches to uncover the effects of psychological interventions. ‬DM to join @yanivabir.bsky.social
(Th 27th Nov, 2.00 pm UK time)
#compsy #compneuro @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

Congratulations to Pierre who joined us recently @mpib-berlin.bsky.social in London UK

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New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social
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DM @yanivabir.bsky.social (Th 11th Sep, 2.00 pm UK time) #compsy #compneuro
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

Overall, the results challenge the idea that motivational symptoms universally impair decision-making.

In the paper, we discuss potential reasons for this surprising finding.

We are very happy to hear your thoughts, and please share!

🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty

@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social

Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

We are soooo excited to see you all in one week in Tübingen! Looking very much forward to hear about the newest findings in #ComputationalPsychiatry! #CPConf2025

Presenting our patient-friendly, reliable RL task battery today at #BAP2025 — come find our poster in the first session!

We developed this battery for RELMED, a new clinical trial exploring how reinforcement learning contributes to antidepressant efficacy.
@relmed.bsky.social @bapsych.bsky.social

Come visit us at stall 48 to learn more about RELMED and get a personally drawn postcard from our friendly lab robotic arm 🤖🦾

Congratulating Ulman Lindenberger, co-Director of our Centre, for his election to The Royal Society (UK)! A great recognition of his great achievements and his contribution to UK science via the establishment of our Centre. royalsociety.org/people/ulman...

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🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social‬
DM @yanivabir.bsky.social (Th 22nd May, 2.00 pm UK time)
#compsy #compneuro @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social: "Metacontrol is guided by task structure”.
DM @yanivabir.bsky.social to join (Th 8th May, 2.00 pm UK time)
#compsy #compneuro
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

🚨This Thursday Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Noam Goldway: "Correspondence between reinforcement learning phenotypes and transdiagnostic clinical symptomatology across development". DM @yanivabir.bsky.social to join. #compsy #compneuro @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

Late Abstract Submissions Now Open – Limited Space Available!
We are now accepting late abstract submissions for the 2025 Computational Psychiatry Conference in Tübingen!
cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CPConf2025/S... (1/3) #CPConf2025

🚨Today's Computational Psychiatry seminar at the MPC is given by Dr. Jonathan Nicholas @jonathannicholas.bsky.social
Episodic memory facilitates flexible decision making via access to individual events and their details.
2pm London UK time. DM @yanivabir.bsky.social to join.

Across 3 studies (1 preregistered), combined n>600, using 2 different RL tasks, we found that performance was positively correlated with anhedonia symptoms.

General depression effects were mixed, but no correlations were negative.

These results are unexpected so we look forward to feedback!

We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:

'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)

@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

@mkwittmann.bsky.social @cormacd.bsky.social

Fantastic results for @mkwittmann.bsky.social‬
and @cormacd.bsky.social on their work supported by Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research and COMP2PSYCH!!

Congratulations to @seowxft.bsky.social , Sir Henry Wellcome post-doc fellow @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

Congratulations to @seowxft.bsky.social , Sir Henry Wellcome post-doc fellow @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

Line Up — #cpconf2025

We are very excited to announce Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social as the opening speaker for the 2025 Computational Psychiatry Conference #CPConf2025
www.cpconf.org/speakers
@tueneurocampus.bsky.social

UCL Computational Psychiatry Prize

The UCL Computational Psychiatry Prize is for UCL early career researchers who want to apply theory to clinical problems. It starts with a speed dating event where clinicians and theoreticians meet to form interdisciplinary teams. acplab.org/2025/03/03/u...

Great work by @sucharit.bsky.social suggesting that one failure mode in maintaining low self-esteem is the failure to integrate experiences of high confidence into self-esteem. Would be great to develop the intervention/therapeutic potential further.