Sven Vanneste

‘The human brain remains the final frontier’ Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is pioneering technology to recreate human brain tissue and neural circuits in the lab – giving scientists unprecedented access to human brain development and open...

@sergiuppasca.bsky.social / @stanford.edu

Fianna Fáil 'should be running a candidate' says wannabe candidate Mary Hanafin There was also a divisive debate on extending the presidential vote to Irish citizens in Northern Ireland at the MacGill Summer School.

Professor Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, School of Psychology, states what he believes are the three basic motivations that drive people to compete in the forthcoming Irish Presidency elections...

www.thejournal.ie/presidential...

YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin - The School of Psychology Interview with Dr Maggie Martin, Programme Manager, the National Office of Traffic Medicine (NOTM)

Watch our interview with Dr Maggie Martin, Programme Manager, the National Office of Traffic Medicine (NOTM). For more information on the NOTM please visit www.tcd.ie/cihs/notm/

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Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

Come work with us! New job - Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology. Apply by 12 noon on July 22nd.

For the full job posting, search for it on our vacancies page.

www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Come work with us! New job - Assistant Professor in Human Factors as part of the School of Psychology. Apply by July 15th.

www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Our brain criticality
—A unifying principle of brain function
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
—Heritability
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out some highlights from the Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making at Trinity College Dublin. For more see rldm.org #RDLM2025

with @clairegillan.bsky.social & @redmondoconnell.bsky.social

Come work with us - NEW JOB POSTING - 038313 -Assistant Professor in Human Factors, Centre for Innovative Human Systems, School of Psychology. Closing date for applications is 10 July 2025 at 12 noon. www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Prof. Ladislav Timulak co-authored an important paper published by The Lancet Psychiatry on the clients’ reported outcomes of psychotherapy.

Read the full paper here:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin - The School of Psychology MSC in Global Mental Health

Don't miss out on the Masters in Global Mental Health! The deadline for applications is June 30th. For more see t.ly/-fwlY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=urwP...

Can you trust what you hear? A new study from Chen & Vanneste in Human Brain Mapping dives into how our brains generate “conditioned hallucinations”—false perceptions triggered by strong internal models when sensory input is uncertain. For more see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How art galleries can improve your health! | Newstalk Did you know that art galleries can be good for you?A recent study revealed that just by looking...

Dr Claire Howlin joins Sean Moncrieff on NewsTalk to discuss "How art galleries can improve your health!"

@dancingresearch.bsky.social

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Thank you @tcdpsychology.bsky.social. It has been a genuine pleasure to serve as your external examiner for the past 3 years. Your students and your staff are excellent.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Feifan Chen, Sven Vanneste, et al:

Auditory illusory models as proxies to investigate bottom-up and top-down neural networks of phantom perception

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Looking for a PhD position in psychology/neuroscience? Here's one - open to all, anywhere in the world.
Please circulate.
#phd #psychology #neuroscience #psychiatry #fnirs

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Gabriel Byczynski, Sven Vanneste, et al:

Neural signatures of online and offline motor learning: An ALE meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Engrams and Ensembles in Learning and Memory 2025 Fourwaves - Engrams and Ensembles in Learning and Memory 2025

Really looking forward to this meeting in @tcddublin.bsky.social over the next few days! 😊 Congrats to @tjryan.bsky.social and colleagues for pulling together an awesome program! 👏 event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...

Very proud of my first years - they've managed to complete a #music and #pain experiment that shows that listening to REM's 'Everybody hurts' is not as effective as choosing their own favourite piece of music at increasing duration on the wall sit task.

@tcdpsychology.bsky.social #musicscience

The Annual Tradition of the FYP 24/25 Commons Dinner for final year undergraduate students was a great success and a fun night in beautiful surroundings.

older adults are x3 more likely than middle-aged individuals to report nostalgic episodes: these feelings can be both positively & negatively tinged. Nostalgia is to be a more prominent component of our mental landscape as we age, refracting memory through the lens of rose-tinted retrospection

TILDA Connecting Generations Award!
Total prize fund €1000 - Submission deadline October 2025
Exploring Ageism & Flourishing Through Creativity & Storytelling, for more see here t.ly/d_2Js

Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions th...

To restore the gut microbiome after antibiotics, the right diet (rich in carbohydrates, low in fat) was a better approach than fecal microbial transplants (in the experimental model)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Information Evening - Online Cert/Dip/M.Sc.in Managing Risk & System Change Join Trinity College Dublin on Thursday March 13th from 6p.m. to learn more about Fully Online PG Qualifications in Risk Management.

Information Evening - Online Cert/Dip/M.Sc.in Managing Risk & System Change this evening AT 6PM www.eventbrite.ie/e/informatio...

A warm congratulations to Prof Frédérique Vallières for receiving Fellowship & to Undergraduates, Martha Cox and Colin Harper for receiving their Scholarships.

"From Academia to Application:
Personalised Approaches to Digital
Mental Health" - Guest lecture from Dr. Sean Kelley this Wednesday April 30th at 4pm LB11, Llyod Building. This event will be hosted by Prof Robert Whelan. This event is open to staff & students. For more, please see myndgard.com

Looking forward to this Predictive Brain Health Modelling (PBHM) event! Esp. good for trainees wondering about + and - of post-PhD life outside academia 🤓 @clairegillan.bsky.social @lorinanaci.bsky.social @rhodricusack.bsky.social @svenvanneste.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Inaugural Lecture of Professor Sven Vanneste The Neural Ripple Effect: What Phantom Sounds Teach Us About Brain Function, Disorders, and New Therapeutic Frontiers.

Professor Sven Vanneste, Chair of Clinical Neuroscience and the Head of School for Psychology at Trinity College Dublin will give his inaugural lecture on Tuesday May 13th at 6pm. This event is free and open to the public, to register for a ticket please follow the link t.ly/GyoCu

Links between sport-related brain injury and dementia examined in new study. Read the full article here t.ly/wvfZb