Martina Di Simplicio

Image of Gemma Modinos, a woman with brown hair in front of a blue curtained background. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Inaugural Lecture Series Where the wild thoughts grow: from brain scans to mechanisms in psychosis Professor Gemma Modinos Professor of Neuroscience & Mental Health

Join us on 5 June for Professor Gemma Modinos' inaugural lecture as professor: "Where the wild thoughts grow: from brain scans to mechanisms in #psychosis". #Psychiatry #AcademicSky

Register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/profe...

Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open!

Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/

If you're a psychological scientist working at a Dutch university & want to join us in opposing the language barriers imposed by the government, here's your chance

An incredible PhD opportunity from Men Matter Scotland for someone passionate about understanding and preventing suicide.

🔹 Deadline: 11 June 2025
🔹 UK applicants only

Looking for a post-doc!
If you are interested in using neuroimaging to study mechanisms of depression, anxiety, neuromodulation or pharmacology please consider joining me.
LIBR has amazing early career resources, wonderful colleagues and Tulsa is low cost of living!
DM for details.

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We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.

We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.

As the world grows scarier, let's talk about social connection!

We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis)

It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

#neuroscience

Please retweet: @babcpjournals.bsky.social Spring Conference In Person 8th-9th April, London. Keynotes: Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on Compassion:Info👇 babcp.com/Spring-Confe...

✨Today and every day, we celebrate the brilliance, resilience, and contributions of women and girls in science! #WomeninSTEM 🩷

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern. Evidence highlights that therapeutic intervention (TI), such as cognitive behaviour therapy informed treatments, after self-harm lead...

And our own @dennisougrin.bsky.social et al have a new paper out - Mortality in #adolescents after therapeutic intervention for #self-harm: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern so please do share! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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✨Suggestions on how to protect your mental health during times of uncertainty 🫂

IoPPN Summer School 2025 Are you considering a career in psychiatry? Apply for a free, 3-day face-to-face summer school in the heart of South London and gain insight into the innovative, exciting and rewarding field of clinic...

Are you aspiring for a career in clinical or academic #psychiatry, and are a medical student/foundation year doctor?

Applications are now open for the IoPPN Summer School, an 3-day event with seminars, workshops, networking opportunities and more #MedSky #AcademicSky

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ioppn...

The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all New research shows western medicine’s traditional split between brain and body is, in fact, far from clear cut – and could provide a breakthrough for many complex conditions Some years ago Camilla Nord suffered such persistent pain at the site of an old…

The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all

Excellent campaign by @hopevirgo.bsky.social with the help of committed people

Longitudinal studies | Grant funding | Wellcome Wellcome are funding research teams to analyse longitudinal data to help identify mental health conditions early. See eligibility information and find out how to apply.

wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge.
neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

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The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions).
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!

Deadline: 31.01.2025

The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de

Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding Chang et al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery content could be decoded usin...

The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex *during aphantasia* - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats?

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial Although trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) is the recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), up to one-half of patients do not respond to this intervention. The....

Quite remarkable results from Richard Bryant and colleagues here: adding memory specificity training to a form of trauma-focussed CBT for first responders led to greater reductions in PTSD severity at 6-month follow-up, with large between-group effect sizes:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just accepted at Clinical Psychological Science. In this study led by @juliejns2.bsky.social, we used data from the SIGMA study to look at the relationship between attachment, & loneliness & #SelfHarm thoughts & behaviours in #adolescents' daily lives. #SuicidePrevention #OpenScience #MentalHealth

👩🏻‍🔬 I'm recruiting for my dissertation study!

📱 We're recruiting teens ages 14-19 who experience binge eating and are willing to complete daily surveys on their phones.

👩‍💻 Teens interested in participating can complete an interest survey: redcap.drexel.edu/redcap/surveys…

📢 Please spread the word!

@kurtfraser.bsky.social and I just had our paper on dopamine, salience, and psychosis accepted @ Am J Psychiatry. We review the history of aberrant salience and the data gathered since: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine) A new world-view is emerging, one which attempts to explain all manner of ills as the result of inflammation or immune dysfunction. While motivated by some

Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine) academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Fascinating from Tom Pollak (not on BlueSky?) - via @annaciaunica.bsky.social

Methodological Challenges in Randomized Controlled Trials of mHealth Interventions: Cross-Sectional Survey Study and Consensus-Based Recommendations Background: Mobile health (mHealth) refers to using mobile communication devices such as smartphones to support health, health care, and public health. mHealth interventions have their own nature and ...

Some good reading for the new year! www.jmir.org/2024/1/e53187

I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying, published in the Times

Free version here

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Join the Lab We're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship: Predictive Models for Cognitive Fluctuations  Closing date: 12 noon (IST), June 1st 2024 We are seeking a Research Fellow to pioneer the development of passive s...

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!