JOB ALERT: Great opportunity to join this stellar team. :)

The Powers lab is hiring technically-oriented research associates in anticipation of new projects in computational psychiatry! See tinyurl.com/y4zd8mx6 for description. Lots of opportunity for growth as part of a great team. DM with any questions or apply directly. #JobAlert

If you want to learn to build generative models of behavioral tasks using POMDPS in Matlab, simulate behavior using active inference, and fit models to behavioral data, consider joining our CPC tutorial session!

BIG week for one of our incredible research coordinators Erica Karp! Erica's FIRST first-author article is live AND she has officially accepted her offer to begin her clinical psych PhD journey at @CWRU with Dr Sarah Hope Lincoln this fall. 🥳🎉 academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…

The Powers Lab is looking for a full-time research assistant to help launch several upcoming projects. We're especially interested in people with coding experience, particularly in MATLAB and JS. DM us or email [email protected] #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter #AcademicChatter

Come work with us! We have two openings for post-docs using computational methods to understand voluntary control over voice-hearing experiences AND risk factors for development of psychosis during menopause. Would love to chat more about it. DM if interested. :)

Congratulations to Stephan Heckers, MD, Chair of VUMC Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, who was presented with the prestigious and well-deserved #SIRS2023 Outstanding Translational Research Award! Learn more: schizophreniaresearchsociety.org/2023-outstandi… @VUMCResearch Schizophrenia International Research Society

This year's Computational Psychiatry Course is approaching at full speed! 🚀 The program is OUT 🌍 The event will be fully hybrid again ⚠️ CPC Zurich has moved to Mastodon: fediscience.org/@CompPsychiatry Head up there for more updates 🗞️ Who's joining?

Excited about what looks to be a very useful new installment of Yale MAPS over the next three weeks, covering Dynamic Causal Modeling. :) Thanks to the organizers for continuing to offer this valuable resource Yale Psychiatry and elsewhere! medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/edu…

So excited to get to work with Alex Bond Alexandria Bond, PhD, coming soon to thepowerslab ! The possibilities are endless... :-)

New paper in molecularpsychiatry by David Benrimoh, Al Powers et al. highlighting current challenges to integrating computational psychiatry methods into clinical practice. I appreciated the chance to make a (small) contribution to this important discussion. nature.com/articles/s4138…

Dr. Al Kaye, left, and Dr. Chris Pittenger have been awarded a federal research grant to study the effects of the drugs MDMA and methylone as possible treatments for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. bit.ly/3Npe30X

If you're doing hierarchical bayesian modeling for cognitive models, Beth Baribault Beth's new paper is a must read! Highlighting all the most recent best practices, includes a new @matlab toolbox for visualization psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-57…

So far, @ShanaeAerts has mentored a group of 1st-year graduate students, developed professional development workshops for the entire 1st-year class YaleGSAS, & enjoyed recruiting students in person at universities with large populations of historically excluded students. [3/5]

Dr. Albert Powers of #yalepsych has been studying how people who hear voices may exert control over the voices — turning them on and off. He spoke to Undark Magazine about his work. tinyurl.com/3rb7meu8

How do perceptual processes contribute to the development of psychiatric illness? Sahib Khalsa and I have compiled this volume with experts from across the world to begin to answer this question.