
Kieran C.R. Fox
@kierancrfox
Neuroscientist, psychiatrist @UCSF, bookworm, explorer of the great outdoors, dolphin enthusiast, armchair philosopher, animal lover, vegan, author
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http://www.kieranfox.com 08-11-2020 03:39:42
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Very excited to share our paper at #JNeurosci SfN Journals! My first in US🤓 Intracranial EEG shows parts of periventricular heterotopia responds normally to task and also keeps network level integration at rest. w/Aaron Kucyi Clara Sava-Segal Josef Parvizi🧵jneurosci.org/content/early/…

A key aspect of mind wandering (stimulus-independent thought) can be predicted from coordinated activity between distinct parts of the brain Aaron Kucyi nature.com/articles/s4146…



Being You - A New Science of Consciousness. My exploration of sentience and selfhood will be published on Sep 2nd UK Faber Books & Oct 12th USA/Canada Dutton Books Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚. Pre-order here: amzn.to/3yq7nGo

newscientist.com/article/mg2503… Paywalled, sadly, but great article by Jo Marchant (for which I provided a few soundbites :-)

Latest paper out in Nature Communications using intracranial EEG to study human mentalizing - led by some outstanding work from Kevin Tan! nature.com/articles/s4146… Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas Josef Parvizi Matt Lieberman🇺🇦

We (Kevin Tan Josef Parvizi Kieran C.R. Fox and co) published a new ECoG paper on mentalizing at Nature Communications - This is a blog I wrote explaining what we learned that surprised us. Kevin Tan did an extraordinary job leading this project psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social…

So well deserved!!! Huge congratulations, Rafi Malach. Such an inspiration to us all

1/ Theories of Consciousness – out now in Nature Rev Neurosci. In this review (and mild manifesto), Tim Bayne & I survey the current landscape of theories of consciousness (ToCs), examine how they relate to each other and to empirical data … nature.com/articles/s4158…


I'm pleased to share our Perspective on 'Functional Neuroimaging in Psychiatry', out today in Neuron, with Yunzhe Liu and Ray Dolan, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry. We reflect on progress and impasses over 3 decades' research. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… cell.com/neuron/fulltex…




Prof. Brian Keating Terrific synopsis of his views. I just read the long form version of this elevator pitch in “I Am A Part Of Infinity” by Kieran C.R. Fox — I highly recommend it It goes something like this … Einstein’s God (Spinoza’s God), an impersonal God equivalent to “the infinite”, the one