
Prof Rebecca Lawson
@beckyneuro
Prof @CambPsych & Senior Affiliate @mrccbu | @wellcometrust Henry Dale Fellow | Fellow @ClareCollege | computational modelling and neuropsychiatry 🏳️🌈
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http://www.lawsonlab.co.uk 17-06-2010 11:22:59
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What happens to our metacognition in the aftermath of a stressful event? A🧵on the first preprint of my PhD with Camilla Nord & Caitlin Hitchcock psyarxiv.com/hdv3k/ 1/9


Absolutely delighted to be part of this project focusing on uncertainty and it's role in anxiety. Our team, headed up by the amazing Prof Rebecca Lawson, is a multi disciplinary group from Dept of Psychology and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Can't wait to get started - watch this space ⭐


Delighted to be leading on one of these dhafer ben khalifa mental health awards with a dream team of co-investigators (Jeff Dalley, Tim Dalgleish, Anna Bevan, Camilla Nord, Dr. Steph Archer & Chris Mathys, friend of abundance). An ambitious project bridging across scales and species - cannot wait to get started!

Excited about reading this new book by Camilla Nord Available for preorder 👇 The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health amzn.eu/d/0cRkYg5


Excited to have an advance copy of this, coming soon, from Camilla Nord! I’ve read a small section and you’re in for a treat. The writing is sublime.


conn2res: a toolbox for connectome-based reservoir computing | doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… How do connectomes perform cognitive tasks? How does network architecture support computational function? Want to implement connectomes as artificial neural networks? By Laura Suarez ⤵️


Many congratulations to the wonderful Dept of Psychology academics Sander van der Linden David Belin (Grade 12) and Prof Rebecca Lawson (Grade 11) promoted to Professor for their research leadership, teaching, researcher development and service to the University and beyond admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2022-…


Check out this excellent commentary on our (B Xiao and Prof Rebecca Lawson) review on the computational modelling and intolerance of uncertainty by Ondrej Zika, in which he carefully expands on the importance of latent state inference!

Deadline extended until 1st August ‼️ 1 week left to apply for this Computational Biology Research Associate position in our lab👉jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/39926/ Informal enquires to: [email protected]

Smashing posters from PaL lab PhD students Timothy Sandhu and clg, plus a short oral from postdoc Nazia Jassim at BAP this year! Very proud of this lot and now looking forward to the gala dinner tonight.


🧠 Thank you to The i Paper for their review of THE BALANCED BRAIN 🧠 ‘Rigorous, engagingly personal . . . provides an exciting snapshot of what we know so far about this vital organ’s importance for maintaining our mental health’ inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

Job alert! We have a Research Assistant position available in Oxford PERL Lab Please re-tweet and flag to anyone who might be interested. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Had a very fun time with Ben Spencer at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit including sampling our new TMS robot and chatting about what the future of mental health treatment might look like - thank you for a great discussion and article in The Times and The Sunday Times !

Happy release day to Camilla Nord’s THE BALANCED BRAIN! Whether you're suffering or simply doing your best to stay afloat, this book is an invitation to discover what makes each of us feel better, and why. Out now with Allen Lane uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-ba…



Poster 🧶 #2 from Cam Neuroscience at #Fens2024 where Nazia Jassim from Prof Rebecca Lawson lab w/ AutismResearchCentre Simon Baron-Cohen on how autistic traits modulate relationship between occipital GABA & perceptual choice in a target detection task….great presentation 👏 Cambridge Psychiatry Dept of Psychology
