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'Inconvenient information was forgotten, not formally distributed, unshared or never sought' How the Tavistock Trust’s gender identity clinic failed its patients 🔓 the-tls.co.uk/articles/time-…

🎉Congratulations to PhD candidate Jeremy Metha who delivered an engaging and insightful oration on the neurotransmitter orexin. In his research, Jeremy investigates the neurochemistry and brain circuitry of how we learn and make decisions. Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets

New study! ‘Smart’ drugs can decrease productivity in people who don’t have ADHD Dr Elizabeth Bowman 🧠 🤔 Carsten Murawski Dave Coghill and Peter Bossaerts! University of Melbourne Cambridge University Business & Economics UniMelb UniMelb MDHS 👇👇👇 A thread... 🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Wouldn’t it be odd if “smart” drugs made you less productive? Well ... Great article by Oshan Jarow on the increasing use of cognitive enhancers (and our study showing they may not actually enhance cognition in healthy people) vox.com/future-perfect… via Vox

"It’s an incredibly popular idea that if you take a little bit of this serotonin agent, a bit of this psychedelic, and mix it with some other substances, you’ll be at your best. It’s also incredibly dumb." (Ian Hickie) theguardian.com/australia-news…

New research from Business & Economics UniMelb and Cambridge University shows people without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) taking cognitive enhancers, commonly prescribed for ADHD, might be inhibiting their performance and productivity → unimelb.me/3Cr9woF

Taking ‘smart drugs’ can make you less brainy – Great article by Jill Margo on our study published today afr.com/policy/health-…

Taking ‘Smart Drugs’ Like Adderall Without ADHD Actually Decreases Productivity–Here’s How – Nice explainer by Forbes on our study published today forbes.com/sites/darreonn…

Are Nootropics 'smart' drugs? Listen to my colleague Dr Elizabeth Bowman 🧠 🤔 explaining why it may not be that smart after all for healthy people to pop 'smart' drugs to increase their cognitive performance buff.ly/3CwaL5Q ABC News Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets University of Melbourne Business & Economics UniMelb

When given these medications in a recent study, people without ADHD were more motivated to solve complex problems—but less accurate on.natgeo.com/42NntIb

Join us at 9am CEST/5pm AEST Thursday 22 June for the next in the Bonn-Melbourne Seminar Series in Decision Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry with Jan Peters (Jan Peters) ! Business & Economics UniMelb Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn go.unimelb.edu.au/bj2s

Although drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin make healthy people more motivated, they also decrease the quality of their efforts, a new paper has found econ.st/3NEQvFp

Great article describing our study in the economist ⁦Carsten Murawski⁩ Фая Каналина ⁦⁦UniMelb MDHS⁩ economist.com/science-and-te…

Great summary of our recent study in The Economist this week! Dr Elizabeth Bowman 🧠 🤔 Dave Coghill Carsten Murawski Business & Economics UniMelb University of Melbourne Cambridge University economist.com/science-and-te…

Very nice post, Lionel Page!

A new podcast from Faculty of Arts, in collaboration with Swinburne University of Technology, talks about dads, families, and work. The podcast explores how our policies and organisations could (and should) change to support working fathers and their families → unimelb.me/3ruiVcT #UniMelbPursuit

Some very exciting speakers coming up in the Bonn-Melbourne Joint Seminar Series in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! Please DM if you wish to take part. Carsten Murawski #BonnMelbourneDecisionSeminar #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/ab…

With perceptive and razor-sharp insight, award-winning author Cordelia Fine reveals how the status quo is harming us all, in our working lives and beyond. Pre-order #PatriarchyInc from Waterstones this weekend to get 25% off: waterstones.com/book/patriarch…

new from Atlantic Books 'Patriarchy Inc.' by Cordelia Fine What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work available from Blackwell's and Waterstones 📖 sample to peek inside and share jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/e…