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After careful consideration, the FDA advisory comission voted today 9:2 that MDMA has *not* been shown to be effective for treating PTSD, given massive concerns around validity threats in this literature. They also voted 10:1 that MDMA has *not* shown to be safe.

1/🧵 After ten years at the helm, Jakob Jakob Hohwy and I are stepping down as editors of the open-access journal Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc Oxford Academic .ASSC. academic.oup.com/nc/pages/edito…

NEW! 🚨 from Centre for Preventive Neurology Sam Ereira Adeel Razi We describe a technique to predict who will get dementia up to 9 years in the future. New paper and explanatory 🧵 1/n doi.org/10.1038/s44220…

Very excited about this new preprint from my lab, led by the inimitable (and twitterless) Juliana Trach! "Structured Action Preparation during Visuomotor Decision-making" 1/13 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Phew I did the thing. I submitted my PhD. 😅😴

@ClaireJCad, Dylan Curtin, Taylor, de Moel, Huw Jarvis, Hutchison, Joshua Hendrikse, Trevor Chong and James Coxon (Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health) show how exercise-induced cortical disinhibition mediates the relationship between fitness and memory in older adults! 📜buff.ly/4cl9Vt5

I can tell you firsthand that Clare is a wonderful PhD supervisor, and will give you the support and environment you need to become an independent scientist. Apply! 🧠

Today Sam Altman and I published a piece in TIME sharing our vision for how AI-driven personalized behavior change can transform healthcare and announcing the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new company funded by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global, which will be devoted to

Gaming across continents during Euro 2024 😌⚽️🐉

We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny theguardian.com/technology/art…

🚨Super excited to announce that my first first-author paper with Robb Rutledge is now published in Nature Communications! 🎉  Surprising sounds systematically bias humans to take more risks. Full paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Yale Psychology Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University Yale University 🧵 (1/n)

My first first-author paper with Joey Heffner Gloria Feng Jutta Joormann & Robb Rutledge is now published in PNASNews! 🎉 Human- and ChatGPT-rated language sentiment of brief text responses predicted changes in depression. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Yale Psychology Yale University 🧵(1/n)

Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (FlyWire). In this special issue, we have 9 research articles. I’ll try to summarize them in a couple threads starting here 🧵

📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢 We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025. We are now accepting symposium submissions!

I'm working through Amitai Shenhav's intriguing affective gradient hypothesis (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…). A key claim is that, "[prior] accounts..share the assumption that .. value .. drives behavior independent of feelings." I was surprised by this contention, & say why below 👇

Are you a clinical psychologist interested in computational modeling? The Niv lab will be looking for a postdoc in computational psychiatry/psychotherapy and we are especially keen on people with a clinical background. Email me with CV & research statement if this is you!

This is a very entertaining discussion of an experiment that was reported as showing that ChatGPT could write poetry that is indistinguishable from Shakespeare. (Spoiler: it can't.) h/t Gary Marcus cs.nyu.edu/~davise/papers…

🧠💊New preprint differentiating antipsychotic med vs. illness effects on cortical thickness in people w/ psychosis. People receiving placebo show prominent cortical thinning over 1st year of illness, whereas those receiving antipsychotics do not. 1/3 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! monash.edu/research/emerge