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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 1d

The brain constantly senses and regulates the body. These sensory and regulatory signals are not merely background signals of interest only to physiologists. Instead, these 'allostatic' signals are central to neural and cognitive function. Great new work from our lab led by @jtheriault.bsky.social.

Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Jules R Dugré @juldugre.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 Preprint Out!
Thrilled to share my first sole-author paper introducing a novel method to reconstruct neural circuits underpinning the spatial organization of human brain maps 🧠✨
*Comes with a user-friendly Toolbox ☁️💻.
Please share! 🔁
github.com/JulDugre/Pro...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky

Propagation Mapping: A Precision Framework for Reconstructing the Neural Circuitry of Brain Maps

Human brain mapping has traditionally relied on univariate approaches to characterize regional activity, an assumption that is increasingly being challenged. While functional connectivity offers a pro...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anthony Vaccaro @agvacca.bsky.social · 15d

📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 20d

Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · Sep 8

The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague!
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Men suppress emotions more than women?

New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality.

#PsycSci 🧪

(PDF) Men Do Not Suppress Emotions More than Women in Everyday Life: Evidence from Large Scale Experience-Sampling Data

PDF | Expressive suppression—hiding the outward expression of emotions—has been linked to negative mental health outcomes in Western samples. Despite... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

www.researchgate.net

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just posing these questions here because they are important active directions that scientists are taking to determine the pros and cons of trying to treat depression with psilocybin.

Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Sep 2

And only 1 of the 8 reviewed studies compared psilocybin to a standard antidepressant - psilocybin was no more effective than standard care. To treat depression or any illness, do we prescribe the drug that massively disrupts brain function?

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Sep 2

All of the reviewed studies had a blinding problem - patients knew when they were on psilocybin. Does psilocybin work because of its biological effects or because patients believe it works?

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you! Looking at Table 2, I see lots of mixed findings, more so than the authors let on. Psilocybin's treatment effects depend on when and how depression is measured.

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just pointing this out in a friendly way because it's important not to skip the part where we get evidence that psilocybin actually treats depression.

Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Sep 2

Where is the evidence that psilocybin treats depression? My reading of the literature is that it often performs no better than typical antidepressants. For studies that do find treatment effects, the effects depend on how depression is measured.

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you for helping to disseminate our work!

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bittersweetness is often called a "mixed" emotion because one could replace it with different emotion labels like "joy and sadness."

Here's a paper on mixed emotions by my colleagues if you're interested:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Mixed emotions in the predictive brain

Understanding complex or mixed emotions first requires an exploration of the human nervous system underlying emotions, and indeed all experience. We review current research in neuroscience, which desc...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Aug 14

You could say that all emotion labels like joy, anger, bittersweetness, etc are useful simplifications. They simplify highly complex experiences and allow us to compare experiences across moments.

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