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BNPA.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social · 9d

Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Want a Refresher)

📅 This Wednesday, 8 Oct | ⏰ 9am–12pm UK | 📍 Zoom

An exclusive online session for British Neuropsychiatry Association members.

Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neuropsych...

Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Want a Refresher)

A half day course on neuropsychology and neuropsychological disorders for BNPA members

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 15d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 14d

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 15d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

rb.gy

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 15d

Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building
dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j...

He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

dailynous.com

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 19d

As someone who has been the figurehead for 'lived experience of trauma' for years, he has some tough questions about how we understand the role of lived experience, how it gets co-opted, how it goes unquestioned, and the impact of public testimony on the practitioners themselves.

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 19d

One of the most important mental health books I've read in the last decade, Darren McGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex is absolute 🔥
www.penguin.co.uk/books/439534...

Skip the subtitle, it's a much wider analysis of trauma and lived experience in mental health. Takes on lots of unquestioned dogmas

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 19d

Open data and analysis code freely available on the github archive github.com/lynchjess/Ap...

GitHub - lynchjess/Apathy-TBI-meta

Contribute to lynchjess/Apathy-TBI-meta development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 19d

New from us, led by the fantastic Jess Lynch:

Prevalence and moderators of apathy after traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Prevalence and moderators of apathy after traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Apathy is a recognized neuropsychiatric syndrome in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) with far-reaching consequences, including reduced independence, meaningful activities and quality o...

www.tandfonline.com

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 22d

Remember that academic event where you ended up debating ideas with colleagues, new friends, and even the speakers, long into the evening?

The British Neuropsychiatry Association teaching weekend is one of those and it'll happen Dec 12-14 in Oxford.

I'll be there. Do come and join us!

BNPA.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social · 22d

📢 The BNPA Teaching Weekend returns!
🗓 Dec 12–14, 2025 | St Anne’s College, Oxford
✨ All the essentials of neuropsychiatry
🎓Taught by leading clinicians and scientists
💷 £490 (includes board, breakfast + conference dinner)

Join us: bnpa.org.uk/teaching-wee...

British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

bnpa.org.uk

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BNPA.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social · 22d

📢 The BNPA Teaching Weekend returns!
🗓 Dec 12–14, 2025 | St Anne’s College, Oxford
✨ All the essentials of neuropsychiatry
🎓Taught by leading clinicians and scientists
💷 £490 (includes board, breakfast + conference dinner)

Join us: bnpa.org.uk/teaching-wee...

British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

bnpa.org.uk

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Sep 15

To better understand lay controversies in mental health, we used topic modelling to analyses over 850,000 forum posts to identify their concerns.

From me, @Rhiannon white and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social

Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Sep 15

New from us:

Understanding the countermovement to online presentations of psychiatric disorder that are perceived as "faked" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A huge online movement tries to identify people they feel are 'faking' mental illness for reasons of self-promotion.

Understanding the countermovement to online presentations of psychiatric disorder that are perceived as

The self-presentation of psychiatric disorders on social media has generated a countermovement of sceptics who believe some are “faked” for reasons of self-promotion. This has been the focus of a R...

www.tandfonline.com

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BNPA.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social · Sep 15

Talks from our March 2025 annual conference are now up on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Latest on the neuropsychiatry of brain injury, impulse control disorders, sleep, functional neurological disorder, sensed presences, and pathologies of imagination among many talks

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · Sep 5

📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis

#NeuroPsychSky

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · Sep 3

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project

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BNPA.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social · Sep 2

The British Neuropsychiatry Association Teaching Weekend at Oxford Uni (Dec 12–14, 2025).

Join us at St Anne’s College for a captivating weekend learning the essentials of neuropsychiatry led by Prof Adam Zeman.

£490 inc. board and conference dinner.

bnpa.org.uk/teaching-wee...

British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

bnpa.org.uk

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BNPA.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social · Sep 2

🔔Our September newsletter, exclusive to BNPA members, has just gone out

• The month in neuropsychiatry research
• BNPA news, events and teaching weekend
• Epilepsy Research Institute grants
• Global Neuropsychiatry Group update
• In the media

#Neuropsychiatry #BNPA

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Jul 21

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Fantastic @rachelaviv.bsky.social piece in The New Yorker

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

www.newyorker.com

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Jul 15

In this study, child mental health and mild traumatic brain injury strongly co-occurred but, apart from anxiety, those associations mostly disappear when prior mental health is accounted for.

Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Jul 15

New from us, led from the front by @gracerevill.bsky.social:

Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Evidence that mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) causes psychiatric problems in children has been mixed. Investigating this issue has been difficult due to the lack of representative long...

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Jul 15

New from us, led from the front by @gracerevill.bsky.social:

Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Evidence that mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) causes psychiatric problems in children has been mixed. Investigating this issue has been difficult due to the lack of representative long...

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Jul 11

A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry
by Kenneth Kendler

"describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

www.nature.com

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Jul 11

A balanced take, amid a lot of polarisation 👇

Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · Jul 11

Playing Whack-a-Mole With the Uncertainties of Antidepressant Withdrawal

Complacency is the wrong conclusion of a new debated study

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/playing-wh...