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Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com · 4d

In a Comment, @docqhuys.bsky.social and Michael Browning argue that the field of computational psychiatry will improve patient outcomes through its increasing focus on interventions and trials. #mentalhealthresearch #Psychiatry

➡️ nature.com/articles/s43...
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Trials for computational psychiatry - Nature Computational Science

Computational psychiatry is increasingly delivering causal evidence by focusing on interventions research and clinical trials. Causal evidence could improve patient outcomes through improved precision, repurposing, novel interventions, scaling of psychotherapy and better translation to the clinic.

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relmed.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social · Aug 15

Depression can affect the mind, body and daily life in ways you might not expect.

🧠Swipe to learn the key signs and symptoms – and why recognising them matters.
#Depression #Mentalhealth #Research

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relmed.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social · 20d

Curious about how scientists measure brain activity through EEG? Swipe to read more! ⚡️

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relmed.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social · 4d

🧠🌍 On World Mental Health Day, we’re reminded that mental health is a global priority. RELMED is committed to developing evidence-based practices to improve how we treat depression.
Thank you to all our participants and everyone who has contributed to research. Each voice truly makes a difference.

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 13d

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Sep 14

Proud husband! Ivana Gavric's new single is out
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Dora Pejačević Erinnerung (Remembrance) Op 24

YouTube video by Ivana Gavrić

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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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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Sep 4

The brain's priors have been found! They were hiding everywhere: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... So if this is true for "simple" decisions, it should also be true for more complex ones, like, say, emotions, right?

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making - Nature

Brain-wide recordings in mice reveal that prior expectations are distributed through recurrent loops across all levels of cortical and subcortical processing.

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 28

Amazing news, many congratulatins @behrenstimb.bsky.social

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Aug 20

🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty

@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social

Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20

… Link here: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... ... (2/15)

Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network-level activity

The amygdala is a core region changed in depression, a disorder characterized by compromised emotion, motivation and learning processes. However, lesion studies in humans examining amygdala function h...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wonderful to have you here! I hope you stay...

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 18

Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry

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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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 18

Still open!

Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

New position alert! This is an exciting position for a Specialty Doctor to take a leading role in developing the North London Mood Disorders Research Clinic in a national network of Mental Health Mission research clinics apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7.... @noclor.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social

Specialty Doctor- Mood Disorders Research Clinic | Job advert | Trac

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

#neurojob #psychiatry @rcpsych.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

New position alert! This is an exciting position for a Specialty Doctor to take a leading role in developing the North London Mood Disorders Research Clinic in a national network of Mental Health Mission research clinics apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7.... @noclor.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social

Specialty Doctor- Mood Disorders Research Clinic | Job advert | Trac

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 12

New position alert! This is an exciting position for a Specialty Doctor to take a leading role in developing the North London Mood Disorders Research Clinic in a national network of Mental Health Mission research clinics apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7.... @noclor.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social

Specialty Doctor- Mood Disorders Research Clinic | Job advert | Trac

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Aug 10

Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

Here we go. #cpconf2025 is over. Thank you all for a superb conference and in particular @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and Susan Fischer!

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relmed.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social · Jul 16

Introducing our fantastic RELMED Team! 🧠 [Part 1]
@docqhuys.bsky.social @nikkisingh.bsky.social

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

The bar is high!

Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Jul 15

#CPConf2025 is exploring multidimensional reward functions #RufusTempleOrchestra

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

@roelandheerema.bsky.social at #cpconf2025 talking about a new task linking specific emotional appraisals to computational states.

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Jul 16

Jiazhou Chen at #cpconf2025 on generalisation of MEG signatures of emotional states.

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