Our new chapter on the cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis, led by @renzolanfranco.bsky.social I think it provides a balanced overview of where the field is at.

Renzo Lanfranco@renzolanfranco.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our chapter “Cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis,” with @devinterhune.bsky.social, is out in "Consciousness: A Comprehensive Reference". We review how suggestion shapes perception, cognition & agency, & why hypnosis is a powerful tool for consciousness research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) cohort shows distinct comorbidities compared to epilepsy & multiple sclerosis groups. PMID:42113549, JAMA Neurol 2026, @JAMANeuro https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2026.1040 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

The 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder (@FNDSociety) has been [and continues to be] a smashing success. The latest clinical insights, cutting edge science, & cross talk with other areas of neuroscience & clinical interest all covered.

Join us this Thursday at 1pm CEST for an online CELL group talk by @madelinestein.bsky.social: "Tripping on Context: Characteristics and Predictors of Placebo and Nocebo Psychedelic Effects" Interested in attending? Send a DM and we'll send you the link :)

What do we know so far about using psychedelics in mental health treatment? Hear Dr James Rucker on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind discussing research happening at the IoPPN into psilocybin-assisted therapy to treat severe depression. 🎧 Listen here:

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, The promise of psychedelics

…And why do we miss what’s right in front of us?

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This should be a fun and engaging talk on a super neglected topic in contemporary psychedelics research. Here is the original paper - very much worth reading: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tripping on context: Characteristics and predictors of placebo and nocebo psychedelic effects

Psychedelic drugs are emerging as potentially efficacious tools for treating psychiatric conditions and probing the neural basis of consciousness. Although drug administration context is widely believ...

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Charlotte Buecken@cbucken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us this Thursday at 1pm CEST for an online CELL group talk by @madelinestein.bsky.social: "Tripping on Context: Characteristics and Predictors of Placebo and Nocebo Psychedelic Effects" Interested in attending? Send a DM and we'll send you the link :)

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Looking for a PhD studentship? Consider joining the Dept of Psychology @kingsioppn.bsky.social for one of these fully-funded PhD studentships: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Fully funded 3-year PhD studentship in the Department of Psychology | King's College London

One fully-funded three-year PhD studentship in the Department of Psychology

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Looking for a summer internship in one of the coolest labs in the UK? Check this out

Plasticity Lab@plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Applications Open! We are looking for a motivated summer intern to support a podcast in development in collaboration with the Plasticity Lab, exploring what restorative, assistive, and augmentative neurotechnology reveals about hidden human capacity 🦾 Full details here: forms.office.com/e/PDjanEYkSE

New preprint is up! In this preregistered experiment, we tested the causal role of set and setting and examined whether individual differences could reliably predict these #placebo and #nocebo #psychedelic effects. Check out the full paper! tinyurl.com/2v98ueh8

Tripping on context: Characteristics and predictors of placebo and nocebo psychedelic effects

Psychedelic drugs are emerging as potentially efficacious tools for treating psychiatric conditions and probing the neural basis of consciousness. Although drug administration context is widely believ...

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Very important experiment by @madelinestein.bsky.social with clear implications for the role of context in psychedelic effects.

Madeline V. Stein@madelinestein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint is up! In this preregistered experiment, we tested the causal role of set and setting and examined whether individual differences could reliably predict these #placebo and #nocebo #psychedelic effects. Check out the full paper! tinyurl.com/2v98ueh8

Applications Open! We are looking for a motivated summer intern to support a podcast in development in collaboration with the Plasticity Lab, exploring what restorative, assistive, and augmentative neurotechnology reveals about hidden human capacity 🦾 Full details here: forms.office.com/e/PDjanEYkSE

Call for papers for a collection on placebo and nocebo effects in psychiatry - excellent! @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social @devinterhune.bsky.social @labasedow.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

Nathan Huneke@nathanhuneke.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’m guest editing a new BMC Psychiatry Collection on #placebo and #nocebo effects in psychiatry. We’re looking for work on expectancy mechanisms, communication, and implications for clinical practice + trials. Details: link.springer.com/collections/... @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

Interested in #placebo #hypnosis #suggestion #nocebo and/or #FND? (all of the above?) This conference in Nancy, France in October is likely to be excellent. Abstract submission deadline: 27 April. www.phfd-conf.org/en/

Very pleased to host Jaana Simola for a talk at @kingsioppn.bsky.social on 3 Dec @ 4PM in seminar room 3 (main IoPPN building). Jaana will be talking about "Alpha oscillations support task-relevant and irrelevant form of stimulus independent cognition" t.ly/SlsA0

Alpha oscillations support task-relevant and irrelevant form of stimulus independent cognition | King's College London

Guest speaker Dr Jaana Simola shares her research magnetoencephalography, EEG and eye-tracking to study cognition and perception.

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Our new Insights article out now in European Neuropsychopharmacology We argue that poor control conditions in digital therapeutics trials risk misleading efficacy claims. Let’s raise the bar for DTx trial design. 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1l-8p,L21E... @ecnp.eu #DTx #MentalHealth #ClinicalTrials

New paper on heterogeneity among highly suggestible individuals in Int Rev Neurobiol. They're assumed to be a uniform group but the evidence goes against this assumption. I describe the central methodological issues, different models of heterogeneity, lines of evidence and implications t.ly/LbX3t

Excellent opportunity to pursue a PhD on dissociative states with @susannahpick.bsky.social and me at the IoPPN @kingsioppn.bsky.social Reach out to us with any questions

Dr Susannah Pick@susannahpick.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Applications opening on 8th October for our @kingsioppn.bsky.social MRC DTP PhD studentships for 2026 entry - lots of great projects being offered including one from me and @devinterhune.bsky.social on transdiagnostic dissociative states/symptoms kcl-mrcdtp.com/apply/projec...

New paper (t.ly/6ZkaU) by Renata Sadibolova and myself in Behavior Research Methods. Building on previous papers by Beffara Bret et al. (t.ly/Tfvxk) and Elsey et al. (t.ly/8wR0f), we highlight experimenter evidence unmasking as a salient confound in optional stopping (BFs and frequentist) t.ly/6ZkaU

Experimenter evidence unmasking as a confound in optional stopping - Behavior Research Methods

Optional stopping refers to the practice of repeatedly performing a statistical analysis on a dataset as new data are collected until a pre-specified decision criterion is reached. This procedure is often adopted because of its effectiveness in optimizing data collection. Discussions of optional stopping to date have primarily centred around statistical issues, with relatively little consideration of any methodological implications of this procedure. Building on recent work drawing attention to methodological biases arising from the use of optional stopping, we highlight experimenter awareness of the current evidence state during data collection (experimenter evidence unmasking) as a salient methodological confound of optional stopping. We argue that experimenter evidence unmasking has the potential to influence an experimenter to implicitly or explicitly modify their behaviour in ways that can reduce the internal validity of an experiment. We conclude by offering recommendations for circumventing this confound and for the transparent reporting of experimenter evidence masking procedures.

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This talk in the Ruhmer Seminar Series at Istanbul Medipol University by Prof Amanda Barnier from Macquarie University on 30 Sept @ 12 (TR) should be excellent. Free to attend but you need to register to get a link.

There is a now a room listing for this super interesting talk on dissociative identity disorder on 3 Sept at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/disso...

Dissociative identity disorder: History, aetiology, phenomenology, controversy

Guest speaker, Professor Martin Dorahy, will present the history, aetiology and phenomenology of dissociative identity disorder, and some of the historical and current controversies associated with it...

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Devin Terhune@devinterhune.bsky.social · last yr.

This talk on September 3 at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social on dissociative identity disorder by Martin Dorahy should be excellent. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

This talk on September 3 at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social on dissociative identity disorder by Martin Dorahy should be excellent. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Dissociative identity disorder: History, aetiology, phenomenology, controversy

Guest speaker, Professor Martin Dorahy, will present the history, aetiology and phenomenology of dissociative identity disorder, and some of the historical and current controversies associated with it...

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This upcoming online symposium on suggestion, expectancy and imagery in stroke (and functional stroke) rehab (11 September) looks really good: www.rsm.ac.uk/event-bookin...

The RSM - Royal Society of Medicine

Our vision: better healthcare for better lives

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Really sad to hear about the passing of @andreaevers.bsky.social An absolutely towering figure in the study of placebo effects. A huge loss for the field. placebosociety.org/home

This talk on September 3 at the @kingsioppn.bsky.social on dissociative identity disorder by Martin Dorahy should be excellent. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Dissociative identity disorder: History, aetiology, phenomenology, controversy

Guest speaker, Professor Martin Dorahy, will present the history, aetiology and phenomenology of dissociative identity disorder, and some of the historical and current controversies associated with it...

eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

Really excellent work by @nayapol.bsky.social on this project in @psychscience.bsky.social Incredibly important implications for how we measure mind wandering and think about the link between performance and experiential state reports (whether mind wandering or other types of introspective reports).

Naya Polychroni@nayapol.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Publication alert 🚨 Our research article “Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback” is out in Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3ynmwc5m

In this paper led by @madelinestein.bsky.social we outline how suggestion effects can act as a salient confound in psychedelic experiments/trials (eg one certain NEJM trial ... see paper). We also note how suggestion effects can be harnessed in valuable ways in this domain.

Madeline V. Stein@madelinestein.bsky.social · last yr.

@devinterhune.bsky.social and I have a new invited paper out in the #IJCEH. if you're interested in #psychedelics, #hypnosis, #suggestion, #placebo or #nocebo effects—this is worth a read 🤓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hristo’s presenting his poster today and tomorrow at #NCMPan25! Come and check out his work on information content in sensorimotor cortex in controls and people with amputations at 2-F-72 @ncmsociety.bsky.social

Great video by @wired.com showcasing the Third Thumb! 👍👍👍We're super grateful to be able to work with the amazing Dani Clode and investigate how our brains 🧠 accomodate motor control of an extra robotic finger! The segment on the Third Thumb starts at 6:02 - you can watch here: rb.gy/t8gdhs

6 Arms, 3 Thumbs: I Tested The Future of Robotic Limbs | Superhuman | WIRED

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Check-out our latest research! 🧠 @lucydowdall.bsky.social's PhD work looking at the sensory representation of an artificial limb is now up on bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.16.658246 🦾 see her thread below highlighting some of our key findings

Lucy Dowdall@lucydowdall.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our new interdisciplinary work exploring the sensory representation of an artificial body part, combing datasets and methodologies to explore sensorimotor integration of the Third Thumb, a 2 DoF hand augmentation device (@daniclode.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.16.658246