Jan Haaker
@janhaaker.bsky.social
Social learning Neuropharmacology @Isnlab.bsky.social Alumnus @jungeakademie.bsky.social
Prof. Dr. @epanlab.bsky.social Mercator Fellow of the RTG 2753 received the 2026 NWO Spinoza Prize, the Netherlands’ highest scientific honour! Her work on freezing and stress resilience opened new ways to detect mental health problems early. Congratulations! www.emotionalmemory.de/news/karin-r...
Karin Roelofs receives the NWO Spinoza Prize - Fakultät für Psychologie und Bew. Kognitionspsychologie
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🧠 Our new preprint is out! In our shared work with @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social, we report the first translation of an intensity-based gradual extinction procedure from rodents to humans. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Gradual Extinction via US Intensity Reduction: a Translational Test of Fear Memory Updating in Humans
Relapse of fear-related symptoms after exposure-based treatment remains a major challenge across anxiety disorders. One potential explanation is that extinction learning yields a new memory trace rath...
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Do I have to worry when I get a newsletter-mail about 'AI not being a job-killer' when the email looks like generated by AI? Guess this is fine
🎙️ Jetzt gibt’s wieder Wirkstoff Wort auf die Ohren! 🎙️ Gute Kommunikation ist kein „Nice-to-have“ in der Medizin. Wie wir mit Patient:innen sprechen, beeinflusst ihre Erwartungen, ihr Vertrauen und auch, wie sie eine Behandlung erleben und wie gut diese wirkt ☝️
I like the notion that overlapping activation is not implying similar processing. Cool study!
tor@torwager.bsky.social · last wk.A new fMRI study just out on precision functional mapping of imagined and experienced pain, led by Michael Sun (Sun et al., 2026, Nature Communications). How strongly does imagining pain activate nociceptive representations in the brain? doi.org/10.1038/s41... Thread below 👇
New paper out! We examined EEG and autonomic responses during threat anticipation and asked whether this state of “attentive immobility” influences memory encoding. We found enhanced perceptual processing, but this did not translate into better memory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I’m sure there will be some behavioral signatures but that would not stop this from being a strategy participants could use to farm reimbursements…
My team at Uni Hamburg is looking for a PhD candidate. We are interested in the role played by intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation and social interaction between parents with affective disorders and their children. The job posting can be found here: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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10 more days to apply 👇
Philipp Kanske@kanske.bsky.social · 2mo agoPostDoc job for MRI expert in our Neuroimaging Center in beautiful Dresden. Interested in imaging studies & integration of different neuroscience methods? Get in touch! - Thanks for sharing - @tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12956
📣 Neue Mitglieder gesucht! Bis zum 11.11. können sich exzellente Wissenschaftler*innen u. Künstler*innen mit Begeisterung für den interdisziplinären Austausch an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft, Kunst, Gesellschaft und Politik um eine Mitgliedschaft bewerben: 🔗 diejungeakademie.de/de/mitglied-...
Updated lab website with the amazing people I get to work with and some exciting projects underway izquierdolab.com
Izquierdo Lab — Alicia Izquierdo, UCLA Department of Psychology
The Izquierdo Lab at UCLA studies the brain mechanisms of flexible reward learning and value-based decision making, with a focus on frontocortical circuits.
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🚀 Preprint on how pain is influenced through the pursuit of motivational goals 🚀 Really smart paradigm & important results on opioidergic brain mechanisms. By @asankleo.bsky.social - my brilliant brother. Lab of @christianbuchel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The pursuit of motivational goals reduces pain through an opioidergic mechanism
Pain promotes protective behavior but can interfere with other biologically important goals. Survival may require overcoming pain to obtain rewards, secure resources or escape danger, yet evidence for...
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EU friends: pls be aware that you cannot share certain types of data on Zenodo because Zenodo does actually not comply with GDPR. @lakens.bsky.social 's blog has a great summary. It's a pretty serious reason to avoid Zenodo for researchers who work with data, if I understand the issue correctly.
Amanda Kay Montoya@akmontoya.bsky.social · last mo.Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw
🧠Decoding neural threat-reward information using high-precision MEG in humans shows that defensive cardiac states sharpen low-frequency value representations in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during decision making under threat. PDF ↪️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Defensive cardiac states sharpen neural value representations during decision making - Communications Biology
Decoding neural threat-reward information using high-precision MEG in humans shows that defensive cardiac states sharpen low-frequency value representations in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during ...
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🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
Starting September 1, I will be working with a team to start a new research center at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. We currently have a couple of positions posted but there will be more so if you are interested stay tuned and feel free to get in touch.
Max Planck Institute for Human Development@mpib-berlin.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣 New research center on the horizon! The Center will study how midlife autonomic changes may contribute to #neurodegenerative disease risk, focusing on the locus coeruleus, #Alzheimer’s biomarkers, and emotion–cognition interactions. Interested? CAAN-Job openings 👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/career
😖 Chronische Schmerzen? 😖 Dann suchen wir dich für unsere neue #Onlinestudie (Dauer: 30 min, Aufwandsentschädigung 15 Euro)! 🤩 Hilf uns herauszufinden, wie chronische Schmerzen das Denken, Fühlen und Handeln beeinflussen. 🤔 ▶️ Zum Fragebogen: tinyurl.com/Online-Schme...
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Important work led by one of our PIs, @sheddenmora.bsky.social! 🤩 This study investigated psychological determinants of pregnancy-related symptom burden in 347 women. Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Expectations predict early pregnancy-related symptom burden - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Expectations predict early pregnancy-related symptom burden
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⏰ New preprint ⏰ "Layer-specific cortical processing dissociates sensory and cognitive influences on pain" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Collab w. @elh-institute.bsky.social, @tspisak.bsky.social, @ulrikebingel.bsky.social and some people not on here 😍
Tolles Interview mit @ulrikebingel.bsky.social vom Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) 🔽 www.gesundheitsforschung-bmftr.de/de/mit-dem-p...
Mit dem Placebo-Effekt wirken viele Behandlungen besser - DLR Gesundheitsforschung
Wie gut eine Therapie wirkt, wird auch durch den Placebo-Effekt beeinflusst. Wie sich dieser beeinflussen lässt und welche Rolle Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten dabei spielen, erläutert Professorin Ulr...
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Paper out - big congrats to Dahna Choi! How #empathy & #perspectivetaking relate to #depression, specifically disease severity @trr393.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @lisaleehr.bsky.social @straubeb.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/jclp...
When Being Social Is Costly: Empathy's Role for Risk States, Acute Symptoms, and Cumulative Disease Severity of Depression
Objectives Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) frequently report burdensome interpersonal difficulties and altered empathy and perspective-taking. Previous findings on binary comparisons b.....
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A lay summary explains this cool study from @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social et al. 😍 www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1038/s...
Acute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatment · Clear Sky Science
Study shows that positive treatment expectations can bias emotional perception toward happiness and predict antidepressant outcomes.
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The Power of Expectations@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 5mo agoAmazing new work from project A06 led by Eun Jin Shim and @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social! 🤩 This study examined whether positive expectations improve outcomes in depressed patients and whether individual placebo responsiveness predicts treatment success 💊 Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign
Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 3mo agoTime keeping is my passion.
More than words: Experience shapes #placebo pain relief through additional brain pathways 🧠 We're excited to share our latest publication in @natcomms.nature.com! 🤩 🔗 Read the paper: rdcu.be/fuxmn #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #PainResearch #BrainImaging #TeamScience #Reproducibility
“People interpret numbers in very different ways,” says psychologist @tobikube.bsky.social in the latest episode of our CRC podcast 🎙️👨⚕️ In medicine, it is particularly important to communicate quantities and figures sensitively. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/6mC0...
LC influences OFC probablistic learning www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Orbitofrontal noradrenaline supports adaptive learning-rate adjustment in probabilistic reversal learning | PNAS
Adaptive decision-making in dynamic environments requires flexible adjustment of learning speed to balance stability and flexibility. When outcomes...
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Interesting new results on OFC-mediated noradrenergic learning rate adaptation 📈
Jérémie Naudé@jeremie-n.cpesr.fr · 3mo agoNouvel article avec @ecoutureau.bsky.social ☺️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Quand une récompense n'arrive pas, comment le cerveau nous permet de savoir s'il s'agit d'une malchance… ou d'un changement des règles du jeu ? On a suivi la trace d'un neuromodulateur, la noradrénaline, pour comprendre :
