Junghee Lee
@jungheelee.bsky.social
Clinical neuroscientist; Interested in neural systems related to social behavior in people with severe mental illness or infectious disease
An AI “hallucinating” is still pretty much science fiction, since it implies an internal experience. A much more accurate terminology would have been “AI confabulation”. But alas, we are stuck with bad terminology, such as sampling from a fitted LLM being called “inference”. 🤦♂️
William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 3w agoThe idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
This is not the first time an ancient elite individual has been mistakenly identified as male www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals
A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman.
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Older patients represent the fastest growing patient group in clinical care. A Review discusses the critical need to improve clinical trial relevance for older patients: spkl.io/633217M135
Out today in @natneuro.nature.com is (a highly evolved version of) the second chapter of my dissertation (with @eblissmoreau.bsky.social) assessing the comparative anatomy of the insula across 🐁mice, 🐀rats, 🐒monkeys, and 🚶humans! rdcu.be/fyd7T
Comparative insights into insula structure and function
Nature Neuroscience - Charbonneau et al. compare how the insula is structured and functions in humans, monkeys and rodents, revealing similarities and differences across species that are likely to...
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HIRING: Staff Scientist @ NeRD Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Come join a powerhouse lab of 14 remarkable women. Looking for someone who loves neurodevelopment, sleep, & psychopathology, thrives on collaboration, & is excited to become the scientific backbone of our lab. tinyurl.com/mveskh4p
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · last mo.
Very excited to share this preprint from me, @emmatempleton.bsky.social, @lindseytepfer.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social! "Friends and strangers engage in distinct regimes of body motion synchrony during conversation" osf.io/preprints/ps...
New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56
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Errors or Adaptations? A Critical Review of Predictive Processing in Psychiatry pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42510237/ Hmmm...
Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI when we started 3 years ago, i thought if we didn't pull it off in a couple of months, the topic would be soon out of fashion of coz, long distance collab -> we stalled ... but strangely, it isn't totally irrelevant yet. what does this mean?
megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇
Obesity is increasingly addressed with disease-modifying medications, with benefits that extend across other conditions. A Review in @thelancetendo.bsky.social explores the multisystem benefits of obesity medications beyond weight loss: tinyurl.com/46tsf8rf
Beyond weight loss: multisystem benefits of obesity medications
Obesity is increasingly managed with medications as disease-modifying therapies, reflecting its role as a gateway disease driving metabolic, cardiovascular, reproductive, neuropsychiatric, and mechani...
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Blood levels of p-tau217 enabled estimation of #cognitive decline risk over multiple years in asymptomatic adults, suggesting promise for future risk prediction, though current clinical application is limited. 📖 Read full article to learn more: ja.ma/3SYyY09
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this excellent paper. I wonder, are there parallels in the use of rigid/flexible criteria in clinical diagnosis with varying opacity of symptoms? Why human societies adopt rigid moral rules: The efficiency–robustness trade-off | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Great collaboration where we have leveraged our latest #qMRI and #hMRI methods on the 7T and Connectom #MRI scanners at @mpicbs.bsky.social to better understand the critical role of sensory input in congenital #blindness: reduced myelination is a key effect.
The 2026 fMRI Summer Course with @fmri-today.bsky.social has begun and the recordings and slides are shared here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/SummerCourse
FMRIF Summer Course
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(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing
Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t
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#GLP1 receptor agonist treatment in patients with #Schizophrenia reduced body weight, improved glycemic control, and enhanced physical quality of life, supporting its role in cardiometabolic risk management. 📖 Read the full trial: ja.ma/4wnTi9v
Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature
Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...
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Why do animals age in such similar ways, yet live for wildly different spans - from days to a century? Our new paper in @NatureAging fits a damage accumulation model across 9 species and finds the knob that best predicts lifespan doi.org/10.1038/s435...
A damage accumulation model identifies distinct aging regimes across species - Nature Aging
Raz and colleagues fit survival data across species to a stochastic model of damage accumulation and removal. They report that damage production rate best predicts lifespan and reveal two distinct agi...
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Our multilevel meta-analytic review on relationships between cognition and daily functioning in adults with bipolar disorder is out in Psychological Bulletin! A link to download an open-access pdf is below. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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I'm not only interested in the BIG papers that will appear in some glam journal. I quite like to find some quiet little papers, well done, on obscure topics that happen to interest me. If I let a general algorithm limit what I look at, I'll never see those...
On cheap artificial consciousness: important message from @matthiasmichel.bsky.social articulating common misreadings of functionalism, and why the problem of artificial C requires tackling broader questions in philosophy of mind, not just theories of C philpapers.org/rec/MICOCA-3
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Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB
Interested in how dysregulation of locus coeruleus-norepinephrine circuits contribute to neuropsychiatric symptoms in early Alzheimer's disease? Check out our new review article from freshly minted Dr. Anu Korukonda! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new hope: locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system at the nexus of neuropsychiatric symptoms - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - A new hope: locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system at the nexus of neuropsychiatric symptoms
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Massimiliano Facca, Alessandra Bertoldo, et al: Glucose metabolism echoes long-range temporal correlations in the human brain doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
New research from the IoPPN (Professors Emmanuelle Peters and Richard Emsley, Dr Amy Hardy, and Dr Hassan Jafari) and @maudsleynhs.bsky.social has found that trauma-focused therapy is safe and effective for people with psychosis and PTSD www.kcl.ac.uk/news/largest...
Research shows trauma-focused therapy is safe and effective for people with psychosis and PTSD | King's College London
New research from the IoPPN published in The Lancet Psychiatry has found that people with psychosis experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can benefit from a Trauma-Focused therapy integra...
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The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.
The Unitary Executive Takes Over New Territory
The Trump administration’s theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to American science.
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