David R. Kolar

@dkolar.bsky.social

Prof of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology & Psychotherapy at University of Regensburg. Eating disorders, Functional models of psychopathology, EMA 🇩🇪🇨🇴🇺🇸🇧🇷

Ich habe soeben das Bundesverfassungsgericht angerufen. Es möge prüfen, ob ein nahezu neu geschriebenes Gesetz mit fast 300 Seiten Änderungen in solch einem Eilverfahren beschlossen werden darf. Es geht nicht um Kleinigkeiten: Schlechte Gesetze treffen Personal und Patienten.

SPIEGEL: Grünenabgeordneter Dahmen reicht Eilantrag gegen GKV-Gesetz ein
Eigentlich sollte der Bundestag vor der Sommerpause das Gesetz zur Stabilisierung der Krankenkassenbeiträge beschließen. Nun geht der Gesundheitspolitiker Janosch Dahmen beim Bundesverfassungsgericht dagegen vor.

Starting as an idea at a conference in 2024, our Special Issue on network theory and clinical applications is now fully available at Cognitive Therapy and Research. What a fun project with awesome co-editors and excellent papers! Thanks to all authors and reviewers!

Saskia Scholten@saskiascholten.bsky.social · last mo.

1/2 🚀 Proud to present our Special Issue on network theory and its application with @leaschumacher.bsky.social, @dkolar.bsky.social, and Philipp Klein. Huge thanks to all authors and reviewers whose excellent work made this a timely, state-of-the-art collection: link.springer.com/collections/...

1/ New paper alert! Stress often builds over time, but many scientific studies treat it as just an on/off thing. In this paper, we introduce the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST): a new paradigm for inducing graded, mild-to-moderate stress in the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task: A tool to reveal physiological dynamics using graded stress induction

Stress evokes a complex repertoire of psychological and physiological responses. This paper introduces the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST), a pa…

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Thanks Emma for the lead on this fun project! And y’all make sure to check out the interactive prediction tool @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social created.

Emma De Schuyteneer@emmadeschuyteneer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper out! Can we predict which patients with eating disorders will still be depressed after treatment? Paper: doi.org/10.1002/eat.... Thanks to my co-authors @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social (co-first author), Elske Vrieze, Adrian Meule, @dkolar.bsky.social, Eva P. Wuttke, Ulrich Voderholzer!

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

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Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

Das bringt mich zu einem aktuellen berufspolitischen Thema: Erst vor wenigen Tagen hat der Erweiterte Bewertungsausschuss eine Kürzung der Honorare von ambulanten Psychotherapeut*innen (PTs) um 4,5% beschlossen. Das ist in meinen Augen absolut inakzeptabel. Ich will Euch sagen warum: (1/8)