New paper alert! 📣📣 In this work, we investigated the origins of somatic symptoms – a common and debilitating feature of anxiety and depression. 'Anxiety is associated with the persistence of conditioned somatic sensations over time'

Really pleased to see this commentary from @glassybrain.bsky.social on our paper. She situates our findings within the immunometabolic depression framework and points to some cool directions for future work, including longitudinal designs and measuring insulin resistance more directly. Take a look!

Vanessa Teckentrup@glassybrain.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thoroughly enjoyed writing a commentary on a great paper by @hugofleming.bsky.social et al for @biologicalpsych.bsky.social:GOS, focusing on how to further explore metabolic contributions to learning and feeling using real-time data and interventional designs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How does metabolic learning shape human behaviour? In our recent study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we found that it shapes flavour preferences but, surprisingly, not action. Thread 🧵

Important/interesting-looking paper for those in computational psychiatry from Stefano Palminteri and colleagues psyarxiv.com/3u4gp/ #neuroscience #psychscisky

On #depression & allostatic overload 👀 In a sample with more than 200,000 individuals, severe depression was associated with the incidence of 29 conditions requiring hospital treatment (5-year follow-up): sleep disorders (HR, 5.97), diabetes (HR 5.15), ischemic heart disease (HR, 1.76), & others

New UCL study showing higher rates of MH symptoms in uni students vs non-students BUT - as the authors make clear in the study but the Guardian article doesn't ... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

University students more at risk of depression than non-students – study

Higher levels of poor mental health in England could be linked to worries about money and academic achievement, findings suggest

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General career Q: what are the key skills one should learn at each level in academia? Or to put it another way, what are the skill bottlenecks you need to resolve to continue to progress?