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...

The Power of Expectations@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amazing 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...

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Time 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.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nouvel 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 :

Today, @ulrikebingel.bsky.social, Sven Benson and @helenahartmann.com will be on the #MSWissenschaft for the Meet the Scientist event! Where? Cologne, Mühlheimer Ufer, next to Mühlheimer Brücke When? 10:00 - 15:00 We're looking forward to many questions and discussions! 🤩

Wissenschaft im Dialog@w-i-d.de · 4w ago

Zum Veranstaltungskalender der MS Wissenschaft: ms-wissenschaft.de/de/veranstal... @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social @dfg.de

Excellent opportunity!

Philipp Kanske@kanske.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wir suchen Verstärkung - job alert 🎺 PhD- oder PostDoc-Stelle an der TU Dresden im Bereich der klinisch-sozialen Neurowissenschaft mit Mitarbeit am @trr393.bsky.social und in der Lehre. Text me if interested. - Please share - @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social

If you’re at the FENS Forum, consider to join our symposium: S28 – Flexible Memory Systems: Adaptive and Maladaptive Pathways! Today Hall D at 15:40! Kate Wassum, Mihaela Iordanova, Scott Waddell, and Jan Haaker. @fensorg.bsky.social #FENS2026 fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...

Leaving for #FENS2026 Looking forward to our symposium on Wednesday 15:40 Hall D With @katewassum.bsky.social @iordanova.bsky.social @scottishwaddell.bsky.social I will talk about Neuropharmacological adaption of threat- and safety-memories in humans fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world #WomensArt #Monday

🚨This preprint is now out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... We combine a dyadic foraging paradigm w/ computational modeling + ABM to study how people navigate differing preferences, share responsibility for shared outcomes & what that means for the group! more in 🧵⬇️ @fearbrain.bsky.social

Ketika Garg@ketikagarg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 Excited to end the year with a new preprint w/ Wenning Deng (not on bsky) and Dean Mobbs @fearbrain.bsky.social 🎉 🎉 "Blame and Compromise During Risky Dyadic Foraging" osf.io/preprints/ps... Feedback is very welcome! Thread: 🧵 1/n

Vom Sonderforschungsbereich Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social wurde ich dazu interviewt, warum unser Gehirn wie eine Vorhersagemaschine ist - und wie Erwartungen unsere Wahrnehmung und unser Schmerzempfinden verändern können. Und was das für Jugendpsychiatrie bedeutet. Hier der Link:👇

In case you missed it, we have a bilingual video series called 🥜 "In a nutshell" 🥜 In this series, our scientists explain what their work has to do with expectations, what new research found, & what patients can do to feel better. Here they are all in a thread for you to browse & watch! ⤵️

Jason Bateman: In A Nutshell

ALT: Jason Bateman: In A Nutshell

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Many thanks to the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social and all colleagues for awarding me the DGPA Early Career Award 2026 at the fantastic #PuG2026! I am also grateful to the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social for the support of my scientific work and the great research environment and network.

Excited to announce that this is now out in eLife as a reviewed preprint 🚀 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social

Muhammad Hashim Satti@hashimsat.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New preprint alert! Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking very much forward to #PUG2026 in beautiful Heidelberg! Interested in the features and bugs of computational psychiatry 💻🧠? Join our symposium: 🕞Thursday 15:30 - 17:00 in HS 13. W\ Isabel Berwian @lilweb.bsky.social @hashimsat.bsky.social @ondrejzika.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Peter Kirsch@cherrydoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Biopsych Community, we are ready and can‘t wait to welcome you to Heidelberg! #PUG2026

🗣️ Calling all healthcare professionals! The #scicomm team is evaluating the CRC's newsletter. For this we need input from people working with and around patients that are not part of our CRC. Fill out the 10-15min (German) survey: sfb289.survey-uni-due.de/index.php/89... Thanks for your support ❤️

That’s cool!

Björn Lindström@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!

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RTG Emotional Learning and Memory@rtg2753.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📄New publication from Kai Schüren et al. shows that acute stress impairs memory integration by reducing hippocampal reactivation during new learning. With Broad implications for educational, legal & clinical settings. 🔗https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A recent paper by Epp et al. in NN claimed that ~40% of reported BOLD findings could be misinterpreted. In our reanalysis, we identified several statistical issues that, in our view, undermine these conclusions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 👇 1/11

This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).

Nature Neuroscience@natneuro.nature.com · 3mo ago

Check out our May issue! www.nature.com/neuro/volume...

An exciting opportunity to work closely with our lab - a fully funded PhD scholarship is available at the University of Sydney on the psychological mechanisms underlying the nocebo effect. Open to domestic + international applicants: - $42,754 p.a. for up to 3.5 years - Applications close 9 June

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

Thanks to @dfg.de for interviewing our speaker @ulrikebingel.bsky.social about this very important topic: How expectations can make treatments work better (or worse)! Video in German: youtu.be/5l1SLadf1ec?...

Wie Erwartungen Medikamente wirksamer machen können - exkurs-Gespräch mit Prof. Bingel

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1998 just felt right