The final version of our amygdala dopamine paper is out! BLA dopamine dynamically tracks emotional salience and not value or reward prediction error. Congrats to Dr. Megan Brickner!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basolateral amygdala dopamine transmits emotional salience - Nature Communications

The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...

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Job alert - deadline tomorrow 👇 Two PostDoc positions available with my fabulous colleague Miriam Schiele @tudresden.bsky.social in clinical psychology, epigenetics, molecular biology, biomarker research. lnkd.in/dhhqer3s lnkd.in/dtktq9Aa

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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Now available in Trends Open: How do expectations shape actions? I introduce the ExSA framework, integrating perspectives from motor control, decision-making, predictive processing, and clinical neuroscience Read here: www.cell.com/trends-open/... #Psychology #MotorControl #PredictiveProcessing

New Preprint: Some people experience childhood maltreatment and still grow up securely attached. We call this interpersonal resilience, and it shows up in both behavior and the brain. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How does your brain register whether something feels good or bad? New research had people listen to stories in an MRI scanner and found the brain maps feelings on a single scale from unpleasant to pleasant, using far more regions than expected. #Valence, #Naturalistic Link: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Great talk by Yin Wang - thanks so much for joining our lab meeting @bruceyinwang.bsky.social

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

Very much looking forward to the talk by Yin Wang @bruceyinwang.bsky.social in our lab meeting on "The Neurocognitive Basis of Human Social Intelligence" 21 July 2026 - 1pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Join us online 👇 tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case? If not Poirot...

Jonathan J Hammersley(2026 version)@jhammersley.bsky.social · 3w ago

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case? If not Poirot...

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

Very much looking forward to the talk by Yin Wang @bruceyinwang.bsky.social in our lab meeting on "The Neurocognitive Basis of Human Social Intelligence" 21 July 2026 - 1pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Join us online 👇 tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

Work with Philipp K. – he is a very knowledgeable and kind man.

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

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

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Gesundheitsreform - Gibt es bald weniger Psychotherapie-Plätze?

Die Regierung will Milliarden bei den Krankenkassen sparen. Was ändert die Reform für uns? Wird es jetzt noch schwieriger, einen Therapieplatz zu finden?

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Just shocking 🌍🔥 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

LNG-Importe: Wie Katherina Reiche die Energiewende torpediert

Mit Unterstützung des Wirtschaftsministeriums handelt ein Konzern neue Gasverträge aus. Sie gelten sogar über 2050 hinaus, wenn Deutschland längst klimaneutral sein will.

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Now on bluesky - the lab by our new colleague Miriam Schiele @schiele-lab.bsky.social. 🎉 @tudresden.bsky.social @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

As already warm cities become more and more vulnerable to extreme heat events, or just the “new normal” of hotter and hotter cities every day, here’s just one more reason why more street trees and other greenery are good for streets & cities. It’s just common sense, really. Cooler, cleaner, smarter.

Very interesting postdoc position with Woo Ri Chae @unimarburg.bsky.social on motivational and psychomotor symptoms of mental disorders, as well as their immunometabolic mechanisms and metabolic comorbidities. - job alert - @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/f...

Very happy to have Eric Reavis from UCLA in our lab meeting today

Philipp Kanske@kanske.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us - great talk tomorrow / 23 June 2026 at 1pm CEST by Eric Reavis on "Inter-Subject Synchrony: An Emerging Approach for Naturalistic Assessment of Social Information Processing and Functioning in Schizophrenia" @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

On today 👇

Philipp Kanske@kanske.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us - great talk tomorrow / 23 June 2026 at 1pm CEST by Eric Reavis on "Inter-Subject Synchrony: An Emerging Approach for Naturalistic Assessment of Social Information Processing and Functioning in Schizophrenia" @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

📢 Promotionsstelle an der TU Dresden! Wir suchen eine wiss. Mitarbeiter/Doktorand (m/w/d; E13 TV-L) für Forschung zu Essstörungen und affektiven Störungen – mit Neuroimaging, Digital Phenotyping u. v. m. Bewerbung bis 30.06.2026: www.ukdd.de/psm www.transdenlab.de/home

What kind of research and innovation system will Europe need in the next decade? As Europe debates #FP10, competitiveness, tech sovereignty and free movement of knowledge, leading scientists and policymakers will gather in Brussels for high-level conference on 29 June 2026.

Join us - great talk tomorrow / 23 June 2026 at 1pm CEST by Eric Reavis on "Inter-Subject Synchrony: An Emerging Approach for Naturalistic Assessment of Social Information Processing and Functioning in Schizophrenia" @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

E. Reavis: Inter-Subject Synchrony: An Emerging Approach for Naturalistic Assessment of Social Information Processing and Functioning in Schizophrenia

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Up to 2 year fully funded postdoc fellowship at @TUD to apply for own funding. Very cool program👇 Get in touch if you have questions @tudresden.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/ga/finanzier...

Maria Reiche Postdoctoral Fellowships

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Very interesting one at @dpk-kongress.bsky.social on „the serotonin myth“

Very happy to have Lisa Wagels from @rwth.bsky.social in our lab meeting today! @tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

Thanks again for the invitation and really nice evening!

Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development@jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In our next #ResearchSeminar, Prof. @kanske.bsky.social will discuss "The Social Brain - Empathy and Perspective Taking as Risky Strengths" 📅 May 18th, 2:30 p.m., Andreasstrasse 15 in Zurich, AND 4.55/57. Everyone is welcome, no registration is needed.

🚀 Unsere AG an der TU Dresden sucht Verstärkung! Ab 01.09. bieten wir eine Postdoc- oder WiMi-Stelle (50%, E13 TV-L) an der Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie - als Elternzeitvertretung mit Möglichkeit auf Verlängerung Bewerbung bis 20.05.👇 www.verw.tu-dresden.de/stellaus/ste...

Thanks so much for the invitation. Really looking forward to it!

Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development@jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In our next #ResearchSeminar, Prof. @kanske.bsky.social will discuss "The Social Brain - Empathy and Perspective Taking as Risky Strengths" 📅 May 18th, 2:30 p.m., Andreasstrasse 15 in Zurich, AND 4.55/57. Everyone is welcome, no registration is needed.

Judith Schaefer continues with „interpretation biases and witnessed trauma“

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

Frank van Overwalle presents the social cerebellum