Cognitive-behavioral therapy for post COVID-19 condition: A pilot randomized controlled trial authors.elsevier.com/c/1nQIj55zZe...

Wimsatt: Perhaps, just perhaps, the best explanation of a phenomenon at a given level is to be found at the same level. Kendler: Noone would seek to explain hypertension at the level of quarks. A few of my favourite papers on this topic of absurd biological reductionism: 🧵

Brent W. Roberts@bwroberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This...the fetishizing of unreplicable neuroscience in order to legitimize our work is self-defeating. We don't need to know that depression is in the brain (as opposed to what???) to know it is problematic. How much money have we wasted proving something like depression is "real"?

Positive interventions cannot prevent the occurrence of symptoms triggered by negative pictures doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

519 Patient:innen in 4 Flugzeugen - eine sehr spannende Erfahrung, die nun auch publiziert wurde. Fazit: One Session Treatment als Gruppentherapie wirkt! karger.com/pps/article-...

A Large-Group 1-Day RCT Investigating the Effectiveness of Four Different Strategies to Promote the Outcome of Exposure Therapy in 519 Patients with Phobic Fear of Flying

Abstract. Introduction: Despite its status as the gold standard for treating fear and anxiety, exposure therapy leaves room for optimization. Clarifying and testing the clinical relevance of proposed ...

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New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

SPIN GRAND CHELEM 🏆 Psilocybin JAMA Psychiatry trial 🍄 a) Positive framing despite negative primary outcome, b) Inconclusive results presented as supportive evidence, c) Safety concerns downplayed with reassuring wording. See the rest of the 🧵 for the verbatim...

Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression

This randomized clinical trial investigates the efficacy and safety of psilocybin, 25 mg, with adjunct psychotherapy in treatment-resistance major depression.

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Wer hat Interesse, in einer multizentrischen Psychotherapiestudie des Deutschen Zentrums für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG) am Standort Bochum mitzuarbeiten? Aktuell ist bei uns innerhalb des Projekts POSIDONIA eine 75%-TVL-14-Stelle zu vergeben: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/d...

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit (m/w/d) im Drittmittelprojekt - Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit

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One Or Many Environmental Intolerance(s)? A Cluster Analysis Over Two Representative Samples authors.elsevier.com/c/1meKm574Px...

A longitudinal bifactor approach to modelling somatic symptom development in psychosomatic treatment authors.elsevier.com/c/1mdvn55zZe...

Ein eindringlicher Hilferuf unserer ukrainischen Partneruniversität, der Staatlichen Taras-Schewtschenko-Universität in Kyiv, hat uns erreicht. Unser Rektorat bittet um Spenden, um in dieser akuten Notsituation schnell und konkret zu helfen. Alle Infos und Kontodaten: news.rub.de/hochschulpol...

Interview and self-report measures of personality disorder criteria are not structurally equivalent. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

🧠💡Reden ist Silber, Ausprobieren ist Gold! Am 20.06. organisieren wir in Frankfurt ein Praxissymposium zum Thema Verhaltensexperimente. Programm: Vorträge & Workshops mit führenden Expert:innen, u.a. @michaelwitthoeft.bsky.social. Jetzt informieren & anmelden! www.uni-frankfurt.de/110078906/Pr...

Sometimes, doing research feels truly fulfilling. Working on this paper was one of those moments. doi.org/10.1037/ccp0...

Prevalence of self-reported sensitivities to various environmental factors in Germany, Sweden, and Finland based on multiple classification criteria doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

The @springernature.com book "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig" is out: 22 authors, 16 chapters. Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, Musicology, Philosophy, ... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Zwei Bochumer Sonderforschungsbereiche gehen in die jeweils dritte Förderphase: Es geht um Plasmaforschung und ums Extinktionslernen, also einmal Gelerntes wieder loszuwerden.

Verlängerung für zwei Bochumer Sonderforschungsbereiche

Plasmaforschung und Extinktionslernen: Beide Sonderforschungsbereiche starten in ihre jeweils dritte Förderphase.

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Physical Activity Decreases Somatic Symptom Distress in the Affect and Symptom Paradigm journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Support for Predictive Processing Assumptions on Health Anxiety: Imprecise Expectations on the Origin of Somatic Symptoms Increase Health Anxiety journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Neue Studie zur Wirksamkeit ambulanter #Psychotherapie mit digitalem Therapiebegleiter bei chronischen Körperbeschwerden 👉 https://presse.uni-mainz.de/neue-behandlungsstudie-untersucht-kombination-aus-analoger-und-digitaler-psychotherapie-fuer-menschen-mit-chronischen-koerperbeschwerden/

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Symptoms associated with environmental factors are positively related to sensory-processing sensitivity

Symptoms associated with environmental factors (SAEFs) are conditions characterized by chronic somatic symptom distress and impaired everyday function…

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Gestern haben über 1300 Menschen für die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung demonstriert, davon 600 in Köln, 500 in Bochum und 200 in Marburg. Gemeinsam haben wir deutlich gemacht, dass es JETZT gesetzliche Regelungen zur Finanzierung der Weiterbildung benötigt.

TIL that Dale invented the heartbeat counting task, not Schandry, and that it was known from the very first study that people underestimated their heart rate. It was orginally called a heart rate estimation task! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2...

How temporally stable are somatic symptoms induced by a commonly used experimental paradigm? And do they predict somatic symptom distress over time? These questions were addressed in an Open Access study of participants who completed the Affect and Symptom Paradigm 18 months apart. #PsychSciSky

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

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Psychotherapists have claimed for >100 years that they provide/adjust interventions in view of the client's characteristics -- but all based on their personal experiences and opinions. Here we have the first-ever system to do so based on evidence.

Toshi Furukawa@toshi-frkw.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Evidence-based personalized & optimized CBT skills for depression, based on a trial of 4469 adults. The Resilience Training App will augment the efficacy by 35% overall over the group average best, and by 64% for those whose best option wasn’t this group average best! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥Frisch gedruckt im PTJ🔥: @tkaiser.science , Rafaële Huntjens und ich haben in dem Artikel gängige (Fehl-)Annahmen in der klinischen Praxis im Zusammenhang mit der Dissoziativen Identitätsstörung (#DIS) aus Sicht der Wissenschaft näher beleuchtet. Ein Thread 🧵: 1/

🚨Rituelle Gewalt - Realität oder Fiktion?🚨: @tkaiser.science, Rafaële Huntjens, Renate Volbert und ich haben im neuen PTJ das Thema organisierte Kriminalität & Rituelle Gewalt unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe näher beleuchtet.🔎 Hier ist der Volltext🗞️👇🏻: www.psychotherapeutenjournal.de/2025/2/ptj20...

Philipp Herzog@herzog.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ich sitze gerade an einem Beitrag zum Thema „Rituelle Gewalt“ für die psychotherapeutische Community. Stay tuned! 👨🏼‍💻 #PsychSky #PsychSciSky

You know you are old when your former PhD student gives a Keynote at your favorite conference. I very much enjoy the amazing talk by @danielamier.bsky.social on social cognition in schizophrenia at #PuG2025

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.