Tom Olino

@olinotom.bsky.social

Interests in developmental psychopathology, measurement, and brain function. Prof. Aficionado of bad jokes.

For the summer glamping book club, we read "Into thin air" about climbing Mt. Everest. It made me curious - any idea what the highest altitude of an MRI is? For task-based MRI, how much does altitude impact BOLD signal?

Very excited to share this registered report now in press at Clinical Psych Science! In this paper, we put a common clinical intuition in group-based treatment to the test: Are patients’ outcomes associated with the personality composition of their treatment cohort?

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cohort Personality Composition’s Prediction of Treatment Outcomes in a Military Intensive Outpatient Program: A Registered Report: https://osf.io/xgr8w

We’re excited to announce that our amazing graduate student, Claire Cusack, received the Outstanding Student Researcher Award from SSCP!🎉 This award recognizes her outstanding contributions to clinical psychology research under the mentorship of Dr. Cheri Levinson. Congratulations, Claire!

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5 rules of writing: 1. The reader can only read your words, not your mind. 2. Never make the reader work. 3. The reader is always right. 4. The reader has many other choices. 5. You have (at most) two paragraphs to keep the reader.

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. Read more: https://propub.li/4rBUJOV

Bar chart showing the change in the number of providers — social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists — from the third quarter of 2023 to the end of 2025 on the x-axis and the number of providers from negative 400 to 800 on the y-axis. The trend starts with a peak of about 700 social workers and around 200 psychologists added in the third quarter of 2023, followed by a steady decline across all groups, dropping below zero by the first quarter of 2025 with social worker losses eventually dipping around 400.

I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."