Roy Salomon
@royesal.bsky.social
Prof. University of Haifa. Connoisseur of Consciousness and its varieties https://salomonlab.org/
Thrilled to have lab alum Dr. Yoni Stern presenting our research on the Self, VR and Psychosis today(Monday 6/7) at Haifa Mental Health Innovation Summit. Leveraging our VR paradigms to improve early detection of psychosis. Register @ hil.haifa.ac.il/haifa-mental...
New publication from the lab in Cortex How does the brain generate the feeling that “I am the one causing my actions”*? In our preregistered EEG + VR study, we manipulated visual feedback of finger movements to see neural correlates of Embodied Agency. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural responses to sensorimotor conflict in an embodied agency task
The Sense of Agency (SoA), the subjective experience that ‘I am in control of my actions’, has been proposed to involve both early implicit sensorimot…
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Does PTSD risk leave traces in the body’s daily rhythms? Our new study, just published in @translational psychiatry followed Supernova festival survivors after Oct 7 using real-world sleep and heart-rate data. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PTSD #Wearables #UniveristyofHafia #Psychiatry #sleep
Circadian instability following mass trauma predicts PTSD risk - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Circadian instability following mass trauma predicts PTSD risk
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The 6x US memory champion – Nelson Dellis – can memorize a deck of cards in 40 seconds and knows the first 10K digits of pi. To figure out how, he let us peak inside his brain. Here is what we learned in our precision brain mapping study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... youtube.com/shorts/MryMq...
how does his brain do it ? #neuroscience #memory #sport Nelson Dellis 6x US memory champion
YouTube video by Roselyne Chauvin
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Just back from Prague, where, in a typically overambitious move, I gave two talks in one day. At NUDZ, I spoke about Self and Reality in the Human Brain, and how VR and neuroimaging implicate abnormal "Self" in psychosis. Learned about exciting work on psychedelics and mental health at NUDZ (1/2)
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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On December 16, I gave a talk at Charité on our work with the NOVA survivors on trauma under psychedelics. In 1933, my grandfather, Prof. Dr. Karl Salomon, was expelled from the Charité for being Jewish. He fled Germany and rebuilt his life in Israel. Happy to close this circle.
Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )
So great! To paraphrase @lucinauddin.bsky.social: If we (researchers) aren't clear, it has downstream effects on translation (eg to) psychiatry. We must strive not just to publish papers, but to be clear!
PessoaBrain@pessoabrain.bsky.social · 8mo ago𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns
lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis
Brain-body interactions are essential for physical and emotional homeostasis. The brain uses information from the external world to predict upcoming bodily changes. This process involves interoceptive...
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🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.” Yeah. 🫢 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Serotonergic-dependent awareness is required for trace conditioning in honeybees
Entomology; Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
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**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories** Looks very interesting. #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Yes pls
Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 9mo agoReformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort. Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Honored to speak at the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin on Breaking the Walls of Trauma: Psychedelics and Recovery with Dr. Dimitris Repantis and Prof. Eric Vermetten discussing the opportunities and challenges psychedelics bring to trauma and PTSD recovery. falling-walls.com/programme/br...
Breaking the Walls of Trauma: Psychedelics and Recovery
Trauma and mental health challenges are increasingly examined through the lens of psychedelic-assisted therapies. Insights from research and clinical practice highlight the potential of substances suc...
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Now, Prof Bessel Van der Kolk discussing how trauma is encoded in the mind and body. Stressing the importance of agency and action during the TE for better post traumatic recovery.
Then the outstanding Rick Dublin showed the efforts to advance MDMA assisted therapy for PTSD in many areas of conflict around the world.
Honored to be presenting at the SafeHeart conference on trauma, psychedelics and therapy during wartime. Showed our results of two years work with the Nova survivors.
Amazing conference in Dresden on the Multidimensionalty of Trauma. Amazing morning lineup: Carmen Sandi, Talma Hendler, Eric Vermetten & Hermona Soreq. From tRNA to psychedelic treatments of PTSD stress and trauma effects evident at all levels of neurobiology and cognition.
Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!
Ashley Tyrer@ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 10mo ago1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Yesterday, my heart was filled with hope as all live Israeli hostages returned home. Yesterday was also the funeral of Roee Shalev, Nova survivor suffering from PTSD who committed suicide this week. The trauma suffered on both sides is tremendous and there is much work ahead for this to be healed.🙏
Tomorrow will be two years since the attack which began this terrible war. I have lived through several wars, but this one has changed me. I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I am not above praying for peace.... Hostages back home, this war can be over. Amen 🙏
Our World Psychiatry paper is out! we studied responses to trauma experienced under different psychoactive substances and found distinct patterns across substances. Immense gratitude to our collaborators and above all, to the survivors❤️🩹
Roy Salomon@royesal.bsky.social · 11mo agoJust published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing
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Impressive data set with interesting findings: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank
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This is a fascinating article. Well-researched. And while it doesn't interrogate the reasons why the FDA knocked back the MDMA application at least it reasonably accepts the rejection was based on problems with the science and not solely the result of a tiny "activist" group.
How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company
Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA
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