New from us: We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop... A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journal of Neuropsychology | Wiley Online Library

Neuropsychiatric presentations are common across neurological and mental health services but they are often inadequately covered by core clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology training. Con....

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New from us: Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1... Developed and completed in collaboration a diverse team including members from @headwaylondon.bsky.social

Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Journal of Neurology

Background Personality change is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet its prevalence, characteristics, and treatment remain poorly understood. Methods We completed a pre-reg...

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New from us: A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇

Asylum Magazine is 40. One of the most consistently thought-provoking voices on mental health in the UK. Rooted in grassroots perspectives, unwavering in its commitment to featuring a diversity of opinion and critique that puts many academic debates to shame. Still a bit punk.

Asylum Magazine@asylummagazine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

asylummagazine.org/2026/03/edit... The 40th year anniversary issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social is out Read here the reflective Editorial by @hspandler.bsky.social, the Asylum Editor-in-Chief

New from our Colombia-UK team: Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict - Conflict and Health

Background Colombia’s PAPSIVI program is the world’s largest psychosocial support service for victims of armed conflict providing support for over half a million civilians. However, service delivery h...

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Does anyone use the Spanish version of the RBANS ("Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status")? If you are able to send us an original form, we would be happy to compensate you for it.

¿Alguien utiliza la versión en español del RBANS (“Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status”)? Si puede enviarnos un formulario original, con gusto le ofreceremos una compensación por ello.

Not a British Neuropsychiatry Association member but want to keep informed about our events? You can sign up to the announcements mailing list at the bottom of this page: bnpa.org.uk

🚨The programme for our March conference is now online bnpa.org.uk/agm/ Sessions on 🔹neuropsychiatry of epilepsy 🔹rethinking TBI 🔹functional cognitive disorder 🔹identity and memory 🔹fixation and forensic risk 🔹ultrasound as neurostim 🔹insight disorders and more!

Lots of headlines linking menopause to dementia this morning based on a study that doesn't link menopause to dementia www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Epic piece from @anilseth.bsky.social on The Mythology Of Conscious AI www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

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Lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... via @drrickadams.bsky.social

Methodological flaw may upend network mapping tool

The lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks for clinical stimulation, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study.

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The NIMH have seemingly set most of their RDoC videos to private www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGt... I've used an excerpt of that talk for teaching for about 10 years and it's suddenly gone. There's only a single video on their channel with mentions RDoC now www.youtube.com/@NIMHgov/sea...

What a magnificent book. Just recently finished @matthewcobb.bsky.social's The Idea of the Brain which is a wonderful history of neuroscience. I'll be straight, it's not gripping, it goes into too much detail but it is deeply enjoyable and absolutely epic in scope.

Reliably one of the most fascinating conferences of the year. Registration now open. See you there!

BNPA.bsky.social@bnpa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

2026 British Neuropsychiatry Association Conference. Registration is open. Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation 📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026 🤝 Joint meeting with DoN Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/

2026 British Neuropsychiatry Association Conference. Registration is open. Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation 📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026 🤝 Joint meeting with DoN Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/

British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

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I don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas: Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.

For a more nuanced view of C19th psychiatry in general, I have been spending years compiling this bibliography - it wasn't all restraints and stigma - www.lesleyahall.net/victpsyc.htm

Great round up

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 7mo ago

New post! There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost. Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...

Misused therapy concepts absorbed into popular culture are making run-of-the-mill relationship problems harder to resolve www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/... Interesting @olgakhazan.bsky.social piece in The Atlantic Archived version: archive.is/P7Tf6

Why Couples Therapists Are Sick of ‘Therapy-Speak’

What happens when spouses accuse each other of gaslighting? Nothing good.

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Full details for the 2026 ToM4AI Workshop @aaai.org are now live (ToM4AI.com) 100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics @nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social

Curious why we sometimes see minds where there are none? 🧠 Join us to uncover the foundations of attributed agency. Fully funded PhD for next year as part of DRIVE-Health, working with me, Adam Hampshire & @stefansarkadi.bsky.social Deadline: 12/1/26 Reach out for an informal chat!

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health@drivehealth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Apply now for our #fullyfundedPhDs in #HealthDataScience at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Calling all #healthdatascientists, #computerscientists, #engineers, and #AI 100+ projects available ⬇️ Deadline 12 January 2026. @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingshealth.bsky.social

New from us, led by the fantastic Keishema Kerr: A scoping review unpacking how neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology training looks like world-wide www.cambridge.org/core/journal... with Lauren Burns, Sheldon Benjamin, Eileen Joyce, Jasvinder Singh, @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social and Biba Stanton

The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Wonderfully titled and useful paper from Inés Abalo-Rodríguez and Ana Pinheiro

The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research

Hallucination research is a fast‑growing, inherently interdisciplinary field bridging psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This artic…

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New from us, led by the fantastic @elisavetpappa.bsky.social: Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions karger.com/psp/article/...

Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions

Abstract. Introduction: Delusions frequently involve strong beliefs about, or interactions with, illusory social agents. Although such agents have been systematically described in hallucinations, few ...

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Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Want a Refresher) 📅 This Wednesday, 8 Oct | ⏰ 9am–12pm UK | 📍 Zoom An exclusive online session for British Neuropsychiatry Association members. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neuropsych...

Neuropsychology for Physicians (and Psychologists Who Want a Refresher)

A half day course on neuropsychology and neuropsychological disorders for BNPA members

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Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Prof Rick Adams@drrickadams.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j... He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

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One of the most important mental health books I've read in the last decade, Darren McGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex is absolute 🔥 www.penguin.co.uk/books/439534... Skip the subtitle, it's a much wider analysis of trauma and lived experience in mental health. Takes on lots of unquestioned dogmas