Altered basal forebrain regulation of intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders Nature Mental Health - Using 7T resting-state functional MRI data, the authors investigate the effective connectivity of basal forebrain areas in a transdiagnostic sample of patients with anxiety...

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Huge thanks to all the co-authors including Trevor Steward, @cgdavey.bsky.social, Sevil Ince, @agathosj.bsky.social, Brad Moffat, Rebecca Glarin, @drkimfelm.bsky.social, & Ben Harrison

Altered basal forebrain regulation of intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders - Nature Mental Health Using 7T resting-state functional MRI data, the authors investigate the effective connectivity of basal forebrain areas in a transdiagnostic sample of patients with anxiety and depression and healthy ...

Our latest work is now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We examined the role of the basal forebrain and its influence on intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

@psychunimelb.bsky.social, @mbciu.bsky.social, #UnimelbMDHS

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

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Habenula contributions to negative self-cognitions - Nature Communications Self-related cognitions are central to identity and wellbeing. Using 7-Tesla MRI, Kung et al map a dynamic network centred on the habenula demonstrating its role in encoding self-directed thinking and...

🚨 Out now in Nat. Commun!
Led by Po-Han (Terry) Kung & Trevor Steward (not @ Bluesky).
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The habenula—a tiny midbrain hub—is implicated in restructuring negative self-beliefs.
#7TfMRI #Habenula #DCM @cgdavey.bsky.social @drkimfelm.bsky.social @alecjamieson.bsky.social

Falling enrolments and funding cuts force Australian universities to take stock The Australian Universities Accord offers a roadmap for reform, but there are major challenges ahead.

Australian universities are facing some tough times—poor funding rates, job cuts, and declining student enrolments.

I discussed with @drjr.bsky.social how early-career researchers are being deeply hurt by these challenges in this @natureportfolio.bsky.social piece:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm recruiting a 23-month postdoc! If you're interesting in #ComputationalPsychiatry or #EatingDisorders research please apply and/or get in touch - very happy to have informal chats with potential applicants, and put you in touch with existing members of my lab. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine) Thomas Pollak explores the emergence of a new worldview which attempts to explain all manner of ills as the result of inflammation or immune dysfunction. H

This essay has been long overdue. Chapeau to Tom Pollock for writing it.

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