Coming up in 1 week at UCL : a seminar on apathy in psychiatry and neurology. Open to all and free to attend! Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/w35FTkgUqZ.

Huge congrats to the amazing Karyna M. 🇺🇦 for her new paper! She found that mice need the ventral hippocampus to perform hidden state inference while performing a 2-armed bandit task. 1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Karyna M. 🇺🇦 This is part of a great collaboration with Quentin Huys and L Wilbrecht, and would not have been possible without the help of Gabi Gregoriou, @alizeekastler and Albert Qu! Let us know what you think! 4/4

Delighted that our work using MEG to examine which outcomes people represent during risky decision-making and how this relates to choice heuristics is now out Nature Communications rdcu.be/dIrgH w/ Rani Moran Yunzhe Liu Ray Dolan Quentin Huys

so pleased to be featured on today's episode of All in the Mind on BBC R4 with Claudia Hammond, talking about physical activity, depression and our new Wellcome funded study examining the mechanisms driving the antidepressant effects of exercise bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Our June issue is online! Discussing a pattern view of compassion, formal vs. linguistic competence in LLMs (Kyle Mahowald Anna Ivanova I.A.B Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦), an RL account of anhedonia (Anna Hall Michael Browning Quentin Huys), and more: tinyurl.com/yjyrxezs

Job Ad! Delighted to announce our first research assistant position for the Wellcome-funded RELMED trial. ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…. We are particularly looking for individuals with EEG experience and interested in computational psychiatry. Please RT.

MPC recruiting one Research Assistant! Join Quentin Huys team to work on the RELMED project! Apply by 4th July 2024 here: tinyurl.com/5b6934m8.

Very pleased to have been promoted to Professor UCL along with excellent colleagues UCL Brain Sciences Alexandra Pitman Penny Rapaport Francesca Solmi Dr Jo Barnes Rick Adams 🇺🇦@[email protected] and Nicola Morant who I can’t find on here

New computational modeling results showing that individuals with methamphetamine use disorder show greater aversive pruning during multistep planning. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. Really excited to share this work led by Claire Lavalley suggesting important model-based deficits🧵⬇️

Thus, aversive pruning may represent a unique model-based mechanism affected in methamphetamine use disorders with clear potential for clinical relevance. We're very grateful here for the support of Quentin Huys Martin Paulus Sahib Khalsa Annie Chuning (she/her) and others!

Fantastic paper, but let's be honest: UK medical academic training pathways are awful and getting worse. They treat research as some boring add-on skill and neglect how demanding rigorous research is-intellectually, financially and in terms of time commitment.

Computational psychotherapy 💫 A packed audience for Quentin Dercon’s #BAP2024 talk on how computational modeling might reveal the mechanisms of psychological therapy - and in future, who might respond to different therapies. Work with Agnes Norbury & Quentin Huys

Prof Cath Harmers Oxford PERL Lab address as the new president of the BAP. Woohoo!

Scholarship funding is available for north London clinicians of all disciplines to undertake our UCL Psychiatry MSc Mental Health Sciences Research - apply by 31 Aug. Grateful for RTs! ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/new…

why is that effortful task SO unappealing today? v happy to share a BIG effort from my PhD! Real-world fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based choices osf.io/preprints/psya… with incredible Agnes Norbury Quentin Huys & Tobias Hauser #preprint

Excited to announce a postdoc position to use EEG+RL to identify specific mechanisms of different antidepressants within a large clinical trial tinyurl.com/4nuv6pvu. Come work with a super team acplab.org. @UCL UCL Psychiatry Wellcome UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry

Incredibly excited about this massive collaborative effort to longitudinally phenotype (for 2 years!) 1800 patients & 600 controls w/ MPIs Dr. Chris Pittenger Godfrey Pearlson. Too many rock star collaborators to name but here are a few w/ twitter: Robb Rutledge Anna Konova Quentin Huys