Taking just another small step towards trying to reduce the stigma attached to borderline personality disorder & psychiatric illnesses - at ISSPD2025.

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it

It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀

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How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others?

New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning

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The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Check out our new chapter on Interoception's role in Social and Emotional Cognition. We begin by exploring WHY you might expect interoception to predict socioemotional cognition in the first place... Let us know what you think!

Translational Psychiatry

The long-term correlates of developmental stress on whole-brain functional connectivity during emotion regulation

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Self-Other Distinction in Personality Disorders, a special section of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment exploring the sociocognitive capacity to distinguish between one’s own and others’ mental and physical experiences. #OA intro: bit.ly/42srbda @pfonagy.bsky.social

#TBT Women with #Anorexia tend to feel proud before and immediately after exercise, but grow more ashamed of their eating, body, and general character as time passes.

Read @maruofan.bsky.social and Allison Kelly's paper published in Eating and Weight Disorders here: t.co/pFgXCLSqRd

Looking forward to seeing all the @affectscience.bsky.social folks at #AffectScience2025! Come check out our cool science from Dr. Kristen Lindquist’s lab.

Hey #abct! Want to show off your personality? The Personality/Personality Disorders (P/PD) SIG has you covered! Find me, @mattsouthward.bsky.social, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social and/or come visit us at the SIG Expo, the P/PD meeting (Sat 10:30), or any P/PD SIG sponsored talks to get yours!

For those going to SAS- @affectscience.bsky.social (#affectsci) -- check out some of the awesome work being done by folks in our lab: