Vaughan Bell
@vaughanbell.bsky.social
Neuropsychologist and professor at UCL. Clinical psychologist in the NHS. Occasional writer. Interested in people. Views my own.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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.
February 3, 2026 at 11:11 AM
¿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.
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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
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British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.
Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry
bnpa.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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
You can sign up to the announcements mailing list at the bottom of this page: bnpa.org.uk
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🚨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!
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!
January 29, 2026 at 9:44 AM
🚨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!
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...
Emotional and cognitive effects of menopause and hormone replacement therapy | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Emotional and cognitive effects of menopause and hormone replacement therapy - Volume 56
www.cambridge.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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.
www.noemamag.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Epic piece from @anilseth.bsky.social on The Mythology Of Conscious AI www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
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.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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
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...
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...
January 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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...
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.
I'll be straight, it's not gripping, it goes into too much detail but it is deeply enjoyable and absolutely epic in scope.
January 9, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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.
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!
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/
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
bnpa.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Reliably one of the most fascinating conferences of the year. Registration now open. See you there!
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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/
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
bnpa.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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/
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/
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.
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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.
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
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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
Victorian Psychiatry
www.lesleyahall.net
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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
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...
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...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Great round up
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
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.
www.theatlantic.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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
Interesting @olgakhazan.bsky.social piece in The Atlantic
Archived version: archive.is/P7Tf6
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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
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
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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
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
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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!
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!
🚨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
Projects - Divi 5
showcase.drive-health.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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!
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!
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
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
Unpacking neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology training: scoping review of core syllabus components | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Unpacking neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology training: scoping review of core syllabus components
www.cambridge.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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
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
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wonderfully titled and useful paper from Inés Abalo-Rodríguez and Ana Pinheiro
Wonderfully titled and useful paper from Inés Abalo-Rodríguez and Ana Pinheiro
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 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 ...
karger.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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 karger.com/psp/article/...
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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...
📅 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
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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...
📅 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...
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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).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
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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).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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
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...
dailynous.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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
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
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
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
September 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
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