Eman Yousuf
@emanyousuf.bsky.social
@NIHRMaudsleyBRC PhD candidate at @KingsIoPPN, researching intrusive images in adolescent depression
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This looks to be a must-read for anyone interested in imagery rescripting: an account by Arnoud Arntz of their updated imagery rescripting protocol, including very extensive supplements with therapist resources:
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Imagery Rescripting: an update of the treatment protocol
Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) is a transdiagnostic technique to treat aversive memories of real (traumatic) experiences, or of aversive fantasies, such a…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This looks to be a must-read for anyone interested in imagery rescripting: an account by Arnoud Arntz of their updated imagery rescripting protocol, including very extensive supplements with therapist resources:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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What if therapy focused not on thoughts or voices, but images in our mind's eye?
The iMAPS-2 trial tested an imagery-focused therapy for psychosis; helping people make sense of vivid, distressing mental images.
iMAPS is:
safe ✅
acceptable ✅
ready for a full-scale RCT 👇
🧵 THREAD
The iMAPS-2 trial tested an imagery-focused therapy for psychosis; helping people make sense of vivid, distressing mental images.
iMAPS is:
safe ✅
acceptable ✅
ready for a full-scale RCT 👇
🧵 THREAD
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
What if therapy focused not on thoughts or voices, but images in our mind's eye?
The iMAPS-2 trial tested an imagery-focused therapy for psychosis; helping people make sense of vivid, distressing mental images.
iMAPS is:
safe ✅
acceptable ✅
ready for a full-scale RCT 👇
🧵 THREAD
The iMAPS-2 trial tested an imagery-focused therapy for psychosis; helping people make sense of vivid, distressing mental images.
iMAPS is:
safe ✅
acceptable ✅
ready for a full-scale RCT 👇
🧵 THREAD
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
Just arrived in the post!
So excited to read this!! 🤩 @okaysteve.bsky.social
So excited to read this!! 🤩 @okaysteve.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Just arrived in the post!
So excited to read this!! 🤩 @okaysteve.bsky.social
So excited to read this!! 🤩 @okaysteve.bsky.social
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A new study in 'Nature Human Behavior' led by UChicago researchers combines fMRI data and natural language processing to understand how emotions lead to enhanced memory encoding, or "stickiness."
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
New Research Explores What Makes Emotional Memories Stick - DSI
By Sarah Steimer We can think of emotional experiences as sticky, explains the study’s senior author Yuan Chang (YC) Leong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and DSI Affiliate Resear...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A new study in 'Nature Human Behavior' led by UChicago researchers combines fMRI data and natural language processing to understand how emotions lead to enhanced memory encoding, or "stickiness."
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
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New paper: doi.org/10.1111/jora... What mental health profiles exist during preclinical stages? Data were drawn from 13 studies with over 100,000 young people from community and school samples. Discussed are early-stage profiles spanning from excellent mental health to more at-risk profiles.
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
New paper: doi.org/10.1111/jora... What mental health profiles exist during preclinical stages? Data were drawn from 13 studies with over 100,000 young people from community and school samples. Discussed are early-stage profiles spanning from excellent mental health to more at-risk profiles.
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Why do we remember emotional events so vividly? Our new paper @nathumbehav.nature.com suggests that emotional arousal enhances memory by strengthening integration across large-scale brain networks! Led by the amazing @jadynpark.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
October 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Why do we remember emotional events so vividly? Our new paper @nathumbehav.nature.com suggests that emotional arousal enhances memory by strengthening integration across large-scale brain networks! Led by the amazing @jadynpark.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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🥳🎉New article on a comparison of episodic vs. persistent (i.e., chronic) depression. Key finding: people with persistent depression have lower treatment expectations and more difficulty to adjust them in response to new information. Open Access in Psychological Med: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Differences between persistent and episodic depression in processing novel positive information | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Differences between persistent and episodic depression in processing novel positive information - Volume 55
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September 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🥳🎉New article on a comparison of episodic vs. persistent (i.e., chronic) depression. Key finding: people with persistent depression have lower treatment expectations and more difficulty to adjust them in response to new information. Open Access in Psychological Med: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A brilliant event to have attended - so important to hear the other side of the argument if we’re going to find a way forward (in any debate!)
🗣️ @sundersays.bsky.social, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social and David Goodhart explored how we can argue better about immigration for the first in a new events series by the Global Cultures Institute, chaired by Professor @bobbyduffy.bsky.social.
Read more 🔽
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Read more 🔽
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'You can't ignore the complexity' – how do we debate immigration?
Speakers interrogated the challenges to debating views on immigration as part of a new event series by the Global Cultures Institute.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A brilliant event to have attended - so important to hear the other side of the argument if we’re going to find a way forward (in any debate!)
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What can give meaning to life? I remember responding to James Bailey's invitation to write on this about a year ago, & I'm honoured to be included in his collection @guardian (& my mother is still with us 🙏🏽) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more
I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on Earth
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March 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
What can give meaning to life? I remember responding to James Bailey's invitation to write on this about a year ago, & I'm honoured to be included in his collection @guardian (& my mother is still with us 🙏🏽) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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📝New paper out: We conducted a meta-analysis about the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy on rumination, worry and repetitive negative thinking. The paper is published open access in psychological medicine. doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis - Volume 55
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February 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📝New paper out: We conducted a meta-analysis about the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy on rumination, worry and repetitive negative thinking. The paper is published open access in psychological medicine. doi.org/10.1017/S003...
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📣Out now in BRAT📣:
Have you ever wondered what makes a trauma ‘pathological’? In our new trauma film paradigm study, we demonstrate that perceived threat is a crucial peritraumatic factor in intrusion development. Get your free copy here👇🏻: 1/4
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Have you ever wondered what makes a trauma ‘pathological’? In our new trauma film paradigm study, we demonstrate that perceived threat is a crucial peritraumatic factor in intrusion development. Get your free copy here👇🏻: 1/4
doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Redirecting
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January 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📣Out now in BRAT📣:
Have you ever wondered what makes a trauma ‘pathological’? In our new trauma film paradigm study, we demonstrate that perceived threat is a crucial peritraumatic factor in intrusion development. Get your free copy here👇🏻: 1/4
doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Have you ever wondered what makes a trauma ‘pathological’? In our new trauma film paradigm study, we demonstrate that perceived threat is a crucial peritraumatic factor in intrusion development. Get your free copy here👇🏻: 1/4
doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
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NEW research by IoPPN (@cathrynlewis.bsky.social) and @edinburghuni.bsky.social (Andrew McIntosh) researchers have identified new genetic risk factors for #depression across all global populations for the 1st time, in study in Cell
Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/global-...
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Global study pinpoints genes for depression across ethnicities
Researchers at King's College London and University of Edinburgh have identified new genetic risk factors for depression across all major global populations for the first time, allowing scientists to predict risk of depression regardless of ethnicity.
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January 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
NEW research by IoPPN (@cathrynlewis.bsky.social) and @edinburghuni.bsky.social (Andrew McIntosh) researchers have identified new genetic risk factors for #depression across all global populations for the 1st time, in study in Cell
Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/global-...
Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/global-...
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TF-CBTs are currently the most extensively evaluated treatment for multiple-event-related PTSD in children & adolescents, with high efficacy found relative to passive controls and moderate efficacy relative to active controls in the short-, mid- and long-term.
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Efficacy of psychological interventions for multiple‐event‐related PTSD in children and adolescents: a network meta‐analysis
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January 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
TF-CBTs are currently the most extensively evaluated treatment for multiple-event-related PTSD in children & adolescents, with high efficacy found relative to passive controls and moderate efficacy relative to active controls in the short-, mid- and long-term.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic cognitive process
Review by Michelle L. Moulds & Peter M. McEvoy
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Review by Michelle L. Moulds & Peter M. McEvoy
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January 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic cognitive process
Review by Michelle L. Moulds & Peter M. McEvoy
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Review by Michelle L. Moulds & Peter M. McEvoy
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*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻
In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it.
w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social
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In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it.
w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
![[Figure 2 from the publication]: shows a network diagram of 18 different types of mental health support young people report accessing in the last year, alongside perceived helpfulness.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xpv6ssc77pgiuovb4ra2wrwx/bafkreifx3av5l7mtq3atk5ylekrcdzmll6v6btm2nlsbuvn25mu54h2hb4@jpeg)
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻
In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it.
w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it.
w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Defining transdiagnostic constructs to advance clinical research
Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
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Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
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December 17, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Defining transdiagnostic constructs to advance clinical research
Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
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Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
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New paper alert 📢 From our data linkage of person-level census to mental health records… we found extraordinarily high levels of self-reported disability , poor health and long term worklessness in people with psychoses… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38286672/
Improving our understanding of the social determinants of mental health: a data linkage study of mental health records and the 2011 UK census - PubMed
Lower response rates to the 2011 census among people with psychiatric disorders may have contributed to lower match rates, a potential concern as the census informs service planning and allocation of ...
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December 16, 2024 at 10:19 PM
New paper alert 📢 From our data linkage of person-level census to mental health records… we found extraordinarily high levels of self-reported disability , poor health and long term worklessness in people with psychoses… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38286672/
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A Year in Review - looking back on our research news in 2024 🎉 Thanks to all our colleagues and partners @nihr.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social and South London and Maudsley for a year of innovations and advances in #mentalhealth research.
www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2024/d...
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December 13, 2024 at 9:47 AM
A Year in Review - looking back on our research news in 2024 🎉 Thanks to all our colleagues and partners @nihr.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social and South London and Maudsley for a year of innovations and advances in #mentalhealth research.
www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2024/d...
www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2024/d...
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📣OUT NOW IN COTR📣: Have you ever wondered which film clip you should choose for your trauma film paradigm (TFP) study? Rich McNally and I provide guidance by comparing different trauma films commonly used in TFP studies with regard to key features such as perceived threat.👇🏻 1/
November 13, 2024 at 7:59 AM
📣OUT NOW IN COTR📣: Have you ever wondered which film clip you should choose for your trauma film paradigm (TFP) study? Rich McNally and I provide guidance by comparing different trauma films commonly used in TFP studies with regard to key features such as perceived threat.👇🏻 1/
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One could say that the research field on prevention of depression is stuck. Interested in this field and in solutions how to continue? Read my new open access paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science
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December 4, 2024 at 3:39 PM
One could say that the research field on prevention of depression is stuck. Interested in this field and in solutions how to continue? Read my new open access paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Hello! 👋
I’m a PhD researcher at the @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social researching #intrusiveimages in #depression amongst young people!
I’m a PhD researcher at the @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social researching #intrusiveimages in #depression amongst young people!
December 11, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Hello! 👋
I’m a PhD researcher at the @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social researching #intrusiveimages in #depression amongst young people!
I’m a PhD researcher at the @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social researching #intrusiveimages in #depression amongst young people!