Martina Di Simplicio
@martidisi.bsky.social
Imperial College London, psychiatry, cognitive science, mental imagery, youth mental health, digital tools.
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Join us on 5 June for Professor Gemma Modinos' inaugural lecture as professor: "Where the wild thoughts grow: from brain scans to mechanisms in #psychosis". #Psychiatry #AcademicSky
Register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/profe...
Register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/profe...
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Join us on 5 June for Professor Gemma Modinos' inaugural lecture as professor: "Where the wild thoughts grow: from brain scans to mechanisms in #psychosis". #Psychiatry #AcademicSky
Register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/profe...
Register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/profe...
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Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open!
Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/
Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/
April 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open!
Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/
Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/
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If you're a psychological scientist working at a Dutch university & want to join us in opposing the language barriers imposed by the government, here's your chance
May 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If you're a psychological scientist working at a Dutch university & want to join us in opposing the language barriers imposed by the government, here's your chance
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An incredible PhD opportunity from Men Matter Scotland for someone passionate about understanding and preventing suicide.
🔹 Deadline: 11 June 2025
🔹 UK applicants only
🔹 Deadline: 11 June 2025
🔹 UK applicants only
Please share!
🆕 Fully funded PhD scholarship by Scottish charity Men Matter Scotland
Social inequality and male suicide: Risk factors & interventions
Supervised by Dr Susie Bennett & myself
Closing: 11th June 2025, autumn 2025 start.
Open to UK students only.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🆕 Fully funded PhD scholarship by Scottish charity Men Matter Scotland
Social inequality and male suicide: Risk factors & interventions
Supervised by Dr Susie Bennett & myself
Closing: 11th June 2025, autumn 2025 start.
Open to UK students only.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
May 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
An incredible PhD opportunity from Men Matter Scotland for someone passionate about understanding and preventing suicide.
🔹 Deadline: 11 June 2025
🔹 UK applicants only
🔹 Deadline: 11 June 2025
🔹 UK applicants only
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Looking for a post-doc!
If you are interested in using neuroimaging to study mechanisms of depression, anxiety, neuromodulation or pharmacology please consider joining me.
LIBR has amazing early career resources, wonderful colleagues and Tulsa is low cost of living!
DM for details.
If you are interested in using neuroimaging to study mechanisms of depression, anxiety, neuromodulation or pharmacology please consider joining me.
LIBR has amazing early career resources, wonderful colleagues and Tulsa is low cost of living!
DM for details.
May 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Looking for a post-doc!
If you are interested in using neuroimaging to study mechanisms of depression, anxiety, neuromodulation or pharmacology please consider joining me.
LIBR has amazing early career resources, wonderful colleagues and Tulsa is low cost of living!
DM for details.
If you are interested in using neuroimaging to study mechanisms of depression, anxiety, neuromodulation or pharmacology please consider joining me.
LIBR has amazing early career resources, wonderful colleagues and Tulsa is low cost of living!
DM for details.
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We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.
We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.
We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
February 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.
We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.
We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
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As the world grows scarier, let's talk about social connection!
We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis)
It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis)
It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
Redirecting
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February 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
As the world grows scarier, let's talk about social connection!
We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis)
It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis)
It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
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Please retweet: @babcpjournals.bsky.social Spring Conference In Person 8th-9th April, London. Keynotes: Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on Compassion:Info👇 babcp.com/Spring-Confe...
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February 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Please retweet: @babcpjournals.bsky.social Spring Conference In Person 8th-9th April, London. Keynotes: Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on Compassion:Info👇 babcp.com/Spring-Confe...
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✨Today and every day, we celebrate the brilliance, resilience, and contributions of women and girls in science! #WomeninSTEM 🩷
February 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
✨Today and every day, we celebrate the brilliance, resilience, and contributions of women and girls in science! #WomeninSTEM 🩷
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And our own @dennisougrin.bsky.social et al have a new paper out - Mortality in #adolescents after therapeutic intervention for #self-harm: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern so please do share! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern. Evidence highlights that therapeutic intervention (TI), such as cognitive behaviour therapy informed treatments, after self-harm lead...
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
And our own @dennisougrin.bsky.social et al have a new paper out - Mortality in #adolescents after therapeutic intervention for #self-harm: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern so please do share! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up
tinyurl.com/4ffday8y
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February 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up
tinyurl.com/4ffday8y
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✨Suggestions on how to protect your mental health during times of uncertainty 🫂
February 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
✨Suggestions on how to protect your mental health during times of uncertainty 🫂
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Are you aspiring for a career in clinical or academic #psychiatry, and are a medical student/foundation year doctor?
Applications are now open for the IoPPN Summer School, an 3-day event with seminars, workshops, networking opportunities and more #MedSky #AcademicSky
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ioppn...
Applications are now open for the IoPPN Summer School, an 3-day event with seminars, workshops, networking opportunities and more #MedSky #AcademicSky
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ioppn...
IoPPN Summer School 2025
Are you considering a career in psychiatry? Apply for a free, 3-day face-to-face summer school in the heart of South London and gain insight into the innovative, exciting and rewarding field of clinic...
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Are you aspiring for a career in clinical or academic #psychiatry, and are a medical student/foundation year doctor?
Applications are now open for the IoPPN Summer School, an 3-day event with seminars, workshops, networking opportunities and more #MedSky #AcademicSky
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ioppn...
Applications are now open for the IoPPN Summer School, an 3-day event with seminars, workshops, networking opportunities and more #MedSky #AcademicSky
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ioppn...
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The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
New research shows western medicine’s traditional split between brain and body is, in fact, far from clear cut – and could provide a breakthrough for many complex conditions
Some years ago Camilla Nord suffered such persistent pain at the site of an old…
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
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Excellent campaign by @hopevirgo.bsky.social with the help of committed people
January 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Excellent campaign by @hopevirgo.bsky.social with the help of committed people
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📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge.
neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...
neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...
January 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge.
neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...
neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...
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I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
January 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions).
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!
Deadline: 31.01.2025
The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!
Deadline: 31.01.2025
The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
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www.uni-hamburg.de
December 18, 2024 at 7:27 AM
The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions).
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!
Deadline: 31.01.2025
The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!
Deadline: 31.01.2025
The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
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The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex *during aphantasia* - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats?
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding
Chang et al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia
have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery
content could be decoded usin...
www.cell.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex *during aphantasia* - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats?
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Quite remarkable results from Richard Bryant and colleagues here: adding memory specificity training to a form of trauma-focussed CBT for first responders led to greater reductions in PTSD severity at 6-month follow-up, with large between-group effect sizes:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial
Although trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) is the recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), up to one-half of patients do not respond to this intervention. The....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Quite remarkable results from Richard Bryant and colleagues here: adding memory specificity training to a form of trauma-focussed CBT for first responders led to greater reductions in PTSD severity at 6-month follow-up, with large between-group effect sizes:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Just accepted at Clinical Psychological Science. In this study led by @juliejns2.bsky.social, we used data from the SIGMA study to look at the relationship between attachment, & loneliness & #SelfHarm thoughts & behaviours in #adolescents' daily lives. #SuicidePrevention #OpenScience #MentalHealth
⏳Are adolescents at increased risk for current self-harm thoughts during moments of #loneliness (4/6)?
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
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January 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just accepted at Clinical Psychological Science. In this study led by @juliejns2.bsky.social, we used data from the SIGMA study to look at the relationship between attachment, & loneliness & #SelfHarm thoughts & behaviours in #adolescents' daily lives. #SuicidePrevention #OpenScience #MentalHealth
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👩🏻🔬 I'm recruiting for my dissertation study!
📱 We're recruiting teens ages 14-19 who experience binge eating and are willing to complete daily surveys on their phones.
👩💻 Teens interested in participating can complete an interest survey: redcap.drexel.edu/redcap/surveys…
📢 Please spread the word!
📱 We're recruiting teens ages 14-19 who experience binge eating and are willing to complete daily surveys on their phones.
👩💻 Teens interested in participating can complete an interest survey: redcap.drexel.edu/redcap/surveys…
📢 Please spread the word!
January 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
👩🏻🔬 I'm recruiting for my dissertation study!
📱 We're recruiting teens ages 14-19 who experience binge eating and are willing to complete daily surveys on their phones.
👩💻 Teens interested in participating can complete an interest survey: redcap.drexel.edu/redcap/surveys…
📢 Please spread the word!
📱 We're recruiting teens ages 14-19 who experience binge eating and are willing to complete daily surveys on their phones.
👩💻 Teens interested in participating can complete an interest survey: redcap.drexel.edu/redcap/surveys…
📢 Please spread the word!
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@kurtfraser.bsky.social and I just had our paper on dopamine, salience, and psychosis accepted @ Am J Psychiatry. We review the history of aberrant salience and the data gathered since: osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
@kurtfraser.bsky.social and I just had our paper on dopamine, salience, and psychosis accepted @ Am J Psychiatry. We review the history of aberrant salience and the data gathered since: osf.io/preprints/ps...