Michael D. Patterson
mindthepresent.bsky.social
Michael D. Patterson
@mindthepresent.bsky.social
Early stage start-up co-founder of Cognirise Health developing digital behavioral interventions. Cognitive neuroscientist/data scientist. Fitness, travel, reading, healthy aging enthusiast.
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Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice.

In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf
Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search
Prior behavioral work showed that event structure plays a key role in our ability to mentally search through memories of continuous naturalistic experience. We hypothesized that, neurally, this memory...
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February 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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More evidence that "therapists cannot rely on their clinical judgement alone to assess client progress and outcomes and will depend on routine outcome monitoring to detect client deterioration".
Do Therapists Know When Their Clients Deteriorate? An Investigation of Therapists' Ability to Estimate and Predict Client Change During and After Psychotherapy
In routine outcome monitoring, psychotherapists receive feedback from their clients about their self-reported progress during therapy. This practice is based on research indicating that therapists ov....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...
Opinion | The U.S. Response to Bird Flu is Not Reassuring the World
The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:29 AM