Nicolas L Camacho
@nicocamacho94.bsky.social
Clinical Psychology Intern | Pitt & UPMC
Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate | Duke University
GRFP Fellow | National Science Foundation
Measurement & Developmental Psychopathology
Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate | Duke University
GRFP Fellow | National Science Foundation
Measurement & Developmental Psychopathology
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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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It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
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November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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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It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
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Absolutely honored to be part of this brilliant cohort! Looking forward to growing in new & exciting ways this year thru the amazing clinical opportunities Pitt/WPH has to offer ☺️🧠
If you, or anyone you know, would like to chat about internship & applications (at Pitt or elsewhere), plz DM me! ✉️
If you, or anyone you know, would like to chat about internship & applications (at Pitt or elsewhere), plz DM me! ✉️
Hello from Pitt Psychiatry! We are thrilled to welcome our newest class of clinical psychology interns, Nicolas Camacho, Victoria Guazzelli Williamson, Rowan Hunt, John (Kai) Kellerman, and Claire Klein! Meet them here: bit.ly/3K36eih
September 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Absolutely honored to be part of this brilliant cohort! Looking forward to growing in new & exciting ways this year thru the amazing clinical opportunities Pitt/WPH has to offer ☺️🧠
If you, or anyone you know, would like to chat about internship & applications (at Pitt or elsewhere), plz DM me! ✉️
If you, or anyone you know, would like to chat about internship & applications (at Pitt or elsewhere), plz DM me! ✉️
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Spread the word!! DANS 2025 registration is opening very soon…take a look at some of our amazing speakers! You can present a poster you will present or have presented elsewhere…the goal is to foster discussion. Check dans.pitt.edu for updates!
August 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Spread the word!! DANS 2025 registration is opening very soon…take a look at some of our amazing speakers! You can present a poster you will present or have presented elsewhere…the goal is to foster discussion. Check dans.pitt.edu for updates!
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I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
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August 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
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So happy to have published the fourth & final paper of my dissertation - check it out! Infant EEG microstate dynamics relate to fine-grained patterns of infant attention during naturalistic play with caregivers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Infant EEG microstate dynamics relate to fine-grained patterns of infant attention during naturalistic play with caregivers | PNAS
As infants grow, they develop greater attentional control during interactions with
others, shifting from patterns of attention primarily driven by ...
www.pnas.org
March 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So happy to have published the fourth & final paper of my dissertation - check it out! Infant EEG microstate dynamics relate to fine-grained patterns of infant attention during naturalistic play with caregivers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New preprint! 🚨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Traditional categorial frameworks, like the DSM and the ICD, have several key limitations, including heterogeneity within diagnoses, comorbidity issues, arbitrary categorical boundaries, and limited clinical application and utility.
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
Traditional categorial frameworks, like the DSM and the ICD, have several key limitations, including heterogeneity within diagnoses, comorbidity issues, arbitrary categorical boundaries, and limited clinical application and utility.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New preprint! 🚨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Traditional categorial frameworks, like the DSM and the ICD, have several key limitations, including heterogeneity within diagnoses, comorbidity issues, arbitrary categorical boundaries, and limited clinical application and utility.
1/
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Traditional categorial frameworks, like the DSM and the ICD, have several key limitations, including heterogeneity within diagnoses, comorbidity issues, arbitrary categorical boundaries, and limited clinical application and utility.
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Announcing.....a new edition of Uncensored Advice for getting into grad school! Now with some info on emerging opps for a masters in psychology! Check it out for FREE: mitch.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u....
#psychology
#PsychSky
#mentalhealth
#PsychSciSky
#ClinPsych
#psychology
#PsychSky
#mentalhealth
#PsychSciSky
#ClinPsych
January 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Announcing.....a new edition of Uncensored Advice for getting into grad school! Now with some info on emerging opps for a masters in psychology! Check it out for FREE: mitch.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u....
#psychology
#PsychSky
#mentalhealth
#PsychSciSky
#ClinPsych
#psychology
#PsychSky
#mentalhealth
#PsychSciSky
#ClinPsych
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Can you help me build a list of things that are (or might be) wrong in the current HiTOP model while I'm sick and recovering on the couch? Some of my top hunches are:
-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
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-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
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January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Can you help me build a list of things that are (or might be) wrong in the current HiTOP model while I'm sick and recovering on the couch? Some of my top hunches are:
-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
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-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
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New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes
Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How measurement noise limits the accuracy of brain-behaviour predictions - Nature Communications
Our ability to identify associations between behaviour and brain imaging is important for uncovering markers of cognition and disease. Here, the authors illustrate the importance of the reliability of...
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:24 PM
The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes
Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New pre-print that has been a long time coming! A pre-registered replication + extension of our past work on hierarchical inflammatory phenotypes of depression, with, imo, much stronger assessments of both inflammation and depression symptoms 1/X
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 23, 2024 at 11:58 PM
New pre-print that has been a long time coming! A pre-registered replication + extension of our past work on hierarchical inflammatory phenotypes of depression, with, imo, much stronger assessments of both inflammation and depression symptoms 1/X
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Please apply and share with prospective grad students interested in learning more about Duke's Psych & Neuro department!
✨️Application deadline is August 11th ✨️
✨️Application deadline is August 11th ✨️
Duke Psychology & Neuroscience’s Future Blue Devil Days 2024 aims to give individuals who want to learn more about the department’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in culture and research, a first look at graduate student life at Duke University.
July 31, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Please apply and share with prospective grad students interested in learning more about Duke's Psych & Neuro department!
✨️Application deadline is August 11th ✨️
✨️Application deadline is August 11th ✨️
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
Mike and I conducted a conceptual replication and extension of prior work linking neural reward-related reactivity in specific brain regions-of-interest to concurrent and later depressive symptom severity in young children.
Mike and I conducted a conceptual replication and extension of prior work linking neural reward-related reactivity in specific brain regions-of-interest to concurrent and later depressive symptom severity in young children.
Early Childhood Reward-Related Neural Reactivity Concurrently and Prospectively Associates with Depressive Symptom Severity: http://osf.io/sq93e/
July 25, 2024 at 11:34 PM
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
Mike and I conducted a conceptual replication and extension of prior work linking neural reward-related reactivity in specific brain regions-of-interest to concurrent and later depressive symptom severity in young children.
Mike and I conducted a conceptual replication and extension of prior work linking neural reward-related reactivity in specific brain regions-of-interest to concurrent and later depressive symptom severity in young children.
Duke Psychology & Neuroscience’s Future Blue Devil Days 2024 aims to give individuals who want to learn more about the department’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in culture and research, a first look at graduate student life at Duke University.
July 9, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Duke Psychology & Neuroscience’s Future Blue Devil Days 2024 aims to give individuals who want to learn more about the department’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in culture and research, a first look at graduate student life at Duke University.
🌟NEW PAPER ALERT🌟
In my ✨1st first-author paper✨ published at Assessment, we explored the factor structure of a measure of depressive symptoms in young children, identifying age & sex invariant factors related to anhedonia, emotion & behavior dysregulation, and guilt-sadness doi.org/m6rg
In my ✨1st first-author paper✨ published at Assessment, we explored the factor structure of a measure of depressive symptoms in young children, identifying age & sex invariant factors related to anhedonia, emotion & behavior dysregulation, and guilt-sadness doi.org/m6rg
Dimensions of Depressive Symptoms in Young Children: Factor Analysis of the Preschool Feelings Checklist–Scale - Nicolas L. Camacho, Carina H. Fowler, Michael S. Gaffrey, 2024
The current study is an investigation of the dimensionality of the Preschool Feelings Checklist–Scale (PFC-S), a caregiver-report questionnaire of early childho...
doi.org
July 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM
🌟NEW PAPER ALERT🌟
In my ✨1st first-author paper✨ published at Assessment, we explored the factor structure of a measure of depressive symptoms in young children, identifying age & sex invariant factors related to anhedonia, emotion & behavior dysregulation, and guilt-sadness doi.org/m6rg
In my ✨1st first-author paper✨ published at Assessment, we explored the factor structure of a measure of depressive symptoms in young children, identifying age & sex invariant factors related to anhedonia, emotion & behavior dysregulation, and guilt-sadness doi.org/m6rg
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New post at The 100% CI: Do we have a problem with construct and measure proliferation in psychology? It depends who you ask and it varies by subdiscipline. We respond to a recent piece by Iliescu et al. and try to find some common ground.
www.the100.ci/2024/03/22/o...
www.the100.ci/2024/03/22/o...
March 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
New post at The 100% CI: Do we have a problem with construct and measure proliferation in psychology? It depends who you ask and it varies by subdiscipline. We respond to a recent piece by Iliescu et al. and try to find some common ground.
www.the100.ci/2024/03/22/o...
www.the100.ci/2024/03/22/o...
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Are you at HiTOP 2024 and want to hear the brilliance of @miriforbes.bsky.social Girard, Levin-Aspenson & @keananjoyner.bsky.social on bottom-up approaches to psychopathology (and I guess I'll be there too)?
March 16, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Are you at HiTOP 2024 and want to hear the brilliance of @miriforbes.bsky.social Girard, Levin-Aspenson & @keananjoyner.bsky.social on bottom-up approaches to psychopathology (and I guess I'll be there too)?
✨Attending the SPA Convention or HiTOP Conference? Visit my posters at the joint SPA/HiTOP reception today at 5:30pm to chat about early childhood, transdiagnostic depressive symptom dimensions, and links b/w risk-taking & disruptive behaviors!✨
March 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM
✨Attending the SPA Convention or HiTOP Conference? Visit my posters at the joint SPA/HiTOP reception today at 5:30pm to chat about early childhood, transdiagnostic depressive symptom dimensions, and links b/w risk-taking & disruptive behaviors!✨
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Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Treating Likert Items as Continuous: http://osf.io/fgukr/
February 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Treating Likert Items as Continuous: http://osf.io/fgukr/
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Our recent work is motivated by claims like "Using Model A, we replicated earlier findings." Usually, this just means Model A replicated the good fit of the original study. But fit replication ignores important between-study differences in both data patterns & parameter estimates
January 25, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Our recent work is motivated by claims like "Using Model A, we replicated earlier findings." Usually, this just means Model A replicated the good fit of the original study. But fit replication ignores important between-study differences in both data patterns & parameter estimates
Reposted by Nicolas L Camacho
🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18407/r...
January 28, 2024 at 3:43 PM
🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18407/r...
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New blog post in which I discuss measurement invariance from a causal perspective. Come for the amateurish featured image (who needs photoshop anyway), stay for fancy Pooh as figure label. Bonus: You'll finally understand the different levels of invariance (I hope).
www.the100.ci/2024/01/10/a...
www.the100.ci/2024/01/10/a...
A casual but causal take on measurement invariance
Testing for measurement invariance is one of those things where researchers roughly fall into two categories. Either they consider it an incomprehensible and arcane practice that only nerds could ever...
www.the100.ci
January 10, 2024 at 1:18 PM
New blog post in which I discuss measurement invariance from a causal perspective. Come for the amateurish featured image (who needs photoshop anyway), stay for fancy Pooh as figure label. Bonus: You'll finally understand the different levels of invariance (I hope).
www.the100.ci/2024/01/10/a...
www.the100.ci/2024/01/10/a...