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Vaughan Bell
@vaughanbell.bsky.social
Neuropsychologist and professor at UCL. Clinical psychologist in the NHS. Occasional writer. Interested in people. Views my own.
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
September 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Nature Mental Health's Research Briefing section covers our study, led by Jae Won Suh, on outcomes of stroke survivors with anxiety and depression treated with primary care psychological therapy.

Full text of original study www.nature.com/articles/s44...
June 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years

worksinprogress.co/issue/brain-...

Great deep dive into latest on using electronic brain implants as treatments
June 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
When the Sackler Brothers studied LSD resobscura.substack.com/p/when-the-s...
January 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New from us, and first study from the PhD of Dr @elisavetpappa.bsky.social

Delusional Themes are More Varied Than Previously Assumed academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

A global meta-analysis of the prevalence of delusional themes in psychosis, examing association with clinical features and culture
January 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
In organoids infected with herpes simplex virus, after repeated blows to the brain tissue, the dormant viruses woke up and started replicating. Later, some of the signatures of Alzheimer’s and other dementias began to appear.

Interesting hypotheses from organoid work nautil.us/a-missing-li...
January 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Our book of neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists talking about their personal experience of neurological disorder is out www.amazon.co.uk/Injured-Brai...

From Narinder Kapur, me, Daniel Friedland and Steven Kemp.

A few notes...
November 26, 2024 at 12:06 PM