Rick Adams 🇺🇦@drrickadams.bsky.social
@dr_rick_adams
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Psychiatrist & Future Leaders Fellow at UCL, working on psychosis, brain imaging, computational models of the brain. Co-Ed-in-Chief of @CPSYJournal
London, England
Joined January 2017
Some news... I've been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship by @UKRI_News to work @UCLPsychiatry researching brain circuit changes in psychosis and how we might be able to improve treatments by modelling EEG and MEG data: https://t.co/vpyhY4VXCr 1/
ucl.ac.uk
Four UCL academics have been awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships in recognition of the potentially world-changing and transformative nature of their research.
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Sadly probably my final Twitter post, but this is really amazing work and could provide much-needed distraction... congrats @GabyMohamady
“Where was I again?” Our study published today https://t.co/SssPQUDv7l reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:
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great piece about Avatar therapy...
"You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real": what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? by @jennykleeman
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My 2nd to last #neuroscience paper will appear @unireps !! 🧠🧠 Maximizing Neural Regression Scores May Not Identify Good Models of the Brain 🧠🧠 w/ @KhonaMikail @neurostrow @BrandoHablando @sanmikoyejo Answering a puzzle 2 years in the making https://t.co/jVs18MDJt0 1/12
openreview.net
A prominent methodology in computational neuroscience posits that the brain can be understood by identifying which artificial neural network models most accurately predict biological neural...
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Come and work as clinical research coordinator at @Limbic_ai . You will be working with the amazing @jjmcfadyen & @TobiasUHauser in our world-class research team 🚀 You should apply if you are passionate about making a real-world impact, evidenced through rigorous research.
Come and join the clinical research team at @Limbic_ai! 🧠 We're looking for an energetic, organised, clever individual to help us evaluate how Limbic's AI is making an impact on mental health in the real world 🚀
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In 2015 @wellcometrust supported phase I of KarXT, a new class of treatment for schizophrenia. Yesterday, the FDA approved Cobenfy (KarXT) - reduction of symptoms and a better side effect profile - could be game changing! https://t.co/VwwT5u1cw9
wellcome.org
How Cobenfy, a new FDA approved treatment for schizophrenia – supported by Wellcome – has the potential to change the lives of millions of people.
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⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ PhD alert! Do your PhD with me and use Reinforcement Learning to study how misinformation affects us. Deadline: October 7. Please RT! For more information:
findaphd.com
PhD Project - Characterising Cognitive Biases Elicited by Misinformation Using Reinforcement Learning at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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If you fancy becoming a handling Editor at @CPSYJournal - please apply!
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Does - "A simple mechanism for adaptive acquisition of multiple reward types", and - "Adaptive gating policies improve effective working memory capacity in frontostriatal circuits" sound interesting? Join us on Friday Sep 27 @4pm for the SWEBAGS webinar. https://t.co/bPxDNWAm6L
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My book “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (Oxford University Press, 2024) brings together an edited selection of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times (@PsychTimes) from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material. These interviews explore
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Cannabis use may increase dopamine turnover in the same midbrain region that influences the expression of psychotic symptoms. #cannabis #psychosis #dopamine Preprint led by Jess Ahrens @IPNMcGill + an awesome team! https://t.co/Dez7DfxYUx Sources and related content
biorxiv.org
Importance Despite evidence that individuals who use cannabis early in life are at elevated risk of psychosis and that the neurotransmitter dopamine has a role in both conditions, the mechanism...
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Introducing PaperQA2, the first AI agent that conducts entire scientific literature reviews on its own. PaperQA2 is also the first agent to beat PhD and Postdoc-level biology researchers on multiple literature research tasks, as measured both by accuracy on objective benchmarks
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📰 New preprint! We show using computational modelling that transdiagnostic compulsivity is associated with greater uncertainty about learned task structure This work was led by Siri Sookud, starting during her MSc Thread below👇 https://t.co/wLPFiPUDT3 1/n
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Here's a copy of @lilwebian's thread on the generalized HGF https://t.co/oxzCHeoW3o 👇 1/
arxiv.org
Hierarchical Bayesian models of perception and learning feature prominently in contemporary cognitive neuroscience where, for example, they inform computational concepts of mental disorders. This...
This is work with @chmathys, @PTWaade, Nicolas, Anna and Klaas. For the actual thread, come to where the skies are blue!
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Super excited about this new preprint!
My new preprint is out! Using EEG and decoding analyses, we find direct evidence for the Opposing Process Theory of perception, while showing dynamic effects across over time. @auksz @DeMartino_F Caspar Schwiedrzik https://t.co/2J4LdDqRid
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Congrats Isaac - cool question
Very excited to (belately) share that my lab has been awarded a generous Israel Science Foundation grant for the next 5 years, to study the computational mechanisms of repetitive thinking.🙂
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Amazing & grim stat. @soniajohnson is this true in the UK?
We conducted a major survey on the state of civic life in America. The most jaw-dropping finding was the rapid decline in social connections among Americans without degrees. Nearly 1/4 have no close friends.
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V interesting study…
We’re excited to share our latest work on dynamic predictive templates and hallucinations, published today in Current Biology! ( https://t.co/tAZCyAZGkB)
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Fantastic opportunity!
Excited to announce a postdoc position to use EEG+RL to identify specific mechanisms of different antidepressants within a large clinical trial https://t.co/Vdfv1sVxaS. Come work with a super team https://t.co/2OO16sMWe4.
@UCL @UCLPsychiatry @wellcometrust @UCLIoN @MPC_CompPsych
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The UK has experienced its worst riots in over a decade. In a new article👇, I analyse the role of online misinformation. While many blame social media and call for increased regulation and censorship, this narrative is simplistic. I make five points: 1/11 https://t.co/d6pUy3RiIV
conspicuouscognition.com
On the importance of thinking carefully about complex problems
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