Vaughan Bell
@vaughanbell
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Neuropsychologist and professor at UCL. Clinical psychologist in the NHS. Occasional writer. Interested in people. Views my own.
Joined February 2009
New from us, led by the brilliant @Elisavet_Pappa: Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions https://t.co/lMqYSebFd2 Open access article
karger.com
Abstract. Introduction: Delusions frequently involve strong beliefs about, or interactions with, illusory social agents. Although such agents have been systematically described in hallucinations, few...
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Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building https://t.co/L4HLn48CcB He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness
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Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act...
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As someone who has been the figurehead for 'lived experience of trauma' for years, he has some tough questions about how we understand the role of lived experience, how it gets co-opted, how it goes unquestioned, and the impact of public testimony on the practitioners themselves
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One of the most important mental health books I've read for years, Darren McGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex is absolute 🔥 https://t.co/DEai0HH3Jx Skip the subtitle. It's a deeper analysis of trauma and lived experience in mental health. Takes on lots of unquestioned dogmas
penguin.co.uk
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Open data and analysis code freely available on the github archive
github.com
Contribute to lynchjess/Apathy-TBI-meta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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New from us, led by the fantastic Jess Lynch: Prevalence and moderators of apathy after traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis https://t.co/6wgugBudfj
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Apathy is a recognized neuropsychiatric syndrome in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) with far-reaching consequences, including reduced independence, meaningful activities and quality o...
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Remember that academic event where you ended up debating ideas with colleagues, new friends, and even the speakers, long after the talks finished? The British Neuropsychiatry Association teaching weekend is one of those. Dec 12-14 in Oxford. Do come and join us!
📢 The BNPA Teaching Weekend returns! 🗓 Dec 12–14, 2025 | St Anne’s College, Oxford ✨ All the essentials of neuropsychiatry 🎓Taught by leading clinicians and scientists 💷 £490 (includes board, breakfast + conference dinner) Join us:
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To better understand lay controversies in mental health, we used topic modelling to analyses over 850,000 forum posts to identify their concerns. From me, Rhiannon White, and Lucy Foulkes
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New from us: Understanding the countermovement to online presentations of psychiatric disorder that are perceived as "faked" https://t.co/OqN6iC81Mu A huge online movement tries to identify people they feel are 'faking' mental illness for reasons of self-promotion.
tandfonline.com
The self-presentation of psychiatric disorders on social media has generated a countermovement of sceptics who believe some are “faked” for reasons of self-promotion. This has been the focus of a R...
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⭐️NEW!⭐️ Huge congrats to Dr Abbeygail Jones on publishing her paper from the PhD: '#Multigenerational living & #mentalhealth outcomes of working-age adults & children-a scoping #systematic review'! Read 👉 https://t.co/IaWJJ7CiXi
@UCLPALS @vaughanbell @UCL_IOE_PHD @keriwonglab
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In this #OpenAccess paper, @_GraceRevill et al. used data from the @theabcdstudy to examine the association between mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) & psychiatric diagnoses, symptoms & psychiatric service use in over 11,000 children.
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Background Evidence that mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) causes psychiatric problems in children has been mixed. Investigating this issue has been difficult due to the lack of representative...
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Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? https://t.co/SsWKoAoJPa Fantastic @RachelAviv piece in The New Yorker
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Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?
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Aging is more than a biological process—it is deeply shaped by social, political, and environmental conditions. Our global study reveals that social inequality, political unrest, and pollution accelerate aging. Using age acceleration as a biomarker, we identified striking
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In this study, child mental health and mild traumatic brain injury strongly co-occurred but, apart from anxiety, those associations mostly disappear when prior mental health is accounted for.
New from us, led from the front by @_GraceRevill: Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health
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New from us, led from the front by @_GraceRevill: Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Background Evidence that mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) causes psychiatric problems in children has been mixed. Investigating this issue has been difficult due to the lack of representative...
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A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry by Kenneth Kendler "describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power" https://t.co/95CtO7lNVT
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Molecular Psychiatry - A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry
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How useful is the concept of disinhibition after brain injury? https://t.co/XGPhnIJSEu Fascinating deep-dive in Aeon
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The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors
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Uncovering the 'exposome'. Interesting piece tracks how it is being transformed from buzzword to research program
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Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.
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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 https://t.co/AlewrI6HWr
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Unknowns: the benefits for stroke survivors who were never referred or never referred themselves. Cognitive or language impairments may have 'counted out' some potential patients. Regardless, NHS Talking Therapies seems useful for many stroke survivors.
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