Carlos Mena

Former clinical psychologist and current @WellcomeTrust PhD Student at @UCL_ICN 🏛🧠 | MSc @EdinburghUni | Computational Psychiatry & Cognitive Neuroscience

[Prof. Vladimir Litvak find me @vlitvak.bsky.social @LitvakVladimir]

It's an amazing Nobel week for Queen Square as two people who worked at No. 12 and No. 17-19 get two Nobel prizes in two consecutive days. Not sure there is another location where this kind of coincidence has ever happened. @UCL_ICN @ImagingNeuroUCL @UCLIoN @UCLBrainScience @ucl

[Renzo Lanfranco @Renzo_Lanfranco]

In our new @NatureComms paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms: https://t.co/aqLOrIKBMP (🧵👇)

[Carlos Mena @carlmena]

Previous link is broken, updates link!

https://t.co/hacl9d8He0

[Carlos Mena @carlmena]

Interested in neuroscience, mental health, neuroimaging and computational methods? 🧠 There is a new RA position available at the NMH group at the @UCL_ICN with @olijrobinson. As a lab member I can totally recommend it!! Apply by 7th of August 🚨🔔‼️ https://t.co/YgKymVIO5X

[Jon Roiser 🟣 @jonroiser]

Pre-doc RA job in our NMH lab at @UCL_ICN with @olijrobinson! Focusing on mechanisms of treatment in anxiety, a great opportunity to learn skills in mental health/neuroscience/computational research and work in a collaborative environment, deadline Aug 7th https://t.co/hiu6xphIEl

[Renzo Lanfranco @Renzo_Lanfranco]

Come to my talk today, Wednesday 3 July, at @ASSC27tokyo on bodily self-awareness, conscious access to multisensory signals, models of signal detection, metacognition, and perceptual evidence accumulation. Or why is our experience of bodily self so stable | @theASSC #ASSC27

[Carlos Mena @carlmena]

Worth a listen if you’re interested in the relationship between physical exercise and mental health and would like to hear a bit about the current efforts to understand the underlying mechanisms 🧠🏃

[Jon Roiser 🟣 @jonroiser]

so pleased to be featured on today's episode of All in the Mind on BBC R4 with @claudiahammond, talking about physical activity, depression and our new @wellcometrust funded study examining the mechanisms driving the antidepressant effects of exercise https://t.co/a4orCzxTeh

[Hugo Fleming @HugoFleming_]

Excellent essay by Danielle Navarro on the perils and pitfalls of Bayes factors https://t.co/wZDRCX50cs

[Harry Costello @Harry_Costello]

🚨 Fantastic opportunity for a UK psychiatry trainee or clinician with psychiatry experience to work in research with a brilliant team led by @jonroiser .

Important study, lovely office, fantastic training/mentorship, nice people, prime lunch locations…

Feel free to dm

[Hugo Fleming @HugoFleming_]

Interested in the science underlying mental health? Next month I'm giving not one but TWO public talks for @pintofscience, on 13th (London) and 15th May (Cambridge). Why does depression often overlap with metabolic disease? Grab a pint, pull up a chair and find out. Tickets👇

[Jon Roiser 🟣 @jonroiser]

any trainee psychiatrists out there who'd like to come and work in my group for the next 3 years? Exciting job opportunity below!👇

[Anna Hall @AnnaFHall24]

📣Exciting RA position with @docqhuys and our wonderful Applied Computational Psychiatry lab @UCLPsychiatry @MPC_CompPsych!📣
Work on a longitudinal study examining the processes engaged by psychotherapy in the NHS:
https://t.co/gdP7Q9gAHI
Apply and share!

[Dr Alex Pike @Alexandra_Pike]

Cannot quite explain how it feels to have this out - my first computational psychiatry project (though not the first published)! I've had so much support from my coauthors over the years I've been working on this, and we're finally there. https://t.co/mzc1oFELXt

[Jon Roiser 🟣 @jonroiser]

🚨This year will be the FINAL CHANCE to apply for the UCL-Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science🚨(details in below thread). On October 10th we're running an online Q&A session for applicants with committee members and current students, register here https://t.co/1Rtj1P3DEX

[Harry Costello @Harry_Costello]

Donanemab -

➡️ 3 point difference on a 144 point scale at 76 weeks.

➡️ A quarter of patients developed brain swelling/bleeding due to treatment.

I know we’re all desperate for #Alzheimer’s treatments, but is this it?

[Dr Alex Pike @Alexandra_Pike]

Team #Hypatia have made the finals of the @wellcometrust #Ideathon! @JoeBarnby @lei_zhang_lz @CatiaMOliveira

[Harry Costello @Harry_Costello]

How do antiparkinsonian #medications effect different symptom dimensions of #depression in #Parkinson's disease?

📢📢 Check out our (@jonroiser @ProfRobHoward @a_schrag) new preprint! 🚨🚨

Link: https://t.co/lVJMqgQgAi

[Dr Alex Pike @Alexandra_Pike]

My first senior-author paper is properly out! (open access: https://t.co/H3vgi3mNlf). This is some work that Ashley Slanina-Davies (not on twitter) led during her MSci project @UCL_ICN, supervised by me and other co-senior-author @olijrobinson. 🧵

[Harry Costello @Harry_Costello]

🚨📢Check out our new preprint with @MasudHusain @jonroiser 📢🚨

'Apathy and Motivation: Biological Basis and Drug Treatment'
https://t.co/HsLRjS3T84

[Anahit Mkrtchian @AnahitMkr]

👋👋 Paper finally out in @CPSYJournal: https://t.co/E16mmEcrD8 #OpenAccess! The first study of my PhD with @vincentvalton and @jonroiser! A lil' 🧵