Kate Spill

Clinical psychologist with interests in neuropsychology, social cognition, attachment, young people and families.
DClinpsych

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

"This is a map of someone's brain, showing roughly which areas respond when listening to different words" https://t.co/2WFW1Zmsmw
Even in the era of the brain as cultural image, this Brain Map is such a thing of beauty. #naturevideo

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

@OliverTurnbul15 @DrWinarick What a lovely story (and cover painting) !

[Pascal Geldsetzer @PGeldsetzer1]

Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!

We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!

Hear me out & see preprint: https://t.co/25f5XFQj8R
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[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

HARKing (hypothesising after the results are known)

[Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore]

Adolescents undergo large changes in social and emotional functioning, but how does heightened affective and social processing affect their learning? @emilyanntowner @GabrieleChierc1 and I discuss this in our new TiCS review

Thread below

https://t.co/fnj5fdFIhE

[Amy Silverstein, author @ajsilverstein16]

I will be closing down my Twitter in 2 weeks. Meanwhile:
My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon https://t.co/9ko3Eu53oK

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

Another attempt to reduce the complexity of rising adolescent self-harm to smartphones.

Important to note:

The original graph has been re-drawn in ways that affect its interpretation.

The study it’s taken from (by my colleagues in Manchester) drew a different conclusion.

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[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

Fascinating study. A quarter of participants had problems with visuospatial organization skills when copying the Rey Complex Figure a few months after a mild covid infection.

[Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell]

A study from #Brazil finds 1 in 4 adults who had mild #COVID19 demonstrated cognitive deficits. The average age of study participants was 38. See what happened when they were asked to copy a diagram. We are not prepared for this. #MedTwitter #LongCovid https://t.co/6ouSwvkgDx

[Sacha Epskamp @SachaEpskamp]

I gave GPT-4 a made-up false-belief task to measure theory of mind. Not surprisingly, GPT-4 easily answered correctly. More surprisingly, when I followed up by asking if GPT-4 understood what psychological theory this question relates to it was also correct. So, does GPT-4 have theory of mind? GPT-4 seems to think not. Wait...

[Miri Forbes @MiriForbes]

Ever wondered how many symptoms make up all of adult psychopathology described in the DSM-5? It’s 628!

How many do you think repeat across multiple diagnoses? If you answered 231 symptoms repeating a total of 1022 times (median 3 times per symptom, range 2-22), good job!

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[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Twitter plays an immensely important role in politics today.

It offers many benefits to society, but the growing dangers of digitally-instigated violent extremism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny and misinformation are very real, and pose an existential threat to our democracy. 1/5

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

@DrJinRussell You're an inspiration @DrJinRussell ❤️
Almost at the end of my DClinPsych and my boys (11 & 14) have only ever known their mama as a student. Also did epic tables over weekend and an exciting mediation analysis.
Yes, we can do hard things... grateful for support over the years

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

Fascinating!
Have been slightly obsessed with HRV ever since I started wearing a Garmin watch.

[Mara Mather @MaraMather]

Here is a preprint reporting on what I believe is our lab’s most important project to date. We conducted a neuroimaging clinical trial to test how heart rate variability (HRV) influences brain networks involved in emotion regulation. https://t.co/LEdgsBdFRF #medRxiv 1/n

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

The far area of the sea, visible from the shore, is called the OFFING—which is why something that is imminent or likely to appear soon is said to be ‘in the offing’.

[Kevin Baron @DefenseBaron]

Sound on.

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

She always captured something so magical in the mess and love of family life.. My hand would pause, my breathe would catch before turning the page, my little ones snuggled in tight.

[Anna Smaill @AnnaESmaill]

RIP Shirley Hughes

Thank you for everything

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

I work with children who are unhappy at school. One family told me what a therapist told them to do with their school-refusing 5-year-old. 'Put on his uniform', he said, 'and don't let him do things he likes until 3pm. Don't interact'. Here's why that is a misguided idea. 1/

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

Connected papers has been the best part of updating my literature review. Beautiful data visualisations and so easy to toggle between levels of prior papers and derivative papers.

[Connected Papers @ConnectedPapers]

"Drowning in the literature?"

A fantastic article in @Nature (by @DavidMJourno) covering Connected Papers and other tools for dealing with the academic papers overload that we are all experiencing.

“You do not have to have that FOMO feeling”!

https://t.co/flVufChl3j

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

Pixel the corgi says you can do it! Pre-dog we were only existing, now we are living. 💖

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

Couldn't resist sharing this....! "Thank you Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox for spending 2,007 minutes with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/kcQH7FCZfh

[Kate Spill @KateSpill]

@KealaghRobinson @ginagrimshaw @MarcWilson14 @H_Eisenbarth @NathanConsedine @crowell_sheila Congratulations! Wonderful news