Dr. Scott Blain

New preprint based on the 1st paper of my dissertation is online now! We used drift-diffusion models to examine the cognitive processes driving self-referential biases in patients with psychosis (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) during social perception 🧵1/N medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do your favorite disorders fare in a data-driven reorganization of the DSM-5? Find out in this new preprint where we followed the patterns in 14,762 individuals’ symptoms with the goal of overcoming limitations in both the DSM and @HiTOP_system x.com/PsyArXiv_bot_v…

Exciting postdoc opportunity at @UCLPsychiatry/@MPC_CompPsych and @UCLPALS with @docqhuys and Essi Viding on computational modelling of longitudinal cognitive function ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… Please RT.

"Exploring individual differences in musical rhythm and grammar skills in school-aged children with typically developing language" 🎵🗣️ #TRFpaper Link: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Most brain-imaging studies make 3 questionable assumptions: mental events are localizable, map uniquely to dedicated #brain circuitry, & are independent of larger context. These 19th-century views need an update. New #OpenAccess paper in @TrendsCognSci. 1/ cell.com/trends/cogniti…

As a person living with generalized anxiety disorder, questions such as these make me squirm. University admissions committees are not legally allowed to discriminate on the basis of disability, but this sure seems likely an easy way to dance around that.

Recently, a date said they were an INTJ (i.e., Myers Briggs). I told her, “I'm a PhD in psychology. I refuse to entertain some unscientific typology of personality with dubious scientific backing.” I took pride in expressing my needs. As a Pisces, I really struggle with that.

And we're back for another year of providing feedback for underrepresented psych PhD applications! Please give @asfp_phd a follow, sign up to help out with this awesome initiative, and fwd to others!!

We’re hiring a lab manager for the Body, Mind & Brain Lab at Vandy! Perfect for anyone looking for research experience before applying for a PhD! Great mentorship, opportunities to attend conferences and co-author manuscripts. Apply here: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Direct link to the September issue of @NatureHumBehav here: nature.com/nathumbehav/vo…

Congratulations Hyeon-Seung Lee, @ljtorregrossa and @sunilshenoy9 on their recent publication looking at embodiment of emotion across cultures in individuals with #Schizophrenia and healthy controls in Psychiatry Research Communications!!! 🎉🎈🥳🎊🎊🥳🎈🎉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Michigan psychiatry and psychology dominating at @srp_science!!!!!! Three award winners @StrombergAudrey @mwmenkes @shayanasadi_!!!!

Spilled coffee on my @srp_science poster, and calling it a perfectionism exposure! Come by poster #152 tonight for live SUDs ratings! (And to learn about relationships between adolescents' daily social media use & mood 📳)

Go Becca! @RKazinka giving her first #SRP2022 talk in the Computational Models of Paranoia symposium. Thanks to Julia @jmsheff for pulling this all together and keeping the train on the tracks.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. twitter.com/Acyn/status/15…

Linear regression PSA before the academic year :)

Welcome to the United States. Where guns have more rights than women

There's a lot of debate about whether a p-factor exists and, if so, what it represents. Just accepted at Psych Med, @JenCheavens, Emil Coccaro, & I tested the unidimensionality of a p-factor and its associations with 5 leading theories of p. psyarxiv.com/bszt4/

This year's annual @HiTOP_system meeting has been great so far! Very interesting talks. But the big event is tomorrow night at 7pm EDT...