Giles Story

Is psychotherapy research misplaced or essential? We have an exciting programme for this new one day event at the RCPsych, including an experiential large group. Open to clinicians and academics alike!

The attuned therapist does well to heed Chekhov’s advice to writers:

In this paper I argue that good therapy, like a game of ‘show and tell’, balances bottom-up and top-down communication. We need others to help us join up the two. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/05…

Much food for thought today at the RCPsych about what it means to be a patient or a doctor, what caring and being cared for involve. rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confere…

Essentially, it acts as a conduit for security-related data, allowing the sensor to report threats, receive updates, and perform its protective functions. Is anyone else wondering if this was a result of the AI side going wrong?

CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor uses machine learning to identify security threats by passing data back to a cloud. According to chat gpt, the function of the faulty channel file associated with the crash is to facilitate communication with the CrowdStrike cloud platform.

Looks set to be a thought provoking day on a topic doctors often don’t discuss: countertransference as Freud first intended. Like it or not, we bring our own disturbance into the consulting room. Bring yours on 1st November.

Trending in #MultidisciplinaryPsychology: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) How subjective idea valuation energizes & guides creative idea generation 2) Unprompted thought & affective well-being 3) Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with men. 4) Psychological differences between vegans, prospective vegans & vegetarians (@FrontPsychol) 5) A social inference model of idealization & devaluation

Thanks to @guardian for inviting me on their "Science Weekly" podcast. Really enjoyed this discussion on opportunities and challenges of applying AI language models to psychiatry, mentalhealth and cognitive neuroscience.

1/20 It took us a week to formulate this statement. We are a movement of Jewish and Arab women with diverse opinions. We found ourselves in a threatening, horrifying reality. Words can't convey our past week's experience. We're searching for the right words to share.

🌟New paper online in @TrendsCognSci with @angelaradulescu & Kara Emery 🌟 We review work taking an approach we refer to as "naturalistic reinforcement learning", which uses more naturalistic approaches to study learning and decision-making. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A much needed appeal from ⁦@drrachelgibbons⁩ and colleagues to rediscover the psychological in psychiatry: “who would want to be a psychiatrist if we strip away the meanings and connections in the stories our patients bring us”? cambridge.org/core/journals/…

From one extreme to the other… in this new paper in Psychological Review with @M_Moutoussis @RyanSmith_LIBR @eddabilek @JzSiegel on polarisation, we model beliefs that other people are either ‘all good’ or ‘all bad’ psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

Innovative work from @ninarouhani showing how the pandemic distorted our autobiographical memories

There’s been a real buzz this week at the first #cpconf2023 in Dublin. A threshold moment for the field. Thanks so much @clairegillanTCD @Sonia_Bishop @dr_rick_adams @xiaosigu @TobiasUHauser @RobbRutledge @docqhuys for making it happen!

‘GPT-4 was running in a mode where it would think out loud… It thought out loud: “I should not tell it that I’m a robot. I should make up a reason I can’t solve the Captcha.” It said to the tasker: “No, I have a visual impairment.”’ theguardian.com/technology/202…

@Jake_Elder52 @M_Moutoussis @kyo_iigaya @GeertJanWill @Bastien__Blain @TobiasUHauser Thanks Jake!

@Giles_Story @M_Moutoussis @kyo_iigaya @GeertJanWill @Bastien__Blain @TobiasUHauser Very cool work!

These are uncertain times, so enjoy life while you can! In this new paper with @M_Moutoussis @kyo_iigaya @GeertJanWill @Bastien__Blain @TobiasUHauser and others we model delay discounting as sensitivity to volatility in future reward value. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-…

@drrachelgibbons @M_Moutoussis @kyo_iigaya @GeertJanWill @Bastien__Blain @TobiasUHauser 5/ These findings suggest individual differences in impulsivity are partly attributable to differences in uncertainty sensitivity. In a related sense, impulsivity is adaptive in unpredictable environments.

@drrachelgibbons @M_Moutoussis @kyo_iigaya @GeertJanWill @Bastien__Blain @TobiasUHauser 4/ In fMRI, future uncertainty is associated with reduced connectivity between brain regions associated with imagining future scenarios