Emily Currell

New paper out today! Cognitive neuropsychiatric analysis of an additional large Capgras delusion case series doi.org/10.1080/135468… …publication of my @MentalhealthMSc project - only possible thanks to @vaughanbell, @J_F_Hayes and Nomi Werbeloff!!

@DevinTerhune @UCL_DClinPsy Thanks so much, Devin! It’s been great ☺️.

PhDone! Many thanks to @pmoseley89 & Ben Parris for the thoughtful discussion and Q Deeley & E Walsh for being amazing supervisors. A very special thanks to @vaughanbell, @mehta_mitul72, & @DevinTerhune for your totally unwavering support throughout. Next stop @UCL_DClinPsy 😌

The next @MaudsleyPhilo seminar will be with @ProfTonyDavid: self-diagnosis in neuropsychiatry. Tuesday 16th April @ 6pm. In-person (IoPPN) and online (Zoom). Sign-up free: selfdiagnosis.eventbrite.co.uk

The next @MaudsleyPhilo seminar will be a conversation with @dr_mcgilchrist about aspects of his new book ‘The Matter with Things’ (2022). youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOw… Tuesday 7th November, 6pm. IoPPN + online. Sign-up free: mpg-iain.eventbrite.co.uk

NEW PAPER! Pleased to share our review of trauma therapies for psychosis - highlighting key therapeutic processes, dilemmas and recommendations for practice. @taward @rachelmbrand @FilippoVarese @dvdbergnl Eleanor Longden & Nadine Keen @c_tru_research bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New preprint out! Systematic review and critical appraisal of existing state and trait #dissociation measures. Brilliant work by @KingsIoPPN MSc/PhD student Sorawit Wainipitapong with contributions from @DevinTerhune and @LillianWieder 🙏Check it out! 👀osf.io/preprints/psya…

How technology appeared in the delusions of people with psychosis in the 1800s bps.org.uk/psychologist/t… Lots of fascinating historical examples from the Victorian asylum era - from @psychm

Join us tomorrow for our next @MaudsleyPhilo seminar with Professor Miranda Fricker: "Epistemic Justice as a Professional Virtue?". Tuesday 10th October, 6pm BST. IoPPN (registration open until 2pm today) + online. Sign up free: mpg-miranda.eventbrite.co.uk

I paid the oracle of Zeus at Dodona a visit yesterday... my turn on the other side of testing! Piloting the MRI arm of the Virtual Reality Oracle (VRO) Study -- a favourable response from the oracle (apparently I will finish this PhD!) #vroracle #mri #vr #theoracleofdelphi

“Selection is our greatest counter measure”, says Dukes. @NASA had a 0.08% selection rate in 2021, having evaluated 12,080 applicants. @The_BNPA #BNPA2023

Astronauts experience sunrise every 90 minutes 🚀. Aerospace Psychiatrist, Dr Charles H. Dukes, explains the threats to behavioural & cognitive health in space, measures to mitigate this, and the intensive psychiatric & psychological selection processes involved. #BNPA2023

Day 2 at @The_BNPA. @Sander_vdLinden opens: inoculation against misinformation by psychological vaccination. By preemptively exposing someone to a falsehood (or techniques used to spread misinformation), we can build up cognitive “antibodies”, increasing resistance. #BNPA2023

We have an exciting @maudsleyphilo seminar this Wednesday. @joelwkrueger speaks on: “Loneliness and absence in psychopathology” - with colleagues @lucyosler & Tom Roberts. Wednesday 1st March, @6pm GMT. Online + tickets free. Sign up on Eventbrite: bit.ly/3ZcTJDa

Tonight @MaudsleyDebates are back: House believes people should be able to commit themselves for future involuntary treatment, chair: @northactually Landslide turnaround! Before -For: 63% -Against: 17% -Abstain: 20% After -For: 39% -Against: 44% -Abstain: 18% #maudsleydebates

@aldersonday Thanks, Ben! Hope to update you with some interesting findings in the near future.

Happy to report, 3yrs & 4 studies later, data collection is complete! 1 x suggestion, culture, & dissoci. study 2 x fMRI pilots w/ hypnotic modelling 1 x fMRI automatic-writing paradigm: non-clinical voice hearers 1 x fMRI symptom capture paradigm: NCVHs ~152 amazing participants

We talk the 'third man factor', sleep paralysis, tulpamancy, 'sensory experiences of the deceased' and more with Dr Ben @aldersonday RT for your chance to win his new @ManchesterUP book, Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other. bps.org.uk/psychologist/m…

🚨participants needed for telephone interviews 🚨 Have you been affected by a #mentalhealth issue and claimed a government benefit? Share your experiences…📞All findings are anonymous. DM/email if you’d like to take part ava.1.phillips@kcl.ac.uk See criteria to take part👇🏼

When reality slips through your fingers: in search of dissociation psyche.co/ideas/when-rea… Interesting piece by @ECernis

A Backdoor Lets the Immune System Monitor the Brain quantamagazine.org/how-the-immune…