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Keith R Laws
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Prof Cognitive Neuropsychology | Former non-musician (2 definite articles) | Editor BMC Psychology, Brit Jnl Clin Psych, Comprehensive Psychiatry. Views my own
Prime Meridiankeithsneuroblog.blogspot.co.ukJoined June 2010

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Short thread Our new systematic review & meta-analysis published #openaccess in reviews 25 studies (15,000+ participants) looking at the association between self-reports of childhood trauma and adult schizotypal traits in healthy individuals
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Note to self to examine my casual observation ...and the question is - How frequently do meta-analyses of psychological interventions report a lower-end 95% confidence interval of 0.01? (because it seems to occur quite often)
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Interesting change - which nicely removes the untenable assumption that 'peer review' ensures quality, but may make it harder to get reviews (as reviewers may feel disenfranchised). Might also work if reviews are published alongside (ideally with reviewer names IMO)
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Massive news: eLife to abolish accept/reject decisions: papers will just be “peer reviewed”. Others can argue about this, but lots of interesting consequences. 1/9 elifesciences.org/articles/83889
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Ketamine Use in Pediatric Depression: A Systematic Review sciencedirect.com/science/articl Concludes ketamine is tolerated without serious adverse events & associated with reduced depressive symptoms in children/adolescents but few studies, small samples "less than ideal designs"
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I wonder if this will become something of a trend...
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Animal Collective have cancelled a planned tour of the UK and Europe citing economic difficulties such as inflation and currency devaluation thequietus.com/articles/32211
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While arguments can always be made for & against preregistration (in my mind, mostly 'for'), it is unclear how not having preregistration would (or could) ever improve anything
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Much respect for the author, but this is just false cambridge.org/core/journals/ I've never gotten all the results I hypothesized in anything preregistered that I have published. Not once.
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For me, a reason for reviewers to own their review (by having their name on their reviews) and for editors to strongly reign-in the tendency of some reviewers to review the authors and not the paper submitted
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A reviewer told me I'm not qualified to write about decision-making.....my topic of research for the past 7 years 🤨
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People wouldn't find it scary if they tried even to replicate their own previous findings
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Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." osf.io/preprints/meta
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An odd, but interesting personal reflection on 'failed' research in schizophrenia from William Carpenter (Chief editor at Schizophrenia Bulletin) Things I Wish academic.oup.com/schizophreniab We might wonder which research & how much research on schizophrenia & psychosis might be added
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Article contains the obligatory image of the pig flying over Battersea power station from Pink Floyd's Animals (1977) cover - but which other 1977 album used the station on its cover?
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Battersea Power Station opens after decades of decay bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan An almost mythical, construction Oddly, the article fails to mention the original architects- J. Theo Halliday & Giles Gilbert Scott. Scott also designed the UK's archetypal red telephone box
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Personal perspective on later life bipolar diagnosis and experience of treatments (Can we have a newspaper article that doesn't mention Ketamine in the same context as 'horse tranquiliser'?)
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#Ketamine failed him badly after which #ECT probably saved his life at some cost for his memory. He trusts #Lithium. theguardian.com/society/2022/m
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Receiving automatic chase emails for a review 14 days after I agreed to review a paper Is that becoming more common? Who thinks that is a good idea/reasonable/a way to ensure future reviewing?
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On Talking Pictures TV tonight ....one of those films that is probably better received now than when it appeared in 1975 Rod Steiger is one of my favourite actors ...if you can overlook the many poor attempts at Irish accents (Steiger's is one of the better attempts)
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The Most Intensive Manhunt Ever Mounted! #RodSteiger #LeeRemick HENNESSEY (1975) 9:05pm #TPTVsubtitles with #EricPorter #TrevorHoward
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I am trying not to give up on something so quickly, but 10 mins of 'The Midnight Club' on Netflix & I'm wondering if it was created by an AI program that had consumed every successful teenage TV show/movie of the past 30 years...it took <1 minute to reference the Breakfast Club
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Nice example of perceptual 'filling-in'.... if only we didn't believe that what we perceive is what is 'out there'
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This is a black-and-white photo; only the lines have colour. 😲 Great illustration of a general truth: Your perceptual system fills in the gaps in the incomplete data from your senses. sciencealert.com/crazy-optical-
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Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes: A cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the longitudinal study of adult health (ELSA-Brasil) sciencedirect.com/science/articl The association is independent of socioeconomic, lifestyle factors and nutrient deficiencies
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I know it's a shock for some people, but it is the 'norm' for views in science to change & for scientists to change their minds...the problem is meeting 'scientists' who think they are absolutely right
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