Neuroskeptic

@Neuro_Skeptic

Neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry through a skeptical lens. Just a brain with some eyes. Blogs for and .

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  1. 5 hours ago

    My liver is taking a beating from seeing how popular this meme is

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    It's been a year of ups & downs, but one of the big ups has been the inexorable rise of Registered Reports & increasing interest in them across science. On this day in 2013, were offered by 3 journals. 2014=7. 2015=22. 2016=41. 2017=88. Today it is 154 and climbing.

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    17 hours ago

    “Predicting suicide is not an academic exercise. Even if a test is (say) 80% accurate, what happens to the 20% of patients who are incorrectly assessed?” Well said by ⁦⁩

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Head motion: the dirty little secret of neuroimaging in psychiatry I raised this issue 7 years ago

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    Dec 17

    New blog post: Have scientists found an explanation for the onset of ME/CFS?

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  6. Dec 20

    The author of the Kafka/autism paper also wrote the classic "Essay on sexual frustration as the cause of breast cancer in women" (2012) A classic of absurdity

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  7. Dec 20

    "Kafka, as an autistic person..." Beyond retrospective diagnosis: this paper takes a retro-diagnosis as a starting point, and goes on from there

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  8. Dec 20

    I see what you did there

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  9. Dec 20

    "The average Facebook user would need to be paid more than $1000 to deactivate their account for one year." For me, Facebook maybe $100 but Twitter, thousands

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    Dec 20

    Read 's posts about EDOR (below), a device that claims to assess suicide risk, but is based on some wonky statistics. Worryingly, it's now being marketed to hospitals. Parts 1 (), 2 (), and 3 ()

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    Dec 17

    Multivariate consistency of resting-state fMRI connectivity maps acquired on a single individual over 2.5 years, 13 sites and 3 vendors

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    Dec 19

    Selective peak inference: Unbiased estimation of raw and standardized effect size at local maxima

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    Dec 19

    Causal inference in the multisensory brain

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    Dec 17

    New work from and company showing two different human hippocampal theta rhythms along the anterior-posterior axis.

    Functionally distinct high and low theta oscillations in the human hippocampus
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  15. Dec 19

    The myth of the collective unconscious Jung (not ) gets roasted

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    Dec 18
    Replying to

    For example, if you look at cheese or hard drugs, they engage the visual cortex

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    Dec 17

    talking right now on A Neuro-Christmas Carol: Myths Past, Present and Future!

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  18. Dec 17

    Can this box predict suicides?

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  19. Dec 16

    "This article sets out a formal procedure for determining the probability that God would do a specified action" wowzer

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  20. Dec 16

    A London psychiatric hospital is trialling a new device to detect suicide risk. But is it ready for clinical use?

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