Director, UCL Institute of Mental Health
London
Joined August 2012
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Inside the Lyme Disease industrial complex...where flawed tests sold by private companies lead to questionable diagnoses and harmful treatments
My latest for @unherd with @mgtmccartney
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The latest episode of the Brain podcast-out now!
Listen at: traffic.libsyn.com/ec9881f0-…
Featuring discussion with senior author Professor Gültekin Tamgüney on: Vaccines mimicking conformational epitopes on α-synuclein fibrils provide immunity to Parkinson’s disease
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Sharing new @BiologicalPsyc1 structural brain MRI mega-analysis in Functional Neurological Disorder. This international effort was led by #MattButler & @Tim_R_Nicholson in collaboration with the @FNDSociety Neuroimaging SIG. Check it out. @KingsIoPPN biologicalpsychiatryjournal.…
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Artificial intelligence judged by No Intelligence
Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards bbc.in/4xRh0w9
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Psychomotor retardation looks a bit similar to parkinsonism. In this paper, we examine whether it might be a prodromal feature as part of depression: doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2026.1….
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the True Clinician treads a careful but firm line:
a) humbly avoiding imposing a paternalistic, insight-denying, narrative on patient;
b) firmly avoiding colluding with lack of insight in the name of a maternalistic validation of patient's narrative.
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Bad Influence has been shortlisted for the The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026! @royalsociety
Huge congratulations to @deb_cohen 👏👏
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Check out the latest episode of the @Brain1878 podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/63U…
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England: fun
theguardian.com/football/202…
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Hugely enjoyable day 1 and 2 of the @FNDSociety 2026 meeting in Baltimore. 600 in person registrations and 200 online
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“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented brains. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library.
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
— Carl Sagan
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Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney ft.com/content/3862cf23-855b… via @ft So sorry to hear of the departure of the great DH.. here's what I wrote for the Vuitton show catalogue last year with some lovely images including "travel" along Mulholland Drive.
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Anthony David retweeted
“I am the king of football!” 🤴🏼
Gianni Infantino’s been up to more nonsense at the FIFA Congress in Canada.
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Happy Bank Holiday! Here's a tongue-in-cheek parody song about @Nigel_Farage accepting a massive gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire and then hiding from a BBC interview - to the iconic tune of the legendary @The_Proclaimers. We're calling it: "Five Million Quid" 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶
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#Psychosis of autoimmune origin? What are the features? Is there a therapeutic response to immunotherapy?
Welcome to our new paper!
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1/We studied the psychopathological patterns & outcomes following immunotherapy in 164 cases of autoimmune psychosis
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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The latest suicidally stupid blow in the MAGA war against science; against knowledge itself - instead we get a casino ballroom, a Las Vegas- classical arch and a screaming blue swimming pool . And instead of history we'll get statues and a cage fight.
Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950.
The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year.
Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power.
On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service."
That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence.
The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved.
The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board.
Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated.
Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'"
Now there's no board to answer to.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?"
That's the actual question.
Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work.
RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.
