Vaughan Bell
@vaughanbell.bsky.social
Neuropsychologist and professor at UCL. Clinical psychologist in the NHS. Occasional writer. Interested in people. Views my own.
Every Time Dualism is Mentioned in Clinical Debate, a Philosopher is Thrown Out of Heaven
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New piece from me commenting on Scamvougeras and Castle arguing for the role of psychological mechanisms in FND
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New piece from me commenting on Scamvougeras and Castle arguing for the role of psychological mechanisms in FND
Every time dualism is mentioned in clinical debate, a philosopher is thrown out of heaven
Scamvougeras and Castle argue that appeals to dualism are frequently deployed to dismiss psychological explanations in favour of framing functional neurological disorder (FND) as a “brain disorder....
www.tandfonline.com
September 11, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Every Time Dualism is Mentioned in Clinical Debate, a Philosopher is Thrown Out of Heaven
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New piece from me commenting on Scamvougeras and Castle arguing for the role of psychological mechanisms in FND
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New piece from me commenting on Scamvougeras and Castle arguing for the role of psychological mechanisms in FND
Reposted by Vaughan Bell
Resurrecting this account to share that I passed my PhD viva in June with no corrections! 🎉
Huge thanks to my examiners @tommanly.bsky.social and John King, and my supervisor @vaughanbell.bsky.social for years of support. A few papers still to come - more on TBI, mental health & big data 👀
Huge thanks to my examiners @tommanly.bsky.social and John King, and my supervisor @vaughanbell.bsky.social for years of support. A few papers still to come - more on TBI, mental health & big data 👀
August 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Resurrecting this account to share that I passed my PhD viva in June with no corrections! 🎉
Huge thanks to my examiners @tommanly.bsky.social and John King, and my supervisor @vaughanbell.bsky.social for years of support. A few papers still to come - more on TBI, mental health & big data 👀
Huge thanks to my examiners @tommanly.bsky.social and John King, and my supervisor @vaughanbell.bsky.social for years of support. A few papers still to come - more on TBI, mental health & big data 👀
New from our Colombia-UK team in Nature Health:
Spatiotemporal patterns of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Spatiotemporal patterns of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Spatiotemporal patterns of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia - Nature Health
Using national victimization records from 1964–2024, the authors show that conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia is geographically clustered and disproportionately affects women and minority et...
www.nature.com
August 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
New from our Colombia-UK team in Nature Health:
Spatiotemporal patterns of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Spatiotemporal patterns of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New from us, led by the fantastic Andrew Watson:
Improving outcomes for people with co-occurring autism and psychosis: from diagnostic overshadowing to system-wide clinical capability www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Improving outcomes for people with co-occurring autism and psychosis: from diagnostic overshadowing to system-wide clinical capability www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Improving outcomes for people with co-occurring autism and psychosis: from diagnostic overshadowing to system-wide clinical capability | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Improving outcomes for people with co-occurring autism and psychosis: from diagnostic overshadowing to system-wide clinical capability
www.cambridge.org
August 11, 2026 at 1:41 PM
New from us, led by the fantastic Andrew Watson:
Improving outcomes for people with co-occurring autism and psychosis: from diagnostic overshadowing to system-wide clinical capability www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Improving outcomes for people with co-occurring autism and psychosis: from diagnostic overshadowing to system-wide clinical capability www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New from us:
We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop...
A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop...
A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Journal of Neuropsychology | Wiley Online Library
Neuropsychiatric presentations are common across neurological and mental health services but they are often inadequately covered by core clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology training. Con....
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 4, 2026 at 5:15 PM
New from us:
We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop...
A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop...
A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New from us:
Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Developed and completed in collaboration a diverse team including members from @headwaylondon.bsky.social
Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Developed and completed in collaboration a diverse team including members from @headwaylondon.bsky.social
Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Journal of Neurology
Background Personality change is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet its prevalence, characteristics, and treatment remain poorly understood. Methods We completed a pre-reg...
link.springer.com
August 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
New from us:
Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Developed and completed in collaboration a diverse team including members from @headwaylondon.bsky.social
Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Developed and completed in collaboration a diverse team including members from @headwaylondon.bsky.social
New from us:
A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇
A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇
April 14, 2026 at 11:32 AM
New from us:
A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇
A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇
Asylum Magazine is 40.
One of the most consistently thought-provoking voices on mental health in the UK. Rooted in grassroots perspectives, unwavering in its commitment to featuring a diversity of opinion and critique that puts many academic debates to shame. Still a bit punk.
One of the most consistently thought-provoking voices on mental health in the UK. Rooted in grassroots perspectives, unwavering in its commitment to featuring a diversity of opinion and critique that puts many academic debates to shame. Still a bit punk.
asylummagazine.org/2026/03/edit...
The 40th year anniversary issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social is out
Read here the reflective Editorial by @hspandler.bsky.social, the Asylum Editor-in-Chief
The 40th year anniversary issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social is out
Read here the reflective Editorial by @hspandler.bsky.social, the Asylum Editor-in-Chief
March 24, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Asylum Magazine is 40.
One of the most consistently thought-provoking voices on mental health in the UK. Rooted in grassroots perspectives, unwavering in its commitment to featuring a diversity of opinion and critique that puts many academic debates to shame. Still a bit punk.
One of the most consistently thought-provoking voices on mental health in the UK. Rooted in grassroots perspectives, unwavering in its commitment to featuring a diversity of opinion and critique that puts many academic debates to shame. Still a bit punk.
New from our Colombia-UK team:
Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict - Conflict and Health
Background Colombia’s PAPSIVI program is the world’s largest psychosocial support service for victims of armed conflict providing support for over half a million civilians. However, service delivery h...
link.springer.com
March 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM
New from our Colombia-UK team:
Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Intervention provision and engagement in Colombia’s PAPSIVI – a national psychosocial support service for over half a million victims of armed conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Does anyone use the Spanish version of the RBANS ("Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status")? If you are able to send us an original form, we would be happy to compensate you for it.
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Does anyone use the Spanish version of the RBANS ("Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status")? If you are able to send us an original form, we would be happy to compensate you for it.
¿Alguien utiliza la versión en español del RBANS (“Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status”)? Si puede enviarnos un formulario original, con gusto le ofreceremos una compensación por ello.
February 3, 2026 at 11:11 AM
¿Alguien utiliza la versión en español del RBANS (“Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status”)? Si puede enviarnos un formulario original, con gusto le ofreceremos una compensación por ello.
Reposted by Vaughan Bell
Not a British Neuropsychiatry Association member but want to keep informed about our events?
You can sign up to the announcements mailing list at the bottom of this page: bnpa.org.uk
You can sign up to the announcements mailing list at the bottom of this page: bnpa.org.uk
British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.
Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry
bnpa.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Not a British Neuropsychiatry Association member but want to keep informed about our events?
You can sign up to the announcements mailing list at the bottom of this page: bnpa.org.uk
You can sign up to the announcements mailing list at the bottom of this page: bnpa.org.uk
Reposted by Vaughan Bell
🚨The programme for our March conference is now online
bnpa.org.uk/agm/
Sessions on
🔹neuropsychiatry of epilepsy
🔹rethinking TBI
🔹functional cognitive disorder
🔹identity and memory
🔹fixation and forensic risk
🔹ultrasound as neurostim
🔹insight disorders
and more!
bnpa.org.uk/agm/
Sessions on
🔹neuropsychiatry of epilepsy
🔹rethinking TBI
🔹functional cognitive disorder
🔹identity and memory
🔹fixation and forensic risk
🔹ultrasound as neurostim
🔹insight disorders
and more!
January 29, 2026 at 9:44 AM
🚨The programme for our March conference is now online
bnpa.org.uk/agm/
Sessions on
🔹neuropsychiatry of epilepsy
🔹rethinking TBI
🔹functional cognitive disorder
🔹identity and memory
🔹fixation and forensic risk
🔹ultrasound as neurostim
🔹insight disorders
and more!
bnpa.org.uk/agm/
Sessions on
🔹neuropsychiatry of epilepsy
🔹rethinking TBI
🔹functional cognitive disorder
🔹identity and memory
🔹fixation and forensic risk
🔹ultrasound as neurostim
🔹insight disorders
and more!
Lots of headlines linking menopause to dementia this morning based on a study that doesn't link menopause to dementia www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Emotional and cognitive effects of menopause and hormone replacement therapy | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Emotional and cognitive effects of menopause and hormone replacement therapy - Volume 56
www.cambridge.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Lots of headlines linking menopause to dementia this morning based on a study that doesn't link menopause to dementia www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Epic piece from @anilseth.bsky.social on The Mythology Of Conscious AI www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
www.noemamag.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Epic piece from @anilseth.bsky.social on The Mythology Of Conscious AI www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
Lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... via @drrickadams.bsky.social
Methodological flaw may upend network mapping tool
The lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks for clinical stimulation, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... via @drrickadams.bsky.social
The NIMH have seemingly set most of their RDoC videos to private www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGt...
I've used an excerpt of that talk for teaching for about 10 years and it's suddenly gone.
There's only a single video on their channel with mentions RDoC now www.youtube.com/@NIMHgov/sea...
I've used an excerpt of that talk for teaching for about 10 years and it's suddenly gone.
There's only a single video on their channel with mentions RDoC now www.youtube.com/@NIMHgov/sea...
January 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
The NIMH have seemingly set most of their RDoC videos to private www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGt...
I've used an excerpt of that talk for teaching for about 10 years and it's suddenly gone.
There's only a single video on their channel with mentions RDoC now www.youtube.com/@NIMHgov/sea...
I've used an excerpt of that talk for teaching for about 10 years and it's suddenly gone.
There's only a single video on their channel with mentions RDoC now www.youtube.com/@NIMHgov/sea...
What a magnificent book. Just recently finished @matthewcobb.bsky.social's The Idea of the Brain which is a wonderful history of neuroscience.
I'll be straight, it's not gripping, it goes into too much detail but it is deeply enjoyable and absolutely epic in scope.
I'll be straight, it's not gripping, it goes into too much detail but it is deeply enjoyable and absolutely epic in scope.
January 9, 2026 at 12:17 PM
What a magnificent book. Just recently finished @matthewcobb.bsky.social's The Idea of the Brain which is a wonderful history of neuroscience.
I'll be straight, it's not gripping, it goes into too much detail but it is deeply enjoyable and absolutely epic in scope.
I'll be straight, it's not gripping, it goes into too much detail but it is deeply enjoyable and absolutely epic in scope.
Reliably one of the most fascinating conferences of the year. Registration now open. See you there!
2026 British Neuropsychiatry Association Conference. Registration is open.
Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation
📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026
🤝 Joint meeting with DoN
Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/
Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation
📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026
🤝 Joint meeting with DoN
Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/
British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.
Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry
bnpa.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Reliably one of the most fascinating conferences of the year. Registration now open. See you there!
Reposted by Vaughan Bell
2026 British Neuropsychiatry Association Conference. Registration is open.
Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation
📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026
🤝 Joint meeting with DoN
Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/
Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation
📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026
🤝 Joint meeting with DoN
Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/
British Neuropsychiatry Association founded in 1987.
Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry
bnpa.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 1:34 PM
2026 British Neuropsychiatry Association Conference. Registration is open.
Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation
📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026
🤝 Joint meeting with DoN
Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/
Memory & identity, brain injury, epilepsy, functional cognitive disorder, evolving forensic risk, neurostimulation
📍 London | 🗓 12–13 March 2026
🤝 Joint meeting with DoN
Programme and registration👉 bnpa.org.uk/agm/
I don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas:
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas:
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.
Reposted by Vaughan Bell
For a more nuanced view of C19th psychiatry in general, I have been spending years compiling this bibliography - it wasn't all restraints and stigma - www.lesleyahall.net/victpsyc.htm
Victorian Psychiatry
www.lesleyahall.net
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
For a more nuanced view of C19th psychiatry in general, I have been spending years compiling this bibliography - it wasn't all restraints and stigma - www.lesleyahall.net/victpsyc.htm
Great round up
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Great round up
Misused therapy concepts absorbed into popular culture are making run-of-the-mill relationship problems harder to resolve www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
Interesting @olgakhazan.bsky.social piece in The Atlantic
Archived version: archive.is/P7Tf6
Interesting @olgakhazan.bsky.social piece in The Atlantic
Archived version: archive.is/P7Tf6
Why Couples Therapists Are Sick of ‘Therapy-Speak’
What happens when spouses accuse each other of gaslighting? Nothing good.
www.theatlantic.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Misused therapy concepts absorbed into popular culture are making run-of-the-mill relationship problems harder to resolve www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
Interesting @olgakhazan.bsky.social piece in The Atlantic
Archived version: archive.is/P7Tf6
Interesting @olgakhazan.bsky.social piece in The Atlantic
Archived version: archive.is/P7Tf6
Reposted by Vaughan Bell
Full details for the 2026 ToM4AI Workshop @aaai.org are now live (ToM4AI.com)
100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics
@nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social
100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics
@nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Full details for the 2026 ToM4AI Workshop @aaai.org are now live (ToM4AI.com)
100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics
@nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social
100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics
@nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social