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Valerie Karl

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PhD fellow @UniOslo | 🧠 studying emotion circuits in the brain, child & parent mental health | symptom-brain-networks | former CANDLab visiting grad student @Yale

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An overview of the findings can also be found on this poster:

25.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, thank you, thank you to my amazing co-authors who made this project so much fun! @danibeck.bsky.social @cktamnes.bsky.social @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social @ludvigdb.bsky.social @ireneteulings.bsky.social @niamhmacsweeney.bsky.social @eiraaksnes.bsky.social

25.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our findings indicate that the heterogeneity of internalizing problems might be partially reflected in functional connectivity patterns.

25.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We found small symptom-specific cross-domain associations linking self-reported internalizing problems to within-network connectivity of the Frontoparietal, Default, and Salience Network, as well as between-network connectivity between the Default and Salience network.

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In this collaborative work, we merged symptom networks with functional connectivity networks and examined symptom-specific associations between internalizing problems in youth and functional connectivity.

25.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Previous fMRI studies have documented links between internalizing problems in youth and brain functional connectivity of the default (DN), frontoparietal (FP), and salience (SA) networks. Characterize...

Very excited to share that our paper β€œSymptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis” has been published in European Child & Adolescence Psychiatry doi.org/10.1007/s007...

25.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)!

This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026.

To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com

A brief thread 🧡

02.02.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Thanks Dylan!☺️☺️

27.06.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve started my clinical training now but am really happy to stay part-time in research and look at brain changes during pregnancyπŸ€—πŸ€°πŸ½πŸ§ 

26.06.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PhDone πŸ₯³ this happened last week and turns out the imposter syndrome doesn’t leave with a title ☺️ still beyond grateful for my supervisors @cktamnes.bsky.social
@danibeck.bsky.social and the amazing people I got to know during this journey🀍

26.06.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking

Journal Club by Valerie Karl

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

15.01.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting The positive affect of rewards is an important contributor to well-being. Reward involves components of pleasure β€˜liking’, motivation β€˜wanting’, and l…

Here is the link to the original article:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

20.01.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This work builds on Kent Berridge’s invaluable contribution to the field and has inspired me to integrate clinical psychology with affective neuroscience in my PhD.

20.01.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I believe this distinction is crucial for understanding pathological behavior and offers new avenues for treatment.

20.01.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The authors describe how liking and wanting are dissociable on a neural level: liking is rooted in small hedonic hotspots, whereas wanting involves dopamine-related mesolimbic circuitry.

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Atypical wanting and liking can be observed in addiction (e.g. craving a drug, despite not liking it) and depression (e.g. lacking motivation to pursue a reward despite liking it).

20.01.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking - Nature Reviews Psychology Nature Reviews Psychology - Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking

The dissonance between wanting and liking has always fascinated me. I recently wrote about Nguyen et al.’s (2021) review on the neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

20.01.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children

Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

20.12.2024 08:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Such a fun project, discussing network analyses in clinical psychology and neuroscience with @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social and @ludvigdb.bsky.social !

21.11.2024 10:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Preprint and my final PhD paperπŸ₯²! We combined symptom and brain networks to look at symptom-specific associations between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

21.11.2024 10:26 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d love to be added as well if that’s still possible. Thank you!!☺️

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I’d also love to be added if that’s still possible! Thank you!☺️

19.11.2024 16:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s really nice of you all, thank you!☺️

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Hey! I would love to be added as well, if there’s still spots. Thank you!

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

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I’d love to be added as well, if there’s still space? Thank you!

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I’d love to be added as well, if there’s still space. Thank you!

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I’d love to be added, if there’s still space. Thank you!:)

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I’d love to be added, if there’s still space. Thank you!:)

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