Great conference, in a wonderful city, do join!

Great conference, in a wonderful city, do join!

Excellent PhD defence of Alessandra Mansueto on network- informed personalised interventions. A great pleasure and honour to have supervised such a great student. One of the first wave of Urban Mental Health projects @umh-uva.bsky.social; now postdoc at @nsmd.bsky.social

Happy to share our new publication examining heroin use symptoms using network analysis with @renefreichel.bsky.social &
@reinoutwiers.bsky.social! Sleep problems emerged as most central, with craving and loss of control linked to specific withdrawal symptoms.

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Scientists map how alcohol changes bodily sensations A new study suggests that people who feel fewer bodily sensations while intoxicated may be at higher risk for alcohol misuse. Using bodily maps and heartbeat tasks, researchers linked internal awarene...

Thanks to @psypost.bsky.social for writing this piece about our latest paper!
Scientists map how alcohol changes bodily sensations www.psypost.org/scientists-m...

@micahgallen.com @olivierdesmedt.bsky.social @reinoutwiers.bsky.social

#interoception #alcohol #psychopharmacology #psychology #body

A New Approach to Addiction and Choice: Akrasia and the Nature of Free Will. By Reinout W. Wiers, New York, USA: Routledge. 2025. ISBN: 9781032631615 Click on the article title to read more.

nice review of my book in addiction: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

335. 6am: Trump On The Brink The Rest Is Politics · Episode

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Interesting podcast answering the question to what extent Trump/Musk should be regarded as fascist. 14 criteria, how do they score? Have a listen.

Societal spirits in the silver streak: Unraveling complexity in drinking habits of the mature adult population The study utilized Graphical VAR network models on the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study data to examine the associations between individual factors and social environments in 1719–5718 individuals...

Interesting new paper by Maarten vd Ende et al using GVAR panel network modeling to investigate the dynamics between drinking habits and social factors, in a longitudinal dataset, highlighting the influence of peer drinking patterns also in adults. doi.org/10.1111/acer...
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