Hugh McGovern PhD

Neighborhood air pollution linked to slower brain development in early adolescence

Ah, was just reminded of something I wrote about my daily commute as an office worker in the late 1970s.

New from Sarah Fan and our predictive coding team: prediction errors are bottom up in people with delusions (and top-down in psychics): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Go check out the exhibit in Toronto before December!

Today, I'm launching my research group 🟣Neural forms🟠 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social We study how structure shapes function in artificial and biological neural networks. www.neural-forms.org 🤖🧠🧪 🧵 1/3

Graph neural fields can capture both the harmonic power spectrum of fMRI and the temporal power spectrum of MEG (and more). Now published (open-access) in Network Neuroscience: direct.mit.edu/netn/article...

🤣🤣🤣 #Freud #philsky

TAKE ACTION: Tell the FDA to Support Psychedelic Therapy Access Use SSDP's easy tool to submit a public comment before the October 5th deadline! secure.everyaction.com/8WOPuUXBMUyW...

We got a new review/model on why we think psychedelics might be particularly useful in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Good work @htmcgovern.bsky.social on carrying this through the finish line.

Academia’s class problem www.frontiersin.org/journals/res... #philsky #highered

Another new single just dropped. Congrats @bman1285.bsky.social my dear friend 🙂. Out now in Psych Bulletin. TLDR: P3b does not appear to be a neural correlate of consciousness, the VAN likely signals preceding mechanisms that are necessary but not sufficient. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Eddie Jacobs, PhD, spoke to how the evidence on psychedelic treatments comes from clinical trials, so those safeguards should be used for initial roll-out, to be adjusted based on data collected in a standardized manner and comparable to other treatments & substances.

Dance like no-one’s watching. Peer review like you’re a PhD supervisor (and not the Concept Police).

New single just dropped. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Being a psychedelic enthusiast accounts for a huge amount of how psychedelics increase quality of life. In other words, the drug is not the territory. Will publish on this issue soon.

Traveling waves aren't just background noise. They may be a built-in mechanism the brain uses to carry recent sensory history forward in time and anticipate what's coming next. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroscience

The potential of #psilocybin continues to surprise us! 🆕research has found that psilocybin prevented #chemotherapy -induced peripheral neuropathy #CIPN in mouse models, a painful & often irreversible side effect of #cancer treatment for which there is currently no proven preventive strategy. 1/2

imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years

This would seem to me to be a problem

Nearly half of all polarization research focuses on the US, yet many American findings are global outliers. A Review in Nature Communications argues that a globally equitable understanding requires bridging traditional social science with new approaches leveraging social media and AI. 🧪

How cognitive shortcuts fuel American political divisions

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

A long-form podcast that covered apathy, motivation, addiction, attention and Alzheimer's disease over a 2hr discussion with @hubermanlab.com www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-...

Story by me in Age/SMH today. Looking at some of the learnings from Australia’s first few years of psychedelic medicine in the real world, particularly the possible problems with a focus on the big one stop shop psychedelic clinic model. www.smh.com.au/national/aus...

All trigger warnings up front. This is a tough and horrifying read. Narcissistic self-help culture paired with a psychedelic enlightenment narrative leads to selfish shit heel behavior that harms others.

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Hilarious and true

My first foray into public scientific writing published in @psyche.co. Based on this paper with @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, @marcoaqil.bsky.social, and Selen Atasoy. Hope you enjoy 🙂

Carl Jung’s archetypes have long been dismissed as unscientific – but what if they are real, having emerged as part of our evolutionary journey? In this bold Idea, the researcher Hugh McGovern lays out the results from recent trials exploring archetypes through psychedelic drugs

We should pay peer reviewers Paying reviewers led to faster decisions—an average of 5.5 working days vs 38 days for unpaid reviews And review quality improved (judged by handling editors) Reviewers who delivered a good peer review in 4 days were paid $290 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

Looking Up - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2nBAHhe

Very interesting sounding paper on the role of the default mode network in visual perception by Ujhelyi, Korda & Zaretskaya. The authors propose that the DMN provides top-down information from memory and semantic knowledge to guide perception. #neuroskyence

For those interested in the history of psychedelic research… I wrote a narrative piece describing studies of psychedelic effects on serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe, from late 1960s to 1980s: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I don't use Google search — the AI summaries are not good enough however, simple question: how accurate of answers do you think the average Google user would get from reading the top search results? how much higher than 91% do you think they would be?