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Fury v AJ can happen, all it takes is a DM - Hearn

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 16:24
Promoter Eddie Hearn is confident Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua could still happen, and says all it takes is a direct message on social media between the fighters.

Fury v AJ can happen, all it takes is a DM - Hearn

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 16:24
Promoter Eddie Hearn is confident Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua could still happen, and says all it takes is a direct message on social media between the fighters.

Thu 19 Jun 12:30: Beyond Resilience: How to Use Adversity as Fuel for Growth

Psychology talks and events - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 16:08
Beyond Resilience: How to Use Adversity as Fuel for Growth

Brian Pennie is a former heroin addict turned neuroscientist who’s on a mission to show people that change is possible. Since embracing his second chance at life in 2013, he has become a doctor of neuroscience and psychology, a consultant to some of the world’s largest organisations, and the founder of his company, Change is Possible. www.brianpennie.com

We are not born resilient, nor does it come naturally. Resilience develops through our lived experiences, forged over time by learning how to overcome adversity. But resilience has its limits, even for the grittiest and most dogged of us, because if you take hit after hit, you’ll eventually fall. That’s why we need to move beyond resilience – learning how to use life’s challenges to our advantage and, ultimately, using adversity as our fuel for growth. With a focus on breathwork, movement, and connection, Brian will deliver a series of evidence-based tools to help you transform life’s inevitable challenges into a way to learn and grow.

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Millions watch as Swedish elk begin annual migration

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:59
Millions of people have tuned in to watch moose on the move in northern Sweden over the past six years.

Millions watch as Swedish moose begin annual migration

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:59
Millions of people have tuned in to watch moose on the move in northern Sweden over the past six years.

Thu 22 May 12:30: Beyond diagnostic classification: Characterising clinical phenotype and outcomes using real-world healthcare datasets

Psychology talks and events - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:56
Beyond diagnostic classification: Characterising clinical phenotype and outcomes using real-world healthcare datasets

In this talk I will describe how real-world datasets comprising insurance claims and electronic health record (EHR) data can be analysed to provide novel insights into the clinical outcomes of people with mental disorders and how the analysis of unstructured, free text clinical assessments using natural language processing (NLP) enables the ascertainment and analysis of rich clinical data that cannot be obtained from structured datasets.

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Thu 15 May 12:30: Enactive psychiatry

Psychology talks and events - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:51
Enactive psychiatry

One of psychiatry’s main difficulties is to articulate the relationship between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders. Such factors range from traumatic experiences to dysfunctional neurotransmitters, existential worries, economic deprivation, social exclusion, and genetic bad luck. While several models, including the biopsychosocial model, advocate an integrative account, they remain vague on how these different factors (causally) interact. By using insights from enactivism and its perspective on the relation between body, mind, and world, we can develop a clear integrative account of the many, heterogenous factors that may play a role in the development and persistence of psychiatric disorders. In this talk, I will present this enactive account of psychiatry and its implications for clinical practice.

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US tariffs will make global trade shrink, says World Trade Organization

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:42
The Geneva-based institution says American tariffs will send international trade into reverse.

Thu 08 May 12:30: Towards Precision in the Diagnostic Profiling of Patients: Leveraging Symptom Dynamics in the Assessment and Treatment of Mental Disorders

Psychology talks and events - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:39
Towards Precision in the Diagnostic Profiling of Patients: Leveraging Symptom Dynamics in the Assessment and Treatment of Mental Disorders

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous mental disorder. International guidelines present overall symptom severity as the key dimension for clinical characterisation. However, additional layers of heterogeneity may reside within severity levels related to how symptoms interact with one-another in a patient, called symptom dynamics. We investigate these individual differences by estimating the proportion of patients that display differences in their symptom dynamics while sharing the same diagnosis and overall symptom severity. We show that examining symptom dynamics provides information about the person-specific psychopathological expression of patients beyond severity levels by revealing how symptoms aggravate each other over time. These results suggest that symptom dynamics may serve as a promising new dimension for clinical characterisation. Areas of opportunity are outlined for the field of precision psychiatry in uncovering disorder evolution patterns (e.g., spontaneous recovery; critical worsening) and the identification of granular treatment effects by moving toward investigations that leverage symptom dynamics as their foundation. Future work aimed at investigating the cascading dynamics underlying depression onset and maintenance using the large-scale (N > 5.5 million) CIPA Study are outlined.

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Thu 12 Jun 12:30: Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life

Psychology talks and events - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:34
Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life

Our mental health is just as important as our physical health. In times of stress, enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience are vital in maintaining our wellbeing. This talk will draw on evidence-based ways to improve our brain health, cognition, and overall wellbeing based on Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life. We will explore the benefits of exercise, diet, sleep, social interactions, kindness, mindfulness and learning and how adopting these healthy habits will lead to a longer, happier life and a flourishing society.

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Thu 01 May 12:30: History repeating: A critical perspective on psychedelic science

Psychology talks and events - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:29
History repeating: A critical perspective on psychedelic science

Despite considerable optimism regarding the mind-transforming potential of psychedelic substances, recently challengs have been raised regarding the validity of core findings in the field. In this talk I will provide a critical perspective on psychedelic science, questioning the efficacy and safety of psychedelic therapy and its presumed underlying mechanisms. I will argue that these problems are not new and that important lessons can be learned from history. I will conclude by highlighting examples and suggestions for the improvement of the quality of the science in this field.

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UK and France in talks over migrant returns deal

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:16
The scheme would return illegal migrants who cross the Channel in exchange for the UK taking legal migrants.

Shekells handed first start as England change nine

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 15:00
Centre Jade Shekells will earn her first start for England as one of nine changes made by John Mitchell for Saturday's Women's Six Nations match against Scotland in Leicester.

Thousands report Spotify problems around the world

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 14:44
Downdetector, which tracks platforms, shows more than 20,000 people have reported Spotify is not working.

Court asked to extend sentence of teenager who killed mother and siblings

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 14:30
Prosper is currently serving a minimum of 49 years in prison for murdering three family members.

Court asked to extend sentence of teenager who killed mother and siblings

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 14:30
Prosper is currently serving a minimum of 49 years in prison for murdering three family members.

Court asked to extend sentence of teenager who killed mother and siblings

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 14:30
Prosper is currently serving a minimum of 49 years in prison for murdering three family members.

Felled Enfield oak 'had 50-year life expectancy'

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 14:28
The ancient oak felled in north London was classified as a "fine specimen" last year, documents show.

Women's campaigners celebrate Supreme Court ruling - but what will it change?

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 14:27
There were scenes of jubilation for women's campaigners outside the Supreme Court as the ruling was read out.

What will the Supreme Court ruling change?

BBC Top news - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 14:27
There were scenes of jubilation for women's campaigners outside the Supreme Court as the ruling was read out.