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Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise (2015)
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Callard, F., Fitzgerald, D., & Woods, A. (2015). Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise. Palgrave communications, 1, https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2015.19

Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be encouraged by funders and research institutions alike. And yet there is little research on how interdisciplinary projects actually work—and do not wo... Read More about Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise.

The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., Weis, S., McCarthy-Jones, S., Moseley, P., Smailes, D., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(1), 110-120. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv094

Inner speech has been implicated in important aspects of normal and atypical cognition, including the development of auditory hallucinations. Studies to date have focused on covert speech elicited by simple word or sentence repetition, while ignoring... Read More about The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech.

Geographies of wellbeing: an introduction. (2015)
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Schwanen, T., & Atkinson, S. (2015). Geographies of wellbeing: an introduction. The Geographical Journal, 181(2), Article 98-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12132

This short introduction to the themed issue on ‘geographies of wellbeing’ first outlines the rise to prominence and power of wellbeing as a concept, and then summarises the diversified ways in which geographers have examined wellbeing. It argues that... Read More about Geographies of wellbeing: an introduction..

Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks (2015)
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Viney, W., Callard, F., & Woods, A. (2015). Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks. Medical Humanities, 41(1), 2-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010692

What can the medical humanities achieve? This paper does not seek to define what is meant by the medical humanities, nor to adjudicate the exact disciplinary or interdisciplinary knowledges it should offer, but rather to consider what it might be cap... Read More about Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks.

The Feasibility and Acceptability to Service Users of CIRCuiTS, a Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy Programme for Schizophrenia (2015)
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Reeder, C., Pile, V., Crawford, P., Cella, M., Rose, D., Wykes, T., …Callard, F. (2016). The Feasibility and Acceptability to Service Users of CIRCuiTS, a Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy Programme for Schizophrenia. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 44(03), 288-305. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1352465815000168

Background: Cognitive remediation (CR) is a psychological therapy, effective in improving cognitive performance and functioning in people with schizophrenia. As the therapy becomes more widely implemented within mental health services its longevity a... Read More about The Feasibility and Acceptability to Service Users of CIRCuiTS, a Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy Programme for Schizophrenia.

Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology. Psychological Bulletin, 141(5), 931-965. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000021

Inner speech—also known as covert speech or verbal thinking—has been implicated in theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and psychopathology. Despite a growing body of knowledge on its phenomenology, development, a... Read More about Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology.

Consenting for contact? Linking electronic health records to a research register within psychosis services, a mixed method study (2015)
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Robotham, D., Riches, S., Perdue, I., Callard, F., Craig, T., Rose, D., & Wykes, T. (2015). Consenting for contact? Linking electronic health records to a research register within psychosis services, a mixed method study. BMC Health Services Research, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0858-4

Background: Research registers of potential participants linked to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide a basis for screening and identifying people suitable for studies. Such a system relies upon people joining the register and giving permission... Read More about Consenting for contact? Linking electronic health records to a research register within psychosis services, a mixed method study.

Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., McCarthy-Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 55, 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.04.016

Resting state networks (RSNs) are thought to reflect the intrinsic functional connectivity of brain regions. Alterations to RSNs have been proposed to underpin various kinds of psychopathology, including the occurrence of auditory verbal hallucinatio... Read More about Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations.

Relations among questionnaire and experience sampling measures of inner speech: a smartphone app study (2015)
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Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Relations among questionnaire and experience sampling measures of inner speech: a smartphone app study. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 517. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00517

Inner speech is often reported to be a common and central part of inner experience, but its true prevalence is unclear. Many questionnaire-based measures appear to lack convergent validity and it has been claimed that they overestimate inner speech i... Read More about Relations among questionnaire and experience sampling measures of inner speech: a smartphone app study.

Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey (2015)
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Woods, A., Jones, N., Alderson-Day, B., Callard, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(4), 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2815%2900006-1

Background: Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding of the variation in subjective experiences of hallucination is central... Read More about Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey.

Crawling Creating Creatures: On Beckett's Liminal Minds (2015)
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Bernini, M. (2015). Crawling Creating Creatures: On Beckett's Liminal Minds. European Journal of English Studies, 19(1), 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2015.1004916

The continuity and contiguity between animal and human beings in Beckett’s work has been the subject of sustained critical attention. The recurring dehumanisation or degeneration of his characters’ mental faculties and behaviours has largely been ana... Read More about Crawling Creating Creatures: On Beckett's Liminal Minds.

‘The Medical’ and ‘health’ in a critical medical humanities (2014)
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Atkinson, S., Evans, B., Woods, A., & Kearns, R. (2015). ‘The Medical’ and ‘health’ in a critical medical humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities, 36(1), 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9314-4

As befits an emerging field of enquiry, there is on-going discussion about the scope, role and future of the medical humanities. One relatively recent contribution to this debate proposes a differentiation of the field into two distinct terrains, ‘me... Read More about ‘The Medical’ and ‘health’ in a critical medical humanities.

Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? (2014)
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Kühn, S., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., & Hurlburt, R. (2014). Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393

To provide full accounts of human experience and behavior, research in cognitive neuroscience must be linked to inner experience, but introspective reports of inner experience have often been found to be unreliable. The present case study aimed at pr... Read More about Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?.

Developing a new model for patient recruitment in mental health services: a cohort study using Electronic Health Records (2014)
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Callard, F., Broadbent, M., Denis, M., Hotopf, M., Soncul, M., Wykes, T., …Stewart, R. (2014). Developing a new model for patient recruitment in mental health services: a cohort study using Electronic Health Records. BMJ Open, 4(12), Article e005654. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005654

Objectives: To develop a new model for patient recruitment that harnessed the full potential of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Gaining access to potential participants’ health records to assess their eligibility for studies and allow an approach a... Read More about Developing a new model for patient recruitment in mental health services: a cohort study using Electronic Health Records.

Book Review. Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities. Edited by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman. Published by Routledge, 2013, hardback, 304 pages. ISBN 978-0415644310, £84.99 (2014)
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Woods, A. (2014). Book Review. Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities. Edited by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman. Published by Routledge, 2013, hardback, 304 pages. ISBN 978-0415644310, £84.99. Medical Humanities, 40(2), 146-148. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2014-010500