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Afterword: Mind, imagination, affect (2016)
Book Chapter
Callard, F. (2016). Afterword: Mind, imagination, affect. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (481-488). Edinburgh University Press

The eight essays in ‘Mind, Imagination, Affect’ address topoi, phenomena and historical junctures as varied as the prostrate form of an individual being put to death in the US via the necropolitical ritual of lethal injection; the prostrate form of V... Read More about Afterword: Mind, imagination, affect.

Arts, health & wellbeing: reflections on a national seminar series and building a UK research network (2016)
Journal Article
Stickley, T., Parr, H., Atkinson, S., Daykin, N., Clift, S., de Nora, T., …Hogan, S. (2017). Arts, health & wellbeing: reflections on a national seminar series and building a UK research network. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 9(1), 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2016.1166142

An account is provided of a UK national seminar series on Arts, Health and Wellbeing funded by the Economic and Social Research Council during 2012–13. Four seminars were organised addressing current issues and challenges facing the field. Details of... Read More about Arts, health & wellbeing: reflections on a national seminar series and building a UK research network.

Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource (2016)
Journal Article
Perera, G., Broadbent, M., Callard, F., Chang, C., Downs, J., Dutta, R., …Stewart, R. (2016). Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource. BMJ Open, 6(3), Article e008721. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008721

Purpose The South London and Maudsley National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register and its Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) application were developed in 2008, generating a research repos... Read More about Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource.

Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech (2016)
Journal Article
Hurlburt, R. T., Alderson-Day, B., Kühn, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech. PLoS ONE, 11(2), Article e0147932. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147932

Psychology and cognitive neuroscience often use standardized tasks to elicit particular experiences. We explore whether elicited experiences are similar to spontaneous experiences. In an MRI scanner, five participants performed tasks designed to elic... Read More about Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech.

Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions (2016)
Journal Article
Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Ellison, A., Jardri, R., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, Article 515. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00515

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are the experience of hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker. Results from recent attempts to treat AVHs with neurostimulation (rTMS or tDCS) to the left temporoparietal junction have not been conclusive,... Read More about Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions.

Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance (2016)
Journal Article
Saunders, C. (2016). Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance. The Chaucer Review, 51(1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.51.1.0011

Medieval thought emphasized the integration of thinking and feeling, an integration central to literary representations of mind, body, and emotion, and to the idea of reading as affective. Chaucer's romance writings are profoundly concerned with the... Read More about Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance.

Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how? (2016)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(7-8), 163-194

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are experiences of hearing voices in the absence of an external speaker. Standard explanatory models propose that AVH arise from misattributed verbal cognitions (i.e. inner speech), but provide little account of h... Read More about Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?.

Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing (2015)
Journal Article
Smailes, D., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., & Dodgson, G. (2015). Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1933. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01933

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for voice-hearing (i.e., auditory verbal hallucinations; AVH) has, at best, small-to-moderate effects. One possible reason for this limited efficacy is that current CBT approaches tend to conceptualise voice-hearin... Read More about Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing.

Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S., & Alderson-Day, B. (2016). Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(3), 529-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0288-6

In this introduction we present the orthodox account of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), a number of worries for this account, and some potential responses open to its proponents. With some problems still remaining, we then introduce the proble... Read More about Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction.

What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner (2015)
Journal Article
Hurlburt, R., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Kühn, S. (2015). What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1535. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01535

The brain’s resting-state has attracted considerable interest in recent years, but currently little is known either about typical experience during the resting-state or about whether there are inter-individual differences in resting-state phenomenolo... Read More about What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner.

Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences (2015)
Book
Callard, F., & Fitzgerald, D. (2015). Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407962

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself in the authors' own experie... Read More about Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences.

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice (2015)
Book
Brandsma, F., Larrington, C., & Saunders, C. (Eds.). (2015). Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice. D.S.Brewer

Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which... Read More about Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice.

Imaginary companions in childhood: Relations to imagination skills and autobiographical memory in adults (2015)
Journal Article
Firth, L., Alderson-Day, B., Woods, N., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Imaginary companions in childhood: Relations to imagination skills and autobiographical memory in adults. Creativity Research Journal, 27(4), 308-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2015.1087240

The presence of a childhood imaginary companion (IC) has been proposed to reflect heightened imaginative abilities. This study hypothesized that adults who reported having a childhood IC would score higher on a task requiring the imaginative construc... Read More about Imaginary companions in childhood: Relations to imagination skills and autobiographical memory in adults.