@husain_lab

The Cognitive Neurology Group of Prof. Masud Husain. Researching working memory, apathy, impulsivity and attention in health and disease.

 University of Oxford
masudhusain.org/
Joined March 2015
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Come work with us! Postdoctoral position (3 years) available to study decision-making, working memory, and apathy jobs.ac.uk/job/BEK257/resear…
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Prof. Matthew Apps@brain_apps28 Jul 2017
Farewell @kinanmuha – at Oxford, England
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Bye Kinan! We're already missing you! xitter.cf/brain_apps/status/8910…
Prof. Matthew Apps@brain_apps28 Jul 2017
So long @kinanmuha. Your office dance moves will be missed
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New paper with @brain_apps @vincentvalton @EssiViding & @jonroiser: Prosocial learning and links to empathy pnas.org/content/early/2016/…
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Prof. Matthew Apps@brain_apps30 Jun 2017
new from my @BBSRC fellowship with @thepsychologist: Prosocial apathy for helping others when effort is required nature.com/articles/s41562-0…

Prosocial apathy for helping others when effort is required

Nature Human Behaviour - Lockwood et al. use a real-effort task and computational modelling to examine how individuals choose to expend effort when rewards accrue to themselves versus others. They...

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Come visit our stand at Oxford's Science Festival in the Town Hall, and beat the high score at @esdalmaijer's eye-tracking game! #OSF2017
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The lab taking a break from public outreach. We'll be at Oxford's Town Hall tonight, 6.30-9 pm. Come and have a chat! #OSF2017
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The effects of incentives differ if outcomes are contingent on performance or not. xitter.cf/BrainInTheMind/status/…
Sanjay Manohar@BrainInTheMind10 May 2017
At last my deconstruction of the "monetary incentive delay" paradigm is out! doi.org/10.1177/095679761769… #cognitive #psychology #motivation
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Masud Husain@MasudHusain12 Apr 2017
Replying to @husain_lab
Just to be clear because people are still asking: Russell Foster has a wicked sense of humour. This was Photoshopped by him!
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Apathy a major problem across Neurodegenerative diseases including #Parkinsons & #Alzheimers @MasudHusain #BNA2017 @physoc
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Russell Foster giving a great introduction of @MasudHusain. Who knew he was in the Bullingdon Club?
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Domain-general valuation of different effort costs. @MasudHusain in full flow in talk 1 of 2 this afternoon #BNA2017.
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Congrats to Sean: action shots of him presenting his work looking at the role of dopamine in working memory problems in PD xitter.cf/OxfordPDCentre/status/…
OPDC (Parkinson's Research)@OxfordPDCentre21 Mar 2017
Congratulations to @agonistofmind of @MasudHusain lab, runner-up in our poster competition for work on #dopamine and cognition #Parkinsons
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What motivates us? Pupil response can measure apathy @MasudHusain on @kinanmuha #Parkinsons research #OPDC2017 #dopamine not the whole story
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.@kinanmuha with his cover of @Brain1878 from his study linking reward, dopamine and apathy in PD academic.oup.com/brain/artic…
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Distinct Subtypes of Apathy Revealed by the AMI - new paper! with @YuensiangAng @brain_apps @kinanmuha @MasudHusain journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Distinct Subtypes of Apathy Revealed by the Apathy Motivation Index

Apathy is a debilitating but poorly understood disorder characterized by a reduction in motivation. As well as being associated with several brain disorders, apathy is also prevalent in varying...

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Prof. Matthew Apps@brain_apps11 Jan 2017
Distinct types of Apathy in healthy people. Our new measure. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… @thepsychologist @YuensiangAng @MasudHusain @kinanmuha

Distinct Subtypes of Apathy Revealed by the Apathy Motivation Index

Apathy is a debilitating but poorly understood disorder characterized by a reduction in motivation. As well as being associated with several brain disorders, apathy is also prevalent in varying...

journals.plos.org
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.@MasudHusain presenting @kinanmuha's work on dopamine modulating pupillary reward responses in apathy in PD.brain.oxfordjournals.org/con…
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.@MasudHusain presenting the work of @BrainInTheMind on how reward (and dopamine) breaks the speed-accuracy tradeoff cell.com/current-biology/abs…
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.@MasudHusain w/ @CoolsControl & @nathanieldaw in a symposium symposium on cost-benefit decisions at the Control Processes conf. 3.30pm.
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