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How to make super-fancy brain network plots: A tutorial with Gephi

This paper by Petri et al. from 2014 contains one of the most famous images in psychedelic science:

Dec 12, 2024

How to make super-fancy brain network plots: A tutorial with Gephi

Dec 12, 2024

Psychedelic science must redouble its efforts to do rigorous, objective research

There was a new meta-analysis on psychedelic therapy for depression published in the British Medical Journal last week, which was…

May 5, 2024

May 5, 2024

Academic publishers: The original enshittificationists

Cory Doctorow is a polymathic presence on the internet; as a novelist, journalist, tech-evangelist, and general all-round liberal good egg…

Apr 14, 2024

Academic publishers: The original enshittificationists

Apr 14, 2024

Stop using crazy multiband sequences for fMRI — you’re doing it wrong.

WARNING: This is going to be a bit of a rant, but also a very, very niche one. These are wildly abstruse issues likely only to be of…

Jun 1, 2023

Stop using crazy multiband sequences for fMRI — you’re doing it wrong.

Jun 1, 2023

The secret history of psychedelic therapy in 1990s Ireland

Some time ago I was very honoured to be asked to write a cover article for ‘The Psychologist’ magazine (which you can read here, if you…

Mar 1, 2023

The secret history of psychedelic therapy in 1990s Ireland

Mar 1, 2023

Blinding and placebo-control in psychedelic clinical trials

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the ICPR meeting in Haarlem, Netherlands along with a lot of colleagues from Invicro and Imperial…

Sep 28, 2022

Blinding and placebo-control in psychedelic clinical trials

Sep 28, 2022

Will imaging-based biomarkers of psychiatric conditions ever be clinically useful?

Biomarkers are an important and increasingly-useful aspect of clinical medicine. Perhaps the most well-developed biomarkers are used in…

Jul 30, 2022

Will imaging-based biomarkers of psychiatric conditions ever be clinically useful?

Jul 30, 2022

A round-up of some of our recent cannabis research publications

For about seven or eight years now, I have had the genuine and unalloyed pleasure of working with a great bunch of people at the University…

Jul 15, 2022

A round-up of some of our recent cannabis research publications

Jul 15, 2022

How to become a (psychedelic) drug researcher

A question that students have asked me fairly often over the years since I’ve been doing drug research is some variation of “How can I…

Jun 16, 2022

How to become a (psychedelic) drug researcher

Jun 16, 2022

My (very preliminary) thoughts on the Kernel Flow device

UPDATE: 21st May, 2022: Dr Ryan Field (the presenter I mention in the original piece) has been kind enough to share some detailed responses…

May 19, 2022

My (very preliminary) thoughts on the Kernel Flow device

May 19, 2022

Matt Wall

Matt Wall

Psychologist and neuroscientist who works across both academic and commercial spheres. Cannabis, psychedelics, sex hormones, fMRI.

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