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Vaughan Bell
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Neuropsychologist and associate professor at UCL. Clinical psychologist in the NHS. Occasional writer. Interested in people. Views my own.
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Dec 2, 2023 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
The aesthetics of British psychology books from a haunted generation. A gallery. Image Image
Oct 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Remapping the Functional Organic Distinction in Psychiatry and Neurology

Videos of the talks from our workshop are now available online

Full playlist here:
Gareth Owen speaking on Conceptual Approaches to the Functional / Organic Distinction
Sep 12, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Spain sentences ex-colonel to 133 years in jail for murder of five Jesuit priests during the El Salvador civil war bbc.com/news/amp/world… Not mentioned here was that one of those priests was Ignacio Martín-Baró, social psychologist and founder of liberation psychology Martín-Baró was a remarkable man who applied the tools of social psychology to understand the role of state violence in the El Salvadoreon civil war, one of the most brutal civil wars of many brutal civil wars in the 20th Century en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_M…
Apr 30, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The Guardian has an investigative piece on the UK Government's response to COVID-19 much of which focuses on the role of behavioural science - but I think it misses the most important story theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… According to this article, the government decision on the timing of the lockdown partly rested on debates about whether people experience 'behavioural fatigue' for prevention measures like hand washing and social distancing.
Mar 23, 2020 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
A brief guide for psychologists wanting to find research on the role of psychology relevant to COVID-19.

You need to search for studies in the same way you search for studies normally. However, some pointers to sites and key words might be useful... PubMed.gov is your co-pilot. If you're not familiar with it, it's the database of medical research. Most (but not all) mental health/psychology research is on there. Google Scholar complements PubMed well (full text search, broader scope), but we'll focus on PubMed.
Mar 11, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
If you want to make sense of why the UK government are making the decisions they are making with regard to coronavirus: they have prepared over the last decade for a pandemic (focusing on pandemic flu) and the strategy and evidence based is public

gov.uk/guidance/pande… Lots of people offering unsolicited advice about what seems obvious that's probably unhelpful. Here's the actual pandemic flu preparedness plan. It's well worth a read because it really dispels the idea that the decisions are made 'on the hoof'

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…