Professor of Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge | Deputy Head of the School of Biological Sciences | Senior Affiliated Scientist at MRC CBU | Fellow at Clare College | 🏳️‍🌈| www.lawsonlab.co.uk |https://bsky.app/profile/beckyneuro.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/beckyneuro.bsky.social/post/3m5j5ys5dsc2dAnd another one from @naziajassim.bsky.social and @bronaghm.bsky.social in Molecular Autism. https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-025-00654-4 Autistic and non-autistic adults alike show the “Tetris effect”, an automatic drive to perceive separate parts as a possible whole.13 Nov 2025 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:45e7ymknmtdx3qkzaplcwnb7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5j5ys5dsc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/beckyneuro.bsky.social/post/3m5j5cj6cqk2dThen we have a new paper led by Nazia Jassim @naziajassim.bsky.social on the neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing and links to trait anxiety: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6 @natcomms.nature.com13 Nov 2025 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:45e7ymknmtdx3qkzaplcwnb7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5j5cj6cqk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/beckyneuro.bsky.social/post/3m5j4m5vdi22uNext up some work in infants led by Addison Billing: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40963976/ We used high-density diffuse optical tomography and eye-tracking to show that neural responses to unexpected events in the medial prefrontal cortex are enhanced when their mothers report higher trait anxiety. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40963976/13 Nov 2025 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:45e7ymknmtdx3qkzaplcwnb7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5j4m5vdi22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/beckyneuro.bsky.social/post/3m5j434xdu224First up, this paper led by Bronagh McCoy: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013646 When noise and volatility are independently manipulated people behave differently depending on their anxious traits.13 Nov 2025 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:45e7ymknmtdx3qkzaplcwnb7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5j434xdu224https://bsky.app/profile/beckyneuro.bsky.social/post/3m5j3puu4os24I've been pretty absent from social media for a while, mostly for my own sanity. But my lab have had a run of amazing outputs lately, and it feels like the right moment to shake off the cobwebs and share what they've all been up to. I'm genuinely so proud of this team. Separate posts to follow!13 Nov 2025 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:45e7ymknmtdx3qkzaplcwnb7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5j3puu4os24