Kaleidoscope Live!

By Maudsley Learning

Three psychiatrists and a psychologist walk into a pub (or, in these unprecedented times, a Zoom meeting)….to talk science! Kaleidoscope Live takes you behind the scenes of the monthly British Journal... more

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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

Kaleidoscope Live! episodes:

March 22, 2022A cure for MS; mindfulness debunked; and when Harry met Sally - is opposite sex friendship possible?
Kaleidoscope live!
Date aired: 16.03.2022
Title: A cure for MS; mindfulness debunked; and when Harry met Sally - is opposite sex friendship possible?
Papers:
Bjornevik, K. et al. Longitudinal analysis reveals high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus associated with multiple sclerosis. Science 375, 296-301, doi:10.1126/science.abj8222 (2022).

Goldberg, S. B., Riordan, K. M., Sun, S. & Davidson, R. J. The Empirical Status of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review of 44 Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials. Perspect Psychol Sci 17, 108-130, doi:10.1177/1745691620968771 (2022).

Szymkow, A. & Frankowska, N. Moderators of Sexual Interest in Opposite-sex Friends. Evol Psychol 20, 14747049211068672, doi:10.1177/14747049211068672 (2022).
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February 22, 2022 Size doesn't matter, but anticipation does: Big data paradox, placebo, and perceptions of smokers
Kaleidoscope live!
Date aired: 16.02.2022
Time: 17:00 -17:45
Title: Size doesn't matter, but anticipation does: Big data paradox, placebo, and perceptions of smokers
Papers:
Bradley VC, Kuriwaki S, Isakov M, et al. Unrepresentative big surveys significantly overestimated US vaccine uptake. Nature 2021;600(7890):695-700.
Hjorth OR, Frick A, Gingnell M, et al. Expectancy effects on serotonin and dopamine transporters during SSRI treatment of social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial. Transl Psychiatry 2021;11(1):559.
Philip KEJ, Bu F, Polkey MI, et al. Relationship of smoking with current and future social isolation and loneliness: 12-year follow-up of older adults in England. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2022;14:100302. doi
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January 24, 2022 Courting controversy: The call for women-specific medication guidance and psychology's "physics envy" problem
Kaleidoscope live!
Date aired: 19.01.2022
Title: Courting controversy: The call for women-specific medication guidance and psychology's "physics envy" problem
Papers:
Brand BA, Haveman YRA, de Beer F, de Boer JN, Dazzan P, Sommer IEC. Antipsychotic medication for women with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Psychol Med [Epub ahead of print] 12 Nov 2021. Available from: https://doi.org/ 10.1017/S0033291721004591.
Debrouwere S, Rosseel Y. The conceptual, cunning, and conclusive experiment in psychology. Perspect Psychol Sci [Epub ahead of print] 8 Dec 2021. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211026947.
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46min
December 08, 2021 Good Sh*t, Bad Outcomes
Kaleidoscope live!
Date: 01.12.2021
Title:
Good Sh*t, Bad Outcomes:
Differentiating performance from interpretation with machine learning approaches to healthcare outcomes
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The microbiome and early life indicators of mental health
Papers:
Li B, Jang I, Riphagen J et al. Identifying individuals with Alzheimer’s disease-like brains based on structural imaging in the Human Connectome Project Aging Cohort. Hum Brain Mapp, 2021; 1-12. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25626
Ghassemi, M., Oakden-Rayner, L., & Beam, A. L. (2021). The false hope of current approaches to explainable artificial intelligence in health care. The Lancet Digital Health, 3(11), e745-e750.
Laue, HE, Karagas, MR, Coker, MO et al. Sex-specific relationships of the infant microbiome and early-childhood behavioral outcomes. Pediatric Research, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41390-021-01785-z

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37min
November 11, 2021 Real life decisions: nudge or hold? Antidepressant withdrawal and behaviour modification
In this Kaleidoscope Live episode, the team discuss:

Real life decisions: nudge or hold? Antidepressant withdrawal and behaviour modification

Lewis G, Marston L, Duffy L et al. Maintenance or discontinuation of antidepressants in primary care. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2021; 385(14): 1257-1267. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2106356
Dai, H. et al (2021) Behavioural nudges increase COVID-19 vaccinations. Nature, Vol 597, September, pp. 404–409

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44min
October 19, 2021Kaleidoscope Live! Big ass data: brain correlation and social contagion
Papers:
Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

Grey and white matter microstructure is associated with polygenic risk for schizophrenia
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36min
June 08, 2021 Kaleidoscope Live! Of mice and men: Differing perceptions of time and reality
Citations:
Arantes, J., Pinho, M., Wearden, J., & Albuquerque, P. B. (2021). “Time Slows Down Whenever You Are Around” for Women but Not for Men. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 951. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641729
K. Schmack, M. Bosc, T. Ott, J. F. Sturgill, A. Kepecs. Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice. Science, 2021; 372 (6537): eabf4740 DOI: 10.1126/science.abf4740
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39min
May 21, 2021Kaleidoscope live! The panelists indulged in the positives of hedonism and took controversy head on discussing a now retracted paper on professionalism – sexism in a scientific sheep’s clothing?
Title: In this episode the panelists indulged in the positives of hedonism and took controversy head on discussing a now retracted paper on professionalism – sexism in a scientific sheep’s clothing?

Citations:
Bernecker K, Becker D. Beyond self-control: mechanisms of hedonic goal
pursuit and its relevance for well-being. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 26 Jul 2020 [Epub
ahead of print]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220941998.

Hardouin S, Cheng TW, Mitchell E, Raulli SJ, Jones DW, Siracuse JJ, et al.
RETRACTED: Prevalence of unprofessional social media content among young
vascular surgeons. J Vasc Surg 2020; 72: 667–71.
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31min
May 21, 2021Kaleidoscope Live! The role of media in suicide, a statistical controversy with fMRI data, and the perceived helpfulness of treatment.
Title: The role of media in suicide, a statistical controversy with fMRI data, and the perceived helpfulness of treatment.
Citations:
Harris, M. G., Kazdin, A. E., Chiu, W. T., Sampson, N. A., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Al-Hamzawi, A., … & Cía, A. (2020). Findings From World Mental Health Surveys of the Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry.

Niederkrotenthaler, T., Braun, M., Pirkis, J., Till, B., Stack, S., Sinyor, M., … & Scherr, S. (2020). Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis. Bmj, 368.

Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., … & Avesani, P. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 1-7.

Berg, E. L., Pedersen, L. R., Pride, M. C., Petkova, S. P., Patten, K. T., Valenzuela, A. E., … & Silverman, J. L. (2020). Developmental exposure to near roadway pollution produces behavioral phenotypes relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders in juvenile rats. Translational psychiatry, 10(1), 1-16.
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37min
May 20, 2021Kaleidoscope live! Size doesn’t matter – either in psychometrics or brain volume
Title: Size doesn’t matter – either in psychometrics or brain volume
Citations:
Lutz W, Striessnig W, Dimitrova A et al. Years of good life is a well-being indicator designed to serve research on sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021; 118 (12): e1907351118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907351118

Chopra S, Fornito A, Francey SM et al. Differentiating the effect of antipsychotic medication and illness on brain volume reductions in first-episode psychosis: A Longitudinal, Randomised, Triple-blind, Placebo-controlled MRI Study. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-00980-0
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36min

FAQs about Kaleidoscope Live!:

How many episodes does Kaleidoscope Live! have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.