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Academic website of Dr Eiko Fried, Associate Prof. at Leiden University. Eiko works on the nature, measurement, and modeling of mental health problems.| Eiko Fried
Academic website of Dr Eiko Fried, Associate Prof. at Leiden University. Eiko works on the nature, measurement, and modeling of mental health problems.| Eiko Fried
Mental disorders are commonly defined as brain disorders. I discuss why this notion remains speculation, and present a 10-week reading list on the topic.| Eiko Fried
LLMs and dreams both confabulate: locally coherent, globally strange. What their shared logic reveals about prediction and hallucination.| Eiko Fried
In a recent interview with Zhixian Lian from the Chinese Social Sciences Today (CSST), I was asked a number of questions about the value of exploratory research. You can find my answers below—the interview is also available online and was translated to Chinese. After a brief brief summary of exploratory and confirmatory research, it leads... Read more » The post The crucial value of exploratory research appeared first on Eiko Fried.| Eiko Fried
Dutch universities decided to throw international bachelor programs under the bus to appease the government. This is a terrible idea.| Eiko Fried
On how difficult it is to know what the reasons are for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors: 'The darkness that comes before'| Eiko Fried
Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff| Eiko Fried
I also wanted to make a name for myself in the competitive field of alphabet factoring in psychology. G factor. P factor. I factor. D factor. Aaaaall the factors. My recent list is already outdated. So here I’ll introduce the S factor, for satisfaction. Look how satisfied this little student frog is! Seriously though, there... Read more » The post Playing the alphabet factor game: the S factor for satisfaction appeared first on Eiko Fried.| Eiko Fried
Many scientific studies contains findings that aren't correct. And correcting the record is very hard. Why is that?| Eiko Fried
In this commentary, we critique the recent PNAS paper establishing evidence for the I factor of impulsivity.| Eiko Fried
A short blog post for a change, with the goal to preempt expected hype around what is basically a null-finding: Nature Medicine just published a new paper on using Ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. I don’t have the 4-6 hours it takes me to vet a paper in detail (requires reading the statistical analysis plan, compare... Read more »| Eiko Fried
As result of a commentary we wrote, Jama Psychiatry recently published a correction of a serious error in a 2023 paper on treating bipolar depression with psilocybin (together with Ioana Cristea and Florian Naudet). This correction included correcting the title of the paper itself. In this blog, I’ll very briefly discuss the core issue in... Read more »| Eiko Fried
A 2022 study on psilocybin has received a lot of criticism by the scientific community, but authors or journal have not corrected the record.| Eiko Fried
I co-wrote this piece with the fantastic Margarita Panayiotou, Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester who’s work focuses on psychometrics, measurement, social media & adolescent mental health who is currently conducting the #So.Me study. The last weeks have seen an increase of discussions surrounding youth mental health and its relationship with social media. This... Read more »| Eiko Fried
In this blog, I discussed 4 examples where scientific journals messed up when publishing our research papers.| Eiko Fried
In a new systematic review, we compare 388 depression outcomes from 450 clinical trials to see which perform best.| Eiko Fried
There are good reasons for cynicism creep — being disheartened about academia — but it's important we don't give in. I provide some antidotes.| Eiko Fried
This new blog critically discusses 2 recent papers on blood tests for schizophrenia and depression, and highlights that results are implausible, and why.| Eiko Fried
Lets check a new study finding a relationship between depression severity and thermoregulation: do the conclusions hold up?| Eiko Fried
New editorial proposes that the default mode brain network is responsible for mental health crisis in youth. I show that this idea is false.| Eiko Fried
A journey by Robin Kok and Eiko Fried trying to understand what private data Elsevier collects; what private data Elsevier sells; and what to do about it.| Eiko Fried
Studies claim psychedelics provide effective treatments against depression. Here I show you why this is not the case.| Eiko Fried
Mental health problems are comorbid, which means that they are positively intercorrelated and don’t tend to occur in isolation. Of all people diagnosed with major depression, for example, about half of them have at least one more comorbid mental health problem, such as generalized anxiety disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder. Now, the same holds for... Read more »| Eiko Fried
