Paul Badcock

Principles for designing the built environment of mental health services

Stephanie Liddicoat, Paul Badcock, Eoin Killackey

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet Psychiatry

Although there is an increasing amount of literature on the key principles for the design of mental health services, the contribut..

Recent advances in the application of predictive coding and active inference models within clinical neuroscience

Ryan Smith, Paul Badcock, Karl J Friston

Journal article  |  2020  |  Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Research in clinical neuroscience is founded on the idea that a better understanding of brain (dys)function will improve our abili..

New generation antidepressants for depression in children and adolescents: a network meta-analysis

SE Hetrick, N Meader, AP Bailey, PB Badcock, CI Moller, GR Cox, SN Merry, JE McKenzie

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

A World Unto Itself: Human Communication as Active Inference.

Jared Vasil, Paul B Badcock, Axel Constant, Karl Friston, Maxwell JD Ramstead

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Psychology

Recent theoretical work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are predisposed to align their mental states with those o..

The hierarchically mechanistic mind: an evolutionary systems theory of the human brain, cognition, and behavior

Paul B Badcock, Karl J Friston, Maxwell JD Ramstead, Annemie Ploeger, Jakob Hohwy

Journal article  |  2019  |  Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

The purpose of this review was to integrate leading paradigms in psychology and neuroscience with a theory of the embodied, situat..

The hierarchically mechanistic mind: A free-energy formulation of the human psyche

Paul B Badcock, Karl J Friston, Maxwell JD Ramstead

Journal article  |  2019  |  Physics of Life Reviews

This article presents a unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain called the Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind (HMM). Th..

Variational ecology and the physics of sentient systems

Maxwell JD Ramstead, Axel Constant, Paul B Badcock, Karl J Friston

Journal article  |  2019  |  Physics of Life Reviews

This paper addresses the challenges faced by multiscale formulations of the variational (free energy) approach to dynamics that ob..

High-risk sexual behaviour in young people with mental health disorders

Asiel Yair Adan Sanchez, Elizabeth McMillan, Amit Bhaduri, Nancy Pehlivan, Katherine Monson, Paul Badcock, Katherine Thompson, Eoin Killackey, Andrew Chanen, Brian O'Donoghue

Journal article  |  2019  |  Early Intervention in Psychiatry

A multi-scale view of the emergent complexity of life: A free-energy proposal

C Hesp, M Ramstead, A Constant, P Badcock, M Kirchhoff, K Friston

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Springer Proceedings in Complexity

Tinkering with cognitive gadgets: Cultural evolutionary psychology meets active inference

Paul Benjamin Badcock, Axel Constant, Maxwell James Desormeau Ramstead

Journal article  |  2019  |  Behavioral and Brain Sciences