Publications

  1. PhD thesis in Neuroscience and Mental Health, University College London (MRC DTP): Why does prenatal infection prime the brain for psychosis?

  2. Kagan, B.J., Kitchen, A.C., Tran, N.T., Parker, B.J., Bhat, A., … Karl J. Friston (2022). In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world. Neuron, 110, 3952-3969.e8.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.09.001

  3. Bhat, A., Raval, P., Irizar, H., Dutan, L., Nagy, R., Srivastava (2022). Attenuated transcriptional response to pro-inflammatory cytokines in schizophrenia hiPSC-derived neural progenitor cells. Brain, Behav.  Immun. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.06.010

  4. Bhat, A.*, Irizar, H.*, Thygesen, J.H., Pain, O., Zartaloudi, E., Harju-Seppanen, J., Austin-Zimmerman, I., Wang, B., Srivastava, D.P., Friston, K., Adams, R., Kuchenbaecker, K., PEIC, Hong, E., Hall, M., Bramon, E. (2020) Transcriptome-wide association links two new candidate genes with mismatch negativity. Cell Reports, 34(11), 108868, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108868.

  5. Bhat, A., Parr, T., Ramstead, M. et al. Immunoceptive inference: Why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined? Biol Philos 36, 27 (2021). doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09801-6.

  6. Kagan, B.J., Razi, A., Bhat, A., Kitchen, A.C., Tran, N.T., … Karl J. Friston (2023). Scientific communication and the semantics of sentience. Neuron. 1;111(5):606-607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.008

  7. Hartwig, M, Bhat, A., Peters, A. (2022). How Stress can Change our Deepest Preferences: Stress Habituation Explained Using the Free Energy Principle. Front. Psychol., Sec. Cognitive Science, Volume 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865203

  8. Parr, T., Bhat, A., Zeidman, P., Goel, A., Billig, A.J, Moran, R. and Friston, K.J. (2021). Dynamic causal modelling of immune heterogeneity. Sci. Rep., 11(1):11400 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91011-x

  9. Hipolito, I., Ramstead, M., Convertino, L., Bhat, A., Friston, K.J. and Parr, T. (2020). Markov Blankets in the Brain. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 125, 88-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.003

  10. Kagan, J., Mahlis, M., Bhat, A., … Wang, G. (2024). Towards a nomenclature for diverse intelligent systems. The Innovation, 5(2). Accepted

  11. Soden, P.A., Bhat, A., Anderson, A.K. and Friston, K.J. (2023). The Meltdown Pathway: A multidisciplinary account of autistic meltdowns. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/27w9p

  12. Bramon, E., Thygesen, J.H., Presman, A., Harju-Seppänen, J., Calafato, S., Zartaloudi, E., Irizar, H…. Bhat, A., Muir, R., and Bell, V. (2020). Genetic Copy Number Variants, Cognition and Psychosis: A Meta-analysis and a Family Study. Molecular Psychiatry. doi: s41380-020-0820-7.

  13. Calafato, M.S., Austin-Zimmerman, I., Thygesen, J.H., Sairam, M., Metastasio, A., Marston, L., Abbad-Santos, F., Bhat, A., Harju-Seppänen, J., Irizar, H., Zartaloudi, E. and Bramon, E. (2020). The effect of CYP2D6 variation on antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinaemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Pharmacogenomics Journal, (20), 629–637. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41397-019-0142-9

  14. Wang, B et al (2022). Adolescent Verbal Memory as a Psychosis Endophenotype: A Genome-Wide Association Study in an Ancestrally Diverse Sample, Genes 13(1):106. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13010106

  15. Wannasuphoprasit, Y. et al (2022). CYP2D6 Genetic Variation and Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.768748  

  16. Bhat, A. (2016). Peculiarities of insight: Clinical implications of self-representations. J Biosci 41, 3–8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-015-9582-9

  17. Bhat, A. (2015). Unraveling the mystery of cognitive reserve. J Biosci 40, 205–208 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-015-9511-y

  18. Bhat, A., Horne, C., Leech R., … Moran, R. (2024). Treatment resistance in early psychosis is characterised by altered top-down effective connectivity. In prep.

  19. Bhat, A.* Xhonneux, A-C.*, Moran, R. (2024). Computational phenotyping of search strategies. In prep.

  20. Bhat, A.*, Mirza, B.*, Djoneva, R., Moran, R. (2024). Agreeing on a shared reality: Multi-agent modelling of social influence and trust. In prep.

  21. Bhat, A. (2024). Computational neuroimmunology. In: Neurobiology, reproduction and active inference. Eds. Antonelli, M.C. & Frasch, M. (Invited book chapter).

  22. Bhat, A., Frasch, M., Leech, R. (2024). Unique considerations in psychedelic research. In: Methods in Molecular Biology, Ed. Yan, Q. (Invited book chapter).

  23. Bhat, A. (2023). Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds and strange things”. Physics of Life Reviews. (Invited commentary). In prep.

  24. Bhat, A. (2024). Intrinsic motivation theory of attention deficit disorder. In prep.

  25. Seghezzi, S., Haggard, P., Friston, K., Bhat, A. Active inference and intentional binding. In prep.