Publications

  1. Marcus J Glennon, Catherine IV Bird, Prateek Yadav, Patrick Kleine, Shayam Suseelan, Christina Boman-Markaki… A Bhat (2025). How to set up a psychedelic study: Unique considerations for research involving human participants.

  2. T Pollak, M Levin, A Bhat, M Butler, R Berlot, M Edwards (2025). Have you tried switching it off and on again? Mechanisms and therapeutic prospects of resetting homeostatic set points in medicine and neuropsychiatry.

  3. S Turner, P Yadav, H Morrin, A Bhat (2025). The future of psychiatry: clinical practice, diagnosis, and treatment. International Review of Psychiatry, 1-22

  4. T Parr, G Pezzulo, R Moran, M Ramstead, A Constant, A Bhat (2025). Five Fristonian Formulae. Entropy 27 (9), 944.

  5. M Vignando, N Mazibuko, G Palma, A Bhat… M Mehta (2025). Anomalies in effective connectivity explain different hallucination subtypes in Parkinson’s disease psychosis

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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

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

  16. 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

  17. 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.

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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  

  21. 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

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

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

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

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

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