Dr Vaughan Bell  BSc (Hons) MSc CertHE PhD DClinPsy CPsychol
 

teaching activities

Past talks / lectures / presentation material available here.

publications

Publications are listed under three headings:

i) Academic writing
ii) Non-academic: print
iii) Non-academic: internet

Academic writing

Bell, V., Raballo, A. & Larøi, F. (in press) Assessment of Hallucinations. In F. Larøi and A. Aleman (eds) Hallucinations: A Practical Guide to Treatment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [email me]

Bell, V. & Halligan, P.W. (in press) Cognitive Neurology. In G.G. Berntson and J.T. Cacioppo (eds) Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences [email me]

Bell, V. (in press) An Alternative Interpretation of ’The Psychotomimetic Effects of Short-Term Sensory Deprivation’. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. Letter to the editor. [email me]

Bell, V. & Halligan, P.W. (in press) The Neural Basis of Abnormal Personal Belief. In F. Kruger and J. Grafman (eds) The Neural Basis of Human Belief Systems. Hove: Psychology Press. [email me]

Bell, V. & Halligan, P.W. (in press) Additional data on whether vividness of visual mental imagery is linked to schizotypal traits in a non-clinical population. Psychiatry Research [email me]

Bell, V. (in press) The Internet and Clinical Neuropsychology: Privacy, Personal Safety and Effective Internet Use. In J. Gurd, U. Kischka, J. Marshall (eds) Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology (2nd ed) [email me]

Bell V. (2009) Taking an internet history. British Journal of Psychiatry, 194, 561-2. Letter to the editor. [email me]

Grueter, T., Grueter, M., Bell, V. & Carbon, C. (2009) Visual mental imagery in hereditary prosopagnosia. Neuroscience Letters, 453 (3), 135-140. [pdf]

Raballo, A., Larøi, F. & Bell, V. (2009) Humanizing the Clinical Gaze: Movies and the Empathic Understanding of Psychosis. Family Medicine, 41 (6), 387-388. Letter to the editor. [email me]

Rees, J., McKenna, P., Bell, V., Skucek, E., Nichols, E. & Fisher, P. (2008) The Rookwood Driving Battery: normative older adult performance. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 47 (2), 139-151. [email me]

Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2008) Are anomalous perceptual experiences necessary for delusions? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 196 (1), 3-8. NB: Publisher’s erratum in Volume 196(3), March 2008, p 262. Full correct version here: [pdf]

Bell, V. (2007) Online information, extreme communities and internet therapy: Is the internet good for our mental health? Journal of Mental Health, 16 (4), 445-457. [pdf]

Grueter, M., Grueter, T., Bell, V., Horst, J., Laskowski, W., Sperling, K., Halligan, P.W., Ellis, H.D. & Kennerknecht, I. (2007) Hereditary prosopagnosia: The first case series. Cortex, 43, 734-749. [pdf]

Bell, V., Reddy, V., Halligan, P.W., Kirov, G., Ellis, H.D. (2007) Relative suppression of magical thinking: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Cortex, 43, 551-557. [pdf]

Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2007) The Psychosis Continuum and the Cardiff Anomalous Perceptions Scale (CAPS): Are There Multiple Factors Underlying Anomalous Experience? European Psychiatry, 22, Suppl 1, S47. Published abstract. [pdf]

McKenna, P., Bell, V. (2007) Fitness to drive following cerebral pathology: The Rookwood Driving Battery as a tool for predicting on-road driving performance. Journal of Neuropsychology, 1, 85-100. [pdf]

Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2006) Diagnosing delusions: A review of inter-rater reliability. Schizophrenia Research, 86 (1-3), 76-9. [pdf]

Bell, V. (2006) Through A Scanner Darkly: Neuropsychology and psychosis in Philip K. Dick’s novel "A Scanner Darkly". The Psychologist, 19 (8), 488-489. [pdf]

Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2006) Explaining delusions: A cognitive perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10 (5), 219-226. [pdf]

Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2006) The Cardiff Anomalous Perceptions Scale (CAPS): A new validated measure of anomalous perceptual experience. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 32 (2), 366-77. [paper] [scale].

Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2006) A Cognitive Neuroscience of Belief. In P.W. Halligan & M. Aylward (eds) The Power of Belief: Psychosocial Influences on Illness, Disability and Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Bell, V., Maiden, C., Muñoz-Solomando, A. & Reddy, V. (2006) "Mind control experiences" on the internet: Implications for the psychiatric diagnosis of delusions. Psychopathology, 39, 87-91. [pdf]

McKenna, P., Rees, J., Skucek, E., Nichols, E., Fisher, P., Bayer, T. & Bell, V. (2005) The Rookwood Driving Battery and the older adult. In Traffic and Transport Psychology. London: Elsevier. [email me]

Bell, V., Grech, E., Maiden, C., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H.D. (2005) "Internet delusions": A case series and theoretical integration. Psychopathology, 38, 144-150. [pdf]

Bell, V., Lloyd-Wright, Z, Møller, J., Hvas, A., Nexø, E., Sanders, T.A.B. (2005) Cognitive performance in vitamin B12 deficient vegan men with intermediate hyperhomocysteinaemia. Haematologica Reports, 1 (3), 4. Published abstract. [pdf]

Bell, V. (2004) Book review: From the Edge of the Couch: Bizarre psychiatric cases and what they teach us about ourselves by R. Persaud. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 9, 315-318. [pdf]

Bell, V. (2004) Mind control experiences on the internet and the psychiatric diagnosis of delusions. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 12 (2), 162. Published abstract. [pdf]

Bell, V. & Halligan, P. (2004) Book review: Neuropsychological Interventions: Clinical Research and Practice, edited by Paul J. Eslinger. Brain, 127 (1), 237-238. [pdf]

Bell, V., Ellis, H. & Halligan, P. (2003) Neuropsychology, delusions and modularity: The curious problem of belief. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 11 (2), 174. Published abstract. [pdf]

Bell, V., (2003) Book review: Imagination and its Pathologies. Edited by J. Phillips and J.Morley. Human Nature Review, 3, 363-365. [pdf]

Bell, V., Halligan, P.W. & Ellis, H. (2003) Beliefs about delusions. The Psychologist, 16(8), 418-423. [pdf]

Bell, V. (2003) The internet and clinical neuropsychology. In P. Halligan, U. Kischka and J.C. Marshall (eds) Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Bell, V. (2002) Book review: Pathologies of Belief by M. Coltheart & M. Davies. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 7 (4), 329-333. [pdf]

Bell, V. & Ward, J. (2001, July) Does semantic and episodic memory make equal contributions to learning in memory impaired patients ? Poster session presented at International Conference on Memory 3, Valencia, Spain.

Non-academic writing: print

Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain
Contributory author to Mind Performance Hacks a book by Ron Hale-Evans published by O’Reilly Books in February 2006.

My contributions to the book are:
* Know the Facts About Cognitive Enhancers [pdf]
* Overclock Your Brain [pdf]
* Overcome the Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect [pdf]
* Don’t Neglect The Obvious: Sleep, Nutrition, and Exercise [pdf]

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain in the World
Contributory author to Mind Hacks a book by Matt Webb and Tom Stafford, published by O’Reilly Books in December 2004.

My contributions to the book are:
* Detect the Effect of Cognitive Function on Cerebral Blood Flow [pdf]
* Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty [pdf]
* Mould Your Body Schema [pdf]
* Have an Out-of-Body Experience [pdf]
* Enter the Twilight Zone: the Hypnagogic State [pdf]

Openmind Magazine
Article on madness and revelation for Openmind magazine, September 2004.
* Is nothing sacred? [pdf]

Non-academic writing: internet

MindHacks.com articles
I am a daily contributor to Mind Hacks, the website stemming from the book of the same name (see above). It provides daily news and short articles related to the mind and brain. Occasionally, I write longer articles for the site, including:

* The curious case of Morgellons disease
* Everyday insanity: psychosis and the mundane
* On orgasms, epilepsy and the lack of sexual neuroscience
* Is depression a brain disease?
* Pulp symptoms
* Hijacking intelligence
* The hardest cut: Wilder Penfield and the fight for his sister

Kuro5hin.org articles
kuro5hin is a collaborative peer-edited journalism site.

* Simulating Psychosis II: Virtual Unreality
* Modern-day Lycanthropy
* Madness In Gotham
* Simulating Psychosis
* The Psychology and Neuroscience of Alien Abduction
* Koro: A Natural History of Penis Panics

Wikipedia.org entries
Wikipedia is a web-based collaborative encyclopedia. I am involved with the Psychopathology project on wikipedia to try and improve the quality of psychopathology entries. I contribute to and keep an eye on several entries. Anyone can modify the articles, so if you want to check my contributions, go to the entry and click the "history" link. If you want to correct or expand the entry, click the "edit this page" link.

* Adolf Wölfli
* Amphetamine psychosis
* Anosognosia
* Antipsychotic
* Capgras Delusion (Capgras Syndrome)
* Cognitive neuropsychology
* Compulsive hoarding
* Cotard Delusion (Cotard Syndrome)
* Delirium
* Delusion
* Delusional Disorder
* Delusional Jealousy (Othello Syndrome)
* Delusional misidentification syndrome
* Delusional Parasitosis (Ekbom Syndrome)
* Erotomania (De Clerambault Syndrome)
* Eugene Bleuler
* Executive system
* Face perception
* Fregoli Delusion (Fregoli Syndrome)
* Folie à deux
* Hallucination
* James Tilly Matthews
* Jerusalem syndrome
* Jules Cotard also in Spanish
* Kurt Schneider
* Martha Mitchell Effect
* Neuropsychology
* Paranoia
* Phineas Gage
* Prosopagnosia
* Psychopathology
* Psychosis
* R. D. Laing
* Reduplicative paramnesia
* Schizophrenia
* Schizotypy
* Statistical parametric mapping
* Thomas Szasz
* W. H. R. Rivers also in Spanish