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Sarah Garfinkel
@sarahgarf.bsky.social
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Clinical and Affective Neuroscientist at UCL. Interested in interoception, emotion, interactions between heart and brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · Nov 12
I'm excited to be co-leading a course on Interoception and Brain disorders with Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social on the beautiful academic island of San Servolo, Venice, in May 2025 www.neurosas.org/advanced-cou...
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 15d
New paper by @bignardi.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @oxwell.bsky.social

The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England

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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 20d
Fantastic!
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 22d
What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 23d
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic
Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.
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Meike Scheller @meike-scheller.bsky.social · 26d
#BACN25 continued to be really exciting with a host of great talks and posters. And an excellent Mid-career prize talk by @sjblakemore.bsky.social 🤩

Lovely community & great event 👌✨️ @sarahgarf.bsky.social, @jamiewardsussex.bsky.social + Ed Silson
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Josephine Flockton @jflockton.bsky.social · 27d
My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 27d
On the train back from Edinburgh #BACN25 with my head buzzing from all the great cognitive neuroscience. Loads of enthusiastic, supportive discussion from everyone I talked to so a really great conference!
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 27d
Well that was a brilliant couple of days at #BACN25. Thank you to the speakers, the organisers, the posterers (?) and everyone else who made it what it was. And particular thanks to the main character, the city of Edinburgh, for the beautiful autumn sun ☀️
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Anne Felsenheimer @afelsenheimer.bsky.social · 27d
That’s a wrap! Thoroughly enjoyed my time at @bacn.co.uk. Looking forward to next year, in Brighton 🏖️🎡 @sarahgarf.bsky.social
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 27d
So sorry I tagged the wrong Hannah Savage! Meant to tag @drhannahsavage.bsky.social and not the Michael Jackson fan
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 27d
Includes a thoughtful preprint about the challenges of this work and how temporal order effects can influence data #BACN2025
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 27d
Fantastic work by @tessamdekker.bsky.social investigating how “what we know” influences “what we see” across development, including both young and aging populations
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 27d
@raniaimanvirjee.bsky.social now on Bluesky!
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 27d
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Day 2: @afelsenheimer.bsky.social detailing her work on the effect of self touch on anxiety, Rania-Iman on heartbeat evoked potential analysis, and @hannahsavage.bsky.social presenting a novel test for gastric interoception.
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 28d
Yes! See you there
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Great talk!
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 28d
Day 1 posters at #BACN25. @bethlongley.bsky.social @oliwiastecko.bsky.social @chatrins.bsky.social @wilsonlimph.bsky.social presenting a variety of work from the lab, interoceptive protocols, heart-memory, computational modelling & emotion regulation
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 28d
Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 28d
And we’re off! Jamie Ward opening @bacn.co.uk #BACN2025 in Edinburgh with prize talk by @engra.me detailing his work and service to the scientific community
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British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · 29d
See you tomorrow at #BACN25!!
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British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · Sep 6
#BACN25 is almost here! See you in Edinburgh on Thursday 11th!
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Current, Future and past meetings — BACN
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · Aug 20
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what became in time the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which houses the Institute of Neurology, part of @ucl.ac.uk

As requested by @matthewbroome.bsky.social

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old monochrome picture postcard shown an engraving of a London square - Georgian buildings, and in the centre a park behind railings. People walk o the road at the front. In type at the foot of the card: Queen Square, Bloomsbury 1812. Published by the National Hospital for the paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square.
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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · Aug 14
Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-Level results today!
If you’re joining us this September, welcome to UCL. 💜

Got questions about Results Day, visit our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
Three students laughing and walking together through an archway.
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · Jul 18
Thank you so much for hosting me Giusi it’s been so amazing being here in Rome with you ❤️
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · Jul 15
New from us, led from the front by @gracerevill.bsky.social:

Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Evidence that mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) causes psychiatric problems in children has been mixed. Investigating this issue has been difficult due to the lack of representative long...
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · Jul 14
My new obsession: fashion trends in mammals. Grass wearing in chimps and dead salmon hats for orcas

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Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears — and in their butts
Chimpanzees are running around with grass in their ears and butts at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. This is the second time a bizarre fad-like behavior has gripped the sanctuary's chimps...
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