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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 2d

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

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Martina Saltafossi @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social · 14d

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 15d

In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 16d

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body states

Villringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility

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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 16d

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 17d

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Suvi Karjalainen @suvikarjalainen.bsky.social · 17d

Tervetuloa Tutkijoiden yöhön!

🧠 Muuttuvat aivot
🕛 26.9. 16.00-21.00
📍 Alfa, Agora, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

#TutkijoidenYö #ResearchersNight #Tiedetaivas

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28d

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate

Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...

www.frontiersin.org

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Miten äänikirjat vaikuttavat tunteisiimme? Tule mukaan aivotutkimukseen! 🧠

Juuri alkaneessa aivokuvantamistutkimuksessa hyödynnetään äänikirjojen kuuntelua ja mielikuvaharjoituksia, jotta voidaan paremmin ymmärtää, kuinka keho ja aivot toimivat yhdessä tunnekokemuksen aikana.

tinyurl.com/2s24byp5

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · Aug 27

3 (!) open PhD positions at @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on brain and bodily oscillations and their role in cognition: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD Candidates - Flexible Oscillatory Workspace (FLOW)

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

www.medrxiv.org

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · Aug 25

📰 SUMMARY OF OUR NEW PRE-PRINT 📰

Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration (ACD) is a temporary slowing down of the heart during the anticipation of task-relevant events.
ACD is typically calculated from the amount of increase in R-R intervals on the ECG signal, which is fair enough...

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 21

Disentangling Respiratory Phase-Dependent and Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration in a Visual Perception Task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670501v1

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Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods?

In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣Call for applications

We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs
jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...

PhD Researcher (f/m/d) Women’s Mental Health

jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 12

You’re now breathing manually 🌬️

What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?

In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇

Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception

Interoception, the perception and integration of physiological signals, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness and homeostasis. While previous work has explored interoceptive processing in the card...

www.jneurosci.org

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 1

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making

Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...

doi.org

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 30

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health

Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

www.nature.com

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍

We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes.

👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc

🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

Breathing Through Your Day: A Brief Reflection Survey

You move, interact, speak, listen, think, and feel. Life unfolds through a rich variety of experiences and tasks.

test.uib.es

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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · Jul 11

Making Sense of Sensation: A model of Interoceptive Attribution and Appraisal with Clinical applications

New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social

#interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Julia Ditzer @juliaditzer.bsky.social · Jul 7

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩

With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals.

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A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception

Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚨 New paper out!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠

We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.

In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn

1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!

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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · Jun 30

New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:

How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)

#neuroskyence

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling

Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...

www.biorxiv.org

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RD PascualMarqui @pascualmarqui.bsky.social · Jun 26

Oscillatory markers of interoceptive attention: beta suppression as a neural signature of heartbeat processing.
Pultsina, Parviainen, Karjalainen
bioRxiv 2025.06.24.660939; doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 25

Oscillatory markers of interoceptive attention: beta suppression as a neural signature of heartbeat processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.660939v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 28

Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661828v1

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