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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 22d

🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?

Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓

#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience

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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...

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · Aug 11

Major news!
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS

By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al

Thread 👇
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Virgobit @virgobit.bsky.social · Aug 7

Case study: Brain–Body Biofeedback Platform
How can we capture the complexity of brain–body interaction during natural tasks?
Together with @maastrichtu.bsky.social ,we developed a mobile system for synchronized EEG, ECG, voice & event markers — real-time, modular, and research-ready.
#DigitalHealth

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IFCN and its Clinical Neurophysiology journal @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social · Jul 2

[Highlight of the Month] Hermann et al. Brain-heart interactions are associated with mortality and acute encephalopathy in ICU patients with severe COVID-19. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;175:2110745. doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 11

Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you have publications that are relevant for body representation research, tag us!

We want to know and read you! 🤓

#research #bodyrepresentation #body #bodilyself #computational #neuroscience #bodilysignals

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 7

Like our new looks? 😉

BRNet has a new logo.

Contest winner Denise Cadete said her concept featured an “ambiguos silhouette framed like a picture, as an abstraction of representation itself, with the physical body and it’s representation”

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 25

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis

including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
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Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · Jul 7

Paula C. Salamone @paulasalamone.bsky.social presenting her talk "Brain-spinal alterations of self-produced sensations in psychosis".

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Oscar J Sill @oscarsill.bsky.social · Jul 6

Brilliant time at BRNet 2025 - always grateful for such a great community of body researchers! Inspiring chats with old and new friends & going home with many exciting new ideas :)

Here's my poster on children's body map accuracy 🕺

Thank you @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social !

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Thomas Chazelle @thomaschazelle.bsky.social · Jul 4

What a lovely 3 days in Utrecht for #BRNet2025. Thanks everyone for the thought-provoking talks and chats. I think the computational modelling theme for this year was spot-on, congrats to the organisers @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social ! Looking forward to seeing some of you again at #IMRF in Durham!

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cejpreston.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social · Jul 4

On my way home after an amazing #BRNet2025 in Utrecht. Such a wonderful community with excellent research. I can’t wait until next year! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 5

Do you Like our new BRNet logo 🎉

#BRNet2025

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Congrats to our poster winner Ziliang Xiong on ticklish sensations of humans 🎉 #BRNet2025

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Last short talk of the day: Micah Allen on #computational insights into cardiac and respiratory #interoception at #BRNet2025

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Next talk: Paula Salamone on bodily self alterations in Psychosis at #brain and #spine. At #BRNet2025

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Next at #BRNet: short talks, starting with Reinoud Kaldewaij on TMS treatment for altered body image in patients with Anorexia

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

🗝️Marie Chancel, first keynote speaker of the day #BRNet2025
🗣️Presenting
Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University)

#body #bodyrepresentation
#computationalneurosciences

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jul 3

Discussing our results on brain-heart interactions during motor imagery in brain-computer interfaces, at @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social in lovely Utrecht 🇳🇱

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Maggie Szymanska @maggieszymanska.bsky.social · Jul 3

Great talk by Matej Hoffman starting off Day 2 of #BRNet2025. Really exciting to see our BOLDkids research on congenital limb difference mentioned as well! Also - what an amazing venue 😊

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 3

Our first #ECR #award winner Jean-Paul Noel is presenting now self-location research at #BRNet2025 👏🏼👏🏼

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 3

It’s time to listen to Dennis Larsson talk about #heartbeat sensations in #autism at #BRNet2025 🧠🫀

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 3

More short talks at #BRNet2025. Valeria C. Peviani from Donders Institute starting to talk about her EEG study! 🧠

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