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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · 20d

Nice! We recently showed that mother and fetus hearts listen to each other and react. Since there's no direct nerve link between the two hearts we hypothesized that part of this effect could be explained by mechanosensation doi.org/10.1113/EP09...

A method for dyadic cardiac rhythmicity analysis: Preliminary evidence on bilateral interactions in fetal–maternal cardiac dynamics

Cardiac activity responds dynamically to metabolic demands and neural regulation. However, little is known about this process during pregnancy. Reports show occasional fetal–maternal heart rate coupl...

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Mariana Babo-Rebelo @mbaborebelo.bsky.social · 23d

📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona!

I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Sep 5

Next week is the world congress of the physiological societies IUPS in Frankfurt 🇩🇪. We have a symposium on the Heart-Brain Axis and also a poster 🫀 🧠. Please get in touch if interested in chatting about science www.eventclass.it/iups2025/sci...

IUPS 2025 Online Programme

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Aug 25

I recently discovered the series Pantheon. The plot around the mind and machines is really cool 🤖

Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Aug 19

I receive several requests of collaboration. Please don't take it personal if I decline your invitation. I'm just trying to keep coherence on my outputs, but I'm also being extra cautious, since a recent collaboration where I was kicked out without clear reason at the moment of manuscript writing.

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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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Experimental Physiology @expphysiol.bsky.social · Aug 5

Diego Candia-Rivera and Mario Chavez (@institutducerveau.bsky.social) present preliminary evidence for bilateral interactions in fetal–maternal #cardiac dynamics!

📜 buff.ly/rMSj9NU

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jul 30

The heartbeat evoked potential correlates with fluctuations in blood pressure: journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials reflect changes in blood pressure | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

The heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) is a growingly used electrophysiological method to study cardiac interoception; however, cardiovascular influences on these responses are not fully understood. In ...

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congrats Leah!

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jul 23

More indexed conference proceedings. Every time I see people failing at demonstrating Klimesch brain-body frequency architecture or cardiac-phase stuff is in conferences.

Nature @nature.com · Jul 23

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature

go.nature.com/450KElr

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jul 8

yup that's me

theASSC @theassc.bsky.social · Jul 7

Catherine Tallon-Baudry's keynote - how to build subjectivity #ASSC2025

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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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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jun 15

Musée cinéma et miniature

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jun 6

Rubber hand illusion in rodents. Nice! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Embodiment of an artificial limb in mice

Body ownership disorders can be triggered by disease or body damage in humans. This study shows, using an automated, videography-based procedure, that mice also display quantifiable behavioral markers...

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 30

Many thanks to the Journal of Physiology for trusting my expertise in neuroscience and cardiovascular physiology. Looking forward to starting this exciting role! 🧠 🫀🫁

The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulations & welcome to Dr. Diego Candia-Rivera from institutducerveau.bsky.social‬ / sorbonne-universite.fr who joins us as one of our 2025 Editorial Board Fellows! 🎉🎓

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · May 30

🧠 NEW REVIEW

"Interoceptive Rhythms & Perceptual Experience
Mechanisms, Contexts & Strategies for Real-World Research"

How heart, lungs & gut shape what we see, feel & do—& how to study it in everyday life.

🔗 tinyurl.com/4ex7chdr
#NeuroSky #Interoception #Perception

👇 Thread 🧵

OSF

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 30

Ah ha! Many consciousness studies might just not be valid, or at least exaggerated. Who would have thought that about this very healthy, pluralist and friendly field of research

Johannes Fahrenfort @fahrenfort.bsky.social · Dec 3

🎉 Our paper "Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness" is now out in eLife! 🎉
TL;DR: Both simulations and empirical data show that you should not post-hoc sort neural data based on subjective measures of consciousness.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 19

Just published our study on brain-heart interactions and COVID-19. We found that brain-heart interactions at the ICU onset indexes mortality risk and acute encephalopathy duration. We also found that maladaptive dynamics are associated with acute cognitive impairment 👾

IFCN and its Clinical Neurophysiology journal @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social · May 19

[COVID19] Hermann et al: These findings highlight the potential of brain–heart interactions as an integrated marker for autonomic function in critical care, offering a more accurate assessment of patient severity and outcomes compared to isolated cardiac or brain measures. doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 19

Just published our study on brain-heart interactions and COVID-19. We found that brain-heart interactions at the ICU onset indexes mortality risk and acute encephalopathy duration. We also found that maladaptive dynamics are associated with acute cognitive impairment 👾

IFCN and its Clinical Neurophysiology journal @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social · May 19

[COVID19] Hermann et al: These findings highlight the potential of brain–heart interactions as an integrated marker for autonomic function in critical care, offering a more accurate assessment of patient severity and outcomes compared to isolated cardiac or brain measures. doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 9

Saw this before as a preprint... We already knew that when we inhale, the whole brain (and body) "activates". So, I don't really get this "discovery". Probably because I'm not a fmri person. Maybe some of my interoception peeps can illuminate me? 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal - Nature Neuroscience

The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.

www.nature.com

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 9

Bravo! Marie Constance Corsi from our team received the BCI Society Early Career Award 👏 Very well deserved @mconstancecorsi.bsky.social

BCI Society @bcisociety.bsky.social · May 6

Congratulations to Marie-Constance Corsi recipient of this year’s Early Career Award! Dr. Corsi’s innovative work in the #BCI field is already making a big impact.

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 9

Saw this before as a preprint... We already knew that when we inhale, the whole brain (and body) "activates". So, I don't really get this "discovery". Probably because I'm not a fmri person. Maybe some of my interoception peeps can illuminate me? 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal - Nature Neuroscience

The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.

www.nature.com

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · May 6

We have 6-month internship options in Paris for Master (french M2) students from neural/biomedical eng or health informatics programs. Starting on September 2025. Topics on signal processing and inter-organ communication (heart-brain, heart-gut, gut-brain). Please get in touch if interested.

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Rodrigo Cofre @rcofre.bsky.social · Apr 14

🧠✨ How does the brain’s wiring and function shape our state of consciousness—from deep sleep to psychedelics?

We're recruiting a PhD student to explore structure-function dynamics using whole-brain modeling, fMRI, and HPC at INRIA🇫🇷

Apply now 👉 adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Apr 8

courtship in Drosophila is shaped by brain-heart interactions

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Apr 4

A heart releasing neuropeptide that synchronizes brain-heart regulation during courtship behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.31.646145v1

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