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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 16d

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations! Awesome work 🥳

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Martina Saltafossi @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social · 12d

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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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...

Scientists discover surprising link between gut-brain interactions and mental health

Every emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may chang...

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 15d

So cute!!

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Jonas Haslbeck @jmbh.bsky.social · 16d

Two new preprints on multilevel HMMs! Time series data is now pervasive in psychology and new methods are needed to model the dynamics in such data. Hidden Markov Models (HHMs) are powerful models for dynamics in which a system is switching between a number of discrete states.

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

That’s a wrap! Thanks to the speakers @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov and co-organiser @danlikesbrains.bsky.social for a great symposium 💪

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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 23d

Finally, we'll have the Brain-Body States Symposium on Friday morning, featuring @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov.
Friday's poster session will also feature the lab's recent work on respiration and active sampling.

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 28d

Incredibly impressed with the calibre of research by Ye Ella Tian showing the importance of multi-organ bodily health including immunometabolics (at Adriatica Summer School 🏖️)
#teamlab #mambolab #psychologywellbeing_ch #fraferri_78 #erasmus_uda

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you Edwin! We love reading your research also, especially important work with the gut-brain axis & disgust

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 29d

So thrilled to see this Spotlight. Thank you @dalmaijer.bsky.social! Homes in on the complexity of the role of interoceptive signals with mental health, a 'one size fits all' is clearly not appropriate for interoception (sometimes showing that ‘being in touch with your body’ is not always preferred)

Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 29d

In this @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Spotlight, I describe how a recent paper by @leahbanellis.bsky.social, @brainandstomach.bsky.social, et al. opens new avenues in interoception research, including those focussed on the subjective interpretation of internal signals: www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Stomach–brain synchronisation is associated with poorer mental health

In common parlance, ‘being in touch with your body’ is often used positively. However, in a recent study, Banellis, Rebollo, and colleagues show that better stomach–brain synchronisation is actually a...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Sep 2

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 30

New preprint...and this one is truly EPIC 🚨.

Using a large group of patients with depression and healthy controls (N>800), we show differences in the functional segregation of insular subnetworks. And we can use it to classify!
Led by @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Graphical summary of the analysis pipeline

Decreased similarity within the anterior insula cortex drives group differences between patients with MDD and healthy control participants. This difference is illustrated by shift functions and compared to control regions in the temporal cortex.

Patients with depression can be robustly classified based on functional connectivity profiles, and the accuracy improves with increasing symptom severity.

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · Aug 27

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · Aug 27

Excellent thread - explaining a (highly surprising) negative result, but also going into the ecological validity of the experiments performed and possible strategies to address those validity issues.

This is what we need in experimental cog sci !

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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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very interesting set of null findings! TL;DR: no direct link between rigorously tested interoception across various domains and mental health. Read the whole thread (and/or preprint!) for nuance behind why there might be a null effect here.

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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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you! It's so nice to see this 😊. Perhaps it's less about our accuracy in perceiving our interoceptive sensations at rest, but instead hinges on our implicit brain-body coupling, or even explicit interoceptive beliefs (that may be variable, biased, or context-dependent!)

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow, this is the kind of evidence we need to move ahead in the field. I'll go out on a limb here: I guess it is more about the gut than cardiac and respiratory domains. Huge effort by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com and the entire team 👏

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Aug 27

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.25334366v1

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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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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · Aug 7

I am ridiculously excited about this! We made the cover!! (online-only... but still 😂). Love the philosophical twist to this Editorial at Nature Mental Health featuring our research.

Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 7

Very pleased to be featured in the August Editorial for Nature Mental Health! The stomach’s turn: elucidating the gut–brain axis www.nature.com/articles/s44...