New paper out in Stigma & Health! ✨
 We investigated how discrimination relates to anxiety in women — and found that difficulties identifying emotions (alexithymia) may help explain the link.
 🔗 [https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000664]

The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072

Full of gratitude-my experience as a research assistant in the bablab has meant so much to me. This has been one of the most formative chapters in my life-growing in ways I didn’t even know I needed to. Thank you for opening the door and mentorship @drbcallaghan.bsky.social @pw-savoca.bsky.social

Technically effective July 1st, but I need a celebration today. You are looking at Associate Professor with Tenure at UCLA. Tickled pink! 🤓🥳

Check out my poster at @affectscience.bsky.social this evening on #Interocpetion and #Pregnancy.

Presenting a poster @affectscience.bsky.social tonight, on maternal fetal attachment and interoception!

Extremely excited to launch our new Brain & Body Lab website and branding today! It was a pleasure to work with the great team at @stellatecomms.bsky.social to create this. I am thrilled with the outcome. Please drop on over and check us out! www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu

@pw-savoca.bsky.social followed up with this empirical study testing and finding support for many of our hypotheses pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39158711/

First up is this theoretical paper on why #interoception in #pregnancy might help to explain peripartum depression www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @pw-savoca.bluesky.social