Adriatica2026 Summer School on Brain-Body Interactions & Wellbeing is back. Five days of cutting-edge research on the brain-body relationship, hosted in Pescara (Adriatic coast). More details coming soon. 🧠🌊 📅 August 31 – September 4, 2026 📍 Pescara, Italy #Adriatica2026 #Neuroscience #Wellbeing

Today at @mbe-lab.bsky.social we celebrate the end of data collection for our Berlin side of the INTACT project, a collaboration with ACE2Lab @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social & Lucas 48 participants, ca. 72hr of ECG/PPG/RESP recording later🫀🫁 thanks to the amazing help of Mascha & Aileen! Data analysis 🔜

📣 New preprint out from the lab! We introduce emotional bandwidth: how much of your emotional state space you move through daily. Wider negative emotional bandwidth predicted more depressive symptoms, even beyond standard affect metrics, and linked to loneliness via depression. Thread below👇

Proud to share that Stefan Weinhardt (not on Bluesky) actually won a poster award at #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody, congrats Stefan!🥳 Keep an eye on his work :) #neuroskyence

Wondering how to go from raw peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, respiration) to anything meaningful? Feeling lost in the labyrinth of analysis workflows? BBSIG here is for you! 🫀🫁🧠 👉 www.bbsig.de We provide easy-to-use pipelines with recommended steps & benchmarked functions #neuroskyence

…schematic of an example workflow

Want to know more about the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) and try out our pipelines for preprocessing ECG, PPG and respiratory signals? 🫁🫀🧠 Check our online documentation! www.bbsig.de

Final keynote at this year’s #MindBrainBody Symposium by Julian F. Thayer, the human #vagus nerve (everywhere at once [„the wanderer“] and always relaxed/relaxing) on „Breathing is fundamental: a mind/brain/body perspective“. #MBBS2026 #MBB

In her special talk #MBBS2026, @martager.bsky.social @mbe-lab.bsky.social presents #BBSIG, that is #openaccess #preprocessing #functionality for #ecg #ppv #resp ! ⭐️ Wonderful collaborative efforts! 🙃 github/martager/bbsig doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #BSMB @mpicbs.bsky.social #MindBrainBody #Python

Today is the day. Looking forward to my Special Talk at the #MindBrainBody Symposium introducing the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)… for now, I’m having breakfast with my BBSIG-themed mug ☕️ 🗓️ March 11, 13:00-14:00 #MBBS2026

Real-world relevance of #brain-body interactions: How to harness treatment expectations and endogenous „drugs“? Clear and powerful keynote by @ulrikebingel.bsky.social at the #MindBrainBody Symposium. #MBBS2026 #MBB

Very excited to present my poster on the transition dynamics of attention later today at #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026 #MBB And even more excited to see my students presents theirs, addressing different questions raised by this framework (see below) :)

Sixun Hou (Cambridge) presenting a data-driven literature analysis of #interoception & related concepts finding „exponential growth“ & a focus on the heart 😊 Good discussion about whether interoception is necessarily conscious & how to split the term up (carving nature at novel joints?) #MBBS2026

Also @jellinap.bsky.social , #MindBrainBody , Young Scientist Awardee 2023, presents her stunning work on #brain-#heart coupling across the menstrual cycle analysing resting heart rate variability and heartbeat-evoked potentials - with links to premenstrual #feelings. #MBBS2026 #MBB

Two past Young Scientist Award winners are presenting today at #MindBrainBody Symposium: @ege-kingir.bsky.social on cardiac dynamics in visual and somatosensory perception & @jellinap.bsky.social on neural-cardiac processing across the menstrual cycle 🫀🧠 Consider appplying in next years! #MBBS2026

Super exciting to see the fresh-out-the-oven results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, the winner of last year’s #MindBrainBody Young Scientist Award, comparing #cardiac phase effects for visual and somatosensory perception in the same participants. #MBBS2026 #MBB

Absolutely beautiful and comprehensive #keynote by #SonjaKotz on #time and #rhythm processing from a #comparative and #translational #MindBrainBody perspective @ MBB Symposium in Berlin! ✨ band-lab.com @maastrichtu.bsky.social #MBBS2026

Did you miss Mascha’s poster on how vascular signals contribute to active visual perception, using pulse transit time from ECG+PPG? Don’t worry, we have you covered! 👀🫀🧠 👉 Here is the poster PDF: www.cbs.mpg.de/2435868/b12_... #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody

Beautiful study and results by @marieloescher.bsky.social on the behavioral relevance of the gastric (and cardiac and respiratory) rhythm. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #MindBrainBody #MBB2026

So many inspiring talks (here by @saramehrhof.bsky.social, Sameer Alladin, @studenova.bsky.social) and discussions on the first day of the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026! #MBB2026

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody 📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

Hello sunny Berlin 👋☀️ The #MindBrainBody Symposium kicks off today and we’re excited to dive into three days of engaging discussion and new ideas! Our MBE group is bringing several posters & talks this year: come find us and chat about our research! 💬 See below to know where to spot us 📌 #MBBS26

The #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 will start tomorrow. The program is now online: mindbrainbody.de Safe travels everybody and very much looking forward to seeing you there ✈️🌍🚞🥾 #MBB2026 #MBB

How do you prefer to call it? 1️⃣ Biopsychology 2️⃣ Biological psychology 📊 Show results

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

A couple of more hours to submit your work and register to attend! Deadline: today (Jan 8, 2026) anywhere on earth. 🌏 🌎 🌍 Do it here: survey.academiccloud.de/f/464284?lan... #interoception #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉 Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

Details: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

It’s getting serious! 🚀😊 Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social #vrcademicsky #vrresearch Stay tuned!

Preparing for launch 🚀 👉 See edia-toolbox.github.io for details.

Happy also to chat about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines for preprocessing and analysing ECG, PPG and respiration (soon), openly available and ready-to-use with BIDS data as Jupyter Notebooks 🫀🫁 Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨ 📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de

🔗 You can check out the preregistration and poster PDF here: osf.io/5ynzv/wiki?w... Stay tuned, pre-print out 🔜

Excited to present my poster at #SPR2025 and share our BBSIG pipelines “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 📣 POS085-2 🗓️ Oct 16, 18:30-20:30 📍Grande Place, 8th floor @mbe-lab.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...

Symposium 1.1, here we go! To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... @toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

The Mind Body Emotion group has arrived at the Society for Psychophysiological Research #SPR2025 in Montréal 🧠 Open below 👇 for presentations from our group members today @therealspr.bsky.social

With an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc

Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I attended a workshop with @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social last year and I cannot recommend it enough: if you want to feel more confident in your Git skills, check the openly available materials and - if you have the opportunity - join a workshop 🔥🙌 #OpenScience

Interested in brain-body interactions but unsure where to start? 🎮 Choose your character 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin 🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social

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...

👥An amazing team effort by: @fra-malandrone.bsky.social @lucyroe.bsky.social A. Ciston @thefirstfloor.bsky.social A. Villringer S. Carletto @michaelgaebler.com #neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports

Our studies confirmed AffectTracker is reliable, with high user experience and low interference. It opens new avenues for linking subjective experience to physiological dynamics. The tool is open-source and available on GitHub! #OpenScience

AffectTracker allows users to continuously rate their valence and arousal during VR experiences. It features customizable feedback options, including a simplified affect grid and a novel abstract shape ("Flubber"), designed to be intuitive and minimally interfering.

📢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.

🚀 Exciting news from our group! Our latest article on AffectTracker is now out 🎉 An open-source tool for capturing continuous, real-time emotional experience during immersive VR 👓 with intuitive feedback options and useful for bridging subjective reports with physiological measures. Links below 👇

🧠🫀 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 [1/2]