Out now in @commsbio.nature.com! We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking. Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments! 🧠🔄🫀🧪

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence

The hard problem is solved - Thanks @naddenmark.bsky.social !

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

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

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...

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.

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 💪

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.

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

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)

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...

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...

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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 !

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.

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 👏

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 👇

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.

Absolutely loved discussing our recent @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper on IhmCurious YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTv...), thank you for having me! & to @micahgallen.com @brainandstomach.bsky.social & the @the-ecg.bsky.social team for all their hard work 🧠

The way we feel affects the way we think. Can we find evidence for this in real-world mood and cognitive performance? For a few weeks, we followed people through their daily lives on their smartphones to answer this question! 📱🌍🧠 #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Loving that my #ASSC conferences keep aligning with pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (left #ASSC28 in Heraklion Crete, right ASSC in New York). Can we keep this up for Chile? @assc28.bsky.social

Loved presenting our Brain-Body tutorial🫀🫁🧠 at #ASSC28, great initiative & brilliant talk from @brainandstomach.bsky.social & awesome talks as always from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social & @marieloescher.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the conference!

Check out this cool Psyche article by @leahbanellis.bsky.social - covering our recent research into the neural and psychiatric correlates of "body-wandering", i.e., mind-wandering about the interoceptive and somatic body.

I'm so grateful to write my first magazine article with Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... It features our preprint on 🫁 'Body-Wandering' 🫀 with invaluable guidance from @micahgallen.com and @themindwanders.bsky.social : biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Adriatica Summer School 2025 🧠 🌊 Discover the themes, meet our outstanding speakers, and prepare for a week of academic exchange and inspiration! 📅 September 8–12, 2025 Registration is open via the link below www.dnisc.unich.it/pagina-adria... We look forward to seeing you there! #Adriatica2025

🔬Unge talentfulde forskere modtager i alt 68 mio. kr. via LF Postdocs og Early-Career Clinician Scientists-programmerne. Målet er at styrke dansk neurovidenskab og tiltrække både nationale og internationale talenter. 🔗 Læs: ow.ly/OeuK50VJAjp #dkforsk #talent

I can't actually believe this but I got a Lundbeck Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🤯 I'm so excited to work on multi-organ brain-body interaction models with @micahgallen.com, Anke Karabanov, @danisbassett.bsky.social, & Diego Vidaurre! I'm honestly in shock and can't wait! 🎉

Check out our TINS Forum article on the role of respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation! Spearheaded by the great @fabian31415.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social A big thank you to our editor Moran Furman for making the whole journey very enjoyable #neuroskyence

This is super interesting and so elegant! And perhaps aligns really well with the idea that the afferent vagus nerve is organised according to multiple modalities (target organ, tissue layer and stimulus type) as proposed by Zhao et al. 2022 www.nature.com/articles/s41...?

Exciting News for Adriatica2025 on Brain-Body Interactions and Wellbeing!🧠🌞 The preliminary confirmed lineup of speakers is out! Join us in beautiful Pescara, Italy. Save the date: 8-12 September Stay tuned for the registration link coming soon! #TEAMLab#MamboLab#Adriatica2025 @fraferri.bsky.social

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In our second workshop we will have the incredible @AshleyTyrer from Aarhaus University outlining Dynamic Causal Modelling! Date: 5th March, 9am EST, 2pm GMT. Register below! forms.gle/v72nSZyu4Fsh...

We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out - open stimuli (eg. 3D objects) - open data (eg. MindBrainBody) - tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker) - analysis scripts - & more www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/... #researchtransparency

Excited for our now-accepted symposium 'State dependencies of brain-body interactions in health and disease' at ICON 2025! Amazing lineup includes @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social and (nonskyer) Anke Karabanov. Who else is going to Porto? #neuroskyence

Can what you eat change your mind? 🍎 My first piece in @theguardian.com on why we like what we like, and the role the gut might play in mental health. Hint: it’s probably not all about the microbiome.

Happy to announce that we will be hosting a tutorial at next ASSC Greece entitled "Methods for Analyzing Brain-Body Interactions in Consciousness Research" with @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Marie Loescher

Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality). Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab elifesciences.org/articles/93689

What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last day of Body-Brain Waves #WAVES24 Summer School, focusing on gut-brain interactions 🍕🧠 extremely useful practical tutorials by @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Ignacio Rebollo!

Importantly though, we can’t say anything about the causation here: symptoms might drive greater stomach-brain coupling, or vice versa. Applying new methods like taVNS, focused ultrasound, or new pharmacological methods to target this coupling will be a fascinating future direction.

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵‍💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.05.597517v1

Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive & affective perception, but how? Pleased to share our latest study, led by my PhD student Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechanisms using computational modeling! 🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There is still time to register for our body-brain (late) summer school plus symposium in beautiful Italy later this year. ECRs in particular are encouraged to bring their own data, ideas, and questions! #neuroskyence #psychsky

New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...

📄 Our new preprint is out! In a new study of more than 250 individuals, we investigated the link between mental health and sensitivity to acute thermal pain 🌡️😣. Check out the thread below for surprising findings, as well as links to all study materials and code! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈 #psychology

The website for our WAVES '24 Summer School + Symposium in southern Italy now live - an entire week of hands-on body-brain tutorials from all branches of neuroscience. Students, PhD candidates, and everyone else can now register trough the link below. Happy to answer any questions! #neuroskyence