Excited to share that our recent study on nature exposure 🌲 and its impact on subjective and neural pain processing 🧠⚡ (rdcu.be/evMrv) was featured on Austrian national television (ORF). From minute 11 to 15 you can catch me and @clauslamm.bsky.social discussing the study design and key findings.

🌍 So excited to share our new paper “Machine learning identified key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors”, just out in npj Climate Action! 🔗 Fully Open Access: rdcu.be/ele9s 1/

🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁

My talented colleague and friend @todorova.bsky.social just published a paper I had the pleasure of contributing to. We explore how climate action and brain health are deeply linked. Climate action can benefit our brains, and our brains shape how we act. Caring for the planet = caring for ourselves.

Can nature relieve pain 🌳🧠⚡️? Our latest preregistered neuroimaging study, now out in Nature Communications, suggests it can. We find that virtual nature exposure reduces both subjective and neural pain responses, even when compared to matched control environments. A 🧵 1/6 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈 We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩 Here is our 2024 in review 👇

yesterday, @clauslamm.bsky.social and I explained our research on Austrian kids TV 🧠🐕as you can see in the pics, we had a lot of fun doing it but my favourite moment was getting a picture of my niece watching the show! ♥️ #1: shorturl.at/isxPY #2: shorturl.at/gsN89 #neuroscience #outreach #dogfMRI