Got Butterflies in your Stomach?๐ตโ๐ซI am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc
@visceral_mind
! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date ๐งต๐
Checkout my first published paper of my PhD!! โค๏ธ๐ง ๐: Skipping a Beat: Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials Reflect Predictions during Interoceptive-Exteroceptive Integration (see comments)
Interested in interoception and neural processing of expected events that didn't happen? Then read this new paper from
@LeahBanellis
An absolute monument to control analyses and constructive reviewers! All data/scripts here:
Got Butterflies in your Stomach?๐ตโ๐ซI am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc
@visceral_mind
! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date ๐งต๐
Congratulations to Dr
@LeahBanellis
who has successfully passed her viva! A fantastic, technical and theoretically informed thesis on Neural-Heart interactions, made all the more impressive given a large amount was done in COVID times. Have fun celebrating!! ๐ฅ๐๐ฅณ๐๏ธ
Check out our new preprint (the first of my PhD!): Skipping a beat: heartbeat-evoked potentials reflect predictions during interoceptive-exteroceptive integration. highlighting that attentional precision modulates intero-extero predictive mechanisms ๐ง โค๏ธ๐ต
Fantastic talk by
@LFeldmanBarrett
on the primary purpose of the brain for maintaining the body & how we shouldnโt assume physiological signals are just โnoiseโ
#FENS2024
#FENS
@BrainAndStomach
While many believe being โmore in tune with your bodyโ improves mental health, we surprisingly found the opposite: worse mental health (higher anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue & reduced well-being)โwith stronger stomach-brain connections.
What better way to end a rubbish year, than celebrating some of our Early Career Researcher's achievements! During our virtual Christmas Wrap-Up we announced the winner's of our
#CHBHPhDPaperoftheYear
. 1/6
Happy to announce that the excellent
@LeahBanellis
will be joining our team this November. Leah's project
@visceral_mind
will involve analyzing large scale neuroimaging and interoception data, and computational neuroimaging of interoception tasks. We can't wait!
Building on the exciting discovery of brain activity continuously waxing and waning with the pace of digestive contractions (i.e., the gastric rhythm)
@BrainAndStomach
. We are the first to reveal diverse mental health consequences of increased stomach-brain coupling.
Excellent talk from our postdoc
@LeahBanellis
on the subjective, physiological, and neural fingerprints of interoceptive mind-wandering (aka โbody-wanderingโ)!
#mindbrainbody
Super excited to share our new preprint: 'Heartbeat-evoked potentials during interoceptive-exteroceptive integration are not consistent with precision-weighting'. w/
@damiancruse
(1/6)
Very happy to be involved in this project! (preprint highlighting that the heartbeat correlates across subjects when following a narrative, modulated by conscious processing) โค๏ธ๐ง ๐ฝ๏ธ
A new preprint from our lab, in collaboration with
@lucas_c_parra
and
@damiancruse
.
In this work we report that narrative stimuli can synchronize the natural fluctuations of the heart.
Main kudos for this work to
@DocSleeep
and
@cogniemotion
.
Today Iโll be presenting my work on embodied mind wandering (AKA Body-Wandering ๐)
#MindBrainBody
@visceral_mind
, looking forward to sharing with you all!
Excited to share my first preprint! Describes prediction error minimisation and global neuronal conscious breakthrough mechanisms of speech comprehension
New pre-print alert ๐จ: "Event-related potentials reflect prediction errors and pop-out during comprehension of degraded speech" Great team effort from
@LeahBanellis
@RodikaSokoliuk
@conorwild
and Howard Bowman /1
@BrainAndStomach
In summary, we identified a unique mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling. Applying pharmacological or mechanical methods which alter the gastric rhythm/brain coupling may refine diagnostic and therapeutic interventions remediating maladaptive body-mind connections.
@AcademicChatter
Hey Iโm Leah, a
#FirstGen
#LGBTQIA
PhD student studying consciousness at the University of Birmingham, UK. I research brain-body interactions in both healthy individuals and in patients with disorders of consciousness.
@BrainAndStomach
We identified highly individual mental health symptom profiles across 37 psychiatric scores including anxiety, depression, and stress - ranging from subclinical to clinically significant. As well as capturing individual differences in patterns of stomach-brain phase coupling.
๐จPaper alert๐จ: Event-related potentials reflect prediction errors and pop-out during comprehension of degraded speech ๐ง ๐, huge thanks to
@damiancruse
@RodikaSokoliuk
@conorwild
& Howard Bowman for their hard work ๐(see thread)
@BrainAndStomach
Attentional and control networks contribute most to our psychiatric stomach-brain coupling result, suggesting specific attentional and inhibitory control pathways that are influenced by visceral-modulated psychopathology.
I have serious FOMO on missing out
#ASSC25
in Amsterdam! In particular, because I will miss
@LeahBanellis
presenting our work on "body-wandering", i.e. how spontaneous thoughts about the visceral body relate to physiological and interoceptive variables. Poster
#28
, July 13th!
@micahgallen
@visceral_mind
I'm so excited to start! The project is super exciting & I can't wait to experience the Danish life with your team ๐ฉ๐ฐ Thank you so much for the opportunity ๐
@BrainAndStomach
Crucially, we controlled for brain connectivity, neural variability, bodily mass, and gastric function, demonstrating that this link is specific to the stomach-brain axis.
@BrainAndStomach
Using a cross-validated Canonical Correlation Analysis, we uncover a psychiatric signature of stomach-brain coupling in fronto-parietal regions. We were surprised by what we found!
Weโve loved having
@TrupthiKR
at
@visceral_mind
for her Masters Project! Great work on embodied mind wandering during a naturalistic anxiety-inducing film ๐ฅ
@micahgallen
JOB ALERT: We're looking for a research associate to help us finish up our brain injury project. The post is only 8-months, but ideal for a recent MSc/PhD looking for extra clinical research experience. Info here:
Important discussions on the leaky pipeline for women in science by
@erin_schuman
@vogel_ida
, Marina Romero-Ramos &
@fabugle
, especially after hearing many senior scientists say โdonโt hire female postdocs because they might get pregnantโ & many other similar pregnancy comments๐ช
Re-rearching through HEP studies to determine best methods of CFA & baseline correction, discovered that
@JJMurphy90
@DrGeoffBird
@DrHannahHobson
& Michel-Pierre Coll already have a table of detailed HEP data collated on OSF! Thanks so much, this is super helpful ๐๐
For those who missed it... here's my poster on Body-Wandering, this is only the beginning so if you have suggestions for future analyses hit me up โ๏ธ
Join our lunch career series for tips on securing a job after the PhD! First week includes details of career support at UoB, crucial postdoctural funding tips and insight into an exciting career with Facebook/Oculus ๐ฉโ๐๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐ฉโ๐ป
Are you a PhD researcher scoping out your options post-doctorate?
We are thrilled to announce our upcoming MMIN Lunchtime PGR Careers Series, where we have a fantastic line-up of speakers from a plethora of industries.
Find out more:
#MMINCareersSeries
A significant milestone today as we saw the first patient of the chronic phase of our disorders of consciousness study. It's been a great experience working with
@bhamcommunity
to get this set up, and I'm super excited for the results of the project!
Really enjoyed the thought provoking talk by Antonio Damasio
@damasiousc
, for the
@ExpPsychSoc
affective embodiment symposium, describing the role of unmyelinated fibres in the process of feeling and the implications for consciousness
Enjoyed an interesting talk yesterday by Martina Corazzol &
@MmeJeanserre
, about auditory conscious thresholds in DOC patients, thanks
@jdsitt
for allowing me to join!
@maria_ndrnh
I believe interoception (especially respiration) in disorders of consciousness is a fairly new topic but I saw a poster at
@theASSC
from
@jdsitt
's lab regarding conscious respiratory entrainment to auditory stimuli in DOC
๐ New
@bpplab_au
preprint ๐! In more than 250 individuals, we investigated the link between mental health and sensitivity to acute thermal pain ๐ก๏ธ๐ฃ. Check out our thread ๐งต๐ for surprising findings, as well as links to all study materials and code!
Feeling really ill after pushing and working too hard in preparation for a conference, now I have to stay in the Airbnb instead of actually attend ๐ช, this has happened to me repetitively whilst studying/workingโฆIโm wondering if itโs actually possible to avoid?
@AcademicChatter
Students and postdocs attending
@assc25
, your Student Committee organized a FREE legendary boat party for you to mingle and share thoughts while cruising Amsterdam!
Make sure to register before we reach our ticket limit:
#consciousness
#assc25
#assc
New
#preprint
out by Monti, Porciello
@MaSePan7
&
@salvatoraglioti
! A pill measuring stomach and bowel activity shows that being aware of one's own body is also a gut feeling:
Brilliant article about postgrad mental health by
@BiancaDiaconu4
โฆ"there seems to be a culture of acceptance that mental health issues are expected.โ .. this was the issue I was most frustrated with when completing my PhD
@danlikesbrains
Good luck Daniel & don't give up! I've enjoyed reading your preprints & hoping to see them as papers soon. I also received a pretty gutting review recently, important to talk about the struggles as well as the sucesses on twitter too :)
@micahgallen
@AndrewZalesky
@BrainAndStomach
Myself and Ignacio visually inspected all of the EGG (was a long process ๐) & we selected the EGG channel with most cleanest and prominent peak within the normogastric range (0.033-0.066 Hz) for each individual.
With 40 billion dollars, Elon Musk could have given each of the 330M people living in America a million dollars and still had $7B left over. Why aren't more people talking about this?