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Dr Liat Levita

@drliatlevita.bsky.social

Neuroscientist; Associate Professor in Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience. At University of Sussex @Sussex_Psych; Research: adolescent neuroscience and mental health

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Micah G. Allen@micahgallen.com · last yr.

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 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

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Jonathan Peelle@jpeelle.bsky.social · last yr.

Really amazing work that challenges some long-held beliefs about cortical plasticity. "We show adult sensory body maps are unaltered after amputation, suggesting deprivation-driven plasticity is even more marginal than argued by the strongest opponents of cortical reorganization."

Hunter Schone@hunterschone.bsky.social · last yr.

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18

Pablo Romero Sanchiz@pablorom.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a very important issue, because it might sound like "trashing" psychological interventions or prevention efforts, but it is not. This is how science should work. We have a good idea, we test it, if it works, great, if it doesn't, rethink and retest. With enough evidence against, we drop it.

Dr Lucy Foulkes@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · last yr.

Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky

‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar

Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist

timeshighereducation.com

Claudia Hammond@claudiahammond.bsky.social · last yr.

Why do our senses give us such different experiences of the world and is there a way of having supersenses? Come to Think Again at Ironworks Studios in Brighton at 7pm on Mar 13th where 3 brilliant Sussex University psychologists will explain all to me. www.ironworks-studios.co.uk/whats-on

What's On in Brighton - Ironworks Studios Brighton

Want to know what’s on in Brighton? Ironworks Studios is the home of top-quality entertainment and live music in Brighton. We showcase the best names in drag

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Dr Liat Levita@drliatlevita.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sadly mine would be rather boring and depressing now days… calling out to all the cool guys @sussexneuro.bsky.social

British Neuroscience Association@britishneuro.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉 Calling all neuroscientists! 🎉 Show us your neuroscience! 📸 Share images from your daily life for a chance to be featured in the BNA 2025/26 calendar, on our website, and exhibited at #BNA2025! Details and submissions: www.bna.org.uk/mediacentre/... #Neuroscience #ScienceCommunication

Alex Lloyd@dralexlloyd.bsky.social · 2y ago

We were glad to be able to submit evidence to POST's new evidence briefing on wellbeing in schools. Using emerging evidence from @resetproject.bsky.social we made the case for increased focus on selective, preventative interventions for mental health problems in adolescence

ReSET Project@resetproject.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 The Parliament's Office of Science & Technology has published a new research briefing analysing evidence relating to children’s wellbeing in schools. Several of our team contributed to the report, which you can read here: post.parliament.uk/research-bri... @dralexlloyd.bsky.social

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 2y ago

Apropos of everything 🌎, we're declaring it "Fear and Anxiety Week" here on Bsky. It's like shark week but better! This week, we'll hear about fear and anxiety from brain researchers, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and individuals with lived experience. We invite you to chime in! 1/n

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