Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New paper out in J. Neuro! We used MEG and pattern classifiers to ask: if a memory is reactivated in the brain, does that mean you'll recall it? Short answer: no. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... Read on for the details! [1/7] #neuroscience #memory

Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness

By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experi...

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What drives #dissociation? In a study of adults with #PTSD (some with #DID), extreme negative beliefs like “there’s something wrong with me as a person” were linked to dissociation. When these beliefs decreased during treatment, so did dissociation. Free publication access: tinyurl.com/5n7f4hke

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...

Another EXCELLENT paper about exposure. But this supports my claim that we have to study recommendations that come from basic science and often we don't find they improve outcomes... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Instructed increase in fear activation during exposure exercises does not enhance treatment effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder and agoraphobia

The efficacy of exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (eCBT) for panic disorder and agoraphobia (PD/AG) is well established, but the mechanisms …

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The NEUROADS lab had a brilliant time at the @bnpa.bsky.social conference over the last few days! Lots of great talks and a perfect opportunity to share and celebrate some of our recent work! Thanks for having us! 🙏

Join us this week for our first international dissociation research conference! Free, online and featuring some fantastic keynote speakers with talks taking place across 3 time-zones! Register here: disconnected-network.com/2025-online-...

How is the body experienced in mental health conditions? 🧠🫀🫁 Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🆕Study Alert! King’s College London: Transdiagnostic Dissociative Symptoms 🔗 www.unrealcharity.com/kings-transd... ✉️ TRIAD@kcl.ac.uk or contact @susannahpick.bsky.social #DepersonalisationDerealisationDisorder #DPDR #Depersonalisation #Derealisation #MentalHealthResearch

Interested in a Cambridge PhD? Apply for AIM to get ready! @camneuro.bsky.social @tamsinford.bsky.social @gkmurray.bsky.social www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/aim-phd

Sharing our new paper reporting key stakeholder perspectives on outcome measurement in #FND. This work will help ensure that outcome measures are patient-centred and clinically relevant in future. Thanks Sonja Rutten @abw89.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social! 🙏 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Outcome measurement in functional neurological disorder: A qualitative study on the views of patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals - Journal of Neurology

Background In this qualitative study, we aimed to obtain and synthesise the views of patients with functional neurological disorder (FND), their caregivers, and relevant healthcare professionals (HCPs...

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I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11

The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications

Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...

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Gerardo Salvato@gerardosalvato.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU

Interesting study on transitions between emotional states in individuals with PTSD and healthy controls:

Emotional State Transitions in Trauma-Exposed Individuals With and Without PTSD

This cross-sectional study examines whether trauma-exposed individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder have a sharper transition between neutral and negative emotional states compared with trauma-e...

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Are you based in London? We are recruiting participants for our study. We need to test 400 people so would appreciate sharing. Thank you!

@embodystudy.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re recruiting participants for the Em-Body study! Check your eligibility and sign up here: shorturl.at/AEelF

Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...

New from us: People with delusions sometimes feel that the world is unreal. Here, we explain this in terms of prediction errors, with Kamin blocking behavioral and computational data from patients, psychics, and controls www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Delusional Unreality and Predictive Processing

Phenomenological psychopathologists have recently highlighted how people with delusions experience multiple realities (delusional and non-delusional) and have suggested this double bookkeeping cannot be explained via predictive processing. Here, we present data from Kamin blocking and extinction learning that show how predictive processing might, in principle, explain a pervasive sense of dual reality.

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I've put together a starter pack for the FND science community. Please repost to share the link and do let me know of any folks I've missed so I can add them to the group.

🚨 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF FND IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS 🚨 A new briefing paper from the Division of Neuropsychology @donbps.bsky.social Proud to be part of the team working on this chaired by @nielsdetert.bsky.social & dedicated to the late Jason Price who originally conceived of the idea 🙏❤️

Functional Neurological Disorder: Neuropsychological and psychological management in children and adults | BPS - British Psychological Society

BPS Explore is our easy-to-access central location for you to read and download a wide range of psychological content from practitioners, researchers and working groups.

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By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM