🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling

People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

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Excited to see this work published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧠📊 In-vivo evidence of E/I alterations underlying functional changes in individuals with autism in the large ABIDE1 dataset AND replication in the independent ABIDE2 dataset.

I think it's time to retire the idea that oxytocin is exclusively a 'social' hormone. In our latest preprint, led by @kjerstimw.bsky.social, we argue that oxytocin should be reframed as a behavioral flexibility hormone osf.io/preprints/os...

Cognitive emotion regulation enhances aversive prediction error activity while reducing emotional responses sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Cognitive emotion regulation enhances aversive prediction error activity while reducing emotional responses sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Imaging first impressions: Distinct neural processing of verbal and nonverbal social information sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Imaging first impressions: Distinct neural processing of verbal and nonverbal social information sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Young adolescents with autism show abnormal joint attention network: A gaze contingent fMRI study sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Young adolescents with autism show abnormal joint attention network: A gaze contingent fMRI study sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization

Reciprocal altruism-based cooperation is ubiquitous among humans and plays a crucial role in the survival and evolutionary trajectories of human being…

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Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization

Reciprocal altruism-based cooperation is ubiquitous among humans and plays a crucial role in the survival and evolutionary trajectories of human being…

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The annual Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries – closing date the 15th August. Please share this with your colleagues and students! royalsociety.org/journals/pub...

Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition | Royal Society

Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science.

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The annual Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries – closing date the 15th August. Please share this with your colleagues and students! royalsociety.org/journals/pub...

Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition | Royal Society

Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science.

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The NIH announced a plan to pour $50 million into data science projects investigating autism’s causes, but the initiative’s short timeline and lack of details have prompted questions about how the work will progress. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/nih...

NIH Autism database announcement raises concerns among researchers

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced a plan to pour $50 million into data science projects intended to investigate the condition’s causes, but the initiative’s short timeline and other…

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“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. verkündete, dass er Wissenschaftlern, die öffentliche Forschungsgelder erhalten, verbieten will, in den führenden medizinischen [Peer-reviewed-]Fachjournalen zu publizieren. Stattdessen will Kennedy eigene Fachzeitschriften herausgeben” www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/us-re...

USA: Kennedy will Publikationen in medizinischen Fachzeitschriften untersagen

Die US-Regierung will Forschern, die öffentliche Gelder erhalten, das Publizieren in führenden Medizinjournalen verbieten. Wissenschaftler sind entsetzt.

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study

Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study

Survey of 164 primates in Rwanda shows how impact of being close to others is affected by group size and sex Human friendship groups are complex – and often fraught – but a study of mountain gorillas has found that their societies can also be head-scratchingly complicated. The study, which took in 20 years of health data involving 164 gorillas in Rwanda, discovered that the costs and benefits of being close to others changed depending on the size of groups and differed for males and females. Continue reading...

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This Thursday I will give a talk on (causal) mediation analysis -- happy to have finally worked out what I want to tell people. And happy to pilot a new mode of slide sharing: just putting them on my website (juliarohrer.com/resources/)

The medial #PFC is involved in economic & social #DecisionMaking in humans. @zhilinsu.bsky.social l @sdnl.bsky.social &co show that dorsal mPFC is causally implicated in susceptibility to social influence, while ventral mPFC is involved in temporal discounting @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3GwXqQ7

Jedes Gehirn tickt anders #ADHS #Autismus

Jedes Gehirn tickt anders

ADHS und Autismus sind mehr als Modethemen auf TikTok und Instagram.

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Soon available at a toy store near you… 😂 Happy Easter everyone!

Soon available at a toy store near you… 😂 Happy Easter everyone!

New paper in @pnasnexus.org: we study how collective decisions emerge via sensorimotor coordination between multiple neuroinspired artificial agents. Successful consensus requires balanced internal neural dynamics, environmental coupling & social interactions. #SocialNeuroAI #Alignment #MultiAgents

Collective decision making by embodied neural agents

Abstract. Collective decision making using simple social interactions has been studied in many types of multiagent systems, including robot swarms and huma

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Our new paper is out!! 🥳😊. Emotional Self-Experience Modulation of Reaction to Others Emotions (in mice)! @ IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Self-experience of a negative event alters responses to others in similar states through prefrontal cortex CRF mechanisms - Nature Neuroscience

Maltese et al. show in mice that experiencing an adverse event affects future interaction with others experiencing the same stressor. These self-experience socioemotional reactions are orchestrated by...

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Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study - BMC Psychiatry

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments of social interaction and communication as well as repetitive, stereotyped behaviour. Previous r...

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"providing and receiving help do not always produce positive outcomes"--authors calling for "more research on how helping promotes negative perceptions of the self or others and when and how it perpetuates inequality and hampers learning" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autism-relevant

The Unintended Negative Consequences of Help in Childhood - Jellie Sierksma, Kristin Shutts, 2025

Exchanges of help in childhood produce many positive consequences, such as increasing academic success, promoting happiness, and fostering positive peer relatio...

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Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Using personalised brain stimulation to modulate social cognition in adults with autism-spectrum-disorder: protocol for a randomised single-blind rTMS study - BMC Psychiatry

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments of social interaction and communication as well as repetitive, stereotyped behaviour. Previous r...

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Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong.

The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.

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