Our latest publication seems to have drawn some new followers! So I’d like to use the opportunity to share what our lab studies (beyond attention & inflammation). We study how what goes on in our minds can shape what happens in our bodies, and ultimately, our physical health.

Thank you @natureportfolio.nature.com for highlighting our research! 🙏 It’s really humbling to witness this moment - after years of hard work, seeing our lab’s first big paper reach over 50K views in a week and being celebrated like this means so much to us.

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 2w ago

A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways linking mind and immune function. go.nature.com/4x7rUNR #immunosky 🧪

A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways linking mind and immune function. go.nature.com/4x7rUNR #immunosky 🧪

So exciting to see this! Thank you so much for highlighting our work! 🙏

Springer Nature@springernature.com · 3w ago

One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @nathumbehav.nature.com. You can read 'Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans' here: spklr.io/63323ERaTS

Okay I read a lot of papers about voluntary attention and that's the wildest title I've read for a while 😵 Gonna block out some time and get my teeth into this ASAP. Looking forward to it!

Liron Rozenkrantz@lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans These results establish attention as a cognitive mechanism capable of regulating immune function in vivo. www.nature.com/artic... 1/10

Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans

Nature Human Behaviour - Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing...

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Cool work showing that directing internal attention to a felt inflammatory experience (but not looking at it) reduces inflammation.. & that this attention may = ⬆️HRV (mindful breathing perhaps?) Seems that pain/sensation is an important part of this attention-seeking process, too #interoception

Liron Rozenkrantz@lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

This is remarkable. "we show that directing attention towards bodily sensations, compared to attentional distraction, produces markedly more regulated immune responses"

Liron Rozenkrantz@lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans

Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 17 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02541-1Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways linking mind and immune function.

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🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...

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In my second @psychologytoday.com post, I write about how our brains decide what to learn from experience - and what autism can teach us about this process.

Why We Learn Connections That Aren't Really There

We learn from experience, but not always from the parts that actually matter. What happens when our brains assign meaning to information that should be irrelevant?

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Proud to share our lab's latest publication! This study provides, to our knowledge, the first prospective evidence that prolonged war exposure affects not only civilians' mental health, but also their *everyday physical health* by comparing the same individuals before and during war.

How war shapes daily physical health – A unique pre-post dataset

Despite the established link between trauma and physical health, no prior study has prospectively tracked changes in physical health before and during…

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A few years ago, @helenpilcher.bsky.social contacted me after reading our paper on nocebo effect during COVID. This week, I received "This Book May Cause Side Effects", with our lab and research featured inside! Thanks Helen! Your ability to make science both compelling *and* accurate is invaluable

Same here. This will be my first time back at SfN in longer than I care to admit and I'm looking forward to the event. It promises to be 🔥

Thanks Micah! I'm Sooo looking forward to this! It will be my first time in the US since COVID too, and since my postdoc :) Can't wait to share the stage w. @micahgallen.com @skhalsa.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social & Galia Avidan #SFN2026 #interoception #beliefslab

Micah G. Allen@micahgallen.com · 4mo ago

I will be returning to the USA for the first time since COVID! Incredibly excited to be part of a star studded #SFN2026 Minisymposium with @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social @skhalsa.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social & Galia Avidan - interoceptive mechanisms ahoy!

This wonderful collaboration, led by @idoba.bsky.social and co-supervised by me and @shaharnitzan.bsky.social, is now published in Translational Psychiatry (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). We find that autistic individuals show more accurate and less biased credit assignment during an RL paradigm.

Ido Ben-Artzi@idoba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new paper asks whether autism is linked to the way people learn from rewards. We’ve previously shown that people not only learn to value the features that predict reward, but also assign credit to features of their actions that they know are irrelevant (in this case, the card's location).

Dynamic expectancies: how treatment expectations are routinely updated in psychotherapy for depression, and how these updates predict treatment outcome Now published and with a 50-day free online access www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SM4HZ...

Dynamic expectancies: The independent role of within-person change in outcome expectancy in predicting overall treatment outcomes in psychotherapy for depression

Dynamic changes in patients’ outcome expectancy have been increasingly recognized as important for psychotherapy success. However, whether expectancy change predicts treatment outcomes independentl...

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Liron Rozenkrantz@lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · last yr.

In psychotherapy, treatment expectations matter. But even more powerful? ➡️ How they change over time. Our new paper shows that updating expectations during psychotherapy for MDD predicts depression outcomes. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRBWU... #depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating

What an exciting day! I'm super proud to celebrate our lab's very first PhD student, Nofar Mizrachi's, graduation! Huge congrats, Nofar!! Beyond the great science and insightful chats, it's been a pleasure building the lab together and accompanying you as you grow into an outstanding scientist 🎓✨

Two weeks ago, together with Hanna Keren, we held the first National Brain-Body Axis Discovery Day! Our goals included bringing brain-gut, neuroimmune and interoception researchers in the same room, and building a brain-body resreach community. It was an inspiring and exciting day!

Had a terrific time at #ILANIT/FISEB hosting & speaking at #BrainBody #homeostasis symp. Fascinating talks by Galia Avidan, Dori Dredikman,Evan Elliott, Neta Gazit, Megan Sammons + 5 great flash talks. The cherry on top: a breath-taking, awe-inspiring keynote lecture by @michellemonje.bsky.social!

Liron Rozenkrantz@lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Brain-Body Research in on fire 🔥 🤓 I'm chairing "Brain-body interactions for maintaining homeostasis in humans and animal models" at #ILANIT/FISEB Conference together with Or Shahar + presenting our lab's recent findings. Join us! Thursday; 08:30-10:15; Dan Hotel - Tarshish B #ilanit/FISEB

Attending the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in Chicago this week? Check out some of our lab's work, with the generous help of NotebookLM in visualization! Sounds interesting? Check the comments for the full breakdown! #SPSP2026 #socialpsyc

Brain-Body Research in on fire 🔥 🤓 I'm chairing "Brain-body interactions for maintaining homeostasis in humans and animal models" at #ILANIT/FISEB Conference together with Or Shahar + presenting our lab's recent findings. Join us! Thursday; 08:30-10:15; Dan Hotel - Tarshish B #ilanit/FISEB

Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum @erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:

In a recent collaborative study, analyzing >10,000 deliveries, we found epidural use during labor to vary with the midwife: lower use with more experience and - interestingly - also with greater concern about epidural risks, especially among first-time mothers. #perceptions #healthcare #obstetrics

Impact of midwife clinical experience and survey-based attitudes towards labor epidural analgesia on utilization rates in pregnant patients: a survey-based cohort study

Labor epidural analgesia (LEA) is widely used for pain relief, but the impact of midwives’ attitudes and experience on its administration is underexpl…

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When your favorite cup accidentally reflects your research agenda ☕ #beliefslab

A couple of weeks ago, our lab meeting involved watercolors, brushes and canvas. We put on some jazz music and painted, while chatting and snacking (fresh fruits, vegetables, and some zaatar pitas :)). Really enjoyed it. Felt like an unexpectedly powerful mental reset. #beliefslab

Honored to be invited by #gethelpisrael to deliver a spotlight session at the #SomaticIntelligence Conference. I shared our lab’s work on mental processes as active regulators of physiology & physical health. An inspiring gathering bridging #mind and #body. #beliefslab #SeaView

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

A huge milestone for the lab, and for me personally! Thank you Israel Science Foundation #ISF for supporting our research on #nocebo effects in everyday life. We'll examine how health perceptions causally shape physical health outcomes, and study the physiological mechanisms involved. #beliefslab

The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University@barilanmedicine.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to our ISF 2025–2026 grant recipients from Bar Ilan’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee: Dr. Liron Rosenkrantz, Prof. David Karasik, and Prof. Chaim Putterman.

Couldn't recommend more!

Julie Lasselin@julielasselin.bsky.social · last yr.

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception