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Valentina Jelincic

@valentinaj29.bsky.social

Postdoc at KU Leuven (Health Psychology - OGP) Breathing, interoception and neuroscience enthusiast

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Valentina Jelincic@valentinaj29.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣Job alert! Research Group Health Psychology at KU Leuven is hiring a PhD student for an exciting 4-year project on slow breathing and stress recovery😮‍💨 If you (are about to) have a master degree in psychology and an interest in psychophysiology and stress research, you may be who we are looking for!

PhD Position: Keep calm and breathe through it: The effects and mechanisms of slow breathing on stress recovery

Join us—your curiosity matters

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Valentina Jelincic@valentinaj29.bsky.social · 9mo ago

100% agreed, so important to understand what e.g. slow breathing is actually doing before widely implementing these interventions. Currently a couple of projects in the pipeline looking into the mechanisms of SB beyond HRV and mindfulness, hopefully the funding comes through! 🤞

Daniel S. Kluger@danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New perspective paper out now in @plosbiology.org with a few thoughts on #interoception: What it is (or rather is not), how it can inform therapeutic interventions, and where (we think) the field of brain-body #neuroskyence has yet to find more solid ground to build on. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Tahnée Engelen@tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 9mo ago

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
Mark A. Anthony@anthomycota.bsky.social · last yr.

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour

Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

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