Phil Deming

The Abstract submission date has been extended to 15 December 2025. We look forward to more of your best work being submitted for our SSSP 2026 conference. @ssspstudents.bsky.social
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I was fortunate to have the opportunity to share my latest research with @urneuroscience.bsky.social. @drnathanasmith.bsky.social and everyone were great hosts - our conversations will certainly shape my research going forward.

Read my research here:
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I'm very excited to share my research with the Rochester neuroscience community!

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling"

Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks

Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠

🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi

w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function The authors review evidence that the primary function of the brain, supported by distributed neural systems, is the predictive regulation of physiology (i.e., allostasis). An example from Alzheimer’s ...

Here are our lab's recent papers on interoception and allostasis.

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enjoyed this read on the growing field of #interoception neuroscience.

Of course, I was also excited to see the article twice cited our lab's recent work, spearheaded by Jiahe Zhang and @jtheriault.bsky.social.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...

Evidence from 7 Tesla fMRI of intrinsic network supporting allostasis in the human brain Nature Neuroscience - Functional connectivity analyses using ultra-high precision 7 Tesla functional MRI identified a unified system for allostasis and interoception that included more than 96% of...

Neat that my review of Zhang et al.'s "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI" was quoted in this Research Briefing. It was one of my favorite papers I reviewed in 2024! rdcu.be/eOlTT by Jiahe Zhang, @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and others

This looks like a super useful for anyone doing fMRI work. Congrats to @halleeshearer.bsky.social, @sneuroble.bsky.social, @alexkfischbach.bsky.social and their team!

🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.

#interoception #neuropapers

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function The authors review evidence that the primary function of the brain, supported by distributed neural systems, is the predictive regulation of physiology (i.e., allostasis). An example from Alzheimer’s ...

Sensing and regulating the body may be core functions of the brain. For more on this, check out our other recent paper here:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

The system contained several hub regions (with connections to multiple other networks), suggesting this system may serve as the backbone of brain function.

Check out our new paper, where we used 7T fMRI to map out a brain system central to sensing and regulating the body! Based on prior animal studies - which tracked white matter traveling to/from the body - we mapped this system from cerebral cortical networks down to subcortex and brainstem nuclei.

To kick things off, I’m organizing a monthly “how-to” workshop series ft. leading scientists who will share practical/technical skills w/ the global SP-SIG community. If you or anyone you know is interested in participating, please reach out!

@ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function - Nature Neuroscience Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI studies of psychedelics.

Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That’s right—open neuro AND behavioral (+ESM) data! So looking forward to the cross-field conversations about methods!
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@ssspsychopathy.bsky.social @ssspstudents.bsky.social

Long story short:

Viewing the brain as a regulatory organ (aimed at maintaining the body's organ systems) will change how we study and attempt to treat psychopathy.

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Highlights:

we outline the allostatic-interoceptive system by diving into the neuroanatomy

we review MRI evidence related to psychopathy

we grapple with heterogeneity across studies and offer possible explanations

we discuss how this view might shift research on psychopathy and aggression

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To make this argument, @clare-shaffer.bsky.social and I pieced together evidence from MRI studies that measured white matter connectivity, functional connectivity, and task-based activity. We found dysfunction of the brain's allostatic-interoceptive system.

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Psychopathy - a devastating disorder that upends victims' lives - may be best understood as a disorder of allostasis (the brain regulating the body) and interoception (the brain sensing the body).

New preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.

In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty.

This increase starts before bills are signed into law.

Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.

The brain constantly senses and regulates the body. These sensory and regulatory signals are not merely background signals of interest only to physiologists. Instead, these 'allostatic' signals are central to neural and cognitive function. Great new work from our lab led by @jtheriault.bsky.social.

📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague!
Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895

(PDF) Men Do Not Suppress Emotions More than Women in Everyday Life: Evidence from Large Scale Experience-Sampling Data PDF | Expressive suppression—hiding the outward expression of emotions—has been linked to negative mental health outcomes in Western samples. Despite... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Men suppress emotions more than women?

New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality.

#PsycSci 🧪