Julia Ditzer

Julia Ditzer

@juliaditzer.bsky.social

PhD Student of Psychology @ TUDresden Visiting Graduate Researcher @ Yale, Stanford & UCLA. 🧠🎓 Interested in early adversity, interoception, and emotion.

2,195 Followers 1,231 Following 134 Posts Joined Oct 2023
2 weeks ago
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📣 Calling: Alle Eltern

Wir planen psychotherapeutische Gruppen für Eltern von Säuglingen mit Regulationsschwierigkeiten, um zu entlasten & stärken.

Sagt uns, was ihr euch wünschen würdet:
www.soscisurvey.de/saeuglingsgr...

Danke fürs Mitmachen & Teilen! 🙏✨

@tudresden.bsky.social

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3 months ago

So proud of Laura 🤩
It’s a joy to mentor her and have her on our HEART-AIR team!

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3 months ago

Thanks for joining us! 😊

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3 months ago

Heute ist es soweit 🤩

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3 months ago

Excited to present my research on infant interoception next Tuesday 👶🫀🧠
Many thanks for the invitation @cfmhlab.bsky.social!
Guests are welcome to join via Zoom (see original post).

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4 months ago
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📣 Einladung zu unserem Forschungskolloquium!

Wer? @markustuente.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Wann? 18. November 2025, 13 Uhr

💻 Gäste sind herzlich eingeladen, sich via Zoom zuzuschalten:
tinyurl.com/tuente

Wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Austausch! 🤩
@tudresden.bsky.social

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4 months ago

Key takeaways from our paper:

1️⃣ First model linking masculinity, alexithymia & emotion regulation
2️⃣ Emotional restriction/self-reliance predict mental health difficulties
3️⃣ Gender-responsive therapy could target these pathways

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Our integrative model — the first to combine 3 key frameworks — shows how:

Masculine norms → Alexithymia → Emotion regulation difficulties → Internalizing problems

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“Be strong.” “Don’t cry.” “Handle it yourself.”

These norms of emotional restriction and self-reliance can make it harder for men to identify and manage feelings — feeding into cycles of anxiety and depression.

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4 months ago

We know emotion regulation difficulties are a transdiagnostic risk for anxiety and depression. 🧠😕

But to regulate emotions, we first need to recognize and label them — something many men struggle with, known as alexithymia.

Why? Socialization. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

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4 months ago
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How might the ways we teach boys to “be men” shape their mental health and wellbeing? 🧠

Thrilled to share our new paper led by Vincent Mancini with an absolute dream team — James Gross 🇺🇸, David Preece 🇦🇺 & Jack Brett 🇦🇺.

Read open access: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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7 months ago
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Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

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7 months ago

📢 Bitte teilen! Bei uns @cfmhlab.bsky.social sind ab 15.09.25 zwei Postdoc- oder WiMi-Stellen (50%, E13 TV-L, aufstockbar bis 100%) zu besetzen.

🗓️ Bewerbung bis 07.08./15.08.
Alle Infos 👉 tud.link/gs7b7p

Fragen gern via Mail oder PM.
@tudresden.bsky.social

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7 months ago

📣 Noch 2 Tage bis zum Bewerbungsschluss!

Bitte teilen – wir freuen uns auf die Bewerbungen! 🤩

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7 months ago
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🚀 Unsere Arbeitsgruppe an der TU Dresden sucht Verstärkung!

Wir bieten eine Postdoc-Stelle (E13 TV-L, Elternzeitvertretung) ab 01.10.2025 an der Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie.

Bewirb dich bis 15.8. und werde Teil unseres Teams!

👇👇👇

tud.link/gs7b7p

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8 months ago

We're thrilled to see our new meta-analysis on childhood maltreatment and interoception published in Nature Mental Health! 🧠💔

Led by our @juliaditzer.bsky.social, we found that emotional abuse/neglect is linked to lower trust in bodily signals — a risk factor for mental health issues.

👇👇👇

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7 months ago
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🚀 Unsere Arbeitsgruppe an der TU Dresden sucht Verstärkung!

Wir bieten eine Postdoc- oder WiMi-Stelle (50%, E13 TV-L) ab 15.09.2025 an der Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie.

Bewirb dich bis 7.8. und werde Teil unseres Teams!

👇👇👇

tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

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8 months ago

Thanks so much for sharing!

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8 months ago

Thank you so much for sharing!

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8 months ago

Thanks so much for sharing!

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8 months ago

Thanks so much! I am glad to hear you like it :)

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8 months ago

As fas as I know (and I also did another quick search), there is unfortunately no research on this topic yet. There’s some on medical trauma in adults, but I haven’t seen any on childhood medical trauma.

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8 months ago

Thanks so much for sharing 🤩

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8 months ago

Thank you so much, @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social :)

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8 months ago
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A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...

It was an honor to lead this project as first author.
Thanks to my wonderful co-authors Christian Woll, Clara Burger, Alisa Ernst, Ilka Böhm, @alzietlow.bsky.social & @susangarth.bsky.social for their support and expertise! 🫰

Full paper: rdcu.be/eu8bo

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8 months ago

Our conclusions:

Emotional abuse and neglect can shape how safe and “at home” we feel in our own bodies.

These forms of trauma deserve more attention — in public discourse, clinical care, and prevention efforts. 🏥🏫💬

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8 months ago

Why does this matter?

Low body trust can interfere with:
- Emotion regulation
- Identifying personal needs
- Processing stress

This may help explain why survivors of emotional trauma are at higher risk for anxiety, depression, or eating disorders. 🙍‍♀️

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8 months ago

Our main finding:

🫀💭 People who experienced emotional abuse or emotional neglect in childhood tend to report lower trust in their bodily signals — a key part of interoception.

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