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Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

Congratulations Ignaciooooo!!!!💫🎉

👉 Ready to dive in? Apply now and become part of a community that’s rethinking how we understand the embodied brain.

📍🗺️Based in the heart of Rome
🫀🧠🫁 👯‍♂️🤼🫂Focus: interoception, brain-body connectivity, social cognition, social interactions
🤝 Multidisciplinary environment
👩‍🏫Amaizing supervision by @van90.bsky.social
🗓️ Applications now open!

You’ll be part of the dynamic and inspiring @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social , where cutting-edge research meets creativity, curiosity, and collaboration.

🧠💓 Join us for a fully funded PhD opportunity in beautiful Rome, working at the intersection of brain-body communication and social neuroscience, supervised by the amaizing @van90.bsky.social!

🌟 Are you passionate about Neuroscience?
Do you want to explore how the brain’s connection with the body’s internal organs shapes our emotions, social bonds, and interpersonal relationships?

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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One of the top events in cognitive & affective neuroscience is heading to Rome!

ESCAN 2026 | June 3–6
Great science, great people, and unforgettable food—in one unforgettable city.
More details soon.

#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

🚨 New paper out!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠

We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.

In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn

1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!

💫An inspiring journey🗺️ into interoceptive research🫀🧠🫁, across different axes, dimensions, and cohorts of individuals.
Thank you @sarahgarf.bsky.social for sharing your insights and for dedicating your time in Rome to the @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social💫

Really looking forward to it!🧠🫁🫀

So delighted to be a Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University. Many thanks to my sponsor @giusiporciello.bsky.social and @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social. If you are in Rome come to my seminar!

We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Seminar titled:

"The Impact of Interoception on Cognition and Emotion"
Speaker: Prof. Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social

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PhD Call 📢📢📢
Are you interested in a PhD in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience? Join us! We are booking for highly motivated and inspired future researchers! Waiting for you in Rome!

🗓️ Deadline 19th June

Useful links👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
phd.uniroma1.it/web/concorso...

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Ready to explore the brain🧠, the body🫀🫁, and their connections🔄in real-world social contexts🫂using both classic and cutting-edge neuroscience methods? Join us under the open skies of Rome🌆. Apply now this will be much more than just a PhD💥.

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal Nature Neuroscience - The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ...

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

Read here:
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Join us for the 3rd edition of the ‘Body-Brain Waves’ conference
This year, the focus is on the influence of the #gastrointestinal #system on #neurocognitive functions, #health and #wellbeing: research on the #gut #microbiome, #nutrition, and the #gut-brain axis

#cognitiveneuroscience and beyond

This work in collaboration with @Paul E. Downing and @Cosimo Urgesi has now been published published in NeuroImage 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Digital connection, real bonding: Brief online chats boost interpersonal closeness regardless of the conversational topic This study explores how the quality of brief dyadic written exchanges (lasting under 5 min) on a virtual platform and the nature of the conversational…

🚁ALERT!! 🧨💥Can you believe that just five minutes of online written conversation 🖥️—no matter the topic—can be enough to create a psychological intersubjective space?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)