We're very excited to announce the launch of 'Turning Points', a new podcast presented by Hugo Fleming and Carly Hood, and produced by @lukasgunschera. In each episode we interview a senior scientist about the pivotal moments in their career... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tur…

Happy Halloween 🎃 🕸️ 🐈‍⬛ I've written my first blog for Unreal Charity about the joys of Halloween as someone who lives with De-personalisation & De-realisation DPDR The Halloween Special: finding comfort in the strange, scary, & uncanny unrealcharity.com/blog/royas-sto… #DPDR #Halloween

Join us for a free ESTD-hosted webinar on the biology of #dissociation! Yoki Mertens and I will dive into our latest research on #trauma-related dissociation in the body, brain and mind and present two script-driven imagery studies. DIS.connected ECR Network @disconnected-ecr.bsky. ISSTD 🗓 06.11.🕣7 PM CET

Have you seen our page with advice specifically for postdocs? It has a collection of our articles, tips and resources to help you #ECRs build your career #mentalhealth #research mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/postdocs/

Getting the small grants is important for the early stages of your #research career – to build up your track record, proving you’re fundable! Check out this post for some inspo, featuring: mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/small-grants-a… NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex FutureLearn The RCN UK Research and Innovation

Excited to share our new paper on disrupted interoception in #FND patients, focusing on brain responses to heartbeats using fMRI: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39558709/. Big thanks to my co-authors Tereza Serranova Sahib Khalsa ibai Diez David L. Perez MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANPA!

Super happy to be invited to Princeton University to talk about Agency and Experience 😎 Thank you for having me ! csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/yi…

Did you miss the #BRNet seminar last year? Watch the recording now! We run 3 online seminars a year, watch this space for updates 🧠

Disintegrating and reintegrating the self—(in)flexible self-models in depersonalization and psychedelic experiences academic.oup.com/book/58175/cha…

New publication from the Fani Affective Neuroscience Lab highlighting the relationship between racial discrimination and lesser insula-mPFC connectivity during attention to threat and its association with greater dissociative symptoms! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… check it out!!

Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with Dace Apšvalka, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & Michael Anderson! doi.org/10.1017/S00332…

🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/general-… Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨

Out in New York Times! nytimes.com/2025/01/09/wel…

Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings Nature Communications ➡️rdcu.be/d5SDU

There are five days remaining to register for #ISSTDAC2025 with early bird pricing! Register now to ensure you don't miss out! Save your spot now: annualconference.isst-d.org Learn more about the different things to do and see in Boston here: annualconference.isst-d.org/hotel-travel/f…

New publication alert ⭐️ We conducted a thematic analysis of therapists’ experiences working with clients with DID. They had unique experiences in and relationships to their practice. This group needs more attention! Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca…

Tune in tomorrow at my talk Center for Computational Psychiatry It’s Movement all the Way Down: Transparent Self-Modelling and Depersonalisation Full info 👇🏼 below Thank you for having me !

Are you based in London? Wanna take part in a study to know more what’s happening in your body and brain when you detach from your self ? Please take part in our study! Full info here 👇🏼

👀Are you interested in the causal effects of #dissociation on #intrusions and #memory? Or are you looking for a method to experimentally induce dissociation?➡️Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… 🤗 DIS.connected ECR Network @disconnected-ecr.bsky. Lehrstuhl Klinische, BioPsych und Psychotherapie

Some academics still seem to be here... I have no idea where (online) everyone is gathering these days, so I'm going to shout into every void about our fantastic new paper, authored by our brilliant grad student, analysed by our superb CompSci colleagues: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…