Clinical Affective Neuroscientist / Professor @UCL_ICN. Interested in interoception, interactions between heart & brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
London / Brighton UK
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It’s a surprise and an honour to be named by Nature as one of their “Rising Stars” nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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I am pleased to announce the Embodied Minds Summit, a two-day gathering on interoception, consciousness, and the future of self-understanding in the age of artificial intelligence. May 2–3, 2026 | Los Angeles
embodiedminds.ai
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What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, @AlPowers7 and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
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What if 'gut feeling' was more than a metaphor, and the key to treating obesity and gastrointestinal disorders? This new commentary, born from the 2024 @NIDDKgov workshop on Interoceptive Contributions to Obesity & DGBI is now out in Gastroenterology: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…🧵👇
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Late breaking abstract deadline extended for BACN. Come join for Cognitive Neuroscience in Edinburgh in September. Cheap student rates & a great lineup
Preliminary program is up! Lots of exciting research.
It's not too late to join us and present! Late-breaking poster deadline is 11 July.
bacn.co.uk/conferences
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Not to be missed! My brilliant friend ♥️
Exciting news - I am launching a YouTube Channel. Please subscribe and spread the word far and wide youtube.com/@bendybraindrjes…
#hypermobilty #eds #neurodivergence #fibromyalgia #mecfs #anxiety #allthethings
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Thank you @DrSFink for inviting Unreal to the @royalsociety meeting “From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self”. It was a privilege for our own Joe Perkins to speak on the lived experience perspective of DPDR and hear the fascinating speakers! #SelfRS2025
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Thanks to everyone who joined our @royalsociety
meeting on the Sense of Self in-person or online. We had a fantastic event with great talks and discussions. Look out for our Phil Trans B theme issue coming early next year
@A_Wykowska
@DrSFink
@PaulVerschure
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Day 1 of the Royal Society meeting on The Self, always a pleasure to hear @manos_tsakiris discuss his illuminating research combining the exteroceptive body and interoception for self awareness #SelfRS2025
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Day 1 of the symposium on the self @royalsociety is absolutely spoiling us with wonderful interdisciplinary discussions on the concepts and dimensions of self! Many thanks to @tonyjprescott @A_Wykowska @DrSFink @PaulVerschure for organising this illuminating event! #selfRS2025
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Yes @jonroiser! What an interesting an important project
Today marks the start of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek & we’re spotlighting #UCLMentalHealth funded projects.
Our first project brings together researchers from @uclbrainscience & @LivUni to explore how politics can affect our mental health & wellbeing.
🔗 bit.ly/3EL6Pmq
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How do people with mental health conditions experience bodily signals? 🧠🫀🫁
Our (@gabriel_mackie) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Sarah Garfinkel retweeted
The @royalsociety is hosting a 2-day meeting on Sense of Self this May in London. We have fantastic speakers from psychology/neuroscience, philosophy, and AI/robotics. Attendance is free. Poster submission now open royalsociety.org/science-eve… @A_Wykowska @DrSFink @PaulVerschure
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Kicking off day 2 of the BNPA 2025 @guy_lesch presenting on the management of sleep disorders. Very appropriate timing given it's World Sleep Day
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Patrick Cookson and Alex Reuben are discussing their intensive FND inpatient treatment programme #bnpa2025
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Kicking off BNPA 2025 with Prof Hugh Garavan's talk on impulsivity and its role in psychiatric disorders
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Dr Hugh Garavan begins the programme with the JNNP lecture on 'Impulsivity and its role in psychiatric disorders' #bnpa2025
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Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson's Disease. A talk from Prof Stéphane Thobois from Hospital Neurologique, Lyon #bnpa2025
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Continuing with the impulsivity theme, Stephane Thobois takes a clinical dive into ICDs in Parkinson's disease
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Apathy and impulsivity in parkinsonian disorders - from
lab to clinic. Presenting: Prof James Rowe from Cambridge University #bnpa2025
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