Livia Asan
@liviaasan.bsky.social
MD, Neurologist in Training @ University Hospital Essen, Germany. Clinician Scientist @ BingelLab and affiliate researcher @ King's College London IoPPN - interest in pain, expectation effects (placebo, nocebo), and Functional Neurological Disorders
@popkirov.bsky.social delivers yet another fantastic instructive clinical overview on FND at the @dgn-ev.bsky.social conference (second largest national neurologists' society in the world). Packed audience, most attendees of the whole event. Amazing
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
@popkirov.bsky.social delivers yet another fantastic instructive clinical overview on FND at the @dgn-ev.bsky.social conference (second largest national neurologists' society in the world). Packed audience, most attendees of the whole event. Amazing
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Next up, a symposium on therapeutic expectations featured some other CRC members, @liviaasan.bsky.social, Justine Schmidt and Regine Klinger!
As you can see, the room was packed! 🤩
As you can see, the room was packed! 🤩
October 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Next up, a symposium on therapeutic expectations featured some other CRC members, @liviaasan.bsky.social, Justine Schmidt and Regine Klinger!
As you can see, the room was packed! 🤩
As you can see, the room was packed! 🤩
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We are so proud that both first prizes of the "Förderpreis für Schmerzforschung" 2025 go to members of the CRC! 🤩
For the basic research category, we congratulate @liviaasan.bsky.social & Angelika Kunkel with their work on the role of dopamine in #treatmentexpectation! 💊
For the basic research category, we congratulate @liviaasan.bsky.social & Angelika Kunkel with their work on the role of dopamine in #treatmentexpectation! 💊
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We are so proud that both first prizes of the "Förderpreis für Schmerzforschung" 2025 go to members of the CRC! 🤩
For the basic research category, we congratulate @liviaasan.bsky.social & Angelika Kunkel with their work on the role of dopamine in #treatmentexpectation! 💊
For the basic research category, we congratulate @liviaasan.bsky.social & Angelika Kunkel with their work on the role of dopamine in #treatmentexpectation! 💊
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I'm glad to share our new retrospective cohort study in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum: a retrospective cohort study
Our study suggests that although hyperemesis gravidarum is associated with higher
risk for poorer mental health outcomes compared with pregnancy without the condition,
the relationship between hyperem...
www.thelancet.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm glad to share our new retrospective cohort study in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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In psychotherapy, treatment expectations matter. But even more powerful? ➡️ How they change over time. Our new paper shows that updating expectations during psychotherapy for MDD predicts depression outcomes. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRBWU...
#depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating
#depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating
Dynamic expectancies: The independent role of within-person change in outcome expectancy in predicting overall treatment outcomes in psychotherapy for depression
Dynamic changes in patients’ outcome expectancy have been increasingly recognized as important for psychotherapy success. However, whether expectancy change predicts treatment outcomes independentl...
www.tandfonline.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
In psychotherapy, treatment expectations matter. But even more powerful? ➡️ How they change over time. Our new paper shows that updating expectations during psychotherapy for MDD predicts depression outcomes. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRBWU...
#depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating
#depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating
@8minutesold.bsky.social and others - cool project - and check our the page! Maybe a cool Sci Fi story from #cosmicchoreographies?!
This project now has a Ko-Fi page where you can donate to keep the project alive! 💙 This helps for example to pay for yearly domain costs and upkeep.
There are also some limited stickers available to buy! 🌟
Have a look and support ➡️ ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...
There are also some limited stickers available to buy! 🌟
Have a look and support ➡️ ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...
Support Science and Fiction
Support Science and Fiction
ko-fi.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@8minutesold.bsky.social and others - cool project - and check our the page! Maybe a cool Sci Fi story from #cosmicchoreographies?!
SIPS snippet #4:
It's so important to study patients directly to understand pain. So far, patient data seem to challenge the bayesian integration principles in pain. But we need a clearer picture - just as the work from Eleonora Camerone is striving to do! #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
It's so important to study patients directly to understand pain. So far, patient data seem to challenge the bayesian integration principles in pain. But we need a clearer picture - just as the work from Eleonora Camerone is striving to do! #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
SIPS snippet #4:
It's so important to study patients directly to understand pain. So far, patient data seem to challenge the bayesian integration principles in pain. But we need a clearer picture - just as the work from Eleonora Camerone is striving to do! #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
It's so important to study patients directly to understand pain. So far, patient data seem to challenge the bayesian integration principles in pain. But we need a clearer picture - just as the work from Eleonora Camerone is striving to do! #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
SIPS snippet #3:
Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out
Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out
June 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
SIPS snippet #3:
Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out
Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out
SIPS snippet #2:
Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!
Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!
June 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
SIPS snippet #2:
Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!
Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!
SIPS snippet #1:
Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia.
#SIPSplacebo2025
Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia.
#SIPSplacebo2025
June 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
SIPS snippet #1:
Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia.
#SIPSplacebo2025
Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia.
#SIPSplacebo2025
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One Saturday afternoon, we started with @winstontan.bsky.social and @liviaasan.bsky.social presenting the new SIPS ECR network. 🙌
Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️
Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨
Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️
Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨
June 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
One Saturday afternoon, we started with @winstontan.bsky.social and @liviaasan.bsky.social presenting the new SIPS ECR network. 🙌
Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️
Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨
Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️
Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨
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Our new paper is out in BP:GOS. A large team including @lillianwieder.bsky.social, @susannahpick.bsky.social, @sunjeevkamboj.bsky.social. We found that #dissociation can be reliably induced using a range of methods and drugs, most notably #mirror-gazing and #ketamine. t.ly/qOme3 t.ly/cK-YI
The Induction of Dissociative States: A Meta-Analysis
Plain Language SummaryWe conducted a meta-analysis of studies that measured state
dissociation (e.g., feeling detached from one’s environment) in different clinical
groups and in response to different...
www.bpsgos.org
June 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our new paper is out in BP:GOS. A large team including @lillianwieder.bsky.social, @susannahpick.bsky.social, @sunjeevkamboj.bsky.social. We found that #dissociation can be reliably induced using a range of methods and drugs, most notably #mirror-gazing and #ketamine. t.ly/qOme3 t.ly/cK-YI
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As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately.
Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI!
First in a series - stay tuned!
Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI!
First in a series - stay tuned!
Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle
Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...
arxiv.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately.
Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI!
First in a series - stay tuned!
Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI!
First in a series - stay tuned!
Reposted by Livia Asan
🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab.
✅ 18+
✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor)
📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI
✅ 18+
✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor)
📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI
June 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab.
✅ 18+
✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor)
📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI
✅ 18+
✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor)
📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI
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✨ Best team ever!!! ✨
The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐
Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️
The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐
Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️
June 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
✨ Best team ever!!! ✨
The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐
Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️
The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐
Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️
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🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters.
📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136
👇
📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136
👇
June 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters.
📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136
👇
📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136
👇
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🎉🥳 New article in BRAT:
Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It's the content of the feedback that matters, not the person giving it: An experimental study on change of negative performance expectations
Previous research on biased expectation change has mainly focused on the mechanisms underlying the deficient processing of novel positive information …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🎉🥳 New article in BRAT:
Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Functional neurological disorder (#FND) remains a research orphan at NIH. FND is among the costliest and least funded sources of neurological disability (see graph). The latest NIH review cycle was no exception: zero FND-based grants were funded.
www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
May 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Functional neurological disorder (#FND) remains a research orphan at NIH. FND is among the costliest and least funded sources of neurological disability (see graph). The latest NIH review cycle was no exception: zero FND-based grants were funded.
www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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The @zeit.de wrote a really nice (German) article about our new @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social paper: www.zeit.de/2025/20/plac...
May 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The @zeit.de wrote a really nice (German) article about our new @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social paper: www.zeit.de/2025/20/plac...
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NEW FND FILM !- 'Recognising Functional Seizures'🎥
neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd...
This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/
neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd...
This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/
May 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
NEW FND FILM !- 'Recognising Functional Seizures'🎥
neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd...
This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/
neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd...
This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/
Great input from a great webinar! Many implications for funct. sens. and motor symptoms. Sensory processing relies on feedforward modeling of sensory consequences of own actions. Many things could go wrong here & produce prediction errors as basis for aberrant sensations or invol. movements.
⭐ New #SFB289 webinar on YouTube! ⭐
This time, Christian Bellebaum presented his research on expectations and action (outcome) processing 👀
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryPg...
This time, Christian Bellebaum presented his research on expectations and action (outcome) processing 👀
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryPg...
Webinar: Christian Bellebaum - Effects of expectancy in the processing of actions and their outcomes
YouTube video by SFB-TRR 289 "Treatment Expectation"
www.youtube.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Great input from a great webinar! Many implications for funct. sens. and motor symptoms. Sensory processing relies on feedforward modeling of sensory consequences of own actions. Many things could go wrong here & produce prediction errors as basis for aberrant sensations or invol. movements.
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We're looking for a PhD student in Essen!
The project (A11): Effects of sickness symptom expectations and dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness
Job ad:
🇩🇪 treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo...
🇬🇧 treatment-expectation.de/en/projects-...
Please share widely!
The project (A11): Effects of sickness symptom expectations and dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness
Job ad:
🇩🇪 treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo...
🇬🇧 treatment-expectation.de/en/projects-...
Please share widely!
A11
treatment-expectation.de
April 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We're looking for a PhD student in Essen!
The project (A11): Effects of sickness symptom expectations and dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness
Job ad:
🇩🇪 treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo...
🇬🇧 treatment-expectation.de/en/projects-...
Please share widely!
The project (A11): Effects of sickness symptom expectations and dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness
Job ad:
🇩🇪 treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo...
🇬🇧 treatment-expectation.de/en/projects-...
Please share widely!
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This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.
March 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.
Today is #FND awareness day!
I was lucky to learn a lot from people with FND and leading scientists within the last six months here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social.
If you don't know about FND - here's a great read!
I was lucky to learn a lot from people with FND and leading scientists within the last six months here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social.
If you don't know about FND - here's a great read!
Today is FND Awareness Day (UK)!
FND is a common, painful, and disabling disorder.
It remains under-studied and stigmatized, but we’re making progress.
Here’s my in-depth personal essay on how we got here.
medium.com/@fndportal/c...
FND is a common, painful, and disabling disorder.
It remains under-studied and stigmatized, but we’re making progress.
Here’s my in-depth personal essay on how we got here.
medium.com/@fndportal/c...
Cadenza for Fractured Consciousness
A Personal History of the World’s Most Misunderstood Illness
medium.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Today is #FND awareness day!
I was lucky to learn a lot from people with FND and leading scientists within the last six months here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social.
If you don't know about FND - here's a great read!
I was lucky to learn a lot from people with FND and leading scientists within the last six months here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social.
If you don't know about FND - here's a great read!