Alkistis Saramandi
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alkistis.bsky.social
Alkistis Saramandi
@alkistis.bsky.social
📍Trainee Clinical Psychologist @ UCL / NHS

🥼🔬interests include all things interoception, metacognition, mental health, belief updating

@ UCL since 2015: BSc / PhD @ CEHP
@ Katlab since 2016: www.katfotlab.com
So very well done Carolina & co!!! Excited to read it!
April 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Massive congrats @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social !! Can’t wait to read it🤩
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
A big thank you to the Katlab team, and in particular my supervisors - Prof Fotopoulou, Dr Koukoutsakis & Dr Jenkinson - my co-authors, esp. Dr Crucianelli & Ms Au, my viva examiners Prof Garfinkel & Dr Aspell. Feels good to be back & looking fwd to seeing what’s in store!✨ 🚀
October 31, 2024 at 1:29 PM
- Updating prospective self-efficacy beliefs about interoception in Anorexia Nervosa. An experimental & computational approach: cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

- The use of robotic tactile feedback to convey social emotions & intentions during social media communications: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
October 31, 2024 at 1:23 PM
November 8, 2023 at 5:18 PM
5/5 We would like to thank our patients and volunteers for their time, as well as our clinical and academic collaborators
@katerinafoto.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social
November 8, 2023 at 10:40 AM
4/5 Our findings further suggest that mood more than cognitive traits relate to this dysfunctional precision-weighting mechanism supporting a previously hypothesised relation between negative mood, interoception, and self-efficacy in other psychopathologies (see: tinyurl.com/3ufa5c5z)
Allostatic Self-efficacy: A Metacognitive Theory of Dyshomeostasis-Induced Fatigue and Depression
This paper outlines a hierarchical Bayesian framework for interoception, homeostatic/allostatic control, and meta-cognition that connects fatigue and depression to the experience of chronic dyshomeost...
tinyurl.com
November 8, 2023 at 10:39 AM
3/5 These difficulties further extend to prospective metacognition, with AN patients showing lower precision-weighted Learning Rates than HCs, i.e. patients consider the retrospective ‘evidence’ less than HCs when updating prospective, self-efficacy such beliefs.
November 8, 2023 at 10:38 AM
2/5 We show that irrespective of interoceptive performance per se, AN patients draw pessimistic metacognitive conclusions about their performance retrospectively.
November 8, 2023 at 10:38 AM
5/5 last but not least..when not doing science I love to travel and dance. Check out the show we produced last year, “Breathe”. tinyurl.com/ycyezxar ; all our profits went to @mentalhealthuk . You can also read more about it here: tinyurl.com/yfna8283
September 28, 2023 at 12:22 PM
4/5 Katlab & REDU teams joined forces to conduct a clinical audit evaluating heart rate biofeedback during the acute state of anorexia. More details on this coming soon..
September 28, 2023 at 12:16 PM
3/5 MSc & early PhD work: updating beliefs about interoception and body size estimation in anorexia psyarxiv.com/rntsf/ Watch out for our follow-up study which uses a computational modelling approach & also looks at the role of comorbid traits in the updating of interoceptive self-efficacy beliefs 👀
September 28, 2023 at 12:11 PM
2/5 Affective touch in Anorexia Nervosa - one of my first publications from my early Katlab days: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Work with the Katlab team who welcomed me when I first joined the team as a 2nd year undergrad student..and who has been supporting me ever since..!
September 28, 2023 at 12:09 PM