Elisa Xu
@elisaxu.bsky.social
Clinical Psych PhD student at Stony Brook University studying perception 👀 and interoception 🫀🧠 in psychopathology | Past: Research @ Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics @IcahnMountSinai | BA @Penn
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How is the body experienced in mental health conditions? 🧠🫀🫁
Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n
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Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n
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April 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
How is the body experienced in mental health conditions? 🧠🫀🫁
Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Do babies sense their own body rhythms? Our new paper on 🫀 & 🫁 interoception in 👶 is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at led by @markustuente.bsky.social
Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life
Infants are sensitive to their own respiration and heartbeat already in the first two years of life.
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Do babies sense their own body rhythms? Our new paper on 🫀 & 🫁 interoception in 👶 is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at led by @markustuente.bsky.social
🧵 1/ Does depression recovery rewire the mind-body connection? Our latest from the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics explores effects of deep brain stimulation for depression on neural interoception. #NashNeuroscience www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
Neural Interoceptive Processing Is Modulated by Deep Brain Stimulation to Subcallosal Cingulate Cortex for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Symptoms of depression are associated with impaired interoceptive processing of bodily
sensation. The antidepressant effects of subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation
(SCC DBS) include acute cha...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🧵 1/ Does depression recovery rewire the mind-body connection? Our latest from the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics explores effects of deep brain stimulation for depression on neural interoception. #NashNeuroscience www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
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We often mind-wander about our past, present, & future. What happens when our minds drift towards our bodies? In a new fMRI study (n ~ 500), @leahbanellis.bsky.social + team discovers unique neural, affective, & physiological correlates of "body-wandering" at rest. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM
We often mind-wander about our past, present, & future. What happens when our minds drift towards our bodies? In a new fMRI study (n ~ 500), @leahbanellis.bsky.social + team discovers unique neural, affective, & physiological correlates of "body-wandering" at rest. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I enjoyed this clear, 2022 article on the parentified child, i.e. a child growing up with a family that expected the child to do the affective regulation of the parents or their difficult dynamics. aeon.co/essays/how-c...
How can adults undo the harm of being parentified as children? | Aeon Essays
When parents cast a child into the role of mediator, friend and carer, the wounds are profound. But recovery is possible
aeon.co
December 6, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I enjoyed this clear, 2022 article on the parentified child, i.e. a child growing up with a family that expected the child to do the affective regulation of the parents or their difficult dynamics. aeon.co/essays/how-c...
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now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece,
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
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"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience
Abstract. Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception, nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fea
academic.oup.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:49 PM
now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece,
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
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Incredibly honored to have participated! Thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social .
Mindscape 296 | Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution – Sean Carroll
www.preposterousuniverse.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Incredibly honored to have participated! Thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social .
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Excited to share my first post here! Our new paper reveals a top-down breathing circuit that slows breathing to ease anxiety & fear. A step forward in understanding how brain-breathing interactions shape emotion. Published in Nature Neuroscience—grateful to my team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 20, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Excited to share my first post here! Our new paper reveals a top-down breathing circuit that slows breathing to ease anxiety & fear. A step forward in understanding how brain-breathing interactions shape emotion. Published in Nature Neuroscience—grateful to my team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry.
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
The cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612221v1
The cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612221v1
Interoception refers to the sensing of the internal state of the body and encompasses various bodily
www.biorxiv.org
September 15, 2024 at 7:32 AM
We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry.
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
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It's one of the most remarkable days of Insula week (day 3). ❓What happens when you stimulate it❓
Among the things, ⚡ecstatic sensation⚡ “a sense of hyper-reality, and a complete present-moment awareness with a feeling of union with the Universe."
WOW!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196836/
Among the things, ⚡ecstatic sensation⚡ “a sense of hyper-reality, and a complete present-moment awareness with a feeling of union with the Universe."
WOW!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196836/
This all leads to the big question: What would happen if you electrically stimulate a human brain area involved in "emotional and subjective awareness"? Circle back tomorrow to find out! The insights from Insula stimulation are even more compelling than the ones that follow from damage, I think.
November 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM
It's one of the most remarkable days of Insula week (day 3). ❓What happens when you stimulate it❓
Among the things, ⚡ecstatic sensation⚡ “a sense of hyper-reality, and a complete present-moment awareness with a feeling of union with the Universe."
WOW!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196836/
Among the things, ⚡ecstatic sensation⚡ “a sense of hyper-reality, and a complete present-moment awareness with a feeling of union with the Universe."
WOW!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196836/