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Francesca Malandrone, PhD
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Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human and Cognitive Brain Sciences. Cognitive-Constructivist Psychotherapist.

🔥Mind-body integration • Emotion regulation • Personality

🥽 Discover AffectTracker: https://linktr.ee/affecttracker
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ucl-sbb.bsky.social
Curious about #SocialPrescribing research? 🔎

Dr Karen Mak summarises our recent papers in a blog for @thementalelf.bsky.social 📊

Give it a read to learn about the patterns and predictors of social prescribing, and what they could mean for practice 👇
www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/co...
From Pills to People: The Rise of Social Prescribing
Karen Mak brings you a bumper edition blog on social prescribing, finding that rates have steadily grown recently in the UK, though access remains unequal.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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anilseth.bsky.social
1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
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October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nataliepeluso.com
New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social

Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self
In this primer, Patrick Haggard and Matthew Longo consider how sensory signals from receptors throughout the body are integrated to produce the sense of a coherent, continuous, sentient body that form...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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jenndsn.bsky.social
If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...
The surprising science of adolescent brains
Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeifer digs into the fascinating brain changes driving young people’s behavior during the critical years of adolescence. She debunks some of the biggest misunderstandings abou...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
If you missed our great discussion with Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social on consciousness and its potential biological basis, check it out here!
Very thought provoking, including nuanced discussions on AI consciousness.
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon:
youtu.be/wZE4_Oa3YA0
Anil Seth discusses consciousness and its potential biological basis
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
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October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday**
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
pessoabrain.bsky.social PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Oct 5
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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annaciaunica.bsky.social
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The allostatic triage model of psychopathology (ATP Model): How reallocation of brain energetic resources under stress elicits psychiatric symptoms
Psychiatric, cardiometabolic, and immune disorders are highly comorbid, and are precipitated by psychological stress. To explain why these conditions …
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October 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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mbe-lab.bsky.social
Symposium 1.1, here we go!

To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi...

@toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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psypost.bsky.social
Conscious breathing appears to synchronize brain and body activity
Conscious breathing appears to synchronize brain and body activity
New research in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience suggests that slow, controlled breathing strengthens communication between the brain and body. This frequency-based synchronization may enhance self-regulation.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
fra-malandrone.bsky.social
Back from the National SITCC Congress 2025 🔥 We presented a clinical case showing how validated personality assessment tools can be used not to classify, but to understand: to build, together with the person, a living and evolving map of the self. 🧵⬇️
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Spontaneous thoughts, occupying much of one’s awake time in daily life, are often colored by emotional qualities. While spontaneous thoughts have been associated with various neural correlates, the re...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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charlesdriver.bsky.social
#2 "Personality functioning as generalized correlated changes in personality traits" -- basically a large factor model over time with some common factor nuance. With @chopwood.bsky.social et al.

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September 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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ruben.the100.ci
Our fragmentation paper is now finally out! I put some of the dumb quips that didn't make the cut in the alt texts.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A fragmented field. If we conceive of the constructs and concepts studied in behavioral science as a map, we would find that it is highly fragmented and directions are hard to come by. Scientists can hardly stand on each others' shoulders if they cannot manage to meet on common ground. Fragmentation has worsened, not decreased, as the field has grown. Partly, this happens because we have too many reverse Columbuses, who, in search of prestige, set out to find a new continent, but just end up renaming India. But partly, we face a real, solvable search problem when trying to connect our fuzzy constructs and flexible measures. Most measures are used only once. To be clear, we do not want to prevent or reduce refinements of existing constructs and measures. Revisions, translations, and other refinements can contribute to a more coherent, organized literature and improve measurement. We are most concerned with the measures conceived with limited planning and released into the literature without much commitment or much of a life expectancy. In ontologies, these are sometimes referred to as “orphan nodes.”
September 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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danmirea.bsky.social
🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

Thread ⬇️
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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tobikube.bsky.social
Happy to share this new article with @saskiascholten.bsky.social, providing proof-of-principle evidence for biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms using ecological momentary assessments. Part of the special issue on belief updating in BRAT. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The update of interpersonal beliefs in everyday life situations in relation to depressive symptoms and state affect – An ecological momentary assessment proof-of-principle study
Previous research has provided valuable insights into associations of belief updating with aspects of psychopathology. However, prior work was mostly …
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September 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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micahgallen.com
In general we @danlikesbrains.bsky.social think that dynamical systems provides an excellent framework for thinking about multiscale interactions between brain and body - where the body generally sets the global rhythm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics
We propose a computational framework for high-dimensional brain–body states as transient embodiments of nested internal and external dynamics governed…
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September 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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micahgallen.com
At first glance this seems rather important.
September 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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mbe-lab.bsky.social
🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate
Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...
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September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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camillanord.bsky.social
What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?

Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health
Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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michaelgaebler.com
In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · Sep 23
'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body states Villringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
fra-malandrone.bsky.social
Such great news and satisfaction!
September 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club.
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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ajwright.bsky.social
New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!

We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics
September 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆:
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
September 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM