Lucy Stafford
lucysta02475610.bsky.social
Lucy Stafford
@lucysta02475610.bsky.social
PhD researcher. Interoception (mostly gastrointestinal), body image/representation, eating disorders, computational approaches (she/her). https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lucy-stafford/about-me
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Reilly, Brown & Frank link altered taste, touch, vision, and gut sensing to anorexia and bulimia nervosa, highlight knowledge gaps, and proposing neurobiologically-informed strategies for clinical translation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38730196/
Perceptual Dysfunction in Eating Disorders - PubMed
Eating disorders (EDs) are characterized by abnormal responses to food and weight-related stimuli and are associated with significant distress, impairment, and poor outcomes. Because many of the cardi...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Reposted by Lucy Stafford
This leads me to our final point. Interoceptive accuracy is not the construct for emotion or mental health. We think that interoceptive narratives and beliefs, and how interoceptive sensastions change during acute stress and arousal, is so much more important.
August 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM