Paul Savoca
@pw-savoca.bsky.social
Psychology PhD Student at UCLA | NSF Graduate Research Fellow | Northeastern University Alum | Studying interoception, early-life adversity, & pregnancy
New paper out in Stigma & Health! ✨
We investigated how discrimination relates to anxiety in women — and found that difficulties identifying emotions (alexithymia) may help explain the link.
🔗 [https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000664]
We investigated how discrimination relates to anxiety in women — and found that difficulties identifying emotions (alexithymia) may help explain the link.
🔗 [https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000664]
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New paper out in Stigma & Health! ✨
We investigated how discrimination relates to anxiety in women — and found that difficulties identifying emotions (alexithymia) may help explain the link.
🔗 [https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000664]
We investigated how discrimination relates to anxiety in women — and found that difficulties identifying emotions (alexithymia) may help explain the link.
🔗 [https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000664]
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The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072
Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus
UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!
jobs.ucla.edu
June 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072
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Full of gratitude-my experience as a research assistant in the bablab has meant so much to me. This has been one of the most formative chapters in my life-growing in ways I didn’t even know I needed to. Thank you for opening the door and mentorship @drbcallaghan.bsky.social @pw-savoca.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Full of gratitude-my experience as a research assistant in the bablab has meant so much to me. This has been one of the most formative chapters in my life-growing in ways I didn’t even know I needed to. Thank you for opening the door and mentorship @drbcallaghan.bsky.social @pw-savoca.bsky.social
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Technically effective July 1st, but I need a celebration today. You are looking at Associate Professor with Tenure at UCLA. Tickled pink! 🤓🥳
March 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Technically effective July 1st, but I need a celebration today. You are looking at Associate Professor with Tenure at UCLA. Tickled pink! 🤓🥳
March 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Presenting a poster @affectscience.bsky.social tonight, on maternal fetal attachment and interoception!
March 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Presenting a poster @affectscience.bsky.social tonight, on maternal fetal attachment and interoception!
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Extremely excited to launch our new Brain & Body Lab website and branding today! It was a pleasure to work with the great team at @stellatecomms.bsky.social to create this. I am thrilled with the outcome. Please drop on over and check us out! www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu
Brain & Body Lab
The Brain and Body Lab (BABLab) at UCLA explores how early experiences shape health and development to improve emotional and physical well-being across generations.
www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu
January 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Extremely excited to launch our new Brain & Body Lab website and branding today! It was a pleasure to work with the great team at @stellatecomms.bsky.social to create this. I am thrilled with the outcome. Please drop on over and check us out! www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu
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@pw-savoca.bsky.social followed up with this empirical study testing and finding support for many of our hypotheses pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39158711/
Exploring the impact of maternal early life adversity on interoceptive sensibility in pregnancy: implications for prenatal depression - PubMed
Together this work suggests that levels of interoception during pregnancy are sensitive to previous adversity exposure. It also suggests that interoceptive-focused interventions for preventing/treatin...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 AM
@pw-savoca.bsky.social followed up with this empirical study testing and finding support for many of our hypotheses pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39158711/
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First up is this theoretical paper on why #interoception in #pregnancy might help to explain peripartum depression www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @pw-savoca.bluesky.social
Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 AM
First up is this theoretical paper on why #interoception in #pregnancy might help to explain peripartum depression www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @pw-savoca.bluesky.social