PhD @ UCL Psychoanalysis Unit | Interoception | Eating Disorders | 🦋 https://nitter.gq/t.co/ea4E2AOphi 🦋 She/Her
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Joined January 2023
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Is interoception a good target for mental health? Despite the hype on the link between interoception and mental health, there hasn't been a systematic review on psychological interoception-based interventions for mental health. We just published one! 1/5
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Does Touch make VR feel more "real" than vision? 🖐️🥽
Our new preprint investigates the "Sense of Object Presence" using mid-air haptics. We found a fascinating disconnect between "felt" presence (immediate action) and "judged" presence (reflection). 🧵👇 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/v7…
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🚨New preprint alert🚨
Presence is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness
In which we argue that 'presence' as defined and discussed in the field of computer science, is mechanistically and conceptually identical to 'reality'
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1/3 New preprint alert! 🚨
doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/76sp…
Are you studying interoception in a developmental or parental context?
We introduce the Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ), a new tool to assess how parents perceive and respond to their child’s bodily signals.
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Very happy to share that our study, funded by the @MedResFdn, has been published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Many thanks to all co-authors and research participants of @StudyEstra! @S_Desrivieres @_LRobinson_ @marina___bb Full text link: doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.1…
New Paper is out!! ✨ Many thanks to @Xinyang_yuyu @_LRobinson_ @ZuoZhang2 and @S_Desrivieres
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We are still recruiting participants for this research study investigating body and action perception in anorexia nervosa taking place at Lancaster University!
If you are interested, please go to this link: lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.co…
@NWSSDTP @lancspsychres @beatED
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📢Our paper on Updating Prospective Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Cardiac Interoception in Anorexia Nervosa is now published in @CPSYJournal! A real team effort with Alkistis and @Katlab_UCL @paulmjenkinson @akoukout @NisticoVeronica et al.
👉doi.org/10.5334/cpsy.109
🚨New preprint co-led by the amazing Alkistis Saramandi. We used a cardiac interoception task & a novel computational approach to study metacognitive belief updating in Anorexia Nervosa (AN): psyarxiv.com/c8mjv @Katlab_UCL @paulmjenkinson @akoukout @NisticoVeronica. 1/5
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New research from @SGDPCentreKCL has identified specific #personality traits linked with risk of #EatingDisorders.
Read the full story➡️kcl.ac.uk/news/researchers-d…
#IoPPNNews
!["[People high in neuroticism] often exhibit heightened sensitivity to stressors, and perceive them as more threatening or challenging. This may lead to avoidance or maladaptive coping strategies. Therefore, neuroticism has a strong link to mental health." Dr Zuo Zhang, postdoctoral researcher at the SGDP Centre at King's IoPPN](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQWg7mMXgAIv5Oe.jpg?name=orig)
ALT "[People high in neuroticism] often exhibit heightened sensitivity to stressors, and perceive them as more threatening or challenging. This may lead to avoidance or maladaptive coping strategies. Therefore, neuroticism has a strong link to mental health." Dr Zuo Zhang, postdoctoral researcher at the SGDP Centre at King's IoPPN
Our recent paper on eating disorders is out!! ✅✨
Really happy to announce our paper's acceptance in the Journal of Affective Disorders! 🎉 We identified multifactorial personality profiles linked to eating disorders and comorbid depression, generalised anxiety and self-harm. #EatingDisorders @MedResFdn
doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.0…
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There is no mental health condition that is "mild" in and of itself. Some people with depression or anxiety have milder symptoms (as with physical conditions: immune, metabolic, etc.). But many are severely affected. What happened to mental health parity? theguardian.com/politics/202…
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➡️Join the parent-child interoception study, where children can participate in a science experiment AND learn about their body signals. Parents complete a novel task about their child's body signals!🫀
Slots available 23rd April to 6th May! Sign up: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form…
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Our paper "Machine learning models for diagnosis and risk prediction in eating disorders, depression, and alcohol use disorder" is now released as a preprint. We used broad domains of psychosocial data from both patients and a population-based sample. bit.ly/3UpBr2v
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➡️Parent-child half-term activity alert!
This is an opportunity for children to be engaged in a science experiment AND learn about their body signals. Parents will complete a novel computer task about their own child's body signals! 🫀
Sign up here:
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form…
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Hot on the heels of our recent risk-taking in eating restriction paper, our new preprint explores risk-taking in relation to cosmetic surgery attitudes and history. Check it out here osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pf… via @OSFramework. With the amazing @Katlab_UCL @elenapanagiot @akoukout
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Wonderful interactive workshop. Come along if you can
You are what you wear. Can you dress well, feel good and save the planet at the same time? Join our interactive workshop exploring how a textile circular economy can serve our well-being, while also saving the planet tinyurl.com/374dn93y @Katlab_UCL #ESRCFestival @ESRC
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Our new paper is just out in JEP:G - Body appearance values modulate risk aversion in eating restriction. doi.org/10.1037/xge0001445
My friend Pablo and Phd student at Maastricht University is one of the finalists for the Mind Science grant competition, investigating brain synchrony under psychedelics.
If you want to learn more and vote for him click here:
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1/5 ⚠️Hi all, I have the great honour to announce @natshamason and I at @pimaastricht are 1/3 finalists for the @MindScienceFdn grant of 2023 for our clinical study assessing brain synchrony under LSD in couples. Doing so, we hope to ecologically follow social change under psychs
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Just over a month to go until #IoMHconf2023 on 20 September. Join us to hear from @DrSFink @ProfLAppleby @ParianteLab @DrLadeSmith @Knappem @sophiescott and more! Buy tickets here 👇 ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/even… @Mental_Elf
ALT Join us on 20 September for an event highlighting mental health research, with speakers from UCL and beyond! 4th Annual Institute of Mental Health (IoMH) International Conference Mind and body interactions - Professor Sarah Garfinkel, UCL Stress and inflammation in the neurobiology of depression - Professor Carmine Pariante, King's College London Suicide prevention and assisted suicide - Professor Sir Louis Appleby, University of Manchester; Dr Scott Kim, National Institutes of Health; Professor Sarah Edwards, UCL Funding a National Mental Health Service - Professor Martin Knapp, London School of Economics; Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP, Dr Lade Smith Royal College Psychiatry; Isabel Hardman, The Spectator Laughter and mental health - Professor Sophie Scott, UCL Full price is £45.00 but substantial discounts are available for UK students and IoMH affiliates: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/events/2023/sep/4th-annual-institute-mental-health-iomh-international-conference