
Sarah Garfinkel
@DrSFink
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Clinical Affective Neuroscientist / Professor @UCL_ICN. Interested in interoception, interactions between heart & brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
London / Brighton UK
Joined February 2013
It’s a surprise and an honour to be named by Nature as one of their “Rising Stars” https://t.co/nBi41YNnS2
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What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, @AlPowers7 and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
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What if 'gut feeling' was more than a metaphor, and the key to treating obesity and gastrointestinal disorders? This new commentary, born from the 2024 @NIDDKgov workshop on Interoceptive Contributions to Obesity & DGBI is now out in Gastroenterology: https://t.co/7cinsPS8Vg🧵👇
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Late breaking abstract deadline extended for BACN. Come join for Cognitive Neuroscience in Edinburgh in September. Cheap student rates & a great lineup
Preliminary program is up! Lots of exciting research. It's not too late to join us and present! Late-breaking poster deadline is 11 July. https://t.co/D1oaxEJVLa
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Not to be missed! My brilliant friend ♥️
Exciting news - I am launching a YouTube Channel. Please subscribe and spread the word far and wide https://t.co/YTdGzp7jrg
#hypermobilty #eds #neurodivergence #fibromyalgia #mecfs #anxiety #allthethings
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Thank you @DrSFink for inviting Unreal to the @royalsociety meeting “From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self”. It was a privilege for our own Joe Perkins to speak on the lived experience perspective of DPDR and hear the fascinating speakers! #SelfRS2025
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Thanks to everyone who joined our @royalsociety meeting on the Sense of Self in-person or online. We had a fantastic event with great talks and discussions. Look out for our Phil Trans B theme issue coming early next year @A_Wykowska
@DrSFink
@PaulVerschure
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Day 1 of the Royal Society meeting on The Self, always a pleasure to hear @manos_tsakiris discuss his illuminating research combining the exteroceptive body and interoception for self awareness #SelfRS2025
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Day 1 of the symposium on the self @royalsociety is absolutely spoiling us with wonderful interdisciplinary discussions on the concepts and dimensions of self! Many thanks to @tonyjprescott @A_Wykowska @DrSFink @PaulVerschure for organising this illuminating event! #selfRS2025
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Yes @jonroiser! What an interesting an important project
Today marks the start of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek & we’re spotlighting #UCLMentalHealth funded projects. Our first project brings together researchers from @uclbrainscience & @LivUni to explore how politics can affect our mental health & wellbeing. 🔗 https://t.co/59rZ9HTFSB
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How do people with mental health conditions experience bodily signals? 🧠🫀🫁 Our (@gabriel_mackie) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n https://t.co/qAAGtEjPKk
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The @royalsociety is hosting a 2-day meeting on Sense of Self this May in London. We have fantastic speakers from psychology/neuroscience, philosophy, and AI/robotics. Attendance is free. Poster submission now open https://t.co/EEXx9KwEZs
@A_Wykowska @DrSFink @PaulVerschure
royalsociety.org
Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.
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Kicking off day 2 of the BNPA 2025 @guy_lesch presenting on the management of sleep disorders. Very appropriate timing given it's World Sleep Day
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Kicking off BNPA 2025 with Prof Hugh Garavan's talk on impulsivity and its role in psychiatric disorders
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Continuing with the impulsivity theme, Stephane Thobois takes a clinical dive into ICDs in Parkinson's disease
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Professor James Rowe breaking down long-held myths behind apathy and impulsivity, and demonstrating their intrinsic connection
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