My new lab at the University of Montana is recruiting grad students for Fall 2024! https://t.co/26L7RaAf9c If you're interested in social neuroscience, and love mountains, get in touch! Please share! @TheRealSPR @Brainimmune @ISPNE @S4SNeuro

Stress contagion, what can you do about it? Happy to have been interviewed for this article: https://t.co/vkhJGm7wDy

As love is celebrated this week on #ValentinesDay, researchers at @umontana are exploring the age-old question of what creates romantic connections. UM researchers are using speed dating events to collect data and learn how people connect. Read more💛 https://t.co/4kkwWFnFU6

Help support my wonderful colleague’s work to improve access to eating disorder care in Montana 📣 @DrMartinWagar

I'm super excited to share my freshly published article in @BBI_Health 🎉, where I elaborate on how important it is to help others, live in a supportive society and how it can improve our health through PNI mechanisms! #OpenAccess @PNIRS https://t.co/55UA6llJa6 1/3

Awesome new postdoc opportunity in clinic psych here at the University of Montana! Check it out.

Research on two populations of caregivers suggests higher levels of loneliness and childhood trauma were associated with increased perceived stress among parents @smith_ke @sjdimitroff @UChicago https://t.co/jANmetIIjT

https://t.co/FPSqthm9uU. New paper lead by the intrepid @eeperszyk and with a great and diverse set of colleagues including my PhD mentor @JonesGotman, @HedyKober, @torwager, @xuedavis, @margaveldhuizen, Jelena Djordjevic, Zach Hutelin, Jessica Trinh. @mni, @McGillMed

Research on two populations of caregivers suggests higher levels of loneliness and childhood trauma were associated with increased perceived stress among parents @smith_ke @sjdimitroff @UChicago https://t.co/jANmetIIjT

“I think we as scientists embody something fundamentally, beautifully human … I still, idealistically and perhaps naively, believe in beauty because we, or some of us at least, experience it and are moved by it.” — Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, 1973-2023

I am so so SO excited to share the final version of my FIRST first author paper. My thesis work is exploring the relationship between PTSD and severe asthma, and this work sets the stage for the bulk of that. https://t.co/NC53nLCABz

New study by #UniKonstanz psychologist Stephanie Dimitroff @sjdimitroff examines our brain can assess the state of our own health more precisely than we think – and it is probably even able to correctly evaluate the state of our immune system. Details: https://t.co/1zlnaLNTo7

Check out @smith_ke's new awesome paper about parents' perceptions of stress 👨‍👩‍👧

My favourite German saying is "Du bist doch nicht aus Zucker" Translation: You're not made a sugar - hence don't be scared of the rain. I also love Dr. @Maria__Me__ 's research on sugar and stress reactivity! Check her new video about her sugar research! 🍰

@UniKonstanz @CBehav @PNIRS @GEBIN01 @Brainimmune @BiolPsychology @profvrr

PS. As I posted last week, @JLasselin and Manfred Schedlowski wrote an excellent guest editorial on immune interoception that accompanies the paper: https://t.co/ZcdKtYqHtV /end

I am excited about all the potential new questions these results bring up, and I hope this spurs on new work in this direction! The connections between our body and brain are wonderfully complex and how awesome is it that we have the tools now to figure out how it all works! 10/

Optimism and the placebo effect may also be at play here – perhaps feeling positive about your immune health and protection from infection conveys extra immunity. Or perhaps feeling more positive about a vaccine leads to a better immune response. 9/

For example, someone may feel themselves to have a strong cardiovascular system but may intuit that their immune system or gastrointestinal system is not as strong. 8/

Just as interoception likely plays a role in how individuals make self-rated health judgements (which are often quite accurate), this work shows self-rated estimates of health can be system specific. 7/