Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn

Sounds like a rough neighborhood. Nice view though.

General and anxiety linked influences of serotonin on interoception - METAL! YouTube video by Dan CM

🤘Abstract on METAL youtu.be/iCrTAWHpa74

General and anxiety linked influences of serotonin on visceral sensation - punk version YouTube video by Dan CM

I take it back, EVERYONE should publish their abstracts in punk rock format. youtu.be/4baxSlV8hms I may or may not post the metal version, which is epic.

General and anxiety-linked influences of acute serotonin reuptake inhibition visceral sensation YouTube video by Dan CM

😂 😂 I highly recommend using AI to turn abstracts of your papers into pop songs. youtu.be/8QisgkX7Ees?...

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Epic research journey! Sounds far more stressful than it needed to be. Great informative findings in the end though!

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If you review a grant for these faculty, please be kind. This is not the time to be competitive or clever. If it is great, just say so. It could be their last shot.

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How do DA and 5HT drugs alter reinforcement learning? Join us next Wednesday for talks by @anahitm.bsky.social, Diego Pizzagalli, Michael Browning, Roshan Cools, Emma Robinson, Yael Niv, Cath Harmer, Isabel Berwian, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Anne Collins. Links etc: acplab.org/2024/11/15/r...

Over the MOON with class feedback this term for Social Neuroscience 🌙. I've revamped the material and tried some new things that have worked. Feels good.

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Cool! Glad you are reading it! It's the work I am most proud of. Let me know if you would like some presubmission feedback. It took a while to get our paper right. Both the interoception and pharmacology folks have diverse views and it can be a real challenge to please them all.

These are amazing! I will look into using them for our interoception class. I just realised I need to be more specific with a group heavy on interoception (OTHER people's bodies). I am such a hive mind rookie....

I just realised I need to be more specific! Papers of processing other people's faces and OTHER people's bodies 😂

What's your favourite face or body processing paper? I am trying to think of a paper about face or body processing for teaching my Social Neuroscience Masters class. Something in the last 10 years, not too complicated but interesting and cool. Any suggestions, hive mind?

I'll be @bacn.co.uk this week if you or anyone you know might be interested in this and want to chat

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Got a bad gut feeling 😖? In a new study, led by the brilliant @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Ignacio Rebollo, we combined fMRI & electrogastrographic (EGG) imaging in more than 200 participants to uncover links between the gastric-brain axis and mental health.  www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...  🧵👇

Get in touch if you have any questions, comments or thoughts! I love to chat about this field. Otherwise, just share and enjoy the paper 😄

The paper is #openaccess with Translational Psychiatry
@Transl_Psych. Thanks to the reviewers and editors (you da best!) and everyone who contributed. Find loads more in the paper and supp materials. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Also preliminary is that the neural SSRI effect on cardiac interoception in the amygdala predicted our previously published effects metacognitive cardiac interoceptive insight (this is in the supplemental material). 8/10

Exploratory post hoc analysis also showed that the effects of the SSRI on the stomach response in the amygdala predicted effects on anxiety (increases and decreases) across the sample. 7/10

Excitingly, we replicated the already-known interoception response that is proportional to anxiety in the anterior insula on a placebo. But the SSRI BREAKS that link, with a significant change in the interoception-anxiety relationship in the region. 6/10

This SSRI effect also happened during attention to the heart in the amygdala, possibly reflecting an effect on the integration of cardiac interoception in affective processes 5/10

The SSRI reduced viscerosensory (posterior insula and surrounding) and integrative (amygdala) interoceptive processing of attended stomach sensation on BOTH sides of the brain (relative to effects on exteroception). 4/10

21 healthy volunteers focused their attention on their stomach, heart or a pulsing visual stimulus. They did this on a single oral SSRI dose (20mg citalopram) and, at another time, did the same on a placebo. This design is WITHIN-subjects, people! 42 scan sessions. 3/10

Not much is known about how neurotransmitters regulate interoception, but there was a LOT of circumstantial evidence pointing to serotonin. Interoception shares associations with a lot of known serotonin effects. Turns out, this probably isn’t a coincidence. 2/10

General and anxiety-linked influences of acute serotonin reuptake inhibition on neural responses associated with attended visceral sensation - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - General and anxiety-linked influences of acute serotonin reuptake inhibition on neural responses associated with attended visceral sensation

We are published!! An SSRI changes neural responses to #interoception and its links to anxious states. This changed how I think about #serotonin, internal sensation, and #anxiety. W/ James Livermore @sarahgarf.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social, Hugo Critchley + more www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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