We weren’t able to advertise the meeting widely this time, as interest quickly exceeded the available space, but we hope this will be the first of many!
If you work on brain-body interactions and would like to join future meetings, feel free to reach out.
#BrainBody #community #conference #biuMed
Two weeks ago, together with Hanna Keren, we held the first National Brain-Body Axis Discovery Day!
Our goals included bringing brain-gut, neuroimmune and interoception researchers in the same room, and building a brain-body resreach community.
It was an inspiring and exciting day!
Had a terrific time at #ILANIT/FISEB hosting & speaking at #BrainBody #homeostasis symp.
Fascinating talks by Galia Avidan, Dori Dredikman,Evan Elliott, Neta Gazit, Megan Sammons + 5 great flash talks.
The cherry on top: a breath-taking, awe-inspiring keynote lecture by @michellemonje.bsky.social!
visualization of the Reggev lab presentation times at SPSP 2026
Attending the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in Chicago this week?
Check out some of our lab's work, with the generous help of NotebookLM in visualization!
Sounds interesting? Check the comments for the full breakdown!
#SPSP2026 #socialpsyc
Brain-Body Research in on fire 🔥 🤓
I'm chairing "Brain-body interactions for maintaining homeostasis in humans and animal models" at #ILANIT/FISEB Conference together with Or Shahar + presenting our lab's recent findings.
Join us!
Thursday; 08:30-10:15;
Dan Hotel - Tarshish B
#ilanit/FISEB
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
This study was led by the gifted Raneen Abu Shqara and colleagues at the Galilee Medical Center, under the Women’s Health Center, Faculty of Medicine Bar-Ilan University.
In a recent collaborative study, analyzing >10,000 deliveries, we found epidural use during labor to vary with the midwife: lower use with more experience and - interestingly - also with greater concern about epidural risks, especially among first-time mothers.
#perceptions #healthcare #obstetrics
When your favorite cup accidentally reflects your research agenda ☕
#beliefslab
A couple of weeks ago, our lab meeting involved watercolors, brushes and canvas. We put on some jazz music and painted, while chatting and snacking (fresh fruits, vegetables, and some zaatar pitas :)).
Really enjoyed it. Felt like an unexpectedly powerful mental reset.
#beliefslab
Honored to be invited by #gethelpisrael to deliver a spotlight session at the #SomaticIntelligence Conference. I shared our lab’s work on mental processes as active regulators of physiology & physical health. An inspiring gathering bridging #mind and #body.
#beliefslab #SeaView
The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.
A huge milestone for the lab, and for me personally! Thank you Israel Science Foundation #ISF for supporting our research on #nocebo effects in everyday life. We'll examine how health perceptions causally shape physical health outcomes, and study the physiological mechanisms involved.
#beliefslab
Couldn't recommend more!
Thanks for the comment! Completely agree, we also cite this view in one of the first sentences of the introduction :)
This seems relevant to psychedelic research, where expectancy is still often viewed only as a baseline variable. We should also consider its dynamic changes, how (psychedelic & other) treatment experiences influence them, and their impact on outcomes.
@psybalazs.bsky.social
@theborislab.bsky.social
Fascinating! I had no idea, thanks for sharing, putting this on top of my reading list!
This work is a result of a magical interdisciplinary collaboration and years of joint work with Sigal Zilcha Mano (psychotherapy), Itai Dattner (statistics) and Alex Laskorunsky, all from @UofHaifa, and with the support of the Data Science Research Center!
#beliefslab @biumedicine.bsky.social
Putting this into context of broader belief updating frameworks that we and others proposed, expectancy change can be seen as an ecological, dynamic marker of belief revision, a process central to both recovery from depression and models of adaptive cognition.
We think this has meaningful implications. It suggests we should track belief trajectories in therapy, not just at baseline.
Therapy works in part by helping people revise what they believe is possible. Expectancy change could be a marker of progress and a target for intervention.
Expectancy updating significantly predicted these recovery variables, even more strongly than baseline expectancy, based on model coefficients.
In other words, it’s not just where you begin, but also the direction you move. Expectancy change is a possible clinically meaningful signal.
Some started hopeful. Some didn’t. But those who updated their expectancy upward, showed the greatest improvement by the end of treatment. This was evident both in the degree of depressive score change and speed of improvement.
We followed 75 patients with verified major depression over 16 therapy sessions. At 6 points, we asked about their outcome expectancy. Then we tracked both where they started and how that expectancy changed throughout treatment.
Most research focuses on baseline expectancy: patients' initial belief that therapy will help - a major predictor of therapy outcome. But expectancies aren't fixed. They can shift over time. We asked: Do these within-person changes in expectancy predict treatment success?
In psychotherapy, treatment expectations matter. But even more powerful? ➡️ How they change over time. Our new paper shows that updating expectations during psychotherapy for MDD predicts depression outcomes. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRBWU...
#depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating
Super excited to arrive in Bordeaux for the first time to attend #PNIRS2025 for the first time! :)
@pnirs.bsky.social
#beliefslab #PsycoNeuroImmunology
Huge thanks to our participants and amazing team. We hope this sparks further research into scalable, neurodiversity-affirming tools for mental health. The need is real - and the potential, even more so.
#Autism #Mindfulness #MentalHealth
Anxiety affects up to 65% (!) of autistic adults. A self-paced, remote mindfulness tool offers autonomy and accessibility, especially valuable for those for whom in-person or group settings are challenging.
We then replicated the findings in a second group. Every key result held. Even 6 weeks after most participants had stopped practicing, the benefits persisted, suggesting mindfulness may leave a lasting cognitive imprint.
link to paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
