Adriatica2026 Summer School on Brain-Body Interactions & Wellbeing is back.
Five days of cutting-edge research on the brain-body relationship, hosted in Pescara (Adriatic coast).
More details coming soon. 🧠🌊
📅 August 31 – September 4, 2026 📍 Pescara, Italy
#Adriatica2026 #Neuroscience #Wellbeing
Today at @mbe-lab.bsky.social we celebrate the end of data collection for our Berlin side of the INTACT project, a collaboration with ACE2Lab @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social & Lucas
48 participants, ca. 72hr of ECG/PPG/RESP recording later🫀🫁 thanks to the amazing help of Mascha & Aileen!
Data analysis 🔜
With @aleksanpi.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com & L. Okruszek
📣 New preprint out from the lab!
We introduce emotional bandwidth: how much of your emotional state space you move through daily. Wider negative emotional bandwidth predicted more depressive symptoms, even beyond standard affect metrics, and linked to loneliness via depression.
Thread below👇
Proud to share that Stefan Weinhardt (not on Bluesky) actually won a poster award at #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody, congrats Stefan!🥳 Keep an eye on his work :)
#neuroskyence
Wondering how to go from raw peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, respiration) to anything meaningful? Feeling lost in the labyrinth of analysis workflows?
BBSIG here is for you! 🫀🫁🧠
👉 www.bbsig.de
We provide easy-to-use pipelines with recommended steps & benchmarked functions
#neuroskyence
Example workflow
…schematic of an example workflow
Want to know more about the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) and try out our pipelines for preprocessing ECG, PPG and respiratory signals? 🫁🫀🧠
Check our online documentation!
www.bbsig.de
Title slide
Darwin quote
Model slide
Final keynote at this year’s #MindBrainBody Symposium by Julian F. Thayer, the human #vagus nerve (everywhere at once [„the wanderer“] and always relaxed/relaxing) on „Breathing is fundamental: a mind/brain/body perspective“.
#MBBS2026 #MBB
In her special talk #MBBS2026, @martager.bsky.social @mbe-lab.bsky.social presents #BBSIG, that is #openaccess #preprocessing #functionality for #ecg #ppv #resp ! ⭐️ Wonderful collaborative efforts! 🙃
github/martager/bbsig
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#BSMB @mpicbs.bsky.social
#MindBrainBody #Python
Today is the day. Looking forward to my Special Talk at the #MindBrainBody Symposium introducing the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)… for now, I’m having breakfast with my BBSIG-themed mug ☕️
🗓️ March 11, 13:00-14:00
#MBBS2026
Summary slide
Interaction effects of placebo and non-placebo
Opioid placebo effects
Placebo effect on migraine
Real-world relevance of #brain-body interactions:
How to harness treatment expectations and endogenous „drugs“?
Clear and powerful keynote by @ulrikebingel.bsky.social at the #MindBrainBody Symposium.
#MBBS2026 #MBB
Very excited to present my poster on the transition dynamics of attention later today at #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026 #MBB And even more excited to see my students presents theirs, addressing different questions raised by this framework (see below) :)
Methods of literature analysis
Growth of interoception papers
Sixun Hou (Cambridge) presenting a data-driven literature analysis of #interoception & related concepts finding „exponential growth“ & a focus on the heart 😊
Good discussion about whether interoception is necessarily conscious & how to split the term up (carving nature at novel joints?)
#MBBS2026
Jellina‘s method slide
HR/V results
HEP results
Link to psychology
Also @jellinap.bsky.social , #MindBrainBody , Young Scientist Awardee 2023, presents her stunning work on #brain-#heart coupling across the menstrual cycle analysing resting heart rate variability and heartbeat-evoked potentials - with links to premenstrual #feelings.
#MBBS2026 #MBB
Two past Young Scientist Award winners are presenting today at #MindBrainBody Symposium: @ege-kingir.bsky.social on cardiac dynamics in visual and somatosensory perception & @jellinap.bsky.social on neural-cardiac processing across the menstrual cycle 🫀🧠
Consider appplying in next years!
#MBBS2026
Fresh results slide
Results slides
Results slides at MBBS
Super exciting to see the fresh-out-the-oven results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, the winner of last year’s #MindBrainBody Young Scientist Award, comparing #cardiac phase effects for visual and somatosensory perception in the same participants.
#MBBS2026 #MBB
Absolutely beautiful and comprehensive #keynote by #SonjaKotz on #time and #rhythm processing from a #comparative and #translational #MindBrainBody perspective @ MBB Symposium in Berlin! ✨
band-lab.com
@maastrichtu.bsky.social
#MBBS2026
Did you miss Mascha’s poster on how vascular signals contribute to active visual perception, using pulse transit time from ECG+PPG? Don’t worry, we have you covered! 👀🫀🧠
👉 Here is the poster PDF: www.cbs.mpg.de/2435868/b12_...
#MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody
Photo with speaker and slide at the MBB Symposium
Discussion slide at the MBB Symposium
Beautiful study and results by @marieloescher.bsky.social on the behavioral relevance of the gastric (and cardiac and respiratory) rhythm.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#MindBrainBody #MBB2026
Slides of the talk with samples and the task
Slide with the results across the 4 samples
Slide with discussions about the brain gut results
Slide with results about pre and post-stimulus oscillations
So many inspiring talks (here by @saramehrhof.bsky.social, Sameer Alladin, @studenova.bsky.social) and discussions on the first day of the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026!
#MBB2026
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody
📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen
Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...
@martager.bsky.social
📍Special Talk
📆 Mar 11, 13:00
To conclude, meet the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG): a collaborative initiative to benchmark & standardize peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, RESP) preprocessing and analysis. Check our pipelines from v0.0.1! 🫀🫁🧠
👉 bbsig.de
M. Aursand
📍C18
📆 Mar 10, 15:20
Finally, we introduce the interoceptive flexibility task, capturing dynamical transitions toward interoceptive attention. It is well-established that "regular" attentional transitions carry a performance cost, but this remains open for interoceptive flexibility [3/3]
S. Weinhardt
📍C13
📆 Mar 10, 15:20
Following this, we investigate how attentional transitions are shaped by bodily rhythms 🧠🫀🫁 Using behaviour, pupillometry, ECG, and respiration, we uncover the interoceptive and neuromodulatory influences that push and pull attention within this state space [2/3]
@samversc.bsky.social
📍D13
📆 Mar 10, 16:20
Our attention focus regularly shifts between different states: external vs. internal, on- vs. off-task. We integrate them in a novel state space and show distinct dynamical transitions to off-task attention during external vs. internal attention task [1/3]
@alexandroskas.bsky.social
📍D36
📆Mar 10, 16:20
What can gaze behavior reveal about eyewitness identification? 👀👓 We use eye-tracking in interactive 3D lineups to examine how people visually inspect faces during suspect selection, with the goal of improving forensic identification procedures.
@aleksanpi.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social
📍D31
📆Mar 10, 16:20
What if mental health depends not only on emotional intensity, but on how many emotional configurations we experience daily? We introduce emotional bandwidth: the breadth of emotional state space, linked to depression and loneliness 🎚️
@toninfrc.bsky.social @fra-malandrone.bsky.social
📍C17
📆 Mar 10, 15:20
Help us help you capture the dynamics of affective experience in your next experiment! We're adapting our real-time continuous rating tool for valence and arousal to work from VR to 2D videos 📽️ Tell us what you need! 💬
M. Dagen
📍B12
📆 Mar 9, 19:45
Perceptual accuracy varies across cardiac & respiratory phases - but is this adaptive? Using pulse transit time (ECG -> PPG) as a non-invasive proxy for beat-to-beat blood pressure changes, we probe vascular contributions to active visual perception 🫀🖐️👀