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Dennis Larsson

@dennislarsson.bsky.social
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Humboldt Fellow @ Kiel University, Germany | Developmental neuroscience, interoception, brain-body interaction | Previously Karolinska Institutet & University of Sussex

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Nicolas Legrand @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New preprint out of the press: 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. A thread 🧵:
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Excited to see our preprint discussed in a TiCS article on body weight and embodiment. After 20 min training, a finger-extending exoskeleton felt lighter, while the hand did not, suggesting sensorimotor integration changes experienced device weight. Preprint link: doi.org/10.64898/202....
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Sensorimotor training lightens the perceived weight of body augmentation devices
Wearable haptic and robotic devices must transmit useful forces and tactile information without remaining perceptually intrusive. Here we show that perceived weight provides a behavioral marker of thi...
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very happy to see a new study replicate & extend one of my favourite PhD findings! 🫀 Lin et al. find higher heartbeat counting accuracy in blind individuals, and extend this to deaf participants: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi.... This builds on our original finding: doi.org/10.1037/xge0.... More to come!
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Marco Gandolfo @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New preprint ! 🎺 👇 We show that objects can facilitate scene recognition irrespectively to their semantical link to the scenes. TMS to Object-selective LOC eliminated such facilitation! Congratulations to Aaron for his first paper coming from a chunky master thesis project!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Functional covariance modes reveal aligned fetal and neonatal brain functional connectomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🧠 New preprint! How does the brain build specialized, efficient representations as we grow up? We used manifold learning to track the "intrinsic dimensionality" (ID) of brain activity in ~800 participants (aged 3mo–53yrs), as they performed naturalistic tasks and rested/slept.
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Tam Pham @tam-pham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very excited to finally share our latest paper! We meta-analysed 732 effect sizes from 430 studies (> 62,000 participants) to ask whether lower resting HRV is specific to certain mental disorders or shared across many forms of psychopathology. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... 1/
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New, expanded preprint! Sensorimotor training makes a finger-extending exoskeleton feel lighter, suggesting active use helps wearable augmentation become perceptually transparent. Much longer, much better version now on bioRxiv: w/ Arina Schippers @mattlongo.bsky.social @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
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Sensorimotor training lightens the perceived weight of body augmentation devices
Wearable haptic and robotic devices must transmit useful forces and tactile information without remaining perceptually intrusive. Here we show that perceived weight provides a behavioral marker of thi...
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Anna-Lena Stroh @lenastroh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New paper in Science Advances! We show that congenital blindness reduces myelination in the human visual cortex, challenging the long-standing idea that thicker visual cortex in blind people mainly reflects disrupted pruning. (1/4) doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Congenital blindness reduces myelination in human visual cortex
Altered myelin and microstructure in congenital blindness illuminate how sensory experience guides human brain development.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv
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The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Lovely to see our eLife study in BPS Research Digest @bpsofficial.bsky.social @researchdigest.bsky.social! We studied how the brain adapts to finger extensions, finding three rapid phases of sensorimotor plasticity as users integrated them into body representation. www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...
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How does the brain integrate an augmented body part? | BPS
Recent work discovers three distinct stages of adjustment.
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Brain, Body, & Technology Lab @bbt-lab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Huge congratulations to Valeria Peviani on winning the Early Career Researcher Award from @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social! 🎉 It is wonderful to see her creativity, brilliance, and impact recognized by the community. We are so proud! Congratulations, @pevianiv.bsky.social!
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Happy to have presented at #ESCAN2026 in the symposium “When bodily signals are missing” chaired by Arianna Schiano and Sara Costa. I shared my work on cardiac interoception and occipital cortex plasticity in blindness, and on what blindness teaches us about links between the body and brain 👁️🫀🧠
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Speaking at #ESCAN2026 🇮🇹 this Friday! S4-2: When bodily signals are missing June 5, 10:30–12:00, Room 8A I will present work on cardiac interoception and occipital cortex plasticity in blindness, alongside talks on limb absence, Bell’s palsy, and interoception. Come by! 🫀👁️
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Enhanced processing of cartoons in infant visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Caregiver-infant interactions selectively shape emerging functional connectivity in the neonatal brain www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Infants develop helping behaviors through shared routines with caregivers, with early prosocial actions shaped by caregiver modeling, motor skills, and social understanding. doi.org/hb3s38
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Tiny hands, big clues: How babies learn to help their caregivers
Does your infant put their arm through their sleeve when you get them dressed? As you sort laundry, does your toddler pick up the shorts you dropped?
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Just in time for #NCMKobe26, our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Attaching an exoskeleton leads to rapid perceptual integration; ~20 min of training makes it feel even lighter. See supplement for model details! w/ Arina Schippers @mattlongo.bsky.social @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social 🦾🧠
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 07/04/2026
Fave things, one title #interoception 🫁🧠❤️
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 07/04/2026
Journal Club - Breath, Belief, and Brain: A Tripartite Map of Respiratory Interoception www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
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Breath, Belief, and Brain: A Tripartite Map of Respiratory Interoception
Interoception, the perception of signals from the body, has become central to understanding why bodily states are felt differently across individuals. Rather than being unitary, interoception is best ...
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Dennis Larsson @dennislarsson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If breathing has separable components, do they have separable brain bases? Evidence from qMRI suggests yes: insula & ACC for sensitivity, somatosensory cortex for affect, and midline & PAG for confidence. More in our Journal Club on Nikolova et al. (2025) 👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
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Breath, Belief, and Brain: A Tripartite Map of Respiratory Interoception
Interoception, the perception of signals from the body, has become central to understanding why bodily states are felt differently across individuals. Rather than being unitary, interoception is best ...
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Breathing seems to break down into separable parts: sensing, interpreting, and feeling, each linked to different brain systems. In our Journal Club on Nikolova et al. (2025), we explore how this helps explain why the same breath can feel so different across people. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
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Breath, Belief, and Brain: A Tripartite Map of Respiratory Interoception
Interoception, the perception of signals from the body, has become central to understanding why bodily states are felt differently across individuals. Rather than being unitary, interoception is best ...
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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · 01/04/2026
Job ad: Postdoc to work with me & @rogierk.bsky.social at the Donders on lifespan development questions from Sept onward! Profile: independent, good quant skills, interested in theory-driven work Please share widely www.careersatradboudumc.com/vacancies/po... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs
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Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher cognitive development
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Nature @nature.com · 26/03/2026
Neuroscientists have created a continuous atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age go.nature.com/47rmMtk
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Charting the human brain’s lifelong functional organization
Neuroscientists have created a continuous atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age.
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Brain, Body, & Technology Lab @bbt-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New paper led by @pevianiv.bsky.social! We show maps of a hand-held tool can be built with accuracy comparable to arm. Tool use did not change accuracy but affected precision. This suggests the sensorimotor system can extend body-like representations to tools. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Spatial maps of the arm and tool: Accuracy, precision, and the effect of tool use
There is evidence that the sensorimotor system builds fine-grained spatial maps of the limbs based on somatosensory signals. Can a hand-held tool be m…
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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)
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Audrey Luo @audreycluo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨ 🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As body-augmenting technologies become more common, it is important to understand how the brain decides what counts as "the body", and how that changes over time. My first postdoc paper 🦾 now out in @elife.bsky.social 👇
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The human body is remarkably adaptable, capable of integrating artificial enhancements from tools to prosthetic limbs. Researchers have used finger extensions to test how the brain updates its expectations over time. 🔗 buff.ly/HxxCzTz
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
How does the brain adapt to artificial body extensions over time? With a wearable finger-extension device, we reveal distinct phases of proprioceptive plasticity: during wear, after active use, and even after removal. Now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Brain, Body, & Technology Lab @bbt-lab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New paper led by @pevianiv.bsky.social! Using EEG and varied hand positions, we tested how the brain localizes touch. Neural gradients showed limb-specific, intrinsic coding emerging ~160 ms after touch, challenging extrinsic remapping theories. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/5...
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The Spatial Coding of Touch Is Defined in Intrinsic, Limb-Specific Coordinates: An EEG Study
The brain computes the spatiotopic position of touch by integrating tactile and proprioceptive signals (i.e., tactile remapping). While it is often assumed that the spatiotopic touch location is mappe...
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's this time of the year again! Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠
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Johanna Bayer @likeajumprope.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Super excited that our paper on velocity (longitudinal) normative modelling is finally out!
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Andre Marquand @amarquand.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I am very excited about this new preprint! @likeajumprope.bsky.social presents an approach for charting growth velocity using normative models. It provides a fundamental framework for detecting individualised deviations from an assumed developmental trajectory. Enjoy! arxiv.org/abs/2601.07591
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Charting the velocity of brain growth and development
Brain charts have emerged as a highly useful approach for understanding brain development and aging on the basis of brain imaging and have shown substantial utility in describing typical and atypical ...
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Andre Marquand @amarquand.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A bit belated, but here are some new papers! first, a conceptual framework for modelling extremes in neuroimaging data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Great work from the inimitable Charlotte Fraza!
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Using Extreme Value Statistics to Reconceptualize Psychopathology as Extreme Deviations From a Normative Reference Model
Overview of our approach for extreme value statistics. First, we fit a normative model to imaging phenotypes, before employing a ‘peaks-over-threshold’ approach widely used in meteorology and finance...
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Really happy to share that my talk on how spatial finger augmentation reshapes proprioceptive and tactile maps was accepted as an oral presentation at @ncmsociety.bsky.social meeting in Kobe 🇯🇵 I will present a computational framework for how artificial extensions integrate into body representation.
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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Ever wondered how MRI creates images from inside the body? We made a child-friendly explainer video (german) 🎥👇 youtu.be/k-KCyoUP9vA #scicomm
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Wie wir mit Magnetresonanztomographie (MRT) das Gehirn sichtbar machen
YouTube video by NMR Kids Lab
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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
In 1000 days, a baby learns to speak, walk, reason, acquires social norms, and begins to shape their own personality. At the @babylyon.bsky.social, we are dedicated to understanding how this extraordinary journey unfolds. Here’s our story www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sMn... @cnrs.fr @erc.europa.eu
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Conversations autour des bébés au Babylab de Lyon
YouTube video by CNRS Délégation Rhône Auvergne
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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 08/11/2025
Researchers from BICAN have expanded their cell-type atlases to include developing human, mouse, and non-human primate brains using multimodal genomics, which was published in Nature. 🧪
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BICCN: A cell census of the developing human brain
Expanding cell-type atlases to include developing human, mouse and non-human primate brains using multimodal genomics.
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Daniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
One of the most exciting challenges in neuroscience today - if you're looking for a PhD or Postdoc position tackling cutting-edge questions, reach out to @sarangnemo.bsky.social!
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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!
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Dr Lisa Quadt @lisaquadt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
For a summary, check this out: www.bsms.ac.uk/about/news/2... More to come out of this data set soon!
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Hypermobility identified as risk factor for Long Covid - BSMS
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...
Title: Understanding Brain-Body Interactions to Advance Brain Health: A Workshop. Photo: picture of a transparent person with brain and nervous system illuminated.
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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
Numerous studies in humans have demonstrated a strong link between heart and brain function at different timescales. We conceptualize this functional …
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Helena Rutherford @hjvrutherford.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Does fetal movement mean more than a sign of the health and well-being of the developing child? Our recent findings suggest fetal movement may also play a role in shaping maternal neurodevelopment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Check out our new article for young readers (ages 8-15) on heart-brain interactions and interoception! 🧠🫀 I had so much fun co-writing this with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social with the support of @michaelgaebler.com ✍️ 👉 Share it widely with curious young minds Yay for #scicomm ✨
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate
Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...
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Dennis Larsson @dennislarsson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Exciting news: I’ve started a Humboldt Fellowship @humboldt-foundation.de! First stop: Hamburg for German training, then in January to Kiel to join Prof. Michael Skeide's group at the Faculty of Medicine of Kiel University @uni-kiel.de. Happy to connect in Hamburg and Kiel!
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