Elias Reinwarth

This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉

Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

First nerve-net connectome revealed The map of a comb jelly’s aboral nerve net reveals a unique system for sensing the world and coordinating movement.

www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/f...

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...

🧠🫀 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
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This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Awesome kickstart to today’s @mpicbs.bsky.social Neurology Department retreat! 🚀

We are coming to Psychologie und Gihirn 2024 (PUG) in Hamburg! Come chat with us! See the some teezers in the comments 💬 #PuG2024

Student Research Assistants | Research Group Adaptive Memory and Decision Making

Students of psychology, neuroscience, or similar in the Berlin area: we are currently looking for Student Research Assistants to help with all things EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking, and other fun stuff in our lab at MPIB Berlin #neuroscience #neurosykence #PsychSkySci

Mis-allocated scrutiny In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly? In this blog post, I argue that scrutiny is mis-allocated: the average number of pre-publication rev...

Reposting this post by @ruben.the100.ci bc I was just reminded of how wasteful the whole peer-review process is. Authors will receive feedback on flaws that need to be fixed & then just move on to the next journal & submit the same manuscript, as if nothing happened. www.the100.ci/2020/06/24/m...

Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls Or, maybe the real pitfalls are different from what we usually think

New blog post! "Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls," some thoughts inspired by the recent meeting at the Royal Society. I don't find many pitfalls with preregistration itself, but there are plenty of problems with how we talk about it. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/preregistr...

Research prizes are opaque and rife with bias — it’s time to shake them up
Awards should be standard-bearers for transparent, robust research that is inclusive, equitable and trustworthy. But that is not what they are right now
#womeninscience
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Linking brain-heart interactions to emotional arousal in immersive virtual reality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.04.574165v1 The subjective experience of emotions is rooted in the contextualized perception of changes in bodil

Linking brain-heart interactions to emotional arousal in immersive virtual reality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.04.574165v1

The Effect of Slow-Paced Breathing on Cardiovascular and Emotion Functions: A Meta-Analysis and Syst... Objectives Slow-paced breathing entails voluntarily controlling one’s breathing rate to a frequency close to the oscillation frequency of the cardiovascular system. Accumulating evidence indicates s...

The Effect of Slow-Paced Breathing on Cardiovascular and Emotion Functions: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

New in Mindfulness (2024)

#psycscisky #neuroskyence

doi.org/10.1007/s126...

Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood!

“An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]

Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical. 

Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.

#neuroskyence #brain

www.nature.com/articles/s41...