PhD Candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition & LMU München, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
MSc Mind & Brain
Brain-body interaction, (self-)perception in mental illness, movement, neuroimaging, dance&circus 🎪
Deniz Yilmaz
How the brain listens to the body matters.
Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...
I had the privilege of presenting my work at the @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social meeting. It was especially meaningful to be in the lecture hall, where Galileo taught for many years. Thank you to the organizers and everyone who made the event such a positive experience ✨
Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
did a couple presentations lately, at the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Research Festival, @assc28.bsky.social and at the Cognition Academy @mps-cognition.bsky.social. shared some early PhD findings on interoceptive alterations in schizophrenia🫀🧠 full analysis results coming soon, stay tuned 🐣📊
🚨Paper alert: So great to see this published. Our review on the predictive processing account of psychosis!
Thanks to the amazing team 🧠 - it was so much fun writing this piece. 🤩
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
After some time since completing my Master’s thesis, I’m excited to share that our work has now been published! It’s rewarding to see the project come full circle and contribute to the field alongside a fantastic team.
You can read the full article here: doi.org/10.1093/brai...
Published in Brain 🧠
When the brain and body misalign, emotional experience and sense of reality can be disrupted. Although such atypical experiences are central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), interoception, p...
Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
Perception combines external sensory signals with internal predictions that reflect prior knowledge about the world. Weilnhammer et al. show that the NMDAR
New paper in @brain1878.bsky.social: Healthy people under S-ketamine, an NMDAR antagonist, and people living with schizophrenia, a disorder associated with NMDAR hypofunction, spend more time in an external mode of perception - where noisy sensory signals override knowledge about the world.
