While that work focused on the potential impact of visceral signals on neural development & perceptual learning, our new paper considers how the top-down regulation of such signals across multiple scales may engender agentic control, selfhood, & neurobehavioural diversity
Believing that the world is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful (“sense of coherence”) predicts better health outcomes. But does a change in circumstance change one’s outlook? We found that for some women, pregnancy does.
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The Australian clinical guidelines (among others) recommend the EPDS to screen for depression in pregnancy. Our validation study suggests only 1:2 women screening positive will have depression, and 1:5 screening negative are missed cases. tinyurl.com/epdsaus
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A woman's first pregnancy changes her brain, and new evidence from Straathof et al. shows that a second pregnancy does too, in distinct, but overlapping ways. What does this mean for cognition and the self? Jury is still out.
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Most postpartum women report experiencing cognitive failures. Our new study surprisingly finds evidence for NO cognitive differences between postpartum parents and non-parents, or mothers and fathers, and no effect of baby age up to two years. tinyurl.com/mtp2eb5s
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'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025)
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This work follows from our earlier analysis of embodied active inference & the role of rhythmic visceral dynamics in prenatal development
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Becoming a mother for the first time is a transformative experience, resulting in
widespread changes in systemic physiology, neurobiology, cognition, and the sense
of self. In a recent study, Straatho...
Australia lags behind most OECD countries when it comes to percentage of GDP spent on scientific research. Belinda Smith speaks to scientists impacted with a response from science minister Tim Ayres.
The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …
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I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
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“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
