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SUMMARY:Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory - Dr Sar
 ah Garfinkel\, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex\, 
 Brighton
DTSTART:20171201T163000Z
DTEND:20171201T173000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:There is increasing recognition that cognitive and emotional p
 rocesses are shaped by the dynamic integration of brain and body. Embodied
  and interoceptive mechanisms are proposed to underpin conscious self-repr
 esentation and emotional experience.  A major channel of interoceptive inf
 ormation comes from the heart\, where phasic signals are conveyed to the b
 rain to indicate how fast and strong the heart is beating.  This talk will
  detail how cardiac afferent signals can interact with neuronal mechanisms
  to alter emotion and memory processing. Moreover\, this interoceptive cha
 nnel is disrupted in distinct ways in first episode psychosis\, schizophre
 nia\, autism and anxiety. This talk will provide empirical examples and su
 ggest how specific interoceptive disturbances may contribute to our unders
 tanding of distinct symptoms in these clinical conditions\, including diss
 ociation and impaired emotion processing. The discrete cardiac effects on 
 emotion and cognition have broad relevance to clinical neuroscience\, with
  implications for peripheral treatment targets.\n\nBio\nDr Sarah Garfinkel
  is a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry and Consciousness Science based in Neu
 roscience at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Sackler Centre
  for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. She also has a par
 t time appointment in the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. \nSarah
  completed her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex 
 before undergoing a fellowship in Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Unive
 rsity of Michigan. Here she specialized in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 
 and the neurocircuitry underlying persistent fear memories. Her recent wor
 k takes a more embodied perspective\, where she combines fMRI with cardiov
 ascular manipulation to investigate body-brain interactions in emotion and
  cognition. \nIn addition to her research\, Sarah teaches undergraduate an
 d postgraduate courses in cognitive neuroscience and emotion. She also eng
 ages with the public communication of science with appearances on BBC 2 an
 d BBC 4 and Radio 4.    \n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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