How is the body experienced in mental health conditions? 🧠🫀🫁 Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do babies sense their own body rhythms? Our new paper on 🫀 & 🫁 interoception in 👶 is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at led by @markustuente.bsky.social

Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life

Infants are sensitive to their own respiration and heartbeat already in the first two years of life.

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🧵 1/ Does depression recovery rewire the mind-body connection? Our latest from the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics explores effects of deep brain stimulation for depression on neural interoception. #NashNeuroscience www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Neural Interoceptive Processing Is Modulated by Deep Brain Stimulation to Subcallosal Cingulate Cortex for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Symptoms of depression are associated with impaired interoceptive processing of bodily sensation. The antidepressant effects of subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation (SCC DBS) include acute cha...

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We often mind-wander about our past, present, & future. What happens when our minds drift towards our bodies? In a new fMRI study (n ~ 500), @leahbanellis.bsky.social + team discovers unique neural, affective, & physiological correlates of "body-wandering" at rest. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I enjoyed this clear, 2022 article on the parentified child, i.e. a child growing up with a family that expected the child to do the affective regulation of the parents or their difficult dynamics. aeon.co/essays/how-c...

How can adults undo the harm of being parentified as children? | Aeon Essays

When parents cast a child into the role of mediator, friend and carer, the wounds are profound. But recovery is possible

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now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece, "Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience" #neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...

Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience

Abstract. Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception, nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fea

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Incredibly honored to have participated! Thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social .

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mindscape 296 | Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

Excited to share my first post here! Our new paper reveals a top-down breathing circuit that slows breathing to ease anxiety & fear. A step forward in understanding how brain-breathing interactions shape emotion. Published in Nature Neuroscience—grateful to my team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry. I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole. #neuroskyence

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

The cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612221v1

It's one of the most remarkable days of Insula week (day 3). ❓What happens when you stimulate it❓ Among the things, ⚡ecstatic sensation⚡ “a sense of hyper-reality, and a complete present-moment awareness with a feeling of union with the Universe." WOW! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196836/

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 2y ago

This all leads to the big question: What would happen if you electrically stimulate a human brain area involved in "emotional and subjective awareness"? Circle back tomorrow to find out! The insights from Insula stimulation are even more compelling than the ones that follow from damage, I think.